Music:
A whole bunch of shit, including: The Pogues, Lightning Bolt, Cyndi Lauper, The Clash, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jawbreaker, Stiff Little Fingers, My Bloody Valentine, Descendents, Arcade Fire, Alkaline Trio, Black Flag, Johnny Cash, TV on the Radio, and a bunch of other bands you have either never heard of, or you are a pretentious fuck like me and will be all like, "THIS asshole likes The Dirty Projectors? Whatever, they suck now anyway. A d-bag like this dickhole would like them..."
Movies:
My favorite filmmaker is John Hughes. He hasn't made anything very good in the last few years, but here is a list of movies that he has written, produced, and/or directed:
-Vacation (also European and Christmas)
-Ferris Bueller's Day Off
-The Great Outdoors
-Weird Science
-The Breakfast Club
-Pretty in Pink
-Home Alone
-Plains, Trains, and Automobiles
-Dutch
-Mr. Mom
-Some Kind of Wonderful
He is the Howard Hawks of this generation, and one of my biggest influences.
I also like North by Northwest, Ghostbusters!, Say Anything, Halloween 1,2,7 and 8, Freddy Versus Jason, Down by Law, Dead Man, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Die Hard, Sleepaway Camp, see note above in 'Music:'
Television:
Wife Swap is the only program on network television worth watching, except for the other innovative and entertaining family viewing options offered by ABC. Don't miss an exciting new season of Lost, Wednesdays on ABC. America is watching ABC!*
*The above statement was in no way influenced, coerced, or made under threat of bodily harm and/or monetary penalty by RDF Media, ABC and any of its parent and cousin entities, including but not limited to Disney Worldwide and the ESPN family of networks.
Books:
I detest all books except for: Slaughterhouse-5, The Book of Job, Lummox, The Grapes of Wrath, To Kill a Mockingbird, the novel I am going to write soon, The Master and Margarita, Lamb (but nothing else by that nerd), A Confederacy of Dunces, Mother Night, There's A Spiritual Solution to Every Problem, Another Roadside Attraction (but nothing else by that nerd), The Man in the High Castle, some other shit....
Heroes:
Johnny Cash is my favorite historical figure. He is also my favorite poet. So I guess he would be my number one hero.
Besides him:
-Sports: Joe Montana, Mike Scioscia, Magic Johnson
-Politics: FDR, Barack Obama, RFK, Ghandi
-Family: My father is my hero for showing me the things to come from unchecked neurosis. My mother is my hero because she can't be ironed all the way to conformity. My grandmother is my hero because she is so content in her insanity.
