Music:
Bob Dylan, Nina Simone, John Lee Hooker, Glucifer, Billy Holiday, John Mayall, The Clash, Annie Lennox, Nine Pound Hammer, Tori Amos, Santana, Outkast, The Waterboys, Johnny Cash, Widespread Panic, Tom Waitts, Leonard Cohen, The Rolling Stones, Garbage, Mozart, Govi, J.J. Cale, Lynard Skynard, Dr. John, Anita Baker, Tina Turner, Fleetwood Mac (before and after Peter Green), Fred Neil, Pink Floyd, Buena Vista Social Club, Beethoven, Portishead, AC/DC, Drive By Truckers, Danzig, Dire Straits, Marvin Gaye, and The Jefferson Airplane.
Movies:
Out of Africa, The Color Purple, The Witches of Eastwick, Raging Bull, Serpico, Deer Hunter, Life is Beautiful, City of God, Requiem for a Dream, Dog Day Afternoon, Manchurian Candidate, The Pianist, The Piano, Moonstruck, Tea with Mussolini, The Conspiracy, 9 1/2 Weeks, The Godfather I&II, Room with a View, Boondock Saints, Paris Trout, Affliction, Last Tango in Paris, Blue Velvet, Riding Giants (not porn), Mystic Pizza, Stealing Beauty, Mary Poppins, Dogtown and Z boyz, The Sound of Music, Erin Brockovich, Bull Durham, Flashdance, The Never Ending Story & Dracula.
Television:
West Wing, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, the Bill Mauher Show, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, David Letterman and The Sopranos.
Books:
Tess of D'Ubervilles, Jude the Obscure, Far from the Madding Crowd, Thomas Hardy; The Sun also Rises, For Whom the Bell Tolls, Farewell to Arms, and a dozen others, Hemingway; Pride and Predjudice, Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park, Emma, Northanger Abbey, Jane Austen; Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger; The Awakening, Kate Chopin; Fareheit 451 Ray Bradbury; 1984 George Orwell; Jane Eyre, Wuthering Heights, the Bronte gals, Hells Angel, Sonny Barger. Best loved authors: Those above and Flannery O'Conner, Georgette Heyer, Ayn Rand, Sylvia Plath, Byron, Shakespeare, Tennessee Williams, Phillip Roth, Maya Angelou, Jennifer Cruise, Geoffrey Eugenides, Kurt Vonnegut.
Heroes:
Ghandi, Mom, Dad, The Dahli Lama, Susan B. Anthony, Joan of Arc, and Mother Theresa