brewing beer, drinking beer, discovering new beer styles, discovering new musical artists, rounding off infinity, snowboarding in deep-ass powder, experiencing deja vu and amnesia simultaneously, cooking, sein beschwipst, sneezing, density dragons, rumbummeln, sdrawkcab tebahpla eht gniticer yldipar, reminiscing with complete strangers, practicing the Korean martial art of Kuk Sool, Freikörperkultur, driftwood sculpting, skunking fools in cribbage, exploring ways to opening my own brewery.
Gomez, Modest Mouse, The Zutons, The Black Keys, TV on the Radio, Old Man River, Built To Spill, Beck, Alfie, Badly Drawn Boy, BRMC, Failure, Jane's Addiction, Dandy Warhols, Porno for Pyros, Invisible Green, (early) Smashing Pumpkins, Primus, Pearl Jam, Jimi Hendrix, Radiohead, Queens of the Stone Age, Kings of Leon, Whiskeytown, Red Stars Theory, The Stone Roses, Beta Band, The Strokes, (early) Stone Temple Pilots, Tool, Ugly Casanova, Iron and Wine, Dinosaur Jr, The Vandals, The Vines, The White Stripes, The Shins, Ocean Colour Scene, Wilco, Joseph Arthur, John Ashton, Graham Pattison, A Perfect Circle, Led Zeppelin, Rush, Pink Floyd, the list goes on...
Spaceballs!,Shawshank Redemption, Strange Brew, Pulp Fiction, Harold and Maude, So I Married An Axe Murderer, any Jackie Chan movie, Austin Power series, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, all Monty Python movies, Dumb and Dumber, Bruce Lee movies, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Breakfast Club, Old School, 28 Days Later, Matrix, Dodgeball
The Simpsons, Family Guy, Iron Chef, South Park, CSI (only the original in Las Vegas 'cuz the others suck!), Good Eats, Reno 911!, Quantum Leap, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Saturday Night Live, The State
Brewing Up A Business by Sam Calagione (the founder of Dogfish Head Craft Brewery), The Pillars of the Earth by Ken Follett, anything by David Sedaris, the first three books in the Dark Tower series by Stephen King. I typically read a lot of brewing publications.
my Grandfather, my Mom, Louis Pasteur, Albert Einstein, Homer Simpson, Rachel Carson, Jackie Chan, Bruce Lee, Charles Darwin, Goibniu, Ninkasi (the Goddess of Beer)