Painting, drawing, photography, sculpture, architecture, movies, reading, writing, editing, travel, politics, anthropology, psychology, neurology, intensity, placidity, glam rock, food that's bad for me, boys who are bad for me, optimism that defies all reason, reason. Not necessarily in that order.
Also: R.E.M., Patti Smith, The Shins, P.J. Harvey, Lucinda Williams, Rufus Wainwright, Martha Wainwright, Al Green, Nina Simone, Billie Holiday, Benny Goodman, Glenn Miller, Johnny Cash, Pat Benatar, Ben Folds, Talking Heads (+ David Byrne solo), 10,000 Maniacs (+ Natalie Merchant solo), The Velvet Underground (+ Lou Reed solo), The Smiths (+ Morrissey solo), Hole (+ Courtney Love solo), The Fugees (+ Lauryn Hill solo), Aimee Mann, Dolly Parton, Tori Amos, Le Tigre, Mary J. Blige, Liz Phair, Outkast, The White Stripes, Loretta Lynn, The Pretenders, Elvis Costello, Ani DiFranco, Pavement, Brian Eno, The Cure, Leonard Cohen, Sade, Saint Etienne, Joan Jett, Radiohead, Ella Fitzgerald, Patsy Cline, Blondie, The Pixies, Nick Drake, Kanye West, Fleetwood Mac, David Bowie, Weezer, Peaches, Joni Mitchell, Rilo Kiley, The Decemberists, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Death Cab for Cutie, The Postal Service, Cat Power, The Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Someone Still Loves You Boris Yeltsin, Camera Obscura.
Also: L.A. Confidential, Double Indemnity, The Maltese Falcon, The Big Sleep, Murder My Sweet, Laura, Touch of Evil, Chinatown, Velvet Goldmine, Far from Heaven, Chungking Express, In the Mood for Love, What Have I Done to Deserve This?, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, All About My Mother, Bad Education, Volver, Stander, Drugstore Cowboy, My Own Private Idaho, Elephant, Primer, All About Eve, The Palm Beach Story, The Miracle of Morgan's Creek, Bringing Up Baby, The Philadelphia Story, Charade, Vertigo, The Shining, Sunset Blvd., The Godfather (I + II), MASH, McCabe and Mrs. Miller, Nashville, Blow Out, Femme Fatale, Blood Simple, Fargo, The Big Lebowski, The Man Who Wasn't There, The House of Yes, Citizen Ruth, Election, Sideways, Flirting with Disaster, Three Kings, Ocean's Eleven, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, Wild at Heart, Mulholland Dr., Run Lola Run, Heaven, Magnolia, The Silence of the Lambs, Go, Basic Instinct, Showgirls, The Rules of Attraction, Se7en, Fight Club, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Hours, Amelie, A Very Long Engagement, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Just Friends, Maria Full of Grace, Batman Begins, Broken Flowers, Jesus is Magic, The Constant Gardener, Mr. + Mrs. Smith, Happy Endings, Mysterious Skin, The Squid and the Whale, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, Shortbus, The Departed, The Queen, everything by the Marx Bros., et al.
Also: Arrested Development, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks, The Simpsons, CSI, Law and Order(s) (mainly SVU, for the Mariska), The West Wing, Entourage, Veronica Mars, Scrubs.
Also: Lolita, Pale Fire, et al. by Nabokov; Myra Breckinridge, Two Sisters, The City and the Pillar, Palimpsest, and all essays by Vidal (but especially "Pink Triangle and Yellow Star"); In Cold Blood, Breakfast at Tiffany’s, and Music for Chameleons by Capote; The Mysteries of Pittsburgh, The Wonder Boys, and The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Chabon; Pride and Prejudice and Mansfield Park by Austen; The Hours and A Home at the End of the World by Cunningham; A Boy's Own Story, The Beautiful Room is Empty, and The Farewell Symphony by White; Becoming a Man by Monette; The Object of My Affection and The Easy Way Out by McCauley; M: The Man who Became Caravaggio by Robb; Rules of Attraction and American Psycho by Ellis; The Secret History by Tartt; The Accidental Tourist by Tyler; Some Other Place. The Right Place., et al. by Harrington; Election by Perrotta; The Corrections and How to Be Alone by Franzen; Father of Frankenstein and Gossip by Bram; Flaubert's Parrot by Barnes; Vile Bodies by Waugh; Race Matters by West; A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again by Wallace; Nothing if Not Critical, The Shock of the New, and American Visions by Hughes; Nobody's Perfect by Lane; The Elements of Style by Strunk and White; The Associated Press Stylebook; well-illustrated books on Baroque, Post-Impressionist, or post-modern realist painters; everything Pauline Kael ever wrote.