Television:
Curb Your Enthusiasm. Seinfeld
Books:
Grapes of Wrath, The Winter of Our Discontent, East of Eden--All of Steinbeck. Love in the Time of Cholera,The Unbearable Lightness of Being, No Logo. And of course the essentials: Sideways Stories from Wayside School, Shel Silverstein, Roald Dahl, The Stinky Cheese Man
Heroes:
Thoreau. Banksy. My big boned but beautiful sister