Shopping, Art History, the Yankees.
Depends
Stones, Led Zep, Beatles, New Found Glory, Jimmy Eat World, Janis Joplin, Bob Dylan anything fun and upbeat.
Breakfast at Tiffany's, the Graduate, Goodfellas, anything really stupid like Dude Where's my Car or Napolean Dynamite, the Royal Tannenbaums, movies with Will Farrel or of the Godfather genre.
Law and Order and way too many bad reality tv programs lately.
The Catcer and the Rye, The Great Gatsby- they just stuck.
I don't have heroes per se but I admire my parents.