Pirates and urban despair, digital painting, traditional painting, coffee, etc.
This changes often, depending on my mood. I'll give almost anything a try, with the only big exception being elevator musak. 30 Seconds to Mars, Coheed and Cambria, Over the Rhine, The Ditty Bops, Ok Go, The Sun, Rockethouse, The Dandy Warhols, Rammstein, Steeleye Span, Flogging Molly, The Bravery, Kaiser Cheifs, Muse, Placebo, John Williams, Dvorak, They Might be Giants, Vast, Hard-fi, Depeche Mode, Kill Hannah, Lily Allen, Hot Chip
Again, this changes monthly. At least. MirrorMask, Serenity, The Corpse Bride, Labyrinth, Billy Elliot, Howl's Moving Castle, Star Wars, High Spirits, Time Bandits, Newsies, Hit and Runway, Little Shope of Horrors, Lord of War, Thankyou for Smoking, Saving Grace, Gladiator
House MD, Babylon 5, Dead Like Me, Carnivale, Top Gear, Battlestar Galactica, random anime of the moment
I read more than anything else.Warchild, Burndive, and Cagebird by Karin Lowachee, Anansi Boys, Sandman, etc. by Neil Gaiman, the Discworld series by Terry Pratchett, Watchmen by Alan Moore, Finder, etc. by Emma Bull, Smoke and Shadows, etc by Tanya Huff, Conrad's Fate, etc by Diana Wynne Jones, Song of Ice and Fire by George RR Martin, The Blind Assassin by Margaret Atwood, Quicksilver by Neal Stephenson