abstinence, animal shelters, aspca, bdsm, blasphemy, body modification, brutality, catharsis, chastity, confession, contrition, diligence, enlightenment, envy, faith, filth, gluttony, gnosis, greed, heresy, humane society, humility, immorality, kindness, literature, love, lust, metaphysics, mortal sin, myself, narcissism, nudity, patience, peace, perversion, philosophy, physics, poetry, pride, profanity, psychobilly, psychology, punk rock, quantum physics, sacrilege, shiny objects, sloth, temperance, the occult, the perverse, the profane, theology, vanity, venial sin, wrath, et cetera.
The list of people I'd like to meet is much less interesting (and telling) than the list of people I'd like to meat.For the sake of brevity, I'll list neither.
Bad Religion, Dead Kennedys, Reverend Horton Heat, Tiger Army, Misfits, Danzig, Billy Holiday, Ella Fitzgerald, Sarah Vaughn, Elvis Costello, Tom Waits, Gogol Bordello, Necromantix, and so on and so forth...
Dr. Strangelove, Pink Flamingos, Repo Man, The Evil Deads, pretty much anything with zombies, and a select few other films.
Dr. Who, Rescue Me, any of the Law and Orders... and that's about it for TV.
The Illuminatus Trilogy (and pretty much anything by R.A.W.), Stanger in a Strange Land, the works of Crowley, the works of Asimov, pretty much everything by Kurt Vonnegut Jr., Carl G. Jung, et al. I'm a bibliophile (seriously, I own close to 1000, and have read them all).
This guy is about as close as I have to a "hero".
R.I.P. Robert Anton Wilson (January 18, 1932 – January 11, 2007)