COOKING, painting, drawing, listening to music, pop culture, comic books, my little stinky dog, playing the bass, Hard-To-Find Nightmare Before Christmas memorabilia, Sci-fi/Horror movies and books, providing in-home commentary to first-run Reality TV shows (with help of my Tivo), and your mom.
Kevin Smith, Bruce Campbell, Ralph Fiennes, Bobby Flay, Sting, Jack Johnson, Johnny Depp, Tim Burton, the guy from Askaninja.com, Michael J. Nelson, Seth McFarlane, Roman Dirge, Brian K. Vaughan, and Henry Rollins.
I'd also like to meet Jessica Simpson, Britney Spears, Lindsey Lohann, Paris Hilton, Nicole Richie, Renee Zellwegger, Star Jones, Michael Moore, Kevin Federline, and David Hasselhoff, but that's not really fair. I really wouldn't like to meet them... I'd just like to run up to them and punch them in the face. And then I'd kick them about the head and neck for a while, before running off laughing.
Jack Johnson, Duran Duran, Type-O Negative, Elliott Smith, Sting, Brad, Rage Against the Machine, Stone Temple Pilots, Aimee Mann, Poe, Otis Redding, Billie Holiday, the Beach Boys, Coalhouse Walker, and INXS (when they were good).
Nightmare Before Christmas, Monster Squad, Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels, Silence of the Lambs, Edward Scissorhands, Amadeus, The Game, Sin City, the Crow, The Usual Suspects, Memento, Mallrats, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (the original!), Shaun of the Dead, Big Fish, Dune, Se7en, Magnolia, Ed Wood, Monster Movies (all the classics), Spider-man 2, and Animal Crackers (I needs me some Marx Brothers!)
Deadwood, Entourage, Twin Peaks, Family Guy, Firefly, Keen Eddie, Farscape, Futurama, Venture Brothers, Robot Chicken, Anything on the Food Network, The X-Files, Mystery Science Theater 3000 (Joel OR Mike, but Mike if I need to choose), any TV show with David Caruso in it, BTVS, Angel, Carnivale, Clerks: The Animated Series, The Tick, The Incredible Hulk, the Greatest American Hero, the A-Team, Deadliest Catch, Newsradio, The Three Stooges, Sports Night, OLD West Wing, everything on NGC, and documentaries about wolves (for some weird reason, hyenas may substitute).
Anything by Patricia Cornwell, The Chronicles of Narnia, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Sherlock Holmes, The Portrait of Dorian Gray, Ann Rice's Vampire series, Frankenstein, Dracula, If Chins Could Kill, The Art of Olivia, anything by Roman Dirge, any books on strange phenomena (ex. - the Jersey Devil, Mothman Prophecies, etc.), anything by Edgar Allen Poe, American Psycho (just to be clear, the BOOK, not the movie!), and COOKBOOKS for inspiration!