I love porch swings, having dance parties with my four-year-old nephew, irreverence, sarcasm, muscle cars, eating peanut butter straight out of the jar (crunchy only), paintings by Rene Magritte, and Ms. Pac-Man.
People who aren't shady, make me laugh, read (good) books, and don't talk on their cell phones all the freaking time. Oh, and people who can have a conversation for at least five minutes without talking about celebrities.
The Slackers, Tricky, Voodoo Glow Skulls, The Phenomenauts, Toots and the Maytals, Hepcat, Bad Brains, Interpol, The Specials, The Heptones, Jimmy Cliff, The Gadjits, De La Soul, A Tribe Called Quest, Ol'Dirty Bastard (RIP ODB), Wesley Willis (RIP Wesley),Louis Prima, Public Enemy, The Smiths, Morrissey, Nancy Sinatra, Otis Redding, Echo and the Bunnymen, Love and Rockets, Of Montreal, Pulp, Gorillaz, Handsome Boy Modeling School,The Pixies, The Cure, The Clash, The Buzzcocks, and a heck of a lot more I can't think of right now.
Welcome to the Dollhouse, Election, Citizen Ruth, The Commitments,American Beauty, documentaries like American Movie and Paradise Lost
The State, Strangers With Candy, Six Feet Under, Stella, The Upright Citizen's Brigade, Entourage
One Hundred Years of Solitude, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The House of the Spirits, The Virgin Suicides, The Handmaid's Tale, Like Water For Chocolate, Things Fall Apart, Native Son, The Great Gatsby, The God of Small Things, O Pioneers...I'm also a sucker for short stories. The best short story collection I've read recently is When the Nines Roll Over by David Benioff. Read it. It'll knock you out.
Debbie Harry, Mr. T, Willa Cather, Alexander Payne, anyone who can remain altruistic and compassionate in a cold and uncaring world