Art, science, spirituality, music, recording, books (fiction and non-fiction,) lefty politics, philosophy... (I was the guy in school who carried his books like a girl, worked in the AV department and smelled like food.)
Hey you need all the friends you can get. "When I die, I want people to say: he owed me a lot of money." Lastly... I would like to meet anyone with frontal lobes and who understands why immoral, corrupt, dishonest wars are a bad idea.
Most kinds, few exceptions. I despise corporate music. I respect all forms of honest music whether I like them or not. Short list: Monkees, King Crimson, Zappa/Mothers, Hendrix, Joy Division, Miles Davis, Mahavishnu Orchestra, Bob Mould/Sugar, Throwing Muses, Meat Puppets, Don Van Vliet, Gil-Scot Heron, Johnny Cash, Karlheinz Staukhausen, Chet Atkins, Leo Kotke, The Damned, Iggy & The Stooges, DKs, The Numbskulls, Let's Active, PIL, blah-blah-blah... (You should see the long list.) mspobj allowScriptAccess="never" allowNetworking="internal" enableJSURL="false" enableHREF="false" saveEmbedTags="true" data="http://www.youtube.com/v/C8KdgzhjRD8" type="application/x-shockwave-flash" .. height="350"
Head, M*A*S*H, Vanishing Point, The Conversation, The Anderson Tapes, This is Spinal Tap, 24 Hour Party People, Repo Man, Decline of Western Civilisation, Help!, The Kids Are All Right, Dr. Strangelove, Airplane, Aunt Peg.
It's crap... However... The Monkees, The Prisoner, Lost in Space (strong childhood identification...) Dr. Who, Time Tunnel, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Kids in The Hall, The Young Ones, Ren & Stimpy, Duckman...
Clockwork Orange, Carnal Alchemy, Wicca A Guide For The Solitary Practitioner, Naked Lunch, The Ticket That Exploded, Cash, Behind The Glass, Catch-22, Molecules of Emotion, The Hollographic Paradigm, Sirens of Titan, I Want More, I'm A Believer, Rotten: No Dogs, No Blacks, No Irish, Please Kill Me, Psychotic Reactions and Carbuerator Dung, Deadeye Dick, The Wisdom of Insecurity, The Book, Killer in Drag, Rock n' Roll Babylon, No Comercial Potential, Dirk Gently Holistic Detective, Call of The Wild.
I don't have heroes. I think it's degrading. However there are some folk I have admired: Barbara Boxer, Martin Luther King, Ghandi, Scott Cunningham, Henry Waxman, Jimmy Carter, Johnny Cash, Frank Zappa, Marcel DuChamp, Charles Ives, Peter Zolli, John Voegtlin, Greg Sullivan, Bret Hart, Nam June Paik, Wendy Hotchkiss-Blake.