Poker, TV, movies, books, history, coffee and tea, Batman, the usual really
Everything but Country and Elevator musak, but especially Pink Floyd, Led Zeppelin, David Bowie, Nirvana, Queen, The Beatles, The Doors, Cake, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Simon & Garfunkel, Bob Dylan, classical, jazz, miscellaneous one-hit-wonders etc, and most movie soundtracks
Amelie, American Beauty, The Princess Bride, Labyrinth, Neverending Story, Terminator 2, Pulp Fiction, Kill Bill Vols. 1 & 2, The Life Aquatic, Closer, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Flesh + Blood, The Emperor's New Groove, Pirates of the Carribean, Fantasia, the Indiana Jones Trilogy
Venture Brothers, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Home Movies, Gilmore Girls, Daily Show, The Colbert Report, the History Channel, the Discovery Channel
Anything by: Neil Gaiman, Terry Pratchett, JK Rowling, JRR Tolkein.Also: Mary Stewart's Merlin Trilogy, Gone with the Wind, Les Miserables, The Great Gatsby, Lolita, The Virgin Suicides, The Sun Also Rises, In Cold Blood, Dante's Divine Comedy, Paradise Lost, and the works of Frost, Pushkin, Eliot, and Keats