Movies (watching movies, reading about movies, studying movies, writing about movies, making movies, hearing people talk about movies . . . ).
Anything from Hard Rock to Opera . . . as long as you skip over any pansy pop crap.
Citizen Kane, The Trial, F for Fake (and anything else by Orson Welles), Amadeus, The Maltese Falcon, Cat on a Hot Tin Roof, Singin in the Rain, On the Waterfront, A Streetcar Named Desire, Les Yeux sans Visage, Cabiria, Weekend, Gosford Park, Pride and Predjudice (the BBC version), American History X, Capote, Bonnie and Clyde, East of Eden, Rebel without a Cause, Psycho, Chicago, The Godfather, The Godfather Part Two, etc.
Law and Order, Family Guy, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, and reruns of I Love Lucy and Pinky and the Brain.
Absalom, Absalom! (and any Faulkner), The Grapes of Wrath, Hamlet (and any Shakespeare), The Fountainhead, Crime and Punishment, Pride and Prejudice, Heart of Darkness, Home of the Gentry, Plato's Republic, Orson Welles: A Biography, Set Lighting Technicians Handbook
I can only think of two people that I admire that highly. But, just a warning, they're cheesy . . . my sister, because she's my frister, and my film prof, because he put up with me for two years.