Music first and foremost, movies, cooking, women, money, any and all sports, my friends, and my family.
Russell Simmons, Bill Clinton, Anthony Bourdain, David Geffen, Axl Rose in 1988, Axl Rose in 2006, Wayne Huizenga, Natile Portman, and the parents of all the high school kids who post all the drinking, drugs, and sex they partake in on their Myspace pages.
Like everyone else - too many to name - but if I have to name a few Beastie Boys, Guns N' Roses, The Beatles, The Smiths, The Cure, The Rolling Stones.... Arctic Monkeys, Diamond Nights, Kanye West, Little Brother, Common, Danger Doom, The Cribs, Wolfmother, RJD2, Nico Vega, and My Morning Jacket.
Any John Hughes movies ever made, especially Ferris Bueller's Day Off and The Breakfast Club... I could watch Hoosiers every day and still love it. I think I watched the boys from Hickory High and The Big Lebowski every other day in college. Wall Street, Roger Dodger, Clerks, Reservoir Dogs and really any movie with sharp dialogue. And without a doubt Old School - I watched it every day for two months with Mike Nall and Joey McMonagle.
God Bless Tivo/DVR's - Pardon the Interruption, 24, Entourage, The Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Grey's Anatomy, and my guilty pleasure The O.C.
I'll list the last 5 I read. 1) "Now i Can Die in Peace" Bill Simmons 2) "Killing Yourself to Live" Chuck Klosterman 3) "The Last Shot" Darcy Frey 4) "Fortune's Formula" William Poundstone 5) "Ugly Americans" Ben Mezrich The list of books I want to read is getting to a point that it's problematic.
Always has been my parents. And I think when we were all growing up we wanted to "Be Like Mike."