Logic, the Noumena, etc.
Either: a) I've already met them, or b) they're dead.
Eric Dolphy, Sonic Youth, Wilco, Channel This to Aristotle Wherever He May Be, Ornette Coleman, Sun Ra, De La Soul, David Bowie, Hank Williams, Public Enemy, The Get Up Kids, Brainiac, The Clash, Shellac, The Jesus Lizard, Matisyahu, Karate, Black Flag, Elvis Costello, Kanye West, Marvin Gaye, Kiss, The Wrens...
Pandaemonium, The Passion of Joan of Arc, Un Chien Andalou, The Blood of a Poet, Hamlet (2000), No Such Thing, The Decline of Western Civilization (part 1), The Man with the Movie Camera, earlier Woody Allen, Ghost World, Magnolia, The Return of the Living Dead, Scotland PA, Poetry in Motion, Basquiat, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rock-N-Roll High School, Another State of Mind, Pollock, Casablanca, North by Northwest (esp. the crop duster scene), Henry Fool, Naked Lunch, Crash, The Secretary, Lost in Translation, Me and You and Everyone We Know...
TV gets too much airtime as it is.
Poetry: Coleridge, Keats, Rimbaud, Apollinaire, Tristan Tzara, William Carlos Williams, John Berryman, Robert Lowell, Gregory Corso, Allen Ginsberg, Ted Berrigan, Frank O'Hara, Kenneth Koch, John Ashbery, Bernadette Mayer, Dean Young, Ben Doyle, Olena Davis, Ethan Paquin, Tony Hoagland, Mary Ruefle, Charles Wright, Laura Kasischke, Stuart Dischell, Lyn Hejinian...Fiction and Drama: Moby Dick and Bartleby the Scrivener by Melville, The Sound of Waves by Yukio Mishima, anything by Hemingway, This Is Not a Novel by David Markson, Wittgenstein's Nephew by Thomas Bernhard, Siddhartha by Herman Hesse, On the Road by Kerouac, Dogwalker by Arthur Bradford, No Exit by Sartre, The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter, Cowboy Mouth by Sam Shepard, A Giacometti Portrait by James Lord, Frankenstein by Mary Shelley, William S. Burroughs (esp. Naked Lunch and cut-ups)...Reference Books, Anthologies, Philosophy and Criticism: The Dada Painters and Poets, The Oulipo Companion, Correspondence Art, Fiction 100, The Poetics of Indeterminacy and Wittgenstein's Ladder by Marjorie Perloff, Philosophical Investigations by Ludwig Wittgenstein, Fear and Trembling by Soren Kierkegaard, Mythologies and The Pleasure of the Text by Roland Barthes...
Most of my "heroes" (and I do use that word lightly), beyond the authors listed in the Books section, are artists: Robert Motherwell, Cy Twombly, Willem DeKooning, Carl Andre, Chris Burden, Raymond Pettibon, Eva Hesse, Jean Michel Basquiat, Jean Dubuffet, Rebecca Horn, Alberto Giacometti, Man Ray, Joe Brainard, Kurt Schwitters, Ray Johnson