Eating potato chips on the treadmill. Reading Vonnegut outloud in the sauna. Slowly cutting off people going really slow, while listening to speed metal. Throwing your dogs frisbie into oncoming traffic.
Aristotle as he was writing The Aim of Man. Jeff Buckley before he dove into the river, damnit. Anyone that I can learn from. Everyone that is a polite world traveler. A woman that will share her hot girlfriends w/ me (just kidding kinda).
Jeff Buckley, Pinback, Grateful Dead, Radiohead, Mice Parade, Beastie Boys, Marley, Hendrix, Rage, Tool, Chili Peppers (Frusciante's solo work), Pearl Jammin' over Mookie, Coldplay, Zeppelin, P-Funk, Sly (u better recognize), Beatles, Doors, Chim Chim (I taught that arangutang how to jerk me off with his feet), Pink Floyd, Sublime/Long Beach, Broken Social Scene, Gorillaz, Bjork, Death Cab for Cutie, Neil Young, Postal Service, Tom Petty, Stereolab, Fugazi, 311, Wu, Flaming Lips, The Roots, John Mayer, Phish, Fela Kuti and the African funk movement, Van Morrison, Mos Def, you know my baby's gotta have sauce, John Spencer's Blues Explosion, Umphree's McGee, Slightly Stoopid, Doves, Jack Johnson, Pavement, and of course Jodeci
Time Bandits and anything with George Muresan. Shawshank Redemption is my favorite movie of all time, makes me want to break out of my own mental prison.
Food Network or sports that I can play. Feel naked w/o my ESPN fix. Seinfeld, The Office, Curb, I watch TV to laugh, be entertained, maybe learn something, therefore all reality shows are shit.
Great motivational readings like Nietzshe. Really though... A Prayer for Owen Meany, Catcher in the Rye, Galapogos, Next, and anything that keeps my short attention span in check.
Walter Payton and my father (btw he was another great black running back, and ran thru Dick Butkus or Butki b/c there were multiple Dicks).