The Internets, conversation, various entertainment media, reading, learning, dancing, drugs, sports, politics, philosophy, Darwinism, other science, mathematics, justice, ethics, gender, other social constructions, fighting the man, women,
You.
Tool, The Mars Volta, Placebo, Radiohead, Nine Inch Nails, Queens of the Stone Age, Rage Against the Machine, A Perfect Circle, Gorillaz, The Postal Service, Pink Floyd, King Crimson, David Bowie, Sigur Ros, Muse, Soundgarden, Audioslave, The Clash, At the Drive-In, Jimi Hendrix, Rush, The White Stripes, The Tea Party, Phish, Umphrey's McGee... These are my "favorites." I haven't explored any other artists thoroughly enough to claim them as such, but I listen to a wide variety, and try to cross pretty much all genres. I also highly enjoy all kinds of light and ambient/new age music for study and relaxation.
911: In Plane Site, V for Vendetta, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Fight Club, The Big Lebowski, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Pulp Fiction, Blazing Saddles, American History X, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Thing, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Office Space, Caddyshack, Crash, Hotel Rwanda, I Heart Huckabee's, Waking Life, An Inconvenient Truth, Thank You for Smoking, Batman Begins, The Departed, Planet of the Apes (the old one), The Producers (the old one), Trainspotting
Arrested Development, Malcolm in the Middle, The Simpsons, Family Guy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, House, Reno 911, Cowboy Bebop, The Boondocks, Countdown with Keith Olberman, South Park, The Venture Brothers, Sportsnight, X-Play, Law and Order, Metalocalypse, Degrassi (guilty pleasure), Moral Orel, Robot Chicken, Sealab 2021
Lies My Teacher Told Me by James Loewen, Lies and the Lying Liars Who Tell Them by Al Franken, 1984 by George Orwell, Brave New World by Aldous Huxley, Dune by Frank Herbert, Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk, The Active Side of Infinity by Carlos Castaneda, The Book by Alan Watts, All the Shah's Men by Stephen Kinzer, The Best Democracy Money Can Buy by Greg Palast, The Age of Spiritual Machines by Ray Kurzweil, anything by Stephen Jay Gould, Bonds that Make us Free by C. Terry Warner, Demian by Herman Hesse, Four Trials by John Edwards, anything Hunter S. Thompson writes...
In no particular order: MLK, Gandhi, Paul Wellstone, Howard Dean, Ralph Nader, Frederick Douglass, Harriet Tubman, Helen Keller, Susan B. Anthony, Albert Einstein, Charles Darwin, Cesar Chavez, Bertrand Russell, Eugene Debs, Karl Marx, Edward Said, Cynthia McKinney, Dennis Kucinich, Jimmy Carter, Keith Olbermann, Paul Newman, anyone else who gave their life to the causes of Justice and human progress, and most of the musicians and authors listed above. And Christopher Walken, just because he's the fucking man.