traveling/exploring, live music, making art, flash mobs, cliff jumping, naps, sex, extreme sports, cartoons, chocolate (preferably with peanut butter), camping/hiking, body art, reading, pool hopping, politics, getting lost, random road trips, coffee.
the infamous banksy!, kim gordon, gloria steinem, jenna jameson, brode dalle (minus the whole leaving tim armstrong thing), amy goodman...all powerful individuals who influenced and inspired me, taught me something, and changed me for the better.
i can't possibly make a list. i like everything: give me metal/hardcore, folk, rap/hiphop, classical, jazz, techno/house, experimental/avant-garde, punk, rock, anything. the chili peppers, nirvana, radiohead, muse, elliott smith, state radio, sonic youth, sublime, dispatch, common, dismemberment plan, blur, medeski martin & wood, aesop rock, the beatles, beck, lamb of god, the distillers, the white stripes, blind melon, bowie, kasabian, cake, gorillaz, pretty much any live music...you get the idea...
trainspotting, god grew tired of us, snatch, children of men, requiem for a dream, fullmetal jacket, the bourne movies, jawbreaker, american history x, the rainmaker, fear and loathing in las vegas, the big lebowski, anything directed by quentin tarantino, guy richie or wes anderson.
TLC/Discovery/Travel channel. BBC. CurrentTV. family guy. the girls next door. pete and pete. the daily show.
anything by palahniuk, kerouac, vonnegut, burroughs. im big on beatniks. i like poetry by cummings and ginsberg too. the jungle, the fuck up, junky, 1984, breakfast of champions, slaughterhouse five, brave new world, a million little pieces, the bell jar, what is the what, steal this book, freakonomics.
my mom: the most selfless, caring, and COOLEST person i know, traveled more than i have, was a revolutionary in communist poland in the 80s. she's also borderline genius, speaks a handful of languages fluently, and reads organic chem books for fun (nerd runs in our blood).