Music:
HUGE BOB DYLAN and NEIL YOUNG (& CRAZY HORSE) FAN!! Also THE ROLLING STONES, BOB MARLEY, The White Stripes, JOHNNY CASH, REM, THE BEACH BOYS, BEE GEES, Chuck Berry, Patti Smith, Lucinda Williams, Carole King, THE BYRDS, THE BAND, Garbage, CROSBY, STILLS & NASH, SAM & DAVE, Aretha Franklin, Smokey Robinson, LYNYRD SKYNYRD, Dusty Springfield, AC/DC, Loretta Lynn, THE SUPREMES, STEPHEN STILLS, The Four Tops, BUFFALO SPRINGFIELD, Stevie Wonder, FRANK ZAPPA, The Doors, Coldplay, lots of songs drummer HAL BLAINE and "The Wrecking Crew" played on such as "California Dreaming", "Never My Love", "Aquarius", etc., The Everly Brothers, CREEDENCE CLEARWATER REVIVAL, JONI MITCHELL, Dionne Warwick, Frank Sinatra, The Shangri-Las, MOTOWN, Jefferson Airplane, Grateful Dead, Citizen Cope, many Jeff Barry productions, Cracker, The Smithereens, Nirvana, Simon & Garfunkel, early Chicago, some early Beatles, The Kinks, Graham Nash, Neil Diamond, Stax recordings, Hank Williams, Sr., Dave Mason, Willie Nelson, Nelly Furtado, George Harrison, Emmylou Harris, Roxy Music, Victoria Williams, The Who, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, John Lennon, Eric Clapton, The B-52's, J.J. Cale, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Mamas & The Papas, etc. So many more, but these jump out off the top of my head. I like tons of new stuff as well - mostly a few songs in many different artists' repertoire.
Movies:
In no particular order at all - The Godfather, The Love Letter, The Gift, Four Weddings And A Funeral, Friday The 13th, Chinatown, The Shining, I'm Reed Fish, Say Anything, The English Patient, Being There, One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest, Take The Money And Run, Caddyshack, The Pledge, Bandits, Sleuth, Sergio Leone/Clint Eastwood Westerns, Dirty Harry series, James Bond (Sean Connery) series, Glengarry Glen Ross, Body Heat, Rocky, Cross Creek, The Fugitive, The Prince Of Tides, Freeway, The Last Waltz, Wonder Boys, The Godfather - Part II, Goodfellas, Blazing Saddles, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, Halloween, ...And Justice For All, Scarface, The Sting, It's A Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World, Bonnie And Clyde, Sea Of Love, 3 Days Of The Condor, High Fidelity, The Birds, A Simple Plan, many others (always adding more).
Television:
Sports (MLB, NFL, NCAA Basketball, PGA, NHL), Cold Case, C.S.I.s, Charlie Rose, Curb Your Enthusiam, Taxi, Beavis & Butthead, A&E Biography, That 70's Show, news/political programs, Deadliest Catch, The Office, Alias, to name a few.
Books:
Non-fiction (especially true crime, business, baseball, autobiographies, biographies, rock music, politics and history). Some favorite books - Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Midnight In The Garden Of Good And Evil, The Prince Of Tides. Some favorite authors - Ayn Rand, Joseph Wambaugh, Pat Conroy, Kurt Vonnegut, Milton Friedman.
Heroes:
Michelle O'Neill (of Long Beach, New York), Ayn Rand, Bob Dylan, my parents, Neil Young, all Founding Fathers (Thomas Jefferson, Benjamin Franklin, James Madison, George Washington, etc.), Thomas Edison, ANY GREAT INNOVATOR/INVENTOR/EXPLORER.