Books, music, art (of the nerdy comic book variety), movies, guitar, bass, and dogs playing poker.
Buddy Holly. But I don't think that's going to happen anytime soon, so I'll settle for you schmucks. AIM RagingMetalMatt
Uncle Tupelo, Gram Parsons, the Pixies, Pearl Jam, Tom Petty, the Jayhawks, Wilco, Son Volt, the Old '97s, Tool, Pavement, Grandaddy, The Shins, The Drive-by Truckers, Elvis Costello, Jimmie's Chicken Shack, Matthew Sweet, the Flaming Lips, Queens of the Stone Age, Built to Spill, the Replacements, Death Cab for Cutie, and Neil Young. And a bunch of other people. But not that one guy. I can't stand him.
I Am Trying to Break Your Heart, Grosse Pointe Blank, Memento, The Commitments, Tron, anything with ninjas.
I like tv. I'm a slut for Conan and I DVR Battlestar Galactica. Lost gives me hope for postmodern creative space on broadcast television. Jon Stewart and Stephen Colbert are geniuses. Genii. Genies. They're djinni.
Jorge Luis Borges, High Fidelity, The Dharma Bums, Our Band Could Be Your Life, New York Trilogy by Paul Auster, anything by Umberto Eco, Neuromancer, Snow Crash, Frank Miller's Dark Knight Returns, and my all time favorite: Siddhartha by Herman Hesse.
Keith Richards, Jeff Tweedy, Freddy Nietzsche, Brian Bendis, Jimmy Carter, Nicola Tesla, and Socrates.