Digital art, history, mythology, abstract math, astronomy, psychology, philosophy, pizza, video games, zombies, cats, dogs, spiders, frogs, monkeys, DC comics, good movies, good music, football. Go Bears!! Go Hokies!!
People that I can learn from.
Nine Inch Nails, Radiohead, Oingo Boingo, Dresden Dolls, Joy Division, PIG, Recoil, Tool, Black Sabbath, HIM, Skinny Puppy, Meat Beat Manifesto, Cruciform Injection, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Tweaker, Rage Against the Machine, Pink Floyd, Queen, The Cure, David Bowie, Live, Soundgarden, Evanescence, Poe, and countless others depending on my mood.
I love WAY too many movies to name. Instead, here are some of my favorites: Mulholland Drive, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Vanilla Sky, Citizen Kane, Ben-Hur, Amadeus, Kill Bill, V for Vendetta, Silence of the Lambs, American Psycho, Princess Bride, THX-1138, Blade Runner, Alien, Evil Dead 2, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Night of the Living Dead, Unforgiven, Star Wars series (especially The Empire Strikes Back), Lord of the Rings
24, Rome, Firefly, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Smallville, Friday Night Lights, Studio 60, The Office, The Daily Show, The Soup, and tons of stuff on the History Channel (especially The Universe). I'm also a big fan of animated shows, including (but not limited to): Batman the Animated Series, Justice League, Voltron, Samurai Jack, Invader Zim, Family Guy, South Park, Ren and Stimpy (in small doses), Powerpuff Girls, and some others I'm sure I'm forgetting.
Homer's Odyssey, Beowulf, Chuck Palahniuk, Mark Z. Danielewski ("House of Leaves"...read this fucking book!!), H. P. Lovecraft, Kurt Vonnegut, Stephen King, J. K. Rowling, Philip K. Dick, George Orwell, Ray Bradbury, and many more. I read a lot of nonfiction too, mainly science/astronomy, philosophy and history. I am also an avid reader of Batman comics.