Music, movies, books, playing in a band, not necessarily in that order.
Girls who dig bass players: the unsung hero of any band.
Two Pump Chump!!! Kyuss, Queens of the Stoneage, The Obsessed, The White Stripes, Cheap Trick, Minor Threat, Fugazi, Neil Young, Sex Pistols, Jet, The Bloodhound Gang, Pink Floyd, U2, Pre-Hagar Van Halen, The Police, Black Sabbath, Led Zeppelin and most importantly, Bon Scott era AC/DC!!!
All the Star Wars movies (yes even the new ones), everything Stanley Kubrick directed, Blade Runner, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Austin Powers, Monty Python, American Beauty, Rock Star, Spinal Tap, etc, etc, etc.
Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Family Guy, Cops, Food Network.
Pretty much anything by Robert Heinlein, especially Starship Troopers, Have Spacesuit Will Travel, Tunnel In the Sky and The Past Through Tomorrow. A whole lot of Arthur C. Clarke also, especially The Fountains Of Paradise, Rendezvous With Rama, 2001, and the Nine Billion Names Of God. Then Steven King, Michael Crichton, Tolkien, and Ray Bradbury