Politics, to the point of obsession; foreign and domestic travel; movies; music and books
People who understand that it's not about the destination -- it's about the journey.
Emo, Grunge, and Death Metal
Kill Bill 1&2, Bob Roberts, Star Wars (all of them!), All the King's Men, Annie Hall, the Big Lebowski, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Garden State, High Fidelity, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Adaptation, Being John Malkovich, the Royal Tenenbaums, and Doctor Zhivago.
The West Wing, Prison Break, the Office, the Colbert Report, the Daily Show, Twin Peaks.
Chuck Palahniuk, Jennifer Weiner, Jack Kerouac, Kurt Vonnegut, J.D. Salinger, Samuel Beckett, Sylvia Plath, and Joan Didion. Great books: "Take it Back" by James Carville/Paul Begala, Hillary Clinton's bio, "Winning Modern Wars" by Gen. Wes Clark, and Henry Kissinger's "Diplomacy."
President Bartlet