Film (making and watching), travel, writing, reading, Belgian beer, craft beer.
Douglas Adams (oh well, too late for that)
The Connells, Decemberists, Depeche Mode, U2, The Pixies, The Beatles, Dido, The Smiths/Morrissey, The Dead Kennedys, The Cure, Coldplay, Skinny Puppy, Circle Jerks, Ramones, Dar Williams, Stone Roses, Pulp, Magnetic Fields, James, Ministry, Psychedelic Furs, Nick Cave, Freedy Johnston, The Doors, Aimee Mann, Leonard Cohen, Liz Phair (first three albums, screw the new stuff), The Verve, New Order, Pink Floyd, Bauhaus, Echo & the Bunnymen, Erasure, Elliot Smith, Nirvana, REM, way more than i can list...
Blue Velvet, Trainspotting, Donnie Darko, Henry Fool, No Such Thing, The Unbelievable Truth, Pulp Fiction, Taxi Driver, The Godfather films, Kill Bill 1&2, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Star Wars saga (Empire Strikes Back, the best of them), Being John Malkovich, Magnolia, Boogie Nights, Reservoir Dogs, Ed Wood, Double Indemnity, The Graduate, Apocalypse Now, Lost in Translation, Sideways, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Me & You & Everyone We Know, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Fidelity, North By Northwest, Rope, Requiem for a Dream, Dark City, Before Sunrise, Before Sunset, Say Anything, 28 Days Later, Amelie, Run Lola Run, Old Boy, Office Space, The Usual Suspects, Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Doctor Who, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Firefly, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Deadwood, My Name is Earl, The Office (The British version), Red Dwarf, Lost, Seinfeld, The Young Ones, Rome, Coupling.
Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, High Fidelity, About A Boy, How to Be Good, Long Way Down, 1984, Trainspotting, Ragtime, Hyperspace, Lord of the Rings, Forever, The Time Machine, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them: A Fair and Balanced Look at the Right, Breakfast of Champions, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas.
Quizno's, Subway (well, you said "heroes!")