The Twilight Zone, EC Comics, horror movies that are actually scary and/or creepy, well-written and well-drawn comicbooks that involve more than two guys in spandex jumpsuits beating on each other, and heavy/passionate music -- female lead singers a plus.
Readers, friends, people willing to help spread the word, and fans of anything horror, comic and/or heavy metal in nature.
Mike Patton's various projects, Tool, System of a Down, The White Stripes, Otep, Mad Season, Siren Seduction, Cockfight Club, Evolotto (R.I.P.?!?), The PB Army, Broadzilla, The Thessolonian Dope Gods, Lollipop Lust Kill (R.I.P.), Porn Flakes (R.I.P.), Hogscraper, Coldplay, Evanescence, Black Sabbath, Marilyn Manson, Type O Negative, Eminem, I.C.P., Hanzel Und Gretyl, Lacuna Coil, Neil Young, Nine Inch Nails, GWAR, Pearl Jam, The Cure, classic Metallica...
Anything by Quentin Tarintino, the Leonardo DeCaprio version of ROMEO + JULIET, almost every old horror movie you can think of (and hundereds you've probably never heard of), DAGON, REQUIEM FOR A DREAM, MEMENTO, PI, BATMAN: MASK OF THE PHANTASM, BACK TO THE FUTURE, THE KARATE KID I and II, FREDDY VS. JASON, ROBOCOP, good comicbook adaptaions to film (of course) and anything relating to Godzilla or time-travel.
Real-time shows are few: 24, HEROES and TNA IMPACT. I also watch and enjoy THE SHIELD, DEADWOOD, LOST, THE TWILIGHT ZONE, DRAWN TOGETHER, the MASTERS OF HORROR series, FUTURAMA, HAPPY TREE FRIENDS, and FAMILY GUY all on DVD.
HIGH-BROW LITERATURE: Harlan Ellison, Ayn Rand, H.P. Lovecraft, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Edgar Allan Poe, William Shakespeare, J.K. Rowling...LOW-BROW LITERATURE: Alan Moore, Ed Gorey, Garth Ennis, Robert Kirkman, Eric Powell, David Lampham, EC Comics, Brian K. Vaughn, Brian Michael Bendis, James O'Barr, Mike Mignola, Neil Gaiman...
People that live by the principles of courtesy, integrity, perseverance, self-control and indomitable spirit. They're few and far between, but I luckily I know (and know of) a few...
Dirk Manning: Uber-Geek