school, studying, reading, (are you beginning to see a theme?!), movies, travel (esp. international), nature, epic mountain bike rides through griffith park, music, punk shows, history (esp. viking age) and having brilliant yet unproductive conversations
you'll do.
buzzcocks, purriah, the business, the jam, 4 skins, husker du, pulp, iggy pop, stone roses, blur, smiths, the cure, danzig, the cult, alice in chains
zodiac, pan's labyrinth, harsh times, clockwork orange, rock 'n roll high school, shaun of the dead, repo man, american psycho, basketball diaries, things to do in denver when you're dead, bristol boys, alpha dog, straw dogs, the wanderers, last exit to brooklyn, a bronx tale, liar liar, cable guy, nutty professor, office space
history channel (only pre-20th century programs, period!), national geographic channel, or any animal show
longships by bengtsson, ham on rye by bukowski, lust for life (the v van gogh biography), any well written historical novel (medieval-ancient times), sheltering sky by bowles, tropic of cancer by henry miller
joseph campbell, thor heyerdahl, iggy pop, gustav vasa, geronimo, leif erikson and abraham lincoln