Art, The Fire Department, Civil Service, Cycling, Kayaking, Rock climbing, Movies, Painting, Drawing, Reading, Sailing, Surfing, Travelling, Random Ideas, Cheap Thrills, Easy-going people, Anything pleasing to the eye, and good conversation.
The Respectable, The Ate-up, The Bitches, Mean people, Nice people, The Hurt, The Self-Respecting, The Cutters, The Convicts, Coporate Spies, Auntie Anne (The Pretzel Lady), Real Pirates (Cursed or Not), Your Mom, Clinton, Carnies, The Artists, The Critics, Jesus, Ozzy, The Irish, and pretty much any one who can tell me a story.
And in NO particular order...
Jimi Hendrix, Bob Marley, Pink Floyd, Billy Joel, Steeley Dan, Frank Sinatra, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Beck, The Beatles, The Clash, Al Greene, Third Eye Blind, Lynard Skynard, Beastie Boys, Led Zepellin, Bush, Bob Dylan, Pearl Jam, Nirvana, Rage Against the Machine, Mos Def, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, The Pharcyde, Oasis, Smashing Pumpkins, The Fugees, Jurassic 5, Cake, Kanye West (Only his work before Late Registration), Talib Kwali, The Steve Miller Band, Dre, Pac, Biggie, Jigga, Ghetto Boys, Sound Garden, Sublime, Devin The Dude, Joe Walsh and The Eagles, The Grateful Dead, James Brown, Everlast, Rolling Stones, Common, Ziggy Marley, Damien Marley, all the Marleys, B.B. King, Goo Goo Dolls, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Roots... ummm, hold on I'm still thinking
Fight Club, Brave Heart, Collateral, Troy, Boiler Room, all Quentin Tarentino, Pirates (you know what I'm talkin about), Old Kung Fu, and anything that's been respectfully filmed.
If on at all my TV is tuned to The Science Channel, Comedy Central, Cartoon Network, National Geographic, or The Dicovery Channel ( Absolutly NO reality TV )
The Theory of Everything (Steven Hawking), The Elegant Universe (Brian Greene), How I Became Stupid (Martin Page), Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas (Hunter S. Thompson), Anything by Chuck Palahniuk (author of Fight Club) Angels and Demons and The Davinci Code (Dan Brown)
Anyone who tells a good story, a number of actors, Anyone who fought for America before Vietnam, Those invovled in the Fire Department, All Civil Servants, and those who really have their shit together.