Playing music, writing, recording, reading, going to shows, blowing off films until they're no longer in theatre, Netflix.
bypass surgery.
Radiohead, Pixies, Pavement, Beatles, Beach Boys, My Bloody Valentine, Jim O'Rourke, Weezer, Breeders, Nick Drake, Mozart, John Coltrane, Wayne Shorter, Miles Davis, & the dearly departed Female Jesus. Probably a lot of others I'm forgetting, too.
Doing it for me recently: Telepathe: Sinister Militia.
Fleeting singles: Bill Is Dead: The Fall; You, Baby: The Ronettes.
Rushmore, The Shining, T2, Harold & Maude, Fight Club, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Clerks, Mallrats.
Project Runway, Daily Show, Twin Peaks, Letterman, The Office, The State.
Money (Martin Amis), Lolita, Slaughterhouse Five, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, Catch-22, Hobbit /LOTR, Our Band Could Be Your Life, Please Kill Me.
Brian Wilson, Kurt Vonnegut, Paul McCartney, John Lennon, Kevin Shields, Jim O'Rourke, Stephen Malkmus, Jonny Greenwood, Nigel Godrich, W.A.M., J.S. Bach, Pablo Picasso, Miles Davis, Wayne Shorter, Vincent Van Gogh, Vladimir Nabokov, Walter Payton, George Martin, Alan Moulder, Brian Eno, the kid in my friend's film who looked like he had to pee.