Music, Poker, Guitar Hero on PS2, Mt. Everest, Star Wars, Europe (backpacking),Connect 4, Tiger Woods Golf on PS2, Super Mario Bros on Nintendo, collecting Beatles memorabilia and Pez dispensers
Paul McCartney, Clive Davis, Russell Simmons, P-Diddy, Bono, Elton John
wow...where to start...a few things I am into now or have been:Locally: Andy Zipf, Vandaveer, Justin Jones, Middle Distance Runner, The Echoes, Monopoli, emmet swimming, Justin Trawick, The Sketches, EBP, Getaway Car, Shane Hines, Brindley Brothers, Army of Me, Soft Complex, sould, CRASH BOOM BANG, The Hint, Politicks, Welbilt, ebo, Rotoglow, Lionize, These United States, Alfonso Velez, Brother Shamus,Copperpot, John Francis, Honeychuck, Spectre, 33 West, Shwa, Pat McGee, Cobbler, Pepper's Ghost, Colouring Lesson, Matt Waller, Paul Bonsiero, The Speaks, Everyone But Pete, 4th Element, Junkfood, Andy Zipf, Aphile, Shane Hines, Mike Holden, Dave Hill, Bill Burford, Some Odd Sense, Clutch, Voodoo Blue, I'm sure there are tons I am forgetting....
Otherwise- a variety including: The Beatles, Johnny Cash, Radiohead, City Sleeps, Tom Petty, My Morning Jacket, The Postal Service, Mars Volta, Dredg, Keane, Pearl Jam, Coldplay, Elliott Smith, Citizen Cope, DMB, Steely Dan, The Underwater, Ben Kweller, The Working Title, The Fray, Mute Math, Led Zeppelin, Jeff Buckley, Travis, Counting Crows, The Killers, Nike Drake, Remy Zero, Snow Patrol, Blur, Sufjan Stevens, Michael Jackson, Jethro Tull, Mr. Bungle, Faith No More, Eric Clapton, Ben Harper, The Shins, Jack Johnson, NERD, Tori Amos, Metallica, The Cure, Chicago (old school), 311, Bob Marley, Sublime, BNL, Cake, TMBG, Elton John, Jimmy Buffett and many many more...
In no order... Anything Woody Allen... Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Napoleon Dynamite, Star Wars, Willy Wonka & the chocolate factory, Garden State, Slackers, Big Fish, Caddyshack, Stand by me, Kung Pow: Enter the fist, Pulp Fiction, Say Anything, Dumb & Dumber, Pay it forward, Good Will Hunting, 16 Candles, Dead Poet's Society, American Beauty, anything with Ben Stiller or John Cusack
Flight of the Conchords, Entourage, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, SNL, World Poker Tour, Ab Fab, Fawlty Towers (any Brit-com) Jeopardy!
"To kill a Mockingbird" by Harper Lee, "On the Road" by Kerouac, "Into thin air" by Jon Krakauer, "I know this much is true" by Wally Lamb
The people I admire musically...that inspire me as someone working in artist development... are Matt Waller, Anthony Fiacco, Pharrell, John "gOtti", Buddy Speir, Greg Roche, Andy Zipf, Shane Hines, Andrew Gorski, Raf, Mauricio, among others...