world peace, computer graphics, live and recorded music, various forms of quality entertainment like good films, books and video games
good natured humans with whom to spend time with, perhaps have deep conversations or inane chatter.
built to spill, underworld, arcade fire, broken social scene, nine inch nails, modest mouse, aphex twin, bjork, dresden dolls, tv on the radio, azure ray, beck, sufjan stevens, iron & wine, mazzy star, massive attack, rainer maria, portishead, philip glass, soul coughing, the beatles, the cure, the flaming lips, lowfish, autechre, late joy division /early new order, the white stripes, just about everything on the Morr Music label, the hacker, patsy cline, johnny cash, neutral milk hotel, leonard cohen, gimmik, detroit escalator company, boards of canada, christ., smashing pumpkins, radiohead, ravi shankar, and more recently have discovered vetiver, devendra banhart, the castanets, the big sleep, holopaw, wolf parade, the racanteurs
the fifth element, oh! brother, where art thou?, indiana jones, kundun, blade runner, l.a. story, lord of the rings, Princess Bride, amelie, 24 Hour Party People, Pump Up the Volume, pulp fiction, exotica, the big lebowski (all the cohn brothers' films now that i think about it), harlem nights, the incredibles, matrix trilogy, v for vendetta, 12 monkeys, x-men, uhf, the island (one of my guilty pleasures), sneakers, run lola run, coming to america, pirates of the carribean, office space, star wars trilogy, many mel brooks films, the cooler, triplets of bellville, etc.
Trailer Park Boys, Monk, Quantum Leap, Secret Adventures of Jules Verne, the new Battlestar: Galactica, just about all the primetime dramas by the holy trifecta of Jerry Bruckheimer (Cold Case), Donald Bellasario (NCIS), and Dick Wolf (Law & Order), Firefly (well, all of Joss Whedon's shows including Buffy and Angel), Enterprise (ok, most of the Star Trek series'), Twin Peaks, Wild Palms, Alias, CSI, Numbers, House, Northern Exposure
snow crash, altered carbon (richard morgan in general these days), white noise, neuromancer (and other william gibson books), Illuminatus! Tirlogy & the historic Illuminatus books, harry potter (particularly the 6th and 4th books), solaris (as well as a couple other stanislav lem novels), the dice man, mr. nice, various frank miller graphic novels, siddhartha, american gods (as well as many other neil gaimen books/graphic novels like books of magic and sandman), ghostdancing, on the road, la nuit, small is beautiful, do androids dream of electric sheep
Baha'u'llah, the Buddha, Jesus, the Dalai Llama, mes parents, and many others whose work I have appreciated (humanitarians, entertainers such as authors, filmmakers, musicians, etc)