Movies:
All of the Eastwood, John Wayne, and Steve McQueen movies. Fight Club, Joe Dirt, The Big Lebowski, Back to the Future (all three), A Christmas Story, Army of Darkness (Bruce Campbell is hilarious!), The Maltese Falcon (and most Bogart movies), Gone in 60 Seconds, Animal House, Death Wish 3 (and most of Charles Bronson's work), anything with a John Williams soundtrack (lots of movies here), most of the Bond movies, House of 1000 Corpses, Taxi Driver, Ghostbusters, Seven, Citizen Kane, The Godfather, Goodfellas, Forrest Gump, The Wizard of Oz, Jerry Maguire, Austin Powers (anything with Mike Myers), Twister, Rain Man, Raising Arizona, The Breakfast Club, Pulp Fiction, Apocalypse Now, Rebel Without a Cause, The Terminator, Full Metal Jacket, Slingblade, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Ben-Hur, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, It's A Wonderful Life, Two-Lane Blacktop, Office Space, The Deer Hunter, Deliverance, Jurassic Park, All of the Monty Python Movies (most people will disagree eith me), Field of Dreams, Patton, Easy Rider, Being John Malkovich, Gone With The Wind, the Hitchcock movies (Psycho, Vertigo, etc.), Apollo 13, Silence of the Lambs, Blade Runner, ... AND MY ABSOLUTE FAVORITE ... QUITE POSSIBLY THE BEST MOVIE THAT WILL EVER EXIST ... THE BLUES BROTHERS ... 'CAUSE THEY'RE ON A MISSION FROM GOD
Books:
The works of L. Frank Baum, Jacob and Willhelm Grimm, Madame d' Aulnoy, Charles Perrault, Hans Andersen (Now don't make fun of me for this, but I really like to read fables, fairy tales, and folklore from around the world.), Oscar Wilde, Willa Cather, Ian Fleming, Mary Shelley, Bram Stoker, Tom Clancy, John Steinbeck, J.D. Salinger, Mark Twain (he was friends with Nikola Tesla), Homer (the greek dude, not the one from Springfield), H.G. Wells, Richard Bach, and Bill Watterson (absolute genius).
Heroes:
My Dad, Homer Simpson, George Washington, Ephraim Shay, Carlos Hathcock, Rooster Cogburn, Vash the Stampede, William B. Ruger, Ed "Big Daddy" Roth, Carl Hedstrom and George Hendee, Samuel Colt, Mr. T, Horace Smith, Daniel B. Wesson, Harry Callahan, Lupin III, Hulk Hogan, Benjamin
Franklin, Peter Griffin, Glenn Curtis, Brock Samson, John Moses Browning, The Great Cornholio, Walt Disney, and Mr. Wizard.