Movies, biking, tennis, cooking, travel, the ocean, karaoke, literature, popular culture, seeing George Bush not reelected, scuba diving, etc.
Anybody and everybody with a sense of humor.
Rock n' Roll, Jazz, Blues, Folk, Funk, Metal, Bop, Early Techno, some Country
so vast and still eccentric that I cannot list examples
Tobias Wolfe, Richard Ford, Andrew Vacchs, JK Rowling, Raymond Carver, Robert Crais, Carl Hiasson, Micheal Chabon... anything that sparks my interest at that moment