Becoming a better human being. Being a holy terror. Sonic excess in its purest form. Cheap booze and fast women.
A number of subgenres of the metal genre, punk and hardcore and the hyphenated "post" forms of those respective genres, indie rock from the 80s and 90s, ambient music (but not electronic music in general), good hard rock (which is a rare thing), golden age hip hop, classic country and alt country, bluegrass (yes, bluegrass), classical even though I don't know anything about it, and jazz even though I know even less about it than I do classical.
Long ones about crime and/or death.
The Law and Orders, and channels like TLC, The Discovery Channel, National Geographic and The History Channel.
A lot of early 20th century authors. Of the more contemporary type, Barnes, Pynchon, DeLillo, Rushdie, Roth, Vonnegut, and some more.
"Show me a hero and I'll write you a tragedy." -- F. Scott Fitzgerald