Buddhism (SGI-USA), knitting, cooking, apple picking, plush animals, massage therapy, snarking on celebrities, yoga, pilates, riding my bike
Someone to learn new things from.
Mainly anything twangy, power pop or trashy garage rock- Big Star, Posies, Teenage Fanclub, Matthew Sweet, Nuggets-y bands, Pernice Brothers, Dbs, Gram Parsons, Carter Family, Bobby Bare Jr., Robbie Fulks, Alejandro Escovedo, Fugazi, New Pornographers, Steve Earle, the Clash, Eleventh Dream Day, Raspberries, Badfinger, CCR, Marah, My Morning Jacket, Desmond Dekker, King Tubby, The Jam, Cheap Trick, Archer Prewitt, Andrew Bird, the Coctails, Tortoise, Husker Du, Bob Mould, Sugar, Minutemen, Squeeze, The Police, ELO
directors- Sam Peckinpah, Sergio Leone, Bud Boettecher, David Cronenberg, Dario Argento, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, Michele Soavi, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Atom Egoyan, John Carpenter, George Romero, Werner Herzog, Terrance Malick, Paul Verhoeven
My Name is Earl, Deadwood, Battlestar Galactica, Heroes, Arrested Development, Americas Next Top Model, Homicide:Life on the Street, MASH, Ed, The Office (US and UK), Futurama
These days I pretty much only read comics. Anything by Grant Morrison, Mark Millar, Brian K. Vaughn or Warren Ellis. My favorite was James Robinson's Starman.
Daisaku Ikeda, Jack Knight, Ian MacKaye