New music; good music; live music; and any combination of the 3. Motorcycle racing; mtn biking; snowboarding; dive bars; good tattoos; V-twin sportbikes; V-8 muscle cars; NFL Football.
Jimi Hendrix; Rick Rubin; Jam Master Jay; Valentino Rossi. ...Music lovers, cool peeps, motorcyle nuts, and a stiff drink (not necessarily in that order).
Clutch; The Black Keys; RL Burnside; The Roots; Public Enemy; James Brown; RATM; Bad Brains; Curtis Mayfield; Jimi Hendrix; Public Enemy; MF Doom; Mos Def; The Sword; QOTSA; Fear Factory; Grace Jones; Funkadelic; Soledad Brothers; Nas; X-Clan; Lovage; BRMC; The Clash; DJ Z-trip; Eric B & Rakim; Lupe Fiasco; The Killers; The Coup; Fishbone; Al Green; Gang Starr; Blackalicious; Earth, Wind & Fire; Gnarls Barkley; Miles Davis; Social Distortion; Gorillaz; Wu-Tang Clan; TV on the Radio; Kanye West; Gym Class Heroes; Go-Go music (it's a DC thing!); Non-Phixion; Atmosphere; EPMD; Run-DMC; U2; Johnny Cash; Ike Turner; Led Zeppelin; Black Sabbath; Soundgarden; Nina Simone...and the list goes on.
Shaun of the Dead; Training Day; 300; Dune; Raising Arizona; From Dusk til Dawn; Reservoir Dogs; O, Brother, Where Art Thou?; The World's Fastest Indian; Baraka; Dazed & Confused; Faster; Grandma's Boy; Idiocracy; American Psycho; Alien; Aliens; Dogtown & Z-Boys; Sin City; Beetlejuice; Mars Attacks!; The Matrix; Buckaroo Banzai; Clerks; Old School; The O.G. Star Wars trilogy; Akira; Ghost in the Shell; Blazing Saddles; James Bond (Connery era)...
24; The Simpsons; Heroes; LOST; Deadwood; Dr. Who; Rome; The Wire; The Venture Brothers; Entourage; Samurai Jack; CSI (LV & Miami); Robot Chicken; Family Guy; Scrubs; Battlestar Galactica...pretty much anything on Discovery or Science Channel (kinda nerdy like that).
Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Hells Angels and anything else by the late, great Hunter S. Thompson; Snow Crash; Fahrenheit 451 (as relevant today as the day it was written!); The whole DUNE series; Gates of Fire; William S. Burroughs.
Chuck D; Jimi Hendrix; (is it too gay to include my Mom?)