Reading, road trips, listening to music, staring at the night sky, drinking imported and microbrew beers and affordable red wine, playing with my son, sitting in hot tubs, eating spicy foods...but not too spicey, watching the Brewers and Packers win, having days off.
Considering I'm a history guy...most of the people I'd like to meet are long dead. Of the living, I'd say Anthony Bourdain, Johnny Depp, Andrew Zimmern, Barack Obama, Bono, Jon Stewart, Steven Cobert, Buddha...to name a few.
U2, Neko Case, Sonic Youth, The Smiths/Morrissey, Mazzy Star, Johnny Cash, Rosanne Cash, Emmylou Harris, Ivy, The Flaming Lips, The Arcade Fire, Blondie, Alison Krauss, The Clash, Social Distortion, Chris Isaak, Cat Power, Fiona Apple, Alice Smith, Liv Warfield, Elvis Costello, Modest Mouse, The Police, Santogold, Estelle, M.I.A
I used to be a movie fanatic, not so much anymore. I love The Simpsons Movie though.
The Simpsons, Futurama, Ghost Hunters, The Daily Show, The Cobert Report, Antiques Roadshow, No Reservations, Bizarre Foods, Dinner Impossible
Anything history from Revolutionary War through Civil War, Uncle Tom's Cabin, Anything by Jack Kerouac, The Woman In White, War of the Worlds, Frankenstein, Dracula, A Tale of Two Cities, Babbit,The Moonstone, and the list goes on and on...
My parents of course, Thomas Jefferson, James Madison, James Monroe, George Washington, Homer J. Simpson, Jack Kerouac, Anthony Bourdain, Andrew Zimmern, Abraham Lincoln, Ulysses S. Grant, Robert Irvine, Stonewall Jackson, Andrew Jackson, Robert La Follette, Frederick Douglass, Sojourner Truth.