history, archeology, parapschology,reading and cooking
People, cause its hard to hold a decent conversation with vegetation.
Peter Gabriel, U2, Rush, Loreena Mckennit, Midnight Oil, The Pogues, Queen, The Cure, Fishbone and Brother are perennial favorites.
Gladiator, Tombstone, Dead Poet's Society, Love Actually, What Dreams May Come, Shakespeare In Love, and all the great sci-fi series: Star Wars, Star Trek, Lord of the Rings and Indiana Jones
Easy...and in order M*A*S*H, STTNG, Northern Exposure, The X-Files, Night Court, Taxi, News Radio, Buck Rodgers, Little House on the Prairie and, ofcourse the Muppet Show.
Anything from the following authors: Umberto Eco, J.R.R. Tolkien, Edgar Allen Poe, and Mark Twain
I'd like to say someone historic along the lines of a Robert E. Lee, Lincoln or Washington, but the truth is my father is still my hero.