Learning new and unimportant things, arbitrating, expanding cultural horizions, Boston Red Sox baseball, good pale ales and hot, soaked chicken wings, golf, being in the middle of 7 novels at once, random trivia, critisizing movies, enjoying the company of a select few, drinking wine and eating food, quoting Leonard Cohen, etc.
Joe Strummer and everything he has done, past Clash especially. Talking Heads, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Cake, Morrisey, De La Soul, Robert Palmer, Phish, Arcade Fire, Pixies, David Bowie, Hayden, WILCO, Frank Black, Digable Planets, Curtis Mayfield, Sam Cooke, and so many more, but I've bored you enough already.
Glengarry Glen Ross, Zero Effect, Ghostbusters, Memento, Trees Lounge, Midnight Run, ALL OF DAVID LYNCHs FILMS, Star Wars, Indiana Jones & BTTF Trilogies (yeah I'm cool), Donnie Darko, Caddyshack, Jim Jarmusch's stuff, Clerks, The Goonies, Mississippi Burning, Chinatown, Oliver Stone's work Field of Dreams, Nightmare on Elm Street series, Wes Anderson's films, Cohen brothers films, Quick Change, JFK ....I could go on and on and on .. but I won't.
Seinfeld, Cheers, most anything on the History Channel or the Food Network. House, early NYPD Blue, Family Guy, early Simpsons, X Files, Intervention, and anything on National Geographic International channel. Mr. Show w/ Bob & David
Charles Bukowski, Bret Easton Ellis, Arthur Phillips, Rob Neyer, Dr. Suess, James Joyce, Dennis Lehane, Chuck Barris, Jay McInerney, Jack Kerouac, Hunter S. Thompson, Stephen Hawking