I'm constantly trying to learn something new, just to try and keep ahead of the game. If you're not moving forward, then you're falling behind...write that down!
They say that everyone in the world has at least one identical twin somewhere else on the planet. (does anyone else remember that episode of the Flintstones?) I want to meet mine, and get a picture of us making out before I kill him and assume his identity.And people who like to kayak.
TOOL, Nirvana, Rise Against, Smashing Pumplkins, Rage Against the Machine, Jane's Addiction, AFI, NIN, Elliott Smith, usually anything catchy with a little bit of a heavier edge to it. Also classic 80's pop music like Tears for Fears, Pat Benatar, Scandal, basically anything that you'd find on an 80's compilation disk. For whatever reason, I love Celiene Dion. There's a special place in Hell reserved for counrty music artists. Satan holds them all close to his bosom.
Dawn of the Dead (the REAL one), John Carpenter's The Thing, Fight Club, Donnie Darko, Star Wars (all 6 of 'em), Clerks, Mallrats, Chasing Amy, Dogma, Clerks II, (pretty much a whore for anything Kevin Smith) Dream a Little Dream, anything by Darren Aronofsky, Christopher Nolan, or Wes Anderson. I also try and catch most of Lars Yon Trier's films. Stanley Kubrick was pretty much God.
I don't have the patience to watch weekly episodic television, so I usually wait for the DVD. On that format, Robotech, The Shield, Scrubs, The Office (the American version isn't as groundbreakingly brilliant as the British version, but it's still okay.) Deadwood, Entouage, and any news program that happens to be on. The CBS sunday morning show is the bomb. Whoever cancelled Arrested Development should be taken out behind the chemical shed and shot in the head. Mr. Show is still probably the best thing that has ever been put on the telly. The new Battlestar Galactica on the Sci - Fi Channel is really good, and I highly recommend it.
I like historical fiction, sci - fi, some fantasy authors. Orson Scott Card, Raymond E. Feist, Michael Chabon, Chuck Palahniuk, to name a few. Also, if you're not reading Ed Brubaker's Daredevil, then you're totally missing out. Y the Last Man is the most consistantly excellent piece of written fiction out right now.
Probably my parents...and Michael Jordan. and Stephen Hawking.