Politics, Music, Ireland, Mexico, Samoa, East Asia, Africa, Geography, Popular Culture, Skiing (Cross Country, Ski Jumping, and Downhill), Water Sports, Camping/Outdoors, Exotic Cultures, Parties, Travel.
A lot of people who are now dead, Bob Marley, Brad Nowell, Freddy Mercury, Karl Marx, Mao Zedong, George Washington, Albert Einstien, and Enersto "Che" Guevara. Living people that I would like to meet include: Nelson Mandella, Vicente Fox, Tom Petty, Wyclef Jean, Fidel Castro, Kim Jong Il, Lin Zhi Ling, Yao Ming, Wang Leehom, MC Hotdog, Hu Jintao, Wen Jiabao.
Bob Marley, Sublime/Long Beach Dub, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Flogging Molly, Weezer, Dropkick Murphys, Matisyahu, Tom Petty, Eric Clapton, The Beatles, Ben Harper, Elvis Costello, The Clash, The Darkness, Cake, Foo Fighters, Nirvana, Heiruspecs, Jimmy Buffett, The Offspring, Outkast, Peter Tosh, Pitbull, Rage Against the Machine, Santana, Simon & Garfunkel, Tenacious D, Trick Daddy, Twista, Motion City Soundtrack, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Fountains of Wayne, Shakira, Ray Charles, Otis Day and the Nights, Al Green, Marvin Gaye, The Temptations, Percy Sledge, Bill Withers, Oasis, The Police, Atmosphere, Nas, Jay-Z, The Fugees/Wycleff Jean, Green Day, Blink-182, Reggae, Ska, Punk, R&B, Rap, Soul, Celtic, World. A wide range of music, ask me about a band or genre and I'll let you know if I like it.
Billy Madison, Touching the Void, Animal House, Jackass, Team America: World Police, KeKeXiLi: Mountain Patrol, TaeGukGi, Happy Gilmore, Top Gun, Van Wilder, Apocalypse Now, Dr. Strangelove, Sometimes in April, Y tu Mama Tambien, El Norte, Repo Man, Road Warrior, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Rush Hour, Napolean Dynamite, The Birds, The Omen, Exorcist, Mi Familia, Meet the Fockers, Dodgeball, Old School, Eurotrip, Saturday Night Fever, Dumb and Dumber, The Animal.
Anything on MTV (Wildboyz, Jackass, Beavis and Butthead, Direct Effect), CCTV, Comedy Central, BET, or the News. If I am lucky I can find OLN or Eurosport Ski Jumping events, but usually on tape.
Some magazines are good: National Geographic, Sports Illustrated, Maxim, FHM, Vibe, and Blender.
Anyone who has helped me get through a hard time, most of them don't even know me, but their words laid across some sort of sound have really changed my life.