guitar, keyboards, harmonica, drums, my voice, radio, your mind, Enthusiasm, Language, drawing, painting, batik-ing, button making, Destroying the Sun, running, writing symphonies only I will like, scribbling nonsense words, making TV that only a handful of people will watch
Theoretically, objects with properties that I can perceive that also happen to have the characterstic of possessing a MySpace profile, since this is where this answer is being viewed.The phantoms, wraiths, psychoses, and all the inhabitants of the stories described that I try to hint at through my stabs at artistic expression.
!!!, (+/-) Plus Minus, The Advantage, Aesop Rock, Air Conditioning, America is Waiting, The And/Ors, Antietam, And You Will Know Us By The Trail of Dead, Archers of Loaf, Ari Ari, Arms and Legs, The Arrivals, At The Drive-In, Albert Ayler, Beastie Boys, Frank Black and the Catholics, Black Dice, Black Heart Procession, The Blood Brothers, Bonnie Prince Billy, The Blues Brothers, Glenn Branca, British Sea Power, Camp Climax for Girls, Johnny Cash, James Chance, Rhys Chatham, Col. Rhodes, John Coltrane, Francis Ford Coppola, Cordero, Elvis Costello, The Cotton Squares, Crooked Fingers, Bob Dylan, The Ex, The Damned, Dance Disaster Movement, Miles Davis, Del Rey, The Dirty Three, Earth, Eastern Youth, End Me, Erase Errata, The Fall, Foo Fighters, Black Francis, Furious IV, Gang of Four, God's Reflex, The Gossip, Grandpaboy, Guided by Voices, Hella, Heston's Rifle, Hint Hint, In Flames, Ink Puddle Compound, Iron and Wine, J.R. Ewing, The Kills, Kinski, Kites, Kyuss, Laazer Eyes, Lanterna, Leadbelly, Jeffrey Lewis, Lightning Bolt, Low, Lucero, Make Believe, Mark Mallman, The Mars Volta, Mastodon, Metal Boys, Mirah, Modest Mouse, Mogwai, Mondo Generator, The Mothers of Invention, Thelonius Monk, Moreland Audio, Murder by Death, Nautical Almanac, Need New Body, Nine Inch Nails, Phil Ochs, Pleasure Forever, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Officer May, The Old 97's, Roy Orbison, Orthrelm, Panicsville, Panthers, The Paper Chase, Charlie Parker, P.I., The Pixies, Radiohead, Rage Against the Machine, Rasputina, The Raveonettes, Ruins, The Show Is The Rainbow, The Shins, Signsedso, Smashing Pumpkins, Elliott Smith, The Snake The Cross The Crown, The Sonics, Sonic Youth, Sparta, Standstill, The Static, Joe Strummer and the Mescaleros, Super 88, Sunn 0))), Ted Leo and the Pharmacists, Ten Grand, Theoretical Girls, The Thermals, Throbbing Gristle, The Tossers, T Model Ford, TR, Troubled Hubble, The Vidablue, Tom Waits, M. Ward, William Elliott Whitmore, Stevie Wonder, Wolf Eyes, Yo La Tengo, Frank Zappa
High Fidelity, Six-String Samurai, The Magnificent Butcher, Kill Bill, Citizen Kane, Star Wars: The Empire Strikes Back, The Life Aquatic: With Steve Zissou, Napoleon Dynamite, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, The Wall
The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Venture Bros., Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Invader Zim, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Batman: The Animated Series, The Olde Adventures of Sporadic Lunacy, Upright Citizens Brigade, Monty Python Flying Circus
High Fidelity, About a Boy, How to Be Good, Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance, The Fountainhead, Neuromancer, Songbook, Tarantula, Farenheit 451, Slaughterhouse Five, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010, 2061, 3001, Foundation, Nevermind the Pollacks, The Stranger, The Grapes of Wrath, Fight Club, A Clockwork Orange, Slaughterhouse Five, Catch-22
I'm striving to become more of an "Amateur Everything" and eventually an expert in very specific things. In the qualities of intent and execution of thoughts and actions, I push towards becoming the mortal equivalent of a hero (also inflated these days to be called "superhero," as if heroes aren't good enough outside of comic books). At the very least, I know I am succeeding by knowing that I would be considered a hero to a younger version of myself.
I'd be a liar, however, to say that there aren't examples that I draw inspiration from to make my upward climb. A few of them shall be noted here.
Puckett
Jared
Vehemence 6.2
It's safe to say that a way of determining a being's hero status is to similarly define how they are a villain to someone else.
Of course, there are heroes who don't provide an example, so much as an emotional anchor to get me through the day:
Drinky Crow