Yes, lots. But doesn't interest anyone else. Experimental music. Max/MSP is my favorite waste of time. I'm big into the impulse response reverbs these days. Neat huh? And typography and coffee and general geekery. Three cheers for my interests.
Really cynical or really positive. None of that in-between.
Lots of electronicish stuff these days. Squarepusher, Amon Tobin, Money Mark. Some Stax/Volt stuff lately, for some reason. I hate music, and I hate having to make more of it. There's too much as it is. I don't even hear much music anymore except for my own, and that 80's nostalgia crap that's all over the Muzak systems everywhere I go.
Don't watch 'em.
Don't have one.
PT Barnum's autobiography, The Yamaha Sound Reinforcement Handbook, Extraordinary Popular Delusions & the Madness of Crowds, Dictionary of American Slang, Silence (Cage), On the Sensations of Tone (Helmholtz), Mr. T on Mr. T (supposedly an autobiography; I think not).
I'm going to guess I have no heroes, since I shouldn't have any trouble thinking of them. That Charles Ives was pretty admirable. Colonel Sanders?