Music, travel, food, sports, hmmmm...did I mention music?
The list is long. Off the top of my head: Eddie Vedder, George Lucas, George Bush, Barak Obama, Osama, Alton Brown, Mike Rowe, Tom Morello, Dave Letterman, Chuck Klosterman, Matt Groening, Seth McFarlane, my great, great grandfather, and Playmate of the Year Victoria Silvstedt.
I'm a music freak! I probably spend too much time on all different kinds of music. Sometimes to the exclusion of other things. Think Tom Cavanaugh in Love Monkey.Start with a good base of Coltrane, Miles Davis, Louis Armstrong, Thelonius Monk, Charlie Parker, Ella Fitzgerald, Robert Johnson, BB King, Albert King, Stevie Ray Vaughn. Rap, R&B, Country, Metal, even Weird Al ...you're likely to find a little of each on my iPod.Add in good friends like Tool, Pearl Jam, Blink, Reel Big Fish, MxPx, Bad Religion, SOAD, Weezer, the Mudsharks, Sucka Punch, Keyser Soze, Flogging Molly, Taking Back Sunday, Catch 22, 7 seconds, Portishead, Postal Service, STP, Green Day, Rancid, Social D, DMB, RHCP, Sublime, Jack Johnson, Ray LaMontagne, Less than Jake, Radiohead (OK Computer and before), and you've got the recipe for the concoction the keeps my head straight.
The Godfather, Top Gun, When Harry Met Sally, Patton, Philadelphia, Immortal Beloved, Star Wars, Empire, Jedi, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Braveheart, Mallrats, Clerks, Empire Records, Chasing Amy, A Clockwork Orange, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Trainspotting, A Few Good Men, The Usual Suspects, 25th hour.
24, Lost, Black Donneleys, Rome, Entourage, Scrubs, Mythbusters, the Unit, Good Eats, and of course, Jeopardy. Also, reruns of Family Guy, that 70's show, the Simpsons, King of the Hill.And damn them for always cancelling good shows...where the hell is Love Monkey? Where is Studio 60?
Anything by Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Douglas Adams, Alan Loy McGinnis, or hundreds of textbooks. Also lots of magazines -- Playboy, ESPN the mag, Spin, and that cool shopping mag that you get on the airplane.
Batman, Superman, Luke Skywalker, Henry V, Maverick, Spiccoli, and that guy that Emilio Estevez played in The Breakfast Club. ....no, seriously...I have plenty of rl heroes, but that doesn't seem like the kind of thing you should learn about me here. The WHY seems much more important than the WHO. ....of course the list above might give a clue.