I love independent foreign films and literature. I like shopping at ethnic grocery stores. A good night out for me is going to an artshow and sipping wine, listening to folk music, and then going to a punk concert drinking pbr.
Tom Waits, Pink Floyd, Dead Milkmen, Violent Femmes, Local H, Norah Jones, Tenacious D, The Cure, Johnny Cash, Oomph, rockabilly, jazz, blues, honestly just about anything.
V for Vendetta!, Mirrormask, Nightwatch, Donnie Darko, Alice in Wonderland, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, American History X, A Clockwork Orange, Goodbye Lenin, Cyrano De Bergerac, Snatch, Tank Girl, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Cool Hand Luke, and Boondock Saints.
Don't really watch television but when I do it's either Spongebob, Family Guy, or Futurama, those types of things. Usually, I just watch internet tv, like Red Dwarf, Duck Man, The Tick, and Montey Python. Check out grif.tv.
Paluhniuk, D H Lawrence, Chaucer, S T Cooleridge, Terry Pratchet, Ben Johnson, Faulkner, Neil Gaimen. I just love books.
I can't pick out one hero so instead I'll describe what I think a hero is: a hero is someone who does amazing things without expecting anything in return. You can't call a fireman or a policeman a hero because they are payed to save people. A hero is Batman, saving people and getting beaten up without any reward. No one even knows that he's the one doing these things. Maybe being a hero for me is being ultimately selfless.