Reading things that are written better than I write, writing things better than those that I've read, drawing pictures and things that resemble drawings, being pretentious, being so much of an asshole that I can't possibly be pretentious, playing videogames to further disprove any evidence of pretentiousness, and cooking. I also like to make fun of things that I don't understand.
Kurt Vonnegut, Warren Ellis, David Lynch, Grant Morrison, Neil Gaiman, Stephen Patrick Morrissey, Wong Kar-Wai, Hal Hartley, I'm sure there are more, but their names escape me at the moment...
Cranes, Funker Vogt, Pixies, The Cure, Joy Division, My Favorite, Magnetic Fields, Arcade Fire, Wumpscut, VNV Nation, Evil's Toy, Informatik, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Chris Connelly, Al Jourgenson, Lemonheads, Nirvana, Smashing Pumpkins, Goblin, Swans, Din Fiv, Apoptygma Berserk, Postal Service...and a hundred more or so...
True Romance, anything by Wong Kar-Wai, anything Hal Hartley, or David Lynch, Scorcese, Miyazaki, or John Woo...even his crappy American films. I like Italian horror and Japanese horror and American horror if it scares the shit out of me or makes me piss myself laughing. I love art-house films when they are done right, like Brick, and Napoleon Dynamite, which I almost retroactively hate due to its success...that's my nature.
Deadwood is the best television show to ever be produced as far as I'm concerned. The Black Donnellys is a fantastic show. I also love Lost and Six Feet Under and Carnivale and Twin Peaks. Smallville is alot of fun, as is The Sopranos. Six Feet Under is the only television to ever make me cry that I remember...but i could be wrong. I'm sensitive! Firefly is fucking awesome, though I couldn't care less about anything that guy's done except forthe film version...and he writes a badass X-Men series.
Vonnegut, Lovecraft, Zelazny, Philip K. Dick, Charles Simic, et al.