dancing, seeing bands or any other type of artistic expression, reading, cooking, baking, eating, rock climbing, bungee jumping, sky diving, snowboarding, skiing, sailing, swimming, snorkeling, scuba diving, etc.
Only people who know people i know. People who have already met me in person at some point in time, and... wait... no that is it
pixies, radiohead, desaparecidos, the pAper chAse, the faint, death cab for cutie, postal service, midlake, the toadies, jem, [daryl], the arcade fire, bright eyes, cursive, pedro the lion, belle & sebastian, the flaming lips, sigur rós, the appleseed cast, the mars volta, alkaline trio, the get up kids, grandaddy, azure ray, rilo kiley, pretty girls make graves, mazzy star, regina spektor, le tigre, ghostland observatory, the killers, muse, the cure, idiot pilot, ratatat, her space holiday, explosions in the sky, duke ellington, louis armstrong, billie holiday, and so many more now, and so many more that i haven't heard yet
goonies, king of masks, to live, red violin, american history x, the usual suspects, hedwig and the angry inch, four rooms, amelie, 300... list goes on and on
brothers and sisters, heroes, the daily show, sleeper cell, the L word,
no favorites at the moment, but a quick list of a few books i enjoyed is: The Count of Monte Cristo, Wicked, The Diamond Age, The Power of One, Pride and Prejudice. One Hundred Years of Solitude, Bel Canto, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Vamped. all of the orson scott card books i've read.----- as for kids books i like A Wrinkle in Time, A Separate Peace, The Little Prince, books by Mark Twain, Robert C. O'Brien and Frances Hodgson Burnett. ----- i want to read: Chronicles of a Death Foretold, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, the Communist Manifesto, some Bertrand Russell, more Bukowski, more Dumas, more Stephenson, more VONNEGUT, more SALINGER, more SEDARIS, more... more everything
i don't really have a "hero," but i admire people who don't care to please others, but are genuinely good people... so my sister comes the closest to my hero.