Music, song-writing, the occult, magic(k), sex, women, alcohol etc (add more later)
People who are interesting, shy, extrovert, dominant, submissive, neither dominant or submissive, sexy, honest, confident, insecure, bitchy, caring, weird, talented, intelligent, ordinary and ALIVE.
RAGE Against the Machine....
"Killing in the Name of!!!" by RATM ^
"People of the SUN!!!" by RATM ^
And other stuff such as....
"Astronomy Domine" by Pink Floyd
"Land of Hope and Glory" by the Sex Pistols
"Masters of War" by Bob Dylan
"Self Evident" by the Righteous Ani Difranco
I think Ani deserves 2 songs on my list, don't you? I do.
"Fuck you (and your untouchable face)" by the Righteous Ani Difranco
"T.N.T" by ACDC
"Bad to the Bone" by George Thorogood and the Destroyers
"Voulez Vous" by ABBA
"How Great Thou Art" - Martina McBride
"Silver Bells (Xmas songs! yay!)" - Martina McBride
More later maybe.
The Matrix, Cool Hand Luke, The Wizard of Oz, A Wonderful Life, The Sound of Music, almost any Clint Eastwood film, any film starring The Duke, James Bond with Sean Connery, Withnail and I, The Wall, Ben Hur, Blade Runner, Star Wars, Midnight Cowboy, One Flew Over the Cookoo's Nest, 2001: A Space Odyssey, The Shining, Salem's Lot, Jesus of Nazareth, Pulp Fiction, Raiders of the Lost Ark and etc, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Doors, Alien 2, Terminator, Mad Max, Trainspotting, Planet of the Apes, The Man Who Would Be King, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, the Carry On films, Hammer House of Horror stuff, any old British War film such as Where Eagles Dare, Elvis films, White Heat, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Italian Job, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, Up the Junction, The Krays, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Barbarella, Oliver [Twist] (1968 version), St Trinians films, Steptoe and Son, The Three Musketeers, some early Disney films such as Dumbo or Snow White or Jungle Book or Pinocchio, Walkabout, Alice in Wonderland, Yellow Submarine, any Michael Caine film, Laurel and Hardy, the Magnificent Seven, early b&w Flash Gordon, Lassie... , The Scarlet Pimpernel, Chitty Chitty Bang Bang, ALTERED STATES, Dirty Dozen, The Omega Man, They Live, b&w Tarzan films, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, The Jazz Singer (with Neil Diamond), Rebel Without a Cause, old b&w Vampire and Werewolf films, West Side Story, Bing Crosby and Bob Hope films, Jerry Lewis films! , ANY Norman Wisdom films, Forbidden Planet, Ghost Busters oh yes, Never Ending Story, Nightmare on Elm Street, Grease, Tootsie, Close Encounters films, ET and Mutiny on the Bounty.... just to name a few.
Television breeds hate and is the worst God-damn invention ever made! People and families no longer communicate, they are too busy being fucking hypnotised by the picture boxes they have in every room (excuse my french but I get a bit passionate about this, as I'm sure you have gathered.)
Add to this later too (lol). Fiction stuff like Stephen King, LOTR (b4 the latest film craze), Wilbur Smith, James Herbert. Non-fiction (hmmm) such as Noam Chomsky, the dictionary, Zen stuff and anything that taxes my mind enough to make it shut up.
Joseph Campbell. Well ok, not really, I was just trying to be clever. I have no heroes because I look up to (nor down at) anyone.