Books, Music, Beer, and whatever else comes along.
Anybody...You can always learn something from everyone, even if its just that you don't want to know them...
Modest Mouse, Death Cab for Cutie, Starlight Mints, Wolf Parade, Bettie Serveert, Doves, The Beta Band(Sadly Broken Up, but still awesome), The Shins, Holy Fuck, The American Analog Set, The Postal Service, Rusted Root, Steely Dan, The Counting Crows, and the list goes on and on and on...
Mallrats, Chasing Amy, The Godfather I and II, Mr. Smith Goes to Washington, you know, there are too many to count. I own more than 150 DVD's, if that gives you some kind of idea.
Yeah, I have a problem there too....
A Confederacy of Dunces, Everything is Illuminated, Extremely Loud & Incredibly Close, White Teeth, On Beauty, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Last of the Mohicans, A Clockwork Orange, 1984, Brave New World, etc.