Music, music, music! I enjoy reading, fiction and nonfiction. I am also currently working on a piece of fiction that I hope to have published. Natural parenting, homebirth, and ways to improve family life.
Courageous and compassionate people. Artists, writers, musicians, and other people who veer toward the creative. Friends who are willing to extend a hand when you need it and accept a hand when they need it. Deep thinkers, those who question and never accept "truths" on blind faith alone, and those who are willing to think outside the box. Those who are willing to listen to the viewpoints of others and not feel threatened in their own beliefs.
Almost anything alternative, hard rock, classic rock, some pop (although very little), jazz, classical, and world music. Some bands I enjoy are U2, Coldplay, The Killers, Franz Ferdinand, New Order, Depeche Mode, David Bowie, Prince, Counting Crows, Tool, Radiohead, A Perfect Circle, NIN, The Decemberists, The New Amsterdams, Over the Rhine, Catherine Feeny, Iron and Wine, Aimee Mann, Snow Patrol, Aqualung, Azam Ali, Lorenna McKennitt, Nickel Creek, Alison Krauss, Neko Case. The list could go on and on...
The Matrix, The Game, Fight Club, A Room With A View, Lord of the Rings, When Harry Met Sally, BladeRunner, Harry Potter...., Meet The Parents, My Best Friend's Wedding, Pretty Woman, Office Space, Lost Boys, X-Men, So I Married An Ax Murderer, The Lover, There's Something About Mary.
The Office, Heroes, Supernatural, Lost, 24, The Shield, Battlestar Galactica, and reruns of Sex In The City.
Authors I enjoy: Guy Gavriel Kay, David Gemmell, Jacqueline Cary, Tolkien, Juliette Mariller, Raymond E. Feist, Greg Keyes, Tad Williams, George R. R. Martin, Stephen R. Donaldson, Jodi Picoult, Michael Connelly, and Jacqueline Mitchard.
Right now I'm feeling a bit cynical, so my heroes list is somewhat blank.