Music, concerts, shenanigans, tennis, laughing, turtles, snowboarding, basketball, soccer, pizza, volleyball, pirates, magnets, hypnosis, water, sushi, playing pool, wolves, and friendly pranks
David Letterman, Thom Yorke, George Lucas, Oprah, Steve Jobs, Michael Jordan, and Neil Young. Oger from Revenge of the Nerds used to be on this list, but I already met him.
Radiohead, Neutral Milk Hotel, Eliott Smith, Destroyer, Mountain Goats, Spoon, TV on the Radio, Wilco, Silversun Pickups, Arcade Fire, Brian Eno, Elf Power, Neil Yong, Bob Dylan, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Fruit Bats, White Stripes, OutKast, The Beta Band, Air, Jimi, Doves, The Shins, The Beatles, Peter Bjorn and John, The Rapture, Grandaddy, Johnny Cash, Rolling Stones, Sigur Ros, Iggy Pop, Pavement, Explosions in the Sky, My Bloody Valentine, Dave Brubeck, Art Blakey, Belle and Sebastian, Beck, Broken Social Scene, Janes Addiction, Yo La Tengo, Spiritualized, Django Reinhardt, Bloc Party, Flaming Lips, Cake, Pink Floyd, Dre, MMW, OLD Modest Mouse and a whole lot more...
Ummmm, let's see, here are some that come to mind: Happy Gilmore, City of God, Capote, Dr. Strangelove, The Departed, Jay and Silent Bob Strike Back, Sling Blade, Kill Bill, Requiem for a Dream, Donnie Darko, Old School, The Godfather One & Two, pi, LOTR, Apocolypse Now, What About Bob, Capote, Zoolander, Lost in Translation, Best in Show, Pulp Fiction, 28 Days Later, The Fifth Element, Napoleon Dynamite, Dumb and Dumber, Memento, Matrix One & Two, Star Wars, etc...
Family Guy, 24, The Office, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, 6 Feet Under, Sopranos, Deadwood, Daily Show, Seinfeld, Letterman, Conan, Space Ghost, South Park.
Really like authors such as Chuck Palahniuk, Kurt Vonnegut, Craig Clevenger, JD Salinger, and Will Christopher Baer.
A few favorites are The Contortionist's Handbook, Choke, The Catcher in the Rye, Still Life with Woodpecker, One Flew Over the Cookoos Nest, Catch-22, Hitchikers Guide to the Galaxy, and Fight Club.
Richard Gere's a real hero of mine. Sting. Sting would be another person who's a hero. The music he's created over the years, I don't really listen to it, but the fact that he's making it, I respect that.