People who are comfortable with themselves and challenge me.
Sam Cooke; Depeche Mode; Paul Anka; The Supremes; Roy Orbison; Bobby Darin; Chuck Berry; The Temptations; Rufus Wainwright
In no particular order: Amelie, Life Is Beautiful, Spanglish, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Garden State, I Heart Huckabees, Big Fish, White Oleander, Boondock Saints, Pretty Woman, What The {bleep} Do We Know?, Donnie Darko, Pretty Devils, He Loves Me He Loves Me Not, Leon (The Professional), The Fifth Element, Charlie and The Chocolate Factory, Very Bad Things, Thumbsucker, Election, & Rat Race. Pretty much anything but Horror movies-which I'll watch, but only in the theaters-There's something about watching scary movies at home and then trying to sleep in the same room-No thank you.
Sex and the City, Late Night With Conan O'Brian, and of course when I can't go to the games in person,I love watching my beloved Cubs, Bears and Blackhawks.
Currently my top picks are FREAKONOMICS; Frames of Mind; To Open Minds; EQ Handbook; blink; Liars, Lovers and Heroes; The Baby Business;The Age of Spiritual Machines; The Singularity Is Near, and The Math Gene.
Howard Gardner and Ray Kurzweil