Some of this I'm "interested in" but not necessarily a practitioner of... creating, drawing, web design, painting, photography, animation, film direction, Apple computers, software, Flash animation, anatomy, perspective, chess, plants (gardening), annoying people, film, music, saying inappropriate stuff, philosophy, audiobooks, garage sales, sushi, Atari, Micronauts, Hot Wheels, lowriders, fixing house crap, electrical work, dark chocolate, coffee and mochas, "This American Life" by Ira Glass, thinking of being spontaneous but not really doing it, strange exercise, limited travel, people reaching their potential (progressing), cement and wood (incredible building materials), iPod and audiobooks (Audible, yeah!), dirt bikes, pets
Louis Armstrong (dead), Screamin' Jay Hawkins (dead), Benjamin Franklin (dead), Thomas Edison (dead), Steve Jobs, Brad Bird, Steven Spielberg, Howard Roark (fictional), Alan Moore (comics writer). Ayn Rand (dead). Eh, It would probably suck to meet people you admire because they will probably disappoint in person. AND THEY WOULD PROBABLY BE DISAPPOINTED IN ME. There, you satisfied?!
FUNK (The Time, Parliament, Cameo, Rick James, Zapp, Betty Davis)... old HIP HOP (RunDMC, Afrika Bambaataa, UTFO, Beastie Boys, Digital Underground, Grandmaster Flash, NWA)... old R&B (Rose Royce, Commodores, Earth wind & Fire, Prince, Gil-Scott Heron)... JAZZ (Louis Armstrong, Monk, Davis, Mingus)... old BLUES (Mississippi John Hurt, Skip James, Son House)... old JAZZ SINGERS (Billy Holiday, Fats Waller, Ella Fitzgerald, Sinatra, Sarah Vaughan)... ROCK (U2, Guns&Roses, Queen)... ODDITIES (Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Björk, Tenacious D)
Cheech & Chong's "Up In Smoke", The Warriors, Alien, Aliens, The Color Purple, Car Wash, Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Pulp Fiction, Before Night Falls, One Flew Over the Cucoo's Nest, Star Wars (the old ones), I am Cuba, The Wanderers, Training Day
Lost, Project Runway, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Food Network, American Dad (of course!), Futurama, South Park, Samurai Jack. Those shows like Project Runway...I like to see talent exposed and critiqued in competition, if you must know.
Independent Comics (Dan Clowes and Chris Ware and Jeff Smith), The Fountainhead, Atlas Shrugged, Edgar Allen Poe, The Hot Zone, A Song of Ice and Fire (George RR Martin), Books about drawing and anatomy and animation, Juxtapoz magazine (art), Family Handyman (how to fix crap around the house), MacAddict (Apple computer)
Ayn Rand, Muhammed Ali, Louis Armstrong, Orson Wells, Howard Stern, MLK Jr, Redd Foxx, Steve Jobs, those Google dudes, Alan Moore. The painters Rockwell and Sargent. Dagny Taggart (fictional), Pete Avanzino (kickass animation director), Ron Hughart (he's my boss, so I'm throwing him in just to kiss ass), and people who don't care what other people think yet aren't annoying.