Digital video production, learning to be a concert videographer, the national poetry slam, good people, good food, travel, the usual. People who have made being happy their bad habit. People who believe they can live the life they choose.
Someone who wants to go to the drive in and make out for hours. Preferably, a combination of Han Solo, Johnny Cash, Humphrey Bogart, Cary Grant, Robert Downey, Jr, and Bruce Lee.
Mainly friend's bands: Jackdaw, the Ifs, John & Mary, Stand, Ghostrunner, McCarthyizm, the Asylum Street Spankers, the Steam Donkeys, and many many more.
Blade Runner, To Have and Have Not, LOTR, Wonder Boys, Harry Freakin' Potter, generally sci-fi with things that blow up, or flicks that make me feel good about being a human being.Actually, right now I'm on three genre kicks: Every Hitchcock & Bogey movie ever made, 70's weirdness (everything from Blow Up and Valley of the Dolls to Dog Day Afternoon), and a bunch of classics I've missed or wanted to see again -- like Jaws and Boogie Nights.
Rruns of Grey's Anatomy and Rescue Me, and reality television, but it's for research. Really.
Too many to list, but: anything by JD Salinger, esp. Seymour: An Introduction; A Spy in the House of Love, Anais Nin, and Been Down So Long it Looks like up to me, by Richard Farina. Also poetry: Yeats, Rilke, DiPrima, Sexton, etc. Friends' books: anything by Daphne Gottleib, Bucky Sinister, Jeff McDaniel, Adam Rubenstein, Patricia Smith. Also: Abbie Hoffman, Revolution for the Hell of it, Di Prima's Revolutionary Letters, and of course Bitch: In Praise of Difficult Women, by Elizabeth Wurtzel.
Every person, small or large, known or not, who stood up in the face of evil and said, No.