drums, genre-mixing, the Dictionary, acting, directing, writing, film
Beck, Johnny Depp, Winston Churchill, my Grandpa (died before I was born), Greg Graffin, Edward Norton, Cillian Murphy, etc.
Beck, Queens of the Stone Age, Gorillaz, Zero 7, Bad Religion, The Shins, Morningwood, System of a Down, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, No Doubt (the old stuff), Suicide Machines, Radiohead, Garbage, Incubus, Grateful Dead, Coldplay, Darude, The Hippos, Primus, The Outline, Tori Amos, Godsmack, The Cardigans, NOFX, Beethoven, Nine Inch Nails, Fallout Boy, Nine Black Alps, Bloc Party, We Are Scientists, Maximo Park, Rancid, The Dead 60's, Dead Kennedy's, Pennywise, OK Go, White Stripes, Portishead, Panic! at the Disco, Breaking Benjamin, Muse, Yes, etc.
United 93, American Beauty, Sin City, Garden State, Batman Begins, Fight Club, The Dead Poets Society, The Big Lebowski, Fallen, Magnolia, The Descent, The Incredibles, Pirates of the Caribbean, Seven, Adaptation, 28 Grams, A History of Violence, The Blair Witch Project, Dogma, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks, The World According to Garp, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Akira, Spirited Away, Training Day, The Matrix, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Blow, Snatch, 10 Things I Hate About You, Napoleon Dynamite, Who Framed Roger Rabbit?, Wit, BASEketball, Finding Nemo, Million Dollar Baby, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut!
Family Guy, South Park, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The Simpsons, FLCL, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Mr. Show, NewsRadio, Strangers with Candy, The Upright Citizens Brigade, Curb Your Enthusiasm
Anything Stephen King (The Dark Tower I-VII, Pet Sematary, The Stand, It, Misery, Desperation, The Long Walk, The Langoliers, The Running Man, etc.); Favorite Plays: After the Fall (Arthur Miller), Wait Until Dark (Frederick Knott), Rumors (Neil Simon), The Crucible (Arthur Miller), Baby M (Lauren Gunderson), Little Shop of Horrors (Howard Ashman), Hamlet (William Shakespeare), Noises Off (Michael Frayn), The Glass Menagerie (Tennessee Williams), Master Harold and the Boys (Athol Fugard), The Producers (Mel Brooks), Wit (Margaret Edson), Picasso at the Lapin Agile (Steve Martin)
My Mom and Dad. No one else lives up to that status, no matter how much I admire their achievements. And my brother, he is the coolest.