Music:
Metallica, Megadeth, Mastodon, Black Label SOciety, Miles Davis, John COltane, Charles Mingus, Sun Ra, Peter Gabriel, Sting, The Clash, The Cult, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Steve Earle, Kathleen Edwards, P.J. Harvery, Nick Cave, John Lennon, The Beatles, Black Sabbath ....
Books:
anything by Chuck Palahniuk, Don DeLillo, or Jack Kerouac.
Heroes:
Feynman, Dalai Lama, Zakk Wylde, Han Solo ....