My goodness. I can't even begin to fill this one. Let me look at what my nutty friends have put in here and I'll try to get close to matching their format.
Winston Churchill, Oscar Wilde, Benjamin Franklin, H.L. Mencken, Samuel Clemens. Since I'm out of luck on that gathering I will just have to go with: anyone who can hold their own in a conversation and entertain me at the same time.
I'm all over the place. Blues, Jazz, Rock, Folk, Metal, and yes ... even Hip Hop. The current obsession is Lennon Murphy. That'll change next week when I finish assimilating "Damaged Goods". In the meantime, go buy it. If nothing else, you have GOT to love what he called her label.
True Romance, Playing God, Chasing Amy, High Fidelity, Suicide Kings, The Long Kiss Goodnight, Dogma, Pulp Fiction ... hell, anything twisted and off the wall.
Don't watch much, but: West Wing, Scrubs, Boston Legal, and Rescue Me are among current or recently ended stuff that I enjoy(ed).
More like "authors". Ellison, Zelazny, and Poe are the top 3. Tolkien, Lewis Carroll, Oscar Wilde, Mike Stackpole, John Wyndham, George Martin, James Blish, Philip K. Dick, Guy Kay, Anne Rice, and Tom Clancy also make the list of things I own a lot of.I like Victorian fiction, horror, sci-fi, and anything that gets me thinking.
Political: Bill Clinton & Ronald ReaganMilitary: Alexander of MacedoniaLiterary: see top 3 authorsPoetry / Lyrics: Jim MorrisonMusical: Chopin, Mozart, John WilliamsComedic: Dennis LearyPhilosophical: Aristotle & Rand