North Bay Rugby , mountain biking, Taco Fiesta! , good shows, traveling (Ireland in March!), camping, reading, napping. Especially napping. This American Life (Ira Glass is a genius, and you really have to hear David Sedaris read to truly appreciate his stuff.), Plastic.com , NPR, poking stuff with a stick.
No one in particular.
I like a little of everything, except what's usually on the radio, so here's what's in my car right now: The Shins, AC/DC, The Clash, Stereolab, The Rosebuds, Motorhead, Modest Mouse, El-P, Pixies, The Eels, The Cramps and a bunch of those $3 Epitaph Records compilations. And of course, Johnny Cash.
The Big Lebowski, Napoleon Dynamite, Seven Samurai, Down By Law, Brain Candy, Super Troopers, Sling Blade, 12 Monkeys, City of Lost Children, The Ring, Bottle Rocket, Royal Tennenbaums, Half Baked, Sexy Beast, 70s kung fu movies, I ♥ Huckabees, Shaun of the Dead.
Aqua Teens, The Wire, Six Feet Under, Invader Zim, Family Guy, Ali G, Chappelle Show, The Shield and Sanford and Son. Sanford and Son never gets old, except for those episodes starring Grady and Lamont with no Fred. Fuck that shit.
Midnight's Children, The Corrections, Kavalier and Clay, Atonement, For Whom the Bell Tolls, The Windup Bird Chronicles. Just finished Orlando, started on Drop City for Read in Baltimore (join us....it's bliss....).
I prefer the "existential hero." Unlike the traditional hero, these people make the world a lesser place. But, when exposed, they don't fold up and crawl under a rock, as so many of us would. If the self is defined through action, and if action is undermined by shame, then the absence of shame must be the true precursor to self-realization—and, thus, existential heroism. Examples include: Robert Evans and Cool Hand Luke.
Also, Charles and Ray Eames