Producing and mixing electronic music, writing fiction, photography, ice hockey, and old school video games.
Anyone who likes to talk about interesting subjects and ideas. Celebrities who do more than piss away money. Politicians who are experienced and still fight for the common man. Women who don't have hang ups. Guys who are men and don't have to be macho assholes to prove. My great grandchildren so I can ask them if I took enough care of this planet.
The list is too long. Music moves my soul... House, metal, techno, drum and bass, blues, trance, industrial, pop, show tunes, bluegrass, hip hop, classical. There are only two kinds of music: Good and bad. And it has f*ck-all to do with genre.
Again, the list is too long. Star Wars (of course), Christopher Nolan films, Kurosawa, Mallrats, Trey Parker & Matt Stone, Fight Club, Hostel, and so forth.
TV rots your brain. Except for The Wire, Scrubs, and late night music videos.
This is the short-short list: John Reed, Fight Club, TC Boyle, Richard Bachman novels, Hunter Thompson, Vonnegut, Palahniuk, Ray Carver, Susie Bright compilations, and on and on.
Bill Cosby, Mario Lemiuex, Lance Armstrong, and anybody who has the guts to give it 100%.