Revaluing the entire history of morals up to this point (want to join me?!), the truth, Wagner, just kidding I spit at Wagner, painkillers (got some?), italian and french languages, creating a new kind of man who can look the tragedy and the humor of life in the eye.
Socrates, Jesus, Kant (so I could straighten his god-fearing ass out!), Bono, and of course, my favorite students of mine: Jim Morrison, G.B. Shaw, Michel Foucault, Bernd Magnus, Walter Kaufmann, Anthony Cristofani, Leonard Cohen, and Oliver Stone.
Tom Waits, Leonard Cohen, The Dandy Warhols, The Sacred Dice. Bob Dylan is great poet, but he really chickened out during that Christian phase.
All Oliver Stone pics (except U-Turn--what were you thinking there, you decadent! Go back and read Schopenhauer!), Life Is Beautiful, Derrida, Fight Club, The Empire Strikes Back, Apocalypse Now.
You insult me by asking about television? This is the most tragic consequence of the freedom I invented for this century. When I told you guys you could free yourself from the slavish contraints of past morality, I didn't mean you could just veg out and develop no new morality!
Of course you should read through my canon, but I am also fond of Plato, Spinoza, Schopenhauer, Shaw, Bukowski at his most vital, Joyce, Foucault, Derrida, Freud, Rushdie. I give Socrates and Jesus a lot of shit but they're more original and courageous than anyone around today. I'm just glad I died in 1900...
Heroes? I shall take a hammer like a tuning fork to these idols...