Making movies, watching movies (horror, action, science fiction, low-budget, martial arts, what have you), reading old Jack Kirby comics, eating at Roscoe's Chicken & Waffles and Skooby's
Folks and whatnot.
Ramones, AC/DC, Queen, Sweet, Black Sabbath, Lynyrd Skynyrd, 70s power pop, Angry Johnny & the Killbillies, Old 97s
Night of the Living Dead, anything by Sergio Leone, Cabin Fever, anything by Peter Jackson, anything by Russ Meyer, Boogie Nights, anything by Quentin Tarantino, Hammer horror, anything by Chris "The Seavage" Seaver, John Carpenter, anything by John Cassavetes, Fred Astaire/Ginger Rogers, the Thin Man movies, the Evil Dead movies, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Hong Kong action, old school horror, 50s monster flicks, Italian horror movies, The Hills Have Eyes, Shriek of the Mutilated, John Landis movies, Kevin Smith movies, Francois Truffaut, some Godard... on and on and on
Battlestar Galactica, The Shield, Rescue Me, Doctor Who, The Venture Brothers, Mythbusters, Kung Fu, American Chopper, Star Trek, Babylon 5
anything by Charles Willeford, Joe Lansdale, Robert E. Howard, Donald Westlake, Ray Bradbury
John Cassavetes, Don Dohler