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Travel, travel, travel...
Fun, and everything associated with the Pursuit of it... "Laissez les bon temps roullez!"
People in Dallas-Fort Worth, people in other cities where I travel frequently (basically the rest of the US), people who have a bit of drive and some intellect to boot. NOTE -- If you are uninteresting and/or the Village Idiot of your community, not you.
Depends on the setting and situation...
Hip-hop: Tribe, Mos Def, The Roots, De La Soul, Del, Common, J5 and many others
House/Trance: Tiesto, Carl Cox, Armin Van Buuren, Seb Fontaine, Paul Oakenfold, Sandra Collins, Benny Benassi, Hernan Cattaneo, Audio Bullys, Deep Dish
Best Global Dance Station -- Radio1
Classic rock, old-school country (think Johnny Cash), virtually anything produced by Timbaland, Metallica, T.I., the Chili Peppers, Barrington Levy and the greatness of 80's hair bands.
Scarface, Goodfellas, Casino, Donnie Brasco ::: Borat, Talladega Nights, Dodgeball, Happy Gilmore, Napoleon Dynamite, Swingers, The Big Lebowski, Kingpin, Anchorman, Old School, Wedding Crashers ::: Reservoir Dogs, Kill Bill (1 and 2), Pulp Fiction, True Romance ::: 21 Grams, U-Turn, Natural Born Killers, Fight Club, Rounders, Crash, The Game, Memento, American Beauty, Arlington Road
Sunday night HBO (The Wire, Entourage, Sopranos, Rome, Big Love, Curb Your Enthusiasm, and Ali G.), whatever the Hilton or Marriott property I'm staying in has to offer -- I don't watch much TV...
Typically non-fiction... Klosterman, Burroughs and Sedaris are brilliant. "Holidays on Ice" -- Funniest. Book. Ever.
Other favorites include Jon Krakauer ("Into Thin Air", "Under the Banner of Heaven", "Into the Wild"), Ayn Rand, "How to Make Love Like a Porn Star" (Jenna Jameson's autobiography), "The Grapes of Wrath", "1984", "The Great Gatsby", "The Stand" and anything by the late, great HST.
I don't necessarily have heroes -- rather, those that influence me: Tommy Lee, Hunter S. Thompson, Sam Walton
Last, but certainly not least... The Luces. 50+ years of marriage, a refrigerator that never contained less than five (5) cases of Hamms (from the Land of Sky Blue Waters). This picture, circa 1970-something, in their swingin' primes...