Playing guitar, mandolin and gardening.
No one in particular.
Gillian Welch, The Gourds, Chip Taylor & Carrie Rodriguez, Fred Eaglesmith, Voivod, Townes Van Zandt, I'll stop it there for a while (this list would be too huge).
The Big Lebowski, anything by Werner Herzog
TV sucks (except Passions). Listen to good radio like This American Life, WDVX, KEOS.
Harry Potter
My wife after all the work she has done to sell our house!