Outdoors, political activism, music, writing.
human beings mostly, though all species welcome.
Avant-garde, scary-shit strange, power-pop, improvisational jazz, sardonic and inscrutable singer-songwriters. Anything that frightens the horses.
Brazil, Bowling for Columbine, Fahrenheit 9/11, Fahrenheit 451, 1900, any of the Godfrey Reggio trilogy
not much - Daily Show, Colbert Report
Gravity's Rainbow, Infinite Jest, the Will and Ariel Durant "Civilization" series, Collapse, War and Peace and War (Turchin), Godel Escher Bach, Women Fire and Dangerous Things (Lakoff), Neal Stephenson's "Baroque Cycle" and "Cryptonomicon," any of Thomas Frank's books, anything by Richard Powers.
Noam Chomsky, Medea Benjamin, must be a few others out there...