Swimming, Poker, Politics, Architecture, Sustainable Living, and books that make me think.
Old friends and new ones.
Foot-tapping tunes, Violent Femmes, U2, NIN, The Roots, anything Beatles, Radiohead, Gorillaz, Beck, Modest Mouse ( I could spend all day typing this stuff) Let's leave it at music that doesn't suck.............
Crash, U2 Rattle and Hum, Old School, Van Wilder, Wedding Crashers, Last of the Mohicans, Casino, Goodfellas, Snatch, The Big Lebowski, and the must see movie of 2006, Snakes On A Plane
Entourage, Family Guy, Meet the Press (I don't care if you think this is dorky), and watching Texas Tech make their national title run this year.
The End of Poverty by Jeffrey Sachs, Biomimicry by Janine Benys, All the President's Men by Bob Woodward and Carl Bernstein, The Great Unraveling by Paul Krugman, Acid Dreams by Martin Lee, The Sustainability Revolution by Andres Edwards, Parliment of Whores by PJ O'Rourke, The Straw Bale House by Steen, Steen, and Bainbridge, Don't Think Like an Elephant by George Lakoff, Animal Farm by George Orwell, The Dharma Bums by Jack Kerouac, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas by Hunter S. Thompson, and The Assassin's Gate by George Packard (I highly recommend this one)
Mohandas K. Gandhi, Ken Yeang, Bill Clinton, Bono, Norman Foster, and John Edwards. Basically anyone trying to do what is right in difficult times.