Books, books, books. Book truffling in used book stores. Collage, assemblage (Joseph Cornell), photography. Films and animation. Graphic novels. Cooking and writing about cooking (MKF Fisher, John Thorne), slow food, Scotland, life sciences, history of science, natural history, zoos, museums, antiquing (esp. Victorian jewelry), gravestone rubbing, Invented instruments, kinetic sculpture. In college, long, long ago, worked in the rare book room and at a local letterpress.
Other writers balancing day jobs, writing, and kids. Film nuts. Animators (esp in Flash). Comic authors. Collage artists. Other parents of Lego-crazy kids. People interested in science literacy.
World (Spanish, Celtic, Hindi), newgrass, dub reggae, grounation, salsa, tango, oud, tropicalismo, Americana, Alison Kraus, Sam Phillips, Rufus Wainwright, Van Morrison, Stax, Elvis Costello, Dutch free jazz, Tom Herrell, Fred Hersch, bebop.
Harryhausen, Miyazaki, anything with Joel McRae or Barbara Stanwyck, Hope Davis, Emma Thompson, Paul Giamatti, Philip Seymour Hoffmann.
Numb3rs, Avatar the Last Airbender, The Daily Show, MythBusters, but mostly movies on Netflix these days.
In stacks two feet deep all over the house. Nowadays, love some Australian authors: Peter Carey, Randolph Stow. And Canadians: Robertson Davies, Marian Engel. Collect the work of Sylvia Townsend Warner and MFK Fisher.
Charles Darwin, Jane Goodall, Sylvia Earle, the unsung people who do the thankless work for the powerless all around the world. Here's to the teachers, the pediatricians. And the Vintage Eggs (you know who you are!).