Music, film, writing, reading, cooking, eating cheese, tennis, etc.
Too many. Bob Dylan, Ryan Adams, Patty Griffin, Joni Mitchell, White Stripes, Johnny Cash, Miles Davis, Radiohead, Ben Folds, Shawn Colvin, Rilo Kiley, Bruce Hornsby, Regina Spektor, Owen, Tori Amos, Rosie Thomas, Imogen Heap, Sun Kil Moon, Neal Casal, the Damnwells, Pete Yorn, Gregory and the Hawk, Rolling Stones, Ben Gibbard et al, Elliott Smith, Frou Frou, the Roots, Sly and the Family Stone, American Football, New Amsterdams, Sigur Ros, Cat Power, Wilco, Coldplay, Haley Bonar, New Frontiers, onelinedrawing, U2, the Cure, Talking Heads, My Morning Jacket, Lisa Loeb, Stone Temple Pilots, the Postal Service, Weezer, Beth Orton, Minus the Bear, Fiona Apple, the Shins, Old 97's, James Taylor, Whiskeytown, Bruce Springsteen, Beck, Azure Ray, Josh Ritter, the Decemberists, Dwight Yoakam, Low, Red House Painters, Ida and so many more. For serious, these things are in no particular order; after all, we don't want to hurt an artist's feelings. Yet, I know I am leaving out very important people. Conundrum.
Robin Hood (Disney), Magnolia, Almost Famous, No Direction Home, When Harry Met Sally, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Vanilla Sky, Some Like it Hot, Don't Look Back, the Graduate, High Fidelity, Rushmore, All the Real Girls, Jerry Maguire, Elizabethtown, Annie Hall, Garden State, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, the Big Lebowski, the Royal Tenenbaums, Winter Passing, GO, Reality Bites, Amelie, Say Anything, Shopgirl, Boogie Nights, I 3 Huckabees, Buffalo '66, Bridget Jones's Diary, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Big Fish, Walk the Line, A Raisin in the Sun, and more, more, more.
Franny and Zooey by J.D. Salinger is my favorite book in the world. Ask me why, if you want and then we can talk about the Royal Tenenbaums. the Bible, Salinger, Lewis, Plath, Coupland, Wurtzel, Klosterman, Nin, Hemingway, Woolf, McMurtry, Ishiguro, DeBeauvoir, Sartre, Vonnegut, Nabakov, Voltaire, Robbins, yada yada yada.