My mother's father. He died when my mom was only 10 years old. From the way my mom talks about him, he seemed like a great person.
Under the Influence of Giants, 33Hz, Metro Area, Daniel Wang, Lindstrom & Prins Thomas, Brennan Green, Escort, Cro Magnon, Boombox, Fila Brazillia, Manhead, Putsch 79, DJ T, Kelley Polar, Jamiroquai, basically anything that has a groove.
The Protector, Ong Bak The Tai Warrior, Death to Smoochy, Saving Silverman, I Heart Huckabees, Natural Born Killers, Batman Begins,The Big Lebowsky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where The Buffalo Roam, Pulp Fiction, Shogun Assasin, Human Traffic, etc.
Every Hunter S. Thompson book. The Razors Edge by Somerset Maugham, Night Draws Near, The Confederacy of Dunces, any Fitzgerald or Hemingway, Ishmael by Daniel Quinn, The Seven Pillars of Wisdom by T.E. Lawrence, any Tom Wolfe, Bush World by Maureen Dowd.
My dad for being the most humble, educated, honorable man I know. My mother for being the sweetest woman on earth despite all the wrong that has been put upon her in the past. And definately Hunter S. Thompson for basically being the shit.