Composition, performance (sometimes), drawing caricatures, reading, design in general, languages, cooking, creative people, cosmetics, amateur photography, activities with my hubby, girlfriends, live plants, internet, high times, good movies, good food, sunny weather, crafting, film...
actually, too many to list... but Craig Ferguson I WILL LIST!
I like to be in silence more than anything... though, when I do listen it is to classical, ambient, latin dance, exotic eastern, Georgian ethnic, and Tibetian music, Nino Katamadze, Gypsy Kings, some stuff by Sting, early Michael Jackson...
Dr. Strangelove, 2001: Space Odyssey, Last Tango in Paris, Irreversible, The Beast (1988), The Godfather Trylogy, Mimino (USSR), Blue Montain (USSR), "Since Otar Left" (2004), "Remember Me, My Love", The Return (2004, Russia). Also anything by Kormakur, Abbas Kiarostami. And yesss, I looove animated films: "Tom and Jerry", Disney stuff.... this kind of stuff amuses me greatly...
I now own TV :) and watch HGTV, Food Network, the Late Late Show. I love Nova documentaries... I have also discovered that the writers of "Family Guy" and "Starveillance" are serious comedic talents!
"The Master and Margarita", "The Virtue of Selfishness", "Lord Chesterfield's Letters to His Son", anything by E.A. Poe, Émile Zola, Victoria Tokareva, well-written layman's literature about astrophysics, quantum mechanics
I do not have an overall hero(s)... I think I am past the phase in which I seeked absolutes. I admire certain traits in people, and that is enough to keep me in awe, as well as inspired.