weird music, biking, dark basements, stacks of subs/walls of bass, whiskey, illegal substances, corrupting young minds, most things that parents hate, civil disobedience, poker, gambling, casinos, transient hotels, corruption, debauchery, seedy underbellies, dark alleys, 24 hour restaurants, old man bars, truck stops
people with no shame or people that like regretting things.
people who know it's "whom i'd like to meet."
atomly, Aphex Twin, Jawbreaker, grime, dubstep, Mobb Deep, Wu-Tang Clan, Eliot Lipp, Autechre, Squarepusher, Ed Rush + Optical, Modest Mouse, Propagandhi, Smashing Pumpkins, house, Breeders, Pixies, Elliott Smith, Radiohead, Beck, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Yo La Tengo, Nick Drake, old hardcore punk, Acme, dancehall, dub, minimal techno, old mashed up ragga jungle, new mashed up ragga/breakcore stuff, electro, italo disco, ACID
Lost in Translation, The Man With No Name Trilogy, Supertroopers, all of Kurosawa, 47 Ronin, Christopher Guest moves, Cannonball Run, anything Wong Kar Wai, Spy/Heist/Mob Flicks, Hero, A Hero Never Dies, Infernal Affairs 2, The Cannonball Run, All of Wes Anderson, Most of Steven Sorderbergh, Seventh Seal, Wild Strawberries, Alien, Blade Runner, any dystopian view of your drugged future, most of Tim Burton, all of David Lynch, all of the Coen Brothers, Easy Rider, all of Michael Moore, anything with Bill Murray, War Games, High Noon, The Sting, The Hustler, all of Mamet, Metropolis, Chinatown (and most of Polanski), Big Trouble in Little China, etc...
I don't watch TV much anymore (too much as a kid, though), but my faves were Mr. Show, Arrested Development, Simpsons, The Office, Clarissa Explains It All, Sealab 2021, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Twin Peaks, 24, etc..
Tao te Ching, The Way of Chuang Tzu, Pynchon, Joyce, Steinbeck, Hernan Hesse, Ken Kesey, Vonnegut, Dostoevsky, Nabokov, Virginia Woolf, Arthur Miller, Mamet, Mark Twain, Peter McWilliams, Bukowski