Photography, writing, reading, exercise, determining various textures of sheetrock and wallpaper styles for extended periods of time, being a dad
Writers, thinkers, world leaders, anti-socials, breakdancers, exotic dancers, disgruntled former dental professors, travelers, investment bankers, drug addicts and dead celebrities
Soul Coughing, Miles Davis, Hall & Oates, James Brown, Frank Sinatra, Sepultura, the Beatles, Elliot Smith, N.W.A., The Descendants, Nirvana, Atmosphere
Ran, Seven Samarai, Monty Python's Holy Grail, The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly, Once Upon a Time in the West, For a Few Dollars More, Fight Club, Kill Bill vols. I and II, The Royal Tennenbaums, Cool Hand Luke, All the President's Men, M ... pretty much anything done by Woody Allen, Finding Nemo, L.A. Confidential
The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, CSI
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Art of Fact, Gulliver's Travels, On the Road, Moby Dick, In Cold Blood, Hiroshima, The Great Gatsby, Survival in Auschwitz, If on a Winter's Night, a Traveler, The Print, The Negative, The Complete Works of Shakespeare, The Oxford English Dictionary, Amusing Ourselves to Death, Fast Food Nation, Neuromancer, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Freedom, Maus I and Maus II, The Freedom
John Lennon, Ernest Hemingway, Paul Wellstone, Miles Davis, anyone who stood their ground for a righteous cause, Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein (I suppose Ben Bradlee too), Buddy Holly, and my grandfather