(In no particular order) Singing, guitaring, drumming, sports, music, chemicals, fire, the beach, throwing things, catching things, bustin' rhymes, hustlin' chumps.
"Millions of innocent men, women, and children, since the introduction of Christianity, have been burned, tortured, fined, and imprisoned, yet we have not advanced one inch toward uniformity. What has been the effect of coercion? To make one half of the world fools and the other half hypocrites."- Thomas Jefferson
Husker Du/Sugar/Bob Mould, Avail, Screeching Weasel, Jawbreaker/Jets to Brazil, At the Drive-In, The Ramones, The Weakerthans, Dismemberment Plan, Wu-Tang, , The Cure, Night Ranger, Sleater-Kinney, Bad Religion, Sonic Youth, 7 Seconds, Fugazi/Embrace, Descendents/All, The Replacements, Quicksand, Black Flag, Lifetime, Karate, Cap'N Jazz --0-- --0-- --0--Saccharine Trust, Modest Mouse, Weezer, Tool, NOFX, Green Day, Jawbox, Alkaline Trio, Youth Brigade, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Propagandhi, Cursive, Joy Division, Knapsack, Slackers, Small Brown Bike, Built to Spill, No Knife, Mission of Burma, Digable Planets, Chili Peppers (84-93), GNR. --0-- --0-- --0--Pat Benatar, Gray Matter, Three, Senator Flux, Dead Kennedys, Misfits, Minor Threat. A shout out to my classic and cock rock roots: Journey, Foreigner, Styx, Scorpions, REO Speedwagon. --0-- --0-- --0--Miles, Monk, Mingus. Four Tops, Temptations, Smokey Robinson, Sam and Dave, Otis Redding, Isley Brothers, James Brown. Aretha, Etta J, Ronnettes, Martha and the Vandellas. Curtis Mayfield, Marvin Fuckin' Gaye.
Explorers, The Navigator, Aliens, The Thing, Pulp Fiction, Star Trek 2 and 4, Star Wars 4, 5, and 6, Big Trouble in Little China, Event Horizon, The Dirty Dozen, The Golden Child, Clue, Reservoir Dogs, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Beetlejuice, The Big Lebowski, Eraserhead, Transformers: The Movie, Blues Brothers, Suburbia, Another State of Mind, Instrument, Spacecamp (I had a major crush on Leah Thompson), Office Space, Robin Hood Men in Tights, Spaceballs and ever other great Mel Brooks movie.
Twin Peaks, Kids in the Hall, Simpsons, Adult Swim, TV Sports, Small Wonder, Alf, Airwolf, A-Team, Star Trek, Transformers, Voltron, Garfield and Friends.
Orson Scott Card, Arthur C. Clarke, Susan Cooper, Isaac Asimov, Stephen King, Peter Straub, F. Paul Wilson, Paul Johnson, Neil Gaiman, Douglas Adams, Kurt Vonnegut, Neal Stephenson, Audrey Niffenegger, Philip Pullman, and many others.
Pop Culture heroes of my youth: Hannibal from the A-Team, Rowdy Roddy Piper, (the real) Michael Jackson. Sports heroes of my youth: Will Clark, Anthony Carter, Tim Hardaway. --- Rock Heroes: Bob Mould, Joey Ramone, Blake Schwartzenbach. --- Historical Heroes: Andrew Jackson, Ben Franklin, Ike Newton.