24, Video Games, Comics, Movies, Mixed Martial Arts, Godzilla, Poker, Legend of the Five Ring and other CCGs, and Professional Wrestling. Career wise: Web Design, Philosophy, and Digital art.
Other people who like to hang out and intelligent enough to talk about anything over a cold beer, simple as that...mainly Joe Rogan, he seems like a pretty cool guy to drink a beer with.
Red Hot Chili Peppers are my favorite band, also a big fan of Van Morrison, Sam Cooke, Tom Petty and Hootie and the Blowfish. More recently: Asian Kung Fu Generation, new Chili Peppers, a fantasic band on the west coast called The Absynth Quintet, and the rap group Orishas.
Top Ten Favorite Movies in no particular order are: Pi, Unbreakable, Face/Off, 25th Hour and Hero, The Sting, Spy Game, Kung Fu Hustle, The Royal Tenenbaums, and Big Fish.
24 is a great show, but I think The Wire might just be topping it on my list. The Wire is a brilliantly written show and its just that damn good. The Shield was pretty good up till season 5 when it just blew me away, another great show. Currently watching ECW on Sci-Fi, Rescue Me, and Deadwood; In addition to Venture Bros, Battlestar Galactica, Nip/Tuck, and The Shield season 6, The Sopranos, Lost, WWE RAW, High Stakes Poker and Entourage. Also much love to South Park, and the now departed and greatly missed Arrested Development & John From Cincinnati.
Either/Or by Soren Kierkegaard, Super System by Doyle Brunson, Legends Chronicles by Margaret Weis and Tracy Hickman, The Elfstones of Shanarra by Terry Brooks, and a slew of comics from J. Michael Strayzinsky, Warren Ellis, Garth Ennis, Neil Gaiman, Alex Ross, Jim Lee, Alan Moore, Jae Lee, Frank Miller, John Bryne, Grant Morrison, Jim Starlin and Brian Michael Bendis. Finally I recommend to you, the reader of this paragraph that you should consider it your civic duty to find and read anything by author Cormac McCarthy, specifically The Road or Blood Meridian.
A year ago I had Chris Benoit, Christopher Daniels and Randy Couture on this list. Two of those three men have done things that caused me to remove them from this list, and their departure has caused such turmoil within myself that I have to remove the last as well because I'm not sure there are any heroes left anymore.