Basketball, Beer, Theology, Critical Theory, New York Sports, Animation, Premiership Football, Mobile Phones, Drinking While Wearing Costumes In Public, Audio Production, the German and Belgian Brewing Traditions, Food (esp Portuguese Irish & Filipino), Baseball, Magic Mic, Karaoke, Brunch, Social Justice, Haters Without Borders, Writing, Comic Books, Lying With Statistics, Cultural Production, Sports Marketing.
Nobody. My life is full at the moment. Sorry to disappoint, all you porno solicitors, lousy bands, and teenaged would-be Internet stalkers out there.
Slayer, Max Romeo, The Business, Sham 69, Cockney Rejects, Cock Sparrer, Black Flag, Lee Perry, Dennis Brown, F-Minus, Dropkick Murphys, Al Green, Stevie Wonder, Social Distortion, The Clash, The Distillers, The Kinks, The Pixies, Nirvana, Bob Mould, Sebadoh, Prince, Dead Kennedys, Drive Like Jehu, The Pogues, Pulp, Eric Dolphy, M.O.P., Angelo Badalamenti, Magnetic Fields, Ministry, RevCo, Hefner, Wu-Tang, Genesis, Suicidal Tendencies, 'Stones, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Otis Redding, Madd Professor, Jimmy Cliff, Pantera, Hall and Oates, INXS, CCR, Run DMC, PE, KMFDM, B.I.G.
Real Genius changed my life.
Also that one show where the Flatliners guy tortures people.
Anything by Samuel Beckett, Bret Easton Ellis, Hunter S Thompson, Daniel Clowes, Hans Kung, Tim Wise, Peter Bagge, the Baseball Prospectus guys, Scott Bradfield, William Burroughs, ee cummings, Rainer Maria Rilke, Fredric Jameson.
I am suspicious of the idea of "heroes" but there are plenty of people I admire and whose accomplishments I would hope to match, or preferably exceed.