Traveling, music, film, art, sports, web, political pontificating, mountain biking, plotting and scheming a way to not work for the Man, lint sculpturing, and collecting truckstop sun visors.
Anyone reasonably intelligent and open-minded who's not a drone.
(in no particular order and by no means comprehensive): Beatles, Radiohead, Franz Ferdinand, U2, James Brown, P-Funk, the Strokes, Nirvana, Frank Sinatra, Rolling Stones (from '64- '78 only), Weezer, Chemical Brothers, Slayer, Curtis Mayfield, 70s music in general (nostalgia factor), Led Zepellin, Jimi Hendrix, AC/DC, Nick Drake, Sex Pistols, the Clash, Johnny Cash, Igor Stravinski, Billie Holiday, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Wilco, Beck, Esquivel, Pink Floyd (especially the Syd Barrett era), Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, DJ Shadow, Groove Armada, Propellerheads, old school hip-hop (Tribe Called Quest, NWA), Outkast, Roni Size, Dukes of Stratosphear (that is how it's spelled), and too many others to even list...these were just the one's I thought of off the top of my head. My tastes are EXTREMELY eclectic.
Godfather, Taxi Driver, Brazil, Citizen Kane, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Sideways, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, Apocolypse Now, Big Lebowski, American Beauty, The Usual Suspects, Dr. Strangelove, White Heat, Boyz in the Hood, Bowling for Columbine, Old School, anything with Liz Taylor in her prime, too many others to even list. Not really much into mainstream Hollywood stuff these days, but I'll watch it on HBO if I can't sleep. I realize my tastes are a bit dark, but I do like lighter stuff, too.
(again, in no particular order) Daily Show, Colbert Report, South Park, Simpsons, Six Feet Under, Sopranos, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Real Time with Bill Maher, Weeds, Seinfeld, History Channel documentaries, Frontline, Monty Python (yes, PBS is showing it now), 70s sitcom reruns on Nick at Nite, and my latest guilty pleasure that I saw a couple of times but don't know when it's on...some VH1 show that gets old bands to reunite for a one-night show...that Flock of Seagulls episode was priceless!
currently: Tom Friedman's book "The World is Flat" (about Globalization); the 500+ page PDF manual for ProTools 7. Favorite Authors: Vonnegut, Hemmingway, Joseph Conrad. Favorite Poets: Poe, Blake, Longfellow, Whitman, Frost...yep, the classics.
Teddy Roosevelt. Had balls of steel, didn't take no guff, and got things done...not to mention being one of the greatest reformers in American political history.