Music, film, knowledge, laughter, beauty, love, the Soul.
Anybody with a good story to tell.
Longshot, Psalm One, De La Soul, Eyedea & Abilities, Atmosphere, Brother Ali, Los Nativos, Blueprint, The ShapeShifters, Ugly Duckling, Living Legends, K-Os, 2Pac, Anticon, DJ Krush, DJ Shadow, Thievery Corporation, System of a Down, Hed(pe) , Lee C. Payton, Gordon Lightfoot,
Pretty much all of 'em. Wire-Fu (Flying Daggers, Crouching Tiger, Shinobi), Akira Kurosawa films, Zatoichi: The Blind Swordsman, classic westerns (Once Upon A Time In The West, The Dollars Trilogy, El Mariachi trilogy), comedy of all sorts, action, horror (vampire films and zombie movies get a thumbs up)
Family Guy, Mythbusters, Heroes, Star Trek, MacGyver, Afro Samurai, Samurai Champloo, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Fight Quest, Survivorman, Man Vs. Wild, The Universe... pretty much anything on The History Channel, Discovery, or Comedy Central. Occasionally Cartoon Network. Baian The Assassin, Fraggle Rock
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Ishmael, The Satanic Bible, The Kama Sutra, Where the Wild Things Are, The Sneetches,
Douglas Adams, Hunter S. Thompson, Mitch Hedberg, Bruce Lee, Chris Cardozo