Writing; Reading; Music; Sports; Astronomy; Travel; Being near any body of water--My Pool, Lake Michigan, The Pacific Ocean, doesn't matter; Beer, Wine, Tequila, Gin; and I dabble in Politics (nothing serious).
Anyone, really...interesting new people in interesting new places.The editors of any or all of the following magazines: Rolling Stone, Playboy, Maxim, ESPN the Magazine, Sports Illustrated, Baseball Weekly, The Sporting News
Van Halen, Pearl Jam, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Sammy Hagar (stop laughing), Velvet Revolver, STP, Alice in Chains, Smashing Pumpkins, Temple of the Dog, Incubus, 311, Jet, R.E.M., U2, Weezer, Outkast, Notorious B.I.G., The Black Crowes, Stevie Ray Vaughan, RATM, Lenny Kravitz, Rolling Stones, Chicago, Aerosmith, older AC/DC, older Metallica...basically if it's GOOD rock and roll, I'll dig it...
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, The Exorcist, Ghostbusters, Christmas Vacation, The Ring, The Matrix Trilogy, The Star Wars movies, The Untouchables, Dirty Harry movies, The Rock, Gone in 60 Seconds, Pulp Fiction, Reservoir Dogs, Being John Malkovich, Blow, Napoleon Dynamite, Anchorman, Dodgeball, the Kill Bill movies, the Back to the Future trilogy, Gangs of New York, The Shawshank Redemption, Dazed and Confused, Half Baked, Clerks, Singles, Chasing Amy, Happy Gilmore, Tommy Boy, 50 First Dates, Grandma's Boy
BASEBALL as well as other sports, News, SportsCenter, *Entourage*
Anything by Hunter S. Thompson, Most books by John Saul, but I usually read magazines (Rolling Stone and Playboy, because I hope to write for both of them someday) or newspapers...individually speaking I really enjoyed The Rum Diary (Thompson), Less than Zero (Bret Easton Ellis), Sphere, and The Andromeda Strain (both by Michael Crichton). Lately most of my reading is for school; everything above is leisure.
Specifically, my parents. Generally, anyone honest enough to voice his or her opinion, strong enough to stand up for it, and intelligent enough to defend it in debate.