The Best Show on WFMU, sushi, coffee, pilsner. In that order.
Phil Lynott.
the Neckers, the Von Zippers, the Cripple Creek Fairies, Forbidden Dimension, Thin Lizzy, AC/DC, Rocket From The Crypt, the Hot Snakes, the New Bomb Turks, Against Me!, the Beatles, the Bellrays, Billy and the Lost Boys, Bob Dylan, Bright Eyes, Buck 65, Bob Dylan, Belle and Sebastion, the Bellrays, Beth Orton, Billy Bragg, Cat Stevens, the Detroit Cobras, Drive Like Jehu, Damone, old Danko, the Datsuns, the Decemberists, Derek Trucks, the Dudes, the Eagles of Death Metal, the Failure, Fiona Apple, the Flaming Lips, the Feeling, Frou Frou, Helicopter Helicopter, the Hellacopters, Hot Water Music, Jets to Brazil, Kid Dynamite, Kid Koala, Leonard Cohen, Little Brazil, the Living End, the motherfuckin' MC5, Motorhead, the Mountain Goats, M.I.A., the MTX, the Mamas and the Papas, Married to Music, Metric, Morningwood, Neil Young, Neil Diamond, None More Black, One Man Army, One Shot Left, Paul Simon, Pavement, the Queers, Refused, Rock Kills Kid, the Rolling Stones, Ryan Adams, Sarah Harmer, Sleater-Kinney, the Shins, Simon and Garfunkle, Smokey Robinson + the Miracles, Supersuckers, Ted Leo + the Pharmasists, Tegan and Sarah, Tom Waits, Thin Lizzy, Tower of Power, Tricky Woo, Van Morrison, the Who, Woody Guthrie, the Whitlams, the Yeah Yeah Yeahs.
High Fidelity, Say Anything, Robot Jox, Stand By Me, The Last Starfighter, the Commitments, Clerks, the Ladykillers, Wonder Boys, the Wedding Singer, Josie and the Pussycats, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, the Breakfast Club, Pretty in Pink, Reality Bites, They Live, the Wizard, Big Trouble in Little China, Ferris Beuller's Day Off, War Games, Weird Science, etc.
Star Trek: TNG, Star Trek: Voyager, Stargate: Atlantis, Curb Your Enthusiasm, the Office, Seinfeld, Kids in the Hall, Davinici's Inquest/City Hall, Scrubs!
Catcher in the Rye, the Ender's Game series (particularly Xenocide and Speaker for the Dead), some Tom Holt, some Heinlen, any Harry Harrison, the works of Dave Eggers (although I think he loves himself more than I do), any Vonnegut, my National Geographic subscription (does that count?) etc.
Tom Scharpling.