Making things with my hands, understanding how things work, science (specifically quantum mechanics, space, and the brain), ping-pong, xbox, fishing, sushi, my family and close hometown friends
Alien life, dinosaurs, Nickel Creek, Stephen Hawking, Aristotle, Benjamin Franklin, Leonardo da Vince, Einstein (I know, cliché but whatever) Galileo Galilei, Isaac Newton, Charles Darwin, Most all of the experts in the documentary "What the Bleep do we Know!?", and pretty much any expert in their specific field or craft throughout history because I love to know how things work
Fav's include: Nickel Creek (and all their individual pojects), Incubus, System of a Down, Sublime, Ben Harper, DMB, Rage, Ill Nino, Alison Krauss and Union Station, Instrumental Bluegrass w/out banjo, and anything with a mandolin
Anything that makes you think and nothing too Hollywood. Especially not anything formula, too unbelievable or having too many one liners.
Anyone empathetic