Cycling, running, soccer, kayaking, hiking, volunteer work, music, movies, video, working on my Macs, Spanish language, Latin American history/culture, travel, standup and sketch comedy
Someone who actually drinks more water on a daily basis than I do.
Electronica/Synth Pop/Disco Nouveau/Dance, etc.: Depeche Mode, The Capricorns, Freezepop, The Faint, Naked Ape, Chromeo, IAMX, Sneaker Pimps, Shiny Toy Guns, MSTRKRFT, Vitalic, Crystal Castles, Kavinsky, Assassins, Junior Boys, Midnight Juggernauts, Shakes, Boom Bip, Tiga, Polysics, Kraftwerk, Daft Punk, Solvent, Black Turtleneck, Daniel Wang, Devo, Teddybears, The Mitgang Audio, LCD Soundsystem, Deux, Atari Teenage Riot, Codec & Flexor, Ratatat, Hanin Elias, External Hard Drive, Scissor Sisters, Outputmessage, Adam Freeland, Jamie Lidell, Andrew Thompson, The Streets, Jamiroquai, The Epoxies, Kenna, Martin L. Gore, New Order, etc.
Hardcore/Grind: State of Fear, Dystopia, Disrupt, Holding On, Tear It Up, The Rites, Uncurbed, Krigshot, Nasum, Diskonto, Skitsytem, HEWHOCORRUPTS, Kungfu Rick, Bucket Full of Teeth, Dragnet, Think I Care, Paindriver, Scholastic Deth, Victims, Econochrist, Cluster Bomb Unit, Spazz, Ulcer, Capitalist Casualties, Charles Bronson, MK-Ultra, 7000 Dying Rats, Assuck, Asshole Parade, Cavity, 16, Noothgrush, Hiretsukan, Excruciating Terror, Extreme Noise Terror, Walls of Jericho, From Ashes Rise, Despise You, Wolfbrigage/Wolfpack, Negative Approach, Minor Threat, Los Crudos, XlimpwristX, etc.
Punk: Bad Religion, The Commercials, Violent Society, Propagandhi, The Ramones, Oblivion, Gito Gito Hustler, The Clash, Vice Squad, The Partisans, Discharge, Riot Squad, The 4-Skins, The Business, Man's Ruin, The Devotchkas, Screeching Weasel, The Donnas, The Hives, etc.
Rock & Metal: Death From Above 1979, Metric, Thunderbirds Are Now!, Black Sabbath, Queens of the Stone Age, Wolfmother, Pelican, Beck, Eagles of Death Metal, The Darkness, Grinderman, Metallica (for the first three albums), The Crown, Arch Enemy, Musk, Nirvana, Burning Brides, The Hellacopters, Greg Graffin, Apples In Stereo, etc.
Jazz/Easy Listening/Standards: Dean Martin, Sammy Davis Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Michael Bublé, Bobby Darin, Dakota Staton, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, Lou Rawls, Sarah Vaughan, Louis Prima, Lavay Smith & Her Red Hot Skillet Lickers, Dinah Washington, Fats Domino, etc.
Blues: Muddy Waters, Otis Rush, Magic Sam, Little Milton, etc.
Swing: Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Indigo Swing, Swingerhead, Jet Set Six, etc.
Latin: Buena Vista Social Club, Julieta Venegas, etc.
R&B/Pop: Prince, Michael Jackson ("Off the Wall" through "Bad"), Otis Redding, and Anthony Hamilton
World: Yoshida Brothers
Hip Hop/Rap: The Roots, Spank Rock, Warsawpack, Dr. Dre, and N.W.A.
Wet Hot American Summer, Amelie, The Baxter, Blues Brothers, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Caddyshack, Revenge of the Nerds, Breaking Away, Modigliani, Mean Machine, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Office Space, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Snatch, Scarface, Taxi Driver, Planet of the Apes, Amores Perros, L'Auberge Espagnole, American Beauty, Clash of the Titans, Serpico, Requiem For A Dream, Gandhi, A Very Long Engagement, Sin City, etc.
The State, The Family Guy, Mad Money, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Stella, Chappelle's Show, The Office (BBC version), Da Ali G Show, Reno 911!, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Extras, Seinfeld, The Simpsons, Planet Earth, Sky Sports News, The Critic, Transformers, The Mattel and Mars Bar Quick Energy Chocobot Hour... I also try to watch the shows that I work on, but since I work nights most of the time, that often doesn't work out.
Almost anything by Noam Chomsky, "Twelfth Night" by William Shakespeare, "Civil Disobedience" by Henry David Thoreau, etc.
Mohandas K. Gandhi and my grandfather, rest in peace gentlemen