The obvious one is cooking. Painting, biking, watching movies, eating otter pops, drinking some really good wine, and every now and then some not so good wine, beer too, spending time with family and friends, playing freecell (damn that game is addictive), dogs.
Good people, interesting people. Someone who can teach me how to make my own otter pops-- just kidding I already know how to do that. Someone that is not afraid to tell me to shut the hell up and put me in my place every now and then.
Keane, Postal Service, Death Cab for Cutie, Radiohead, Gavin DeGraw, Jack Johnson, Frou Frou, Thievery Corporation, I am into 80's too like Duran Duran, Tears for Fears, Love Depeche Mode, and New Order. Progressive house. house, some trance, Pappa, Digweed, Sasha, Lawler, Lavelle, Deep Dish, Swayzak, Lexicon avenue, satoshie tomie, Nick Warren, Barry Gilbey, Lee Burridge, Danny Howells, Sander Klienenberg, and the list goes on.
Ratatouille, Tranformers, Tombstone, The Jacket, Stranger Than Fiction, Waitng, Oceans Thirteen, The Bourne Identity, The Bourne Supremacy, Breach, Apocolypto.
World Poker Tour, Good Eats--- its the only show on the food network worth watching-- he knows what hes talking about most of the time. The simpsons. Family Guy, Futurama, and the greatest show ever ATHF that stands for Aqua Teen Hunger Force if you havent seen it yet you should. Master Shake is my Idol, I wish I could be as big an asshole as he is-- but I cant I am too nice. Love watching House. I hate to admit this one but I am addicted to watching Laguna Beach (its soooo Cheesy, but they think they are sooo cool).
Allright so they are all cookbooks so what! The French Laundry, The Craft, Nobu, The Soul of a Chef, Kitchen Confidential, Letters to a Young Chef. Although if you ever want to peer into the mind of a genius take a look at the French Laundry Cookbook sometime.
The man the myth the legend Thomas Keller, if you dont know who he is you should really find out. Tom Colicchio, Jean-Georges Vongerichten, Josiah Citrin, Charlie Palmer. A feww more to add include Grant Achatz and Eric Ripert.