Music and Sports...both about equal. My favorite sports team of all time is the HOUSTON ASTROS baseball club , at one point operating out of the Eighth Wonder of the World, the Houston Astrodome. Also I am a big fan of the Univeristy of Texas-Austin Longhorns, which means I absolutely detest Texas A&M. The Buffalo Bills also play a big factor in my enjoyment of sports. As far as music goes, the main thing is whatever sounds good to me is what I like.
Mr. T Experience, Screeching Weasel, Saves the Day, Get Up Kids, Green Day, Nirvana, Weezer, Cadillac Blindside, Bouncing Souls, Thursday, Lifetime, Thrice, Riverdales, Shai Hulud, He Is Legend, Braid, Queers, Sunny Day Real Estate, Everclear, Kid Dynamite, Ramones, Van Halen, Ozma, The Clash, Superdrag, Lawrence Arms, At the Drive-In, Pavement, Jawbreaker, Face to Face, Gaslight Anthem, Beatles, Zombie Apocalypse, Eagles, Casket Lottery, A Wilhelm Scream, Scared of Chaka.....
Can't Hardly Wait, Star Wars Episode V: The Empire Strikes Back, Tommy Boy, Dumb and Dumber, The Usual Suspects, Reservoir Dogs, Mallrats, Friday Night Lights, Dazed and Confused, Varsity Blues, Forrest Gump, PCU, Clerks, Animal House, Ace Ventura: Pet Detective, Black Sheep, Kingpin, Spiderman 1 & 2, Kill Bill vols. 1 & 2, Meet The Parents, Old School, The Rock...
THE SIMPSONS, SEINFELD, Kids In The Hall, SNL (roughly the late 80's to mid/late 90's era), House, M.D., South Park, Transformers(the original series, obviously), Rocky and Bullwinkle, Around The Horn, Entourage, Californication, Baseball Tonight, Cash Cab....
1984 by George Orwell, That Was Then, This Is Now by S.E. Hinton, Slaughterhouse Five by Kurt Vonnegut, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? by Phillip K. Dick, Day of the Locust by Nathanael West, Farenheit 451 by Ray Bradbury, Punk Is A Four-Letter Word by Ben Weasel, Ball Four by Jim Bouton, Like Hell by Ben Foster, The Bronx Zoo by Sparky Lyle, The Outsiders by S.E. Hinton, Catcher In The Rye by J.D. Salinger, Friday Night Lights by H.G. Bissinger, The Things They Carried by Tim O'Brien.....
After the obvious and semi-cliche answer of my parents and brother, in the realm of heroes there is only one person I could(and will) submit: Nolan Ryan. Growing up as a young baseball fan in the early/mid 80's in the greater Houston area, for me he defined consistency and intimidation. What is odd about having Nolan Ryan as my hero is the fact that I never took the mound as a pitcher during my organized baseball days (1986-1996). However, he is my hero, and that is all.