Non-Fiction Books, Writing/Playing/Finding/Listening to Music, Movies, Video Games, Wit, Foosball, Ping Pong, Air Hockey, Billiards, Martial Arts, Strategy, Eating, Camping, Fixing Things, Breakdancing, Auto Repair and Tuning, Conversation (Esp. With People I Don't Know), Carpentry, Computer Sciences, Design, Disc Jockeying, Card Games, Travel, Poetry, Sleep, Shooting Down Stereotypes, Reverse Engineering, People Watching, Buying Things I Don't Need, Being Considerate for no Good Reason, The Schallers' (My Second Family's) Basement, Money, Playing Sports with Friends, Boxing, Big Crowds/Festivals, Philosophy, Mathematics, Psychology, Other Sciences, Clothes That Make me Look Crazy, Trying to Keep my Cousin out of Jail, Christmas, Being Productive, Snow/Skateboarding
Disclaimer: One of the many traits I picked up from my Father was a callous impatience towards people who exaggerate their problems. Someone has it worse than you, and I will find them.
Everything... but as a primer: 9th Wonder, Aesop Rock, At the Drive In, Atmosphere, Audioslave, Billy Joel, Bob Dylan, Boston, Brother Ali, Chemical Brothers, Coheed and Cambria, Common, Copywrite, Crystal Method, Del, Dream Theater, Dropkick Murphys, Eddie Money, Eminem, Eyedea, Flogging Molly, Foreigner, Gorillaz, Gym Class Heroes, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Hieroglyphics, Jay Z, John Coltrane, John Legend, Jurassic 5, Kanye West, Mars Volta, Maroon 5, Metallica, Michael Jackson, Miles Davis, Mos Def, Murs, N.E.R.D., Nas, Nine Inch Nails, Non Phixion, Oasis, Outkast, Pedestrian, Queen, Rage Against the Machine, RJD2, Rush, Sage Francis, Sole, Soundgarden, Talib Kweli, Tenacious D, The Killers, Themselves, They Might be Giants, Tom Petty, Tonedeff, Weezer, White Stripes
Brick, Inside Man, Caddyshack, Crash, Boondock Saints, The Usual Suspects, Suicide Kings, Runaway Jury, Fight Club, Grandma's Boy, Rounders, The Big Lebowski, Top Gun, Snatch, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Donnie Darko, many many more.
Cops, Entourage, Flight of the Conchords, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Reno 911, Scrubs
Mostly Non-Fiction
Robert Drake (Iceman), Napoleon Hill, Howard Hughes, Miyamoto Musashi, Marshall Mathers, Ken VanHouten, Jesus