Travel, music, taiko, learning languages, reading, socializing, zoos, houto, lemurs, good food, wine, sake, lasagne, sashimi, udon, zazen, laughter, happiness, my adorable dwarf hamster, ice cream, grapefruit juice, sembe, enkai, tonkatsu,Unagi, tempura, family, Miyazaki films, you know, all the good things in life!
People who love Totoro, people who can be alternately intensely serious and ridiculously silly, people who love life and laughter.
All kinds of music, including things I've only heard once or twice. I'm terrible about following up and actually purchasing music I like. Regardless, I like: The Eels, The Strokes, Portishead, Poe, Rufus Wainwright, India Arie, The Decemberists, Paul Simon, Tori Amos, Cat Stevens, Ani DiFranco, Prototypes, Sia, Soul Coughing, The Beatles, Kanye West, P.J. Harvey, Norah Jones, Ella Fitzgerald, No Doubt, Andrew Bird, Debussy, Delibes, Brahms, Chopin, Beethoven (especially his Eroica Symphony), Mozart, Mahler, Clara and Robert Schumann, The Streets, Modest Mouse, Ray Lynch, , Telepopmusik, Bjork, Oceania, Abba, etc.
Punch Drunk Love, Thank You for Smoking, The Princess Bride, Princess Mononoke, Boondock Saints, Brick, Harold and Maude, Arsenic and Old Lace, Aladdin, Donnie Darko, Pirates of the Caribbean, Stranger Than Fiction, Benny and Joon, Adventures of Priscilla, Mulholland Drive, Queen of the Desert, The Nightmare before Christmas, My Neighbor Totoro, basically anything by Miyazaki, ...
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Star Trek, Family Guy, Battlestar Galactica, Supernatural, Smallville (I know it's pathetic, but I can't help it), The Daily Show (when possible), Lost
Good Omens, The Universe in a Single Atom, After the Quake, The Life of Pi, the curious incident of the dog in the night-time, Hardcore Zen, Shutting out the Sun, Tuesdays with Morrie, The Lorax, The Sidewalk Ends Here, Fragile Things, etc.
I dunno... I still haven't figured out is everyone is a hero or no one is. Or both. In any case, no one person really stands out for me.