Sustainable agriculture, local foods, reading, homebrewing, traveling.
your mom.
Dave Matthews Band, Old Crow Medicine Show, Ween, Radiohead, Ani Difranco, Weezer, Matt Pond PA, Iron & Wine, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Flogging Molly, Sound of Urchin, Bob Dylan, Neil Young, Pink Floyd, Jimi Hendrix, Rancid, Belle & Sebastian, Death Cab for Cutie, Bela Fleck, My Morning Jacket, Tom Petty, Ray Lamontagne, the Get Up Kids, William Shatner (spoken word cd produced by Ben Folds is ridiculous), Garth Brooks (yes, I know).
American Beauty, Donnie Darko, Constant Gardener, Goodnight and Good Luck, Super Troopers, Amelie, Newsies, When Harry Met Sally, The Big Lebowski, Breaking Away, Waynes World, Fargo, Kill Bill (1&2).
I don't have cable, so I rent seasons: Battlestar Galactica (!), Queer As Folk, and fucking Lost (got sucked into that one).
The Hotel New Hampshire, Cider House Rules, and anything else by John Irving. The Loop and other Nicholas Evans books. Prodigal Summer (and Barbara Kingsolver in general). Also...A Tree Grows in Brooklyn, Happiness, Fast Food Nation, Ishmael, To Kill A Mockingbird, What Dreams May Come.