Listening to music, writing music, and a little recreational reading to spice things up.
Chris Gardner, Tony Dungy, Henry Rollins, Kirk Hammett, Joe Satriani, Eddie Van Halen, Jerry Cantrell, Fat Mike from NOFX, Colin Farrell, and whoever created OREOs.
Metallica, Mushroomhead, Ill Nino, Machine Head, Soulfly, Taproot, Breaking Benjamin, Disturbed, System Of A Down, Trust Company, Linkin Park, Seether, Hed P.E., Slayer, Collective Soul, Static-X, Incubus, Deftones, Sevendust, Alice In Chains, Hatebreed, The Black Dahlia Murder, Korn, The Haunted, God Forbid, NOFX, Pantera, No Use For A Name, Spineshank, Pearl Jam, Lag Wagon, ABBA, Avenged Sevenfold, Joe Satriani, B.B. King, Sepultura, Beach Boys, Megadeth, Slipknot, Mudvayne, Godsmack, Motograter, Against Me!, Tom Waits, and a whole bunch of other shit.
In no particular order: Spaceballs, Office Space, The Princess Bride, Robin Hood: Men In Tights, Napoleon Dynamite, the Bourne series, the Spiderman series, every Tarantino movie, Field Of Dreams, The Transporter, A League Of Their Own, Underworld, the X-Men series, Necessary Roughness, Goodfellas, Crossroads (not the Britney Spears one, the one with Steve Vai), Kung Pow, every Kevin Smith movie, and anything with Colin Farrell in it.
24, House, SportsCenter, South Park, Family Guy, and not much else.
"The Pursuit of Happyness" by Chris Gardner, "Our Band Could Be Your Life" by Michael Azerrad, "Quiet Strength" by Tony Dungy, and anything by Dan Brown, Terry Goodkind, Sarah Douglass, and those Left Behind guys. Shocking, I know.
Mike Gebhardt, Kirk Hammett, Joe Satriani, Jerry Cantrell, Les Claypool, Robb Flynn, Henry Rollins, Eddie Van Halen, Stevie Ray Vaughan, Cliff Burton, Darrell Abbott, Darius Rucker, and of course....
Travis Gruber