Your friendly neighborhood writer. Man. When I was a kid, the NASA test stands rattled our windows on a regular basis when they test-fired the massive Apollo engines. My NASA engineer father helped us land on the Moon. I am extremely proud of him for that. We have home movies of Dad goofing around in zero gravity with two 500-pound packages, one in each hand.
Ray Bradbury, Audrey Niffenegger, Anne Heche, Gary Numan, Russell Crowe, Johnny Depp, Mark Twain, Moira Kelly, Chrissie Hynde, Abraham Lincoln, Philip K. Dick, Nikola Tesla, Coleridge, Emily Dickinson, Cyril Kornbluth, Tracy Chapman, Boris Karloff, Laurie Anderson, H.P. Lovecraft, Sara Gran, Emma Thompson, Ben Kingsley, Dikembe Mutombo, and a whole slew of YA writers and readers.
Bjork, Depeche Mode, Mozart, Talking Heads, Liz Phair, Johnny Cash, Geoff Muldaur, Wall of Voodoo, Gershwin, Sixpence and None the Richer, Sophie B. Hawkins, Tracy Chapman.
So many. A few: Shakespeare in Love, Office Space, Blade Runner, Notting Hill, Brazil, The Mothman Prophecies, Name of the Rose, Bride and Prejudice, Gladiator, Lost In Translation, Happy Accidents (a fantastic time travel love story), Master and Commander, Gattaca (oh how I love that love story in Gattaca).
Classic movies, science programs, the History Channel, Discovery, etc. But I'm not completely pure; I occasionally waste my time watching sports.
Too many. Some of the recent: The White Darkness by Geraldine McCaughrean, Dope and Come Closer by Sara Gran, The City of Ember by Jeanne DuPrau, No Country For Old Men and The Road by Cormac McCarthy, The Time Traveler’s Wife by Audrey Niffenegger, Project 17 by Laurie Faria Stolarz, Becoming Chloe by Catherine Ryan Hyde, and House of Leaves by Mark Z. Danielewski.
People like these: Dikembe Mutombo, Emily Dickinson, Abraham Lincoln, Philip K. Dick, Sharon Olds, Thomas Jefferson.