Music, daylight, darkness, flowers, grass, stars, mountains, oceans, rain, clouds, lightning, laughter, tears, sighs, trees, animals, books, people, and other potent stimuli...Also eating, drinking, working, playing, sleeping, breathing, etc.
By no means in order of priority, all my music is good shit: Skinny Puppy, Ohgr, Tear Garden, Legendary Pink Dots, Combichrist, The Birthday Massacre, Blind Melon, Type O Negative, Black Sabbath, Sleep, Electric Wizard, Tool, Clan of Xymox, Wumpscut, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Willie Nelson, Placebo, David Bowie, Sonic Youth, Misfits (Danzig era), Circle Jerks, Gun Club, Cee Lo, The Velvet Underground, Muddy Waters, John Lee Hooker, Joy Division, Christian Death, Hum, Pig Destroyer, Suffocation, Exhorder, Obituary, Dimmu Borgir, Rites of Spring, Smashing Pumpkins, Nirvana, High on Fire, Suicidal Tendencies, She Wants Revenge, Interpol, Acid Bath, Screeching Weasel, Aesop Rock, Mr. Lif, Sigur Ros, Bjork, Deadboy and the Elephantmen, Leonard Cohen, Hank Williams, Clutch, Circle Takes the Square, VNV Nation, Kylesa, worlds more... i listen for elements of sincerity, passion, innovation, angst, beauty, groove, hook, and soul, among other things that are more difficult to describe. you know, it's musicBANDS I HATE:nickelback, limp bizkit, staind, trapt, hawthorne heights, marilyn manson, korn, puddle of mudd, the bangles, slipknot, creed, garbage, kitty, three doors down, blink 182, green day, sum 41, more on that later
spirited away, city of god, taxi driver, spinal tap, airheads, eddie and the cruisers, pi, the devil and daniel johnston, the crow
Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, The History Channel, whatever... tv sucks
The Dream Cycle by H.P. Lovecraft, Job, Ecclesiastes, Revelations, The Confessions of St. Augustine,Kahlil Gibran, most of Oscar Wilde, a good bit of Edgar Allen Poe, alot of other misc. crap
Jeshua the Annointed, anyone brave enough to empty themselves of themselves and sacrifice for another, anyone who treats his neighbor with love with or without the warm fuzzy feelings, so people like Mother Theresa i guess.