Reading, writing, music, dreaming, wanting, obsessing, living, being, becoming, seeing, believing, understanding, finding, losing and not regretting.
Anyone who has succeeded in not becoming someone they hate. But then again, they might just be obnoxiously cheerful. So that could backfire horribly....
In no particular order: Nine Inch Nails and Less Than Jake, Smile Empty Soul, Authority Zero, HIM, Vendetta Red, Off With Their Heads, The Riverboat Gamblers, Unwritten Law, Bad Religion, Social Distortion, The Briggs, The Lawrence Arms, Ill Nino, Rise Against, Love .45, Manson, Stabbing Westward, She Wants Revenge, No Address, Streetlight Manifesto, Dope, Bouncing Souls, The Exies, Lucky Boys Confusion, Mindless Self-Indulgence, Old Bon Jovi, Aerosmith, Dido, Anna Nalick, oldies, classic rock, The Living End, DORK (not Animo), Nural, Placebo....
Star Wars! Titanic, Across the Universe, Signs, The Italian Job, Lord of the Rings, Remember the Titans, V for Vendetta, Life as a House, Pirates of the Caribbean, Thelma and Louise, The Dead Poets Society, October Sky, The Life of David Gale, Eterenal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, John Q, Ladder 49. Some stupid comedies, but mostly films that make you think. And I'm a sucker for war movies and inspirational sports stories, even though I hate war and sports.
Buffy, Friends, Lost, Roswell, CSI, Grey's Anatomy,Desperate Housewives.
Harry Potter, The Lovely Bones, The Kite Runner, A Thousand Splendid Suns, Fahrenheit 451, books by Jodi Picoult. Anything good. I love books, but I'm lazy and never seem to have the time to pick them up. I'd probably be able to read more if I didn't have to go to school. Hello irony.
The people that say they understand and really do. People who try. My mom and my friends. Awesome-ass journalists. People who do what they say they want to do.