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Benjamin Franklin or Thomas Edison or any other inventor. I'm fascinated with people who create that way.
I'm mostly a rock fan, but I also enjoy classical, jazz and anything with tasty harmonies. Some of my favorite groups are: Led Zeppelin, Alice In Chains/Jerry Cantrell, Porcupine Tree, No-Man, Bass Communion, IEM, Blackfield, Floater, Riverboat, Haale, John Wesley, Comes With The Fall, Nine Inch Nails, Pelican, Pearl Jam, Soundgarden/Chris Cornell, Saul Williams, Seventh Seal, Nirvana, Red Sparowes, Riverside, Dust For Life, Black Market Radio, Fosterchild, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Revolve, Second Coming, Metric, Emily Haines, Failure, Neil Young, CSN, Opeth, Metallica, Kyuss, Megadeth, Meshuggah, The Mars Volta, Stevie Ray Vaughn, The Beatles, Yes, Lacuna Coil, Hatebreed, Hurt, Isis, Matthew Good, The Dresden Dolls, Autolux, Octane, The Black Keys, Radiohead, Portishead, Aphex Twin, Zakk Wylde/Black Label Society, Queens of the Stone Age, Tori Amos, Rage Against the Machine, Black Sabbath, Jeff Buckley, The Beach Boys, Oren Ambarchi, Klaus Schulze, Katatonia ... I could go on and on.
Favorite movie: Monty Python and the Holy Grail. I still laugh out loud when I watch it. I also love the Godfather, and the Godfather Part II, Nobody's Fool, This Is Spinal Tap, Waiting for Guffman, Best In Show, A Christmas Story, It's a Wonderful Life, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Requiem for a Dream, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Caddyshack, The Full Monty, The Producers, Young Frankenstein, Dead Poets Society, Accidental Tourist, A Midnight Clear, Full Metal Jacket, Apocalypse Now, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star Wars (the original trilogy), The Matrix, and a ton of others.
"Turn off your television. Go do something."
A Confederacy of Dunces -- John Kennedy Toole. This is my favorite book, hands down. Read it. You will guffaw.
My parents, Albert Einstein, Benjamin Franklin, Thomas Edison, Beethoven.