Watching, listening, learning, smelling, tasting, imagining.
Sir David Attenborough, The Mars Volta, Dean and Gene Ween, Dools, Noel Fielding, Julian Barrat, Joss Whedon, Tim Flannery, Inspector Rex, David X. Cohen, that elephant who can talk, those other elephants who can paint and play in a band.
I like music.
Stand By Me, the Kill Bills, LOTR, Star Wars, Cannibal the Musical, Computer Boy, Wayne's World 1 & 2, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Bill and Ted's Bogus Journey, Braveheart, Spirited Away, Young Guns, The Proposition, Battle Royale, Death To Smoochie, Akira, Dead Man, Sunshine, 28 Days Later, Little Miss Sunshine, Sweet.
Futurama, The Simpsons, The Mighty Boosh, anything David Attenborough, Lost, The OC, Inspector Rex, South Park, Myth Busters, Spicks and Specks, The Glasshouse, Buffy The Vampire Slayer, That 70's Show, Black Books, Red Dwarf, Nerds FC, Scrubs, Farscape, Firefly, Oz, Top Gear, The IT Crowd, Wilfred, Last Exile, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Helsing etc.
Anything remotley readable. I like books about things that confuse me. Aliens, mutants, murderers, mutant murderers who believe in aliens. Evolution seems to be a good topic at the moment, but that is still kinda to do with mutants, murderers and aliens.