hardcore punk, proto-punk, post-punk, 60's/garage rock, hiphop, riding my bike everywhere, co-ops, west coast burritos, east coast bread products, zines, free food, syndicalism, feminism that's relevant to more than just privileged white women, veganism that isn't expensive or classist, getting out of wherever I'm living when time and money allow, making pins, homeless outreach and needle exchange, vinyl and tape collecting, exploring wherever I am, having cuatro ojos, not having seizures, going to/putting on shows, being young and stupid, cooking badly, skating badly, doing pothead impressions, and the lexicon of grunge according to the New York Times
Comrades for stupid fun and intelligent conversation, punk kids who aren't aspiring celebrities, girls who go off at shows and in general, straightedge kids who prefer Blatz to Bold and/or buy booze for minors, punks and radicals with kids, people (especially girls) who can talk about pooping, people who fled their hometowns for reasons other than just college, mixtape trading partners, and people who don't act their age.
Bad Brains, Code of Honor, Circle Jerks, Direct Control, Iggy and the Stooges, Black Flag (all eras), Los Olvidados, Dead Boys, ETA, Runnamucks, select Nirvana, Government Warning, Blank Stare, Beat Beat Beat, Cloak/Dagger, ANS, Underdog, Green River, Void, Modern Life Is War, Bald Rapunzel, Karp, Soundgarden, Uniform Choice, Lights Out, Burn, Some Velvet Sidewalk, Annihilation Time, Deadfall, Green River, Life's Halt, Artificial Peace, Scholastic Deth, Pissed Jeans, Gamewinner, The Fastbacks, Allergic to Bullshit, The Damage Done, Strung Up, Faded Grey, Immortal Technique, Mudhoney, Converge, Modern Lovers, Avengers, Regulations, and so forth.
I don't watch a lot of them, but I do like: Dogtown and Z Boys, Another State Of Mind, Waking Life, Over The Edge, Malcolm X, The Decline of Western Civilization, Hype, The Ramen Days, Edge Of Quarrel (for humor value only) Some Kind of Monster (also for humor value only), and music documentaries in general. I'm sure I'll like Over The Edge and will hate the American Hardcore movie.
don't own one
Salad Days, On Subbing, The Teenage Liberation Handbook, Dance of Days, Despite Everything, Generation X, Temp Slave, Loser: The Real Seattle Music Story, Native Son, American Hardcore (nah, not so objective), Bomb The Suburbs, No More Prisons, Breakfast of Champions (I need to read more Vonnegut), Blankets, Blood Song, Dance of Days, All The Power: Revolution Without Illusion, Convicted In The Womb (great blueprint for social change in the inner city), We Make The Road By Walking, books about autism.
A few authors and people I know in real life, and kids who set up shows. I don't consider musicians heroes regardless of how amazing their music is.