Music, playing it and listening to it. Reading books, hanging out with friends. Whatever.
People, and vikings. No order or combination of the two necessarily.
You know all kinds of stuff,311*
Sigur Ros*
Porcupine Tree
Opeth
Pain of Salvation
Blackfield
Omnium Gatherum
Mew
Boards Of Canada
Justin King
Edge of Sanity
Daylight Dies
Katatonia
Bloodbath
Children of Bodom
At The Gates
Slumber
Insomnium
Cave In*
The Beatles
Isis*
The Cancer Conspiracy
Further Seems Forever
He is Legend*
Mastodon
Pantera
The Red Sparrowes
Thrice
Nobu Uematsu
Yasunori Mitsuda
Eternal Sunshine of The Spotless Mind.
LOST and HEROES. That's pretty much it.
Carl Sagan, Michio Kaku, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Stephen Hawking, Mark Danielewski just to name a few.
HRG.