Movies and reading and music mostly.
Cool friends of my friends. And so on.
Beatles, Beck, Beastie Boys, Emmylou Harris, Dylan, Patty Griffin, White Stripes, Lucinda Williams, Elvis Costello, Flaming Lips
Jaws, Casablanca, Aliens, The Big Lebowski, Raisng Arizona, 12 Angry Men, Stalag 17, Toy Story 2, Raiders of the Lost Ark, The Usual Suspects, The In-Laws (the good version, not the Michalel Douglas thing), Die Hard, Back to the Future, Them!, Bridge on the River Kwai, The Third Man, The Parrallax View, The Conversation, MASH, Yojimbo, Duck Soup
I'm reading Devil in the White City right now and just finished Nick Hornby's How to be Good, which was excellent. I'm a huge fan of Hornby, Thomas Harris, Stephen King, Poe, William Goldman, Richard Matheson, Michael Nelson, and Shirley Jackson.