Music, composition and arranging of music, listening to music, performing music, drinking beer, shooting billiards, watching tv, the O's, the Ravens, reading, writing, playing softball, taking baths, sports, traveling, amateur photography, I think that's all... OH YEAH, this:
Van Halen: Poundcake Ed Reed's Halftime Speech at the U
Beatles, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Grateful Dead, Doors, Deep Purple, Simon and Garfunkel, Donovan, Type-O-Negative, Kinks, Black Sabbath, Ozzy Osbourne, Ronnie James Dio, Iron Maiden, Judas Priest, Metallica, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Rush, Alice Cooper, Frank Zappa, Van Halen, Steve Vai, Dream Theater, Slayer, Tesla, Crosby Stills and Nash, Crosby Stills Nash and Young, Emmerson Lake and Palmer, Supertramp, Deltron 30, DMX, Fugees, not to mention Appalachian music such as Tony Rice, Seatrain, David Grisman, John Hartford, tons of stuff. I am forgetting classical and associated rep: Byron Janis playing any kind of Chopin or even Mousorgsky, E. Kissin playing any kind of Chopin, Solti conducting almost any kind of Wagner or Berlioz, Pascal Roge doing any pianowork by Debussy, Ravel, or Faure, so many things out there! OH, and the cats... Miles, 'Trane, Monk, Johns Scofield, Mike Stern, Pat Metheny, Joe Pass, Jaco Pastorious, all the freakin Wooten boys kids, all the freakin Marsalis family, there are tons I'm forgetting so please don't hate me!
Godfather, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Bronx Tale, Lucky Number Sleven, Oh Brother Where Art Thou, Spinal Tap, Rat Race, What's Up Doc, really almost any ganster movie or 90min comedy.
Arrested Development, How I Met Your Mother, Scrubs, Simpsons, Family Guy, American Dad, NFL, MLB, Sopranos, Cowboy Bebop
ORSON SCOTT CARD, David Eddings, J.R.R. Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, Issac Asimov, Frank Herbert, Kevin Anderson, Brian Herbert, Kurt Vonnegut, Robert Heinlein, Mario Puzo
My dad, Paul McCartney, George Martin, my friend Justin, my friend Beth