Cooking/really good food, anything tech, cars, good action movies/comedies, hiking/backpacking, surfing, mountainbiking, skiing, anything with a guage/caliber, OandA Party Rock
Condoleeza Rice, Robert Plant, Colin Powell, anyone from Monty Python, Anthony Cumia
Mozart and Tchaikovsky to NIN and Disturbed to Miles Davis and B.B. King to Los Lonely Boys and Jack Johnson To Led Zeppelin and Black Sabbath--Something Different?? Check out www.meccabodega.com - very different percussion based group. This is not another wannabe band. They've done movie soundtracks, played all over the world and have had impressive reviews. Also from Japan - the Yoshida Brothers on Shamisens.
DRAMA/ACTION: Godfather I and II, It's a Wonderful Life, The Lord of the Rings series, The Matrix, Lords of Dogtown, anything Steven Seagal; COMEDY: Better Off Dead, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, This is Spinal Tap, Anchorman, Office Space, Blazing Saddles
Food Network, Emeril
Inside Delta Force: The Story of America's Elite Counterterrorist Unit (Eric Haney) and Jarhead (Anthony Swofford) (Two sides of military/law enforcement life we don't see in the headlines or in the movies. Makes you appreciate the life long sacrifice these people make. Did someone ask about heroes?), A Walk in the Woods (Bill Bryson - Funniest book I've ever read. It will bring you to tears in many paragraphs.), Zero (also Jian, Miko, Ninja - Eric Van Lustbader. Zero will have you trying to catch your breath before the second page. All books are suspenseful novels with an Asian influence.)
Very few exist--the real heroes go unsung. Most who are in the limelight are not there due to some selflessness. It is often constructed. The real heroes go about their lives quietly, doing what they have to/what is right, in the face of adversity and with few witnesses. It might be some parent taking the more difficult path in teaching their child the difference between right and wrong. It could be the person who occasionally takes the time to reach out to another, in some small way, to help, even when it would be easier to look away.