people, music, missions, movies, books, and I would say different forms of art (not for the sake of whatever is different, but for what it could achieve as a product that has its own beauty and power of expression. I believe art is one of the best ways to express to the human mind even the most seemingly irrelevant truths as what they really are beyond the possible mathematics behind them), ....
why, my analog of course
Jars of Clay, Midlake, Sixpence None the Richer, Pedro the Lion, Counting Crows, Sufjan Stevens, Danielson Familie or Br Danielson, Half Clouded Hand, The Polyphonic Spree, Rosie Thomas, Menomena, Jeff Buckley, Bruces, Arcade Fire, Dave Matthews Band, Five Iron Frenzy, Zao, MxPx, Death Cab for Cutie, Chevelle, Joseph Arthur, Stavesacre, Bright Eyes, Creed, Further Seems Forever, Damien Rice, Mae, POD, Headphones, Cranberries, Johnny Cash, Nickel Creek, Leigh Nash, Leonard Cohen, Doves, Moby, Decemberists, Regina Spektor, mewithoutYou, Emery, Fountains of Wayne, Toad the Wet Sprocket. Favorite Albums: Jars of Clay's Much Afraid and Sixpence None the Richer's Self-titled, and very probably (it's too new though) Midlake's Van Occupanther.
Punch Drunk Love (appreciate it more and more after each watch), Fargo, the Hours, 21 Grams, Requiem for a Dream, About Schmidt, Joan of Arc: the Messenger, Little Children, Fight Club, House of Sand and Fog, Monsters Inc, Finding Nemo, The Incredibles, Little Nicky, Pride and Prejudice, Kill Bill Vols 1 &; 2, Gummo, Elizabethtown was quite good too ... "Signature" filmakers I like: Paul Thomas Anderson, The Coen Brothers, Cameron Crowe, Alejandro Inarritu, Kevin Smith, Gus Van Sant, Something Tykwer, Wes Anderson, Guy Ritchie, Tarantino, Luc Besson...
Scrubs and Family Guy
CS Lewis's Perelandra, A Grief Observed, and the Problem of Pain; JD Salinger's Franny and Zooey; Tolkien's Lord of the Rings; Austen's Pride and Prejudice; MacDonald's Princess and the Goblin; Kerouac's Orpheus Emerged; Douglas Coupland's Hey Nostradamus; Dostoevsky; some Vonnegut...