Reading!!! Playing piano as much as possible, listening to music (jazz and other stuff), and running.
Brad Mehldau, James Joyce, Ben Folds, William Blake, Oscar Wilde, Charles Mingus, Thelonius Monk, Seamus Heaney, Amedeo Modigliani, Joshua Redman, Gustav Klimt, John the Baptist, Tom Stoppard, and Bill Evans.
Jazz- Brad Mehldau, Sonny Rollins, Coleman Hawkins, Chick Corea, Monk, Joshua Redman, Keith Jarrett, Stan Getz, Diana Krall, Bill Evans, Oscar Peterson.Other stuff- Ben Folds, Divine Comedy, Johnny Cash, Rufus Wainwright, Beck, Yann Tiersen, Ani DiFranco, Jack Johnson, Feist, Aimee Mann, Cake...
American Beauty, Fight Club, Super Troopers, Kevin Smith's movies, Virgin Suicides, Lost in Rranslation, Magnolia, David Lynch's movies, Apocalypse Now, and Raging Bull.
I try to stay away from it
Where to start? Suttree, Ulysses, Dubliners, Portrait of an Artist as a Young Man, Hamlet, Othello, Infinite Jest, The Picture of Dorian Gray, All the pretty horses (anything by Cormac McCarthy for that matter), East of Eden, travels with Charlie, On the Road, a Doll's House, Of Mice and Men, Heart of Darkness, Beyond good and evil, Arcadia, Madness and Civilization, Discipline and Punish, and the Mahabarata.
Shakespeare, James Joyce, My Dad, Bill Evans, and people who tread lightly in this world, yet continue to greatly influence those around them.