HOCKEY!!!!!!!!, music (obviously), books (no poetry), my school work, my job, nature, playing guitar, the gym, going to the bar, whatever else I'm not thinking of at the moment
new friends, old friends, basically anyone who wants to hang and have some fun
Almost anything with the exception of country. Some notables--Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Fantomas, Lovage...all are (I should say were) Mike Patton projects, early Metallica, Megadeth, Morphine, Steve Vai, Alterbridge, Audioslave, A Perfect Circle, Tool, Led Zeppelin, Iron Maiden (the first metal band I ever considered to be metal gods), The Cure, Alice in Chains, early Red Hot Chilli Peppers, Boogie Down Productions, anything Classical--J.S. Bach and his sons, Nicolo Paganinni, Heitor Villa-Lobos, Chopin, Debussy, Mozart, Schubert.............and the list could go on and on and on.
Old School, Leaving Las Vegas, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Things To Do In When Your Dead, Snatch, LA Confidential, Happiness, Storytelling, Fargo, Twin Peaks, Tango and Cash, Where The Buffalo Roam, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Space Balls, Big Lebowski, Ninja Scroll, Blood Sport, all of the Blade movies, Rushmore, Caddyshack, Back to School, all of the Ghost Busters movies, Deer Hunter, AVP, Kindergaren Cop--anything with Arnold in it, all the Star Trek and Star Wars movies, Dirty Dozen, Kelly's Heroes, Clue, Bedazzled, Blast from the Past, School Ties, Rounders and many more.
Futurama, Simpsons, Family Guy, Hockey, The Shield, ESPN, Seinfeld, Ren and Stimpy, I admit I watch Star Trek....all of them, The Tick
One Long Argument, What Evolution Is?, 1984, anything by Asimov, anything about World War 2, Sidhartha, anything and everything by Hemingway, Hen's Teeth and Horses Toes, The Mismeasure of Man
My Mom and Dad, Charles Darwin, Ernst Myer, Nabokov, Heitor Villas-Lobos, J.S. Bach, all of my graduate advisors at school, McGrath's Bar