Music, playing percussion, analog synthesizers, learning guitar, going to the bars (not the clubs), baseball, sabermetrics, water recreation(swimming, surfing, boating, pool maintenance), Tom Foolery & Horseplay, warm weather, unlimited weekend minutes, obscurity, collecting airline miles and hotel points, Frisbee related sports, The City of Chicago, cooking, being lazy
Any World-Class Bullshitters.
Way too much to name but I'd never turn down these: 311, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Phish, Pink Floyd, Umphrey's McGee, The String Cheese Incident, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Radiohead, Coldplay, Grandaddy, Beastie Boys, Soundgarden, Stone Temple Pilots, YES, Emerson Lake & Palmer, BTO, ELO, CCR, The Who, The Rolling Stones, Vida Blue, MMW, Galactic, Guster, moe., The Clash, The Beatles, No Doubt, Incubus, The Doors, Herbie Hancock, CFOS, Guv. Cissell, GUV, Bob Marley, Chicago, Grandaddy, Funk-N-Stein, Jurassic 5, Kraftwerk, Kaiser Chiefs, Boston, Kansas, Steve Miller, Talking Heads, Hendrix, Trey Anastasio, The Dead, Clapton, Dire Straits, David Bowie, David Gilmour, Queens of the Stone Age, The Mars Volta, Muse, Frank Zappa...In my Discman: Menomena,The Helio Sequence,Fujiya & Miyagi, Pet Shop Boys(Yeah....so?)
Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Zoolander, PCU, Half Baked, Bongwater, Pulp Fiction, Kingpin, Goodfellas, Blow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Easy Rider, Bittersweet Motel, Animal House, Citizen Kane, Star Wars (Episodes IV-VI), Back to the Future Trilogy, Indiana Jones Triliogy, Most any James Bond Movie, The Big Lebowski, Waynes World, Clerks, Happy Gilmore, Billy Madison, School of Rock, Napoleon Dynamite, Primer, Team America, The South Park Movie
Seinfeld, Curb your Enthusiasm, Arrested Development, Family Guy, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Office, SportsCenter, Chicago Sports, High-Definition programming, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Any MLB Baseball, COPS
A Clockwork Orange, Hyperspace, The Holographic Universe, Animal Farm, The Universe in a nutshell, The Andromeda Strain, Hammer of the Gods, Freakanomics, Family of Geniuses, Old Custer, The Peculiar Neurodegenerative Inhabitants of the Kazawa Atoll, Moneyball
Sting. Definitely an influence in my life. I don't listen to his music but the fact that he is making it, I respect that.