Film, music, cycling.
Humans. Puppies.
Radiohead, Spoon, Death Cab, The Features, Nirvana, The Shins, Guided By Voices, Pinback, Elliott Smith, Creeper Lagoon, Sebadoh, Paul Westerberg Jeff Buckley, The Jealous Sound, Postal Service, Modest Mouse, etc.
Blood Simple, The Sweet Hereafter, Rear Window, Miller's Crossing, North by Northwest, Memento, Heavy, Fearless, Rushmore, Exotica, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, etc.
Office, Lost, 30 Rock, 24, Deadwood and Deadwood On Demand.
The Partly Cloudy Patriot, David Sedaris' Naked, The Davinci Code, Stephen King's "On Writing", Cat's Cradle, Slaughterhouse Five, Brave New World, The Axe, Stupid White Men, and other stuff.
The Coen Brothers (please write and direct something original again) and Charlie Kaufman (bless you for achieving the status of auteur as a screenwriter.)