Theatre, Good Film, Great Books, Mind-Numbing TV, Motorcycles, Online Gaming, and most of all, the Company of Excellent Friends.
People somewhere on their own personal journey of discovery. Preferably those who've lost the roadmap. People able to step sideways out of the rush for a little while, to share a coffee, a smoke, and some honest talk.
Silly Music (Weird Al, The Simpsons, Cartoon Soundtracks), also Queen, Sting, Fatboy Slim, Moby, The Chemical Brothers, James Brown, U2...
Moulin Rouge, The Dark Crystal, The Red Violin, City of God, the first 2 Batman Movies (directed by Tim Burton), Empire Records, the (original) Star Wars Trilogy, Eating Air
The Night's Dawn Trilogy (Peter F. Hamilton), the Dragonlance Chronicles (Weis & Hickman), Kingdom Come (elliot S. Maggin), Neverwhere, Stardust (both by Neil Gaiman), Ender's Game (Orson Scott Card)