Like I said I am a teacher and I think public education is the only hope we have for saving the free-world, not as we know it but as it was meant to be. I like to read, even if the book doesn't have pictures. I love learning about history, I have a degree in Irish History. Pretty much anything political is going to wake me up. My favorite thing is probably talking to people who can teach me something or are smarter than I am, which is pretty easy.
Mammals preferably, I've gotten tired of the company of reptiles.
Pretty eclectic, anything but Modern Country Music and Rap. Some of my favorite artists right now are Damien Rice, Flogging Molly, Liz Phair, Cake, Joni Mitchell, Dan Bern, Paul Simon, Karl Zero, Johnny Cash...
Beautiful Girls, American Beauty, Dead Poets Society, Pretty Woman, You've Got Mail, How to Steal a Million, Charade, V for Vindetta, The Life Aquatic, The Royal Tannenbaums, I Heart Hukabees, The Trouble with Harry, The Long Hot Summer, One Flew Over the Coocoo's Nest... and the list goes on...
Those great mystery shows that old people watch, Matlock, Murder She Wrote, Magnim PI. Other than that Grey's Anatomy and What not to Wear
Still Life with Woodpecker, Franny and Zooey, A Town Like Alice, By the Lake, Jane Eyre, Jacob Have I Loved, The Soul of the Night, Beauty, Far from the Madding Crowd, The Magic Mountain, The War of the End of the World, Race and Reunion, The Great Gatsby, The Burning of Bridget Cleary, anything by Toni Morrison especially Paradise, Barbara Kingsolver especially the Poisenwood Bible, Louise Erdrich, Gabriel Garcia Marquez...
I've never really liked this question, maybe its my Quaker background. To me, when I think about people who have been important to me or to the world, if you label them with a term like heroic it diminishes there value and turns it into something superficial and attention seeking.