Pontius Pilatus
Lauren Bacall
The Holy Mountain and, well, basically anything by cinematic alchemist Alejandro Jodorowsky. The Shining. Fuck, I love films, so listing all the those that have moved, entertained, or inspired me seems silly. Oh wait, The Jerk...Christ what a great film.
Fuck television. The media is the fourth branch of our corrupt corporate owned government and television has become nothing more than subliminal programming wedged between advertisements that install and play upon human weaknesses. Oh wait, Columbo is a fucking awesome show. Okay, and Strangers With Candy, and Kids in Hall, oh and Monty Python and the Young Ones. But the rest is trash.
Jesus, how do I answer this one? Alright, here is what is in the stack in front of me:
Dark Mission - Richard Hoagland & Mike Bara
The Carnivals of Life and Death - James Shelby Downard
The Mystical Christ - Manly P. Hall
Let Us Compare Mythologies - Leonard Cohen
Secret Societies and Psychological Warfare - Michael A. Hoffman II
The Secret Destiny Of America - Manly P. Hall
I have no heroes. Everyone is a hypocrite and a fool. If you think you are an exception you are liar and you are deceiving yourself.
Fuck. The Dalai Lama smokes Marlboros. Gandhi was not the selfless humanitarian the media portrays him as (read George Orwell's essay).
Actually, George Orwell is a hero, at least he knew he was a hypocritical piece of shit when he shot the elephant in India.
Oh, and William Burroughs. What a fuck model citizen. Everyone else (including myself) can drown in their own inflated sense of self-importance.