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Music, record collecting, sharing the spoils of my endless crate-digging with "the PEOPLE, man," progressive politics w/o the soapbox ranting, vintage trash-pop culture, eradication of national and cultural boundaries, more music, more record collecting, furthering an almost 2-decade-long DJ career, anything related to Brazil and the Portuguese language, especially going to Brazil, anything of an even vaguely psychedelic nature, and always having some kind of reading material at hand be it JP Sartre or the latest issue of Mojo, and did I mention music and record collecting?
Others who, like me, possess the "inner bling"
Milton Nascimento, Cal Tjader, Joao Donato, Jorge Ben, Bobby Hutcherson, Todd Rundgren, Utopia, The Beatles, Isaac Hayes, Marcos Valle, the Clash, the Stooges, Stew, the Negro Problem, Jiva, Bobby "Blue" Bland, Kool Keith, Patrice Rushen, Scott Walker, Roger Nichols, Elis Regina, Joao Gilberto, Erasmo Carlos, Jorge Ben, Marvin Gaye, Jeff Beck, Santana, Donny Hathaway, James Brown, Dennis Brown, the Heptones, Delroy Wilson, John Holt, all Studio One, Horace Andy, the Bad Brains, EPMD, the Stones, Herbie Hancock, Wilson Simonal, the glory that is Blue Note Records 50s-70s, 4Hero, Matt Cooper and Outside, Bob Dylan, Stevie Wonder, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Parliament-Funkadelic, Earth Wind and Fire, AC/DC, Led Zeppelin, Joe Walsh, James Gang, Patto, David Bowie, Joni Mitchell, Laura Nyro, Steely Dan, Eddie Palmieri, Tim Maia, Stan Getz, Martinho Da Vila, Cesar Camargo Mariano, Chico Buarque, Edu Lobo, Lewis Taylor, Cleveland Watkiss, Tony Bennett, Frank Sinatra, Brother Jack McDuff, Johnny Hammond, the Gimmicks, Gil Scott-Heron, Roy Ayers, James Mason, Black Sabbath, Rufus and Chaka Khan, Minnie Riperton, Adriana Evans, Andy Bey, Curtis Mayfield, Les McCann, the Who, the Faces, Public Enemy, Wu-Tang Clan, KRS-One, A Tribe Called Quest, Serge Gainsbourg, the Ohio Players, George Duke, the Doobie Brothers, Wings, Blondie, Queen, Yes, Sly Stone, Sonny Rollins, Thelonious Monk, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Dexter Gordon, Burt Bacharach, the 5th Dimension, The Third Wave, the Fifth Avenue Band, Alzo and Udine, Love, the Zombies, Return To Forever, Neil Young, Moogy Klingman, Buzzy Linhart, Alice Cooper, Os Mutantes, Os Devaneios, Os Diagonais, Os Incriveis, Os Originais Do Samba, Doris Monteiro, Joe Bataan, Willie Colon, Armando Nava and Dug Dug's, the Doors, Diane Tell, Lo Borges, Marlena Shaw, Frank Zappa, Scritti Politti, the Smiths, the Staple Singers, Metallica, Motorhead, Budgie, the Kinks, Brian Auger, Julie Driscoll, NWA, Biggie Smalls, De La Soul, Gang Starr, Slayer, DRI, SOD, Black Flag, Circle Jerks, Minor Threat, Mudhoney, Jane's Addiction, the Pixies, the Pretenders, Nina Simone, Dionne Warwick, Sergio Mendes, Antonio Adolfo, Joyce, Baden Powell, Vinicius De Moraes, Silvio Rodriguez, the Cars, Lee Perry, John Martyn, Nick Drake, the Pentangle, Birgit Lystager, Manfred Mann, Stereolab, Swing Out Sister, Donald Byrd......
This'll be shorter and simpler than music, but here's a bunch of faves at total random (I'm not really a film snob): Godard's Masculin Feminin, Cheech & Chong Up In Smoke, Amores Perros, La Femme Nikita (the original), This Is Spinal Tap, the Blues Brothers, Scarface, The Godfather, Apocalypse Now, Animal House, Black Caesar, The Mack, Foxy Brown (in fact, any blaxploitation), Wattstax, Bedazzled (the OG w/Moore & Cook), Subway by Luc Besson, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Midnight Cowboy, City Of God, Boyz In The Hood, Menace II Society, Fear Of A Black Hat, Tales From The Hood, The Jerk, Annie Hall and plenty plenty more......
All the classic 70s sitcoms I grew up on and stuff like the Sopranos or....I don't want to come across like a couch potato, I don't watch inordinate amounts of TV. But I do watch some and I have old-school favorites and modern-day guilty pleasures I won't really go into. Still, why Arrested Development ended up getting canceled is beyond me....it was pretty great.
I could name quite a few since I'm MISERABLE without some kind of reading material at all times, but I'll name just one, the one I always check people's bookshelf to see if they have it like a litmus test for coolness: A Confederacy Of Dunces by John Kennedy Toole. NOTHING comes close for me, fiction-wise.
My dad, my mom....various music legends.....assorted characters both fictional and not so fictional....umm....how about just (insert leftist political/cultural icon of your choice here)? We need to be careful with excessive hero worship anyway as a culture.