Drawing Comics, Self-Publishing, Teaching, The Dvorak Simplified Keyboard Layout , efficiency, building things out of Cardboard (especially furniture), recycling (especially paper), letter writing
Comics artists, illustrators, wizards, dragons, wolves.
ROCK: Weezer, The Beatles, Built To Spill, The Magnetic Fields, Grandaddy, Ben Kweller, Ben Folds Five, The Rentals, The Shins, Self, Graham Smith, Harry and the Potters, They Might Be Giants, The Weakerthans, Elliot Smith.
JAZZ: Sammy Davis Jr., Count Basie, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Tony Bennett, Chet Baker, Billie Holiday, Clifford Brown, Max Roach, Buddy Rich, Wynton Marsalis
Star Wars, Muppets, Woody Allen, Marx Brothers, Hitchcock, Spaghetti Westerns, just about any romantic comedy made before about 1960... etc. etc.
SUCKS. Most good shows get canceled: The Muppet Show, My So Called Life, Twin Peaks, Firefly, Freaks & Geeks
COMICS: Jeff Smith, Scott McCloud, Don Rosa, Herge, Chris Ware, Craig Thompson, Aaron Renier
ZINES: King Cat Comics & Stories, Clutch, Invincible Summer, Avow, Brainfag
TEXT: Harry Potter! Peter Pan, anything by William Steig, Roald Dahl or Bill Peet.
John Porcellino, Jim Henson, George Lucas, Roy Cummings, Will Longstreth, (also see all Comics artists listed above)