Music:
The Shins, Arcade Fire, Bright Eyes, Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, Ben Harper, Rage Against The Machine, Deftones, Death Cab for Cutie, Do Me Bad Things, Led Zeppelin, The Who, The Kinks, Rolling Stones, Massive Attack, The Vacant Tourists, Urisei Yatsura (or however the fuck you spell that), Guns n Roses, ACDC, Miles Davis, Modest Mouse, Powderfinger, Fastball, The Strokes, Kings of Leon, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Ryan Adams, The Decemberists, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Artic Monkeys, Buddy Guy, Cream, The Small Faces, Tom Waits, Jon Spencer Blues Explosion, Sparklehorse, The Eels, Dave Brubeck, The Vacant Tourists, Honeybug, OBE, We Are Scientists, Ben Folds, Stevie Wonder, Pink Floyd, Black Sabbath, Deep Purple, Pheonix...bloody hell this could go on all day....
Books:
1984, Animal Farm, Brave New World, anything by Roald Dahl, well pretty much anything. I hate books written by people like Elizabeth Gaskell that are about 500 pages long and cover a girl getting together with a boy. I could write that down and save trees in the process i dont care how descriptive you are.
Heroes:
Jimmy Page was a hero until he appeared on MTV with Fred Durst and that muppet from Puddle of Mudd and murdered Thank You....
Anyone that stands up or takes the harder longer road for their principles.