Pulp fiction and comic books, literature, Art, Monogamy, beautiful girls, music, Film Noir, Moderate to excessive violence, lillies, tattoos, freedom, the satisfaction one derives from realizing their potential.
Other heroes.
Prince, Judas Priest, The Smiths, Extra Fancy, Deftones, Concrete Blonde, Nina Simone, Thrice and Dustin Kensrue who continually amaze me, Johnette Napolitano, Team Sleep, Morrissey, Kate Bush, My Life With the Thrill Kill Kult, Siouxsie, Motley Crue, Muse, Juliette and the Licks, Bowie
Film noir, neo noir, Lynch, Araki. Omega Man, Last Man on Earth, La Jettee, Cruising, American Gigolo, Streets of Fire, Rebel Without a Cause, A Place in the Sun, I Confess, Lady Sings the Blues, Giant, Reflections in a Golden Eye, Mahogany, 28 Days Later. Anything Bogart appeared in with Lauren Bacall.
CNN, BBC and MSNBC are acceptable. The Munsters. The Addams Family. I'm just gay enough to really, really like Desperate Housewives. Night Gallery and Twilight Zone. There was an episode of Millenium about hustlers that I was quite fond of. Spider Man and his Amazing Friends.
Ginsberg's Howl, Burroghs, Orwell's 1984, I am Legend by Mattheson (without some main stream rapper from the late eighties or early nineties passing himself off as Robert Neville and only when it takes place in Los Angeles; not New York), Jacqueline Susann, any pulp exploitation.
My sinister father, Neal Adams, Egon Schiele(whose work I'm obsessed with), the amazing Francis Bacon, George Perez, John Byrne (sometimes), Bill Sienkiewicz, Bruce Timm, Paul Dini, Grant Morrisson, the fabulous Alan Davis, Paul Smith and Steve Ditko and my beautiful, patient mother