Nicholas Kristof, Maureen Dowd, Jeffrey Sachs, Christiane Amanpour....and just to spice it up, Janice Dickinson...after that, whomever you are, just bring it and make sure it's so real.
First and foremost: Billy-Ella-Dinah-Nina-Sarah-Etta-etc.... then, STARS...and then in no particular order: Heart, Missy Higgins, Sia, Bowie, Metric, Annie Lennox, Doves, Fiona Apple, The Sounds, k.d. lang, Dusty Springfield, Streisand, David Bisbal, Pat Benatar, Dears, East Village Opera Company, New Pornographers, Bill Withers, Les Nubians, Mamas and the Papas, Imogen Heap, Si*Se, Kings of Leon, Shiny Toy Guns, Mars Volta, Stevie Nicks, Peggy Lee, The Magnetic Fields, Tuck and Patti, Yeah, Yeah, Yeahs, The Supremes, Sade, The Hush Sound, The Weepies, Ike & Tina Turner, Death Cab, Big Band music, and Chopin
Let's begin with the classics: pick any Hepburn (Kate that is), Hayworth, Dietrich, Garbo, or Davis movie and i'm glued to the set,KISS KISS BANG BANG...and,ok fine, I'll admit it...i know 90% of the lines from Elf...moving right along...how about we talk art for a second: Pollock, Rauschenberg, Rothko, Bernini...
I am officially committed to the Food Network, however, I sometimes stray and see the Discovery Health channel on the side, TLC if she's in town on business and any Bravo 'reality' serial when i'm pretending to be in Vegas.
Anything by Thich Nhat Han or Aristotle. A Tree Grows in Brooklyn and Anne of Green Gables were my childhood faves. IAN McEWAN, Haruki Murakami, Alain de Botton, Jeffrey Eugenides, Augusten Burroughs, Rebecca West, Gregory Maguire, D.H. Lawrence, Shirley Hazzard, Marx, Neruda, Amichai, Kundera.
Heroes are everyday people that look beyond themselves and their self-interest in order to positively affect the lives of others. We should all have heroic moments on a daily basis.