Reading, writing, getting baked, discovering new ways to defy the laws of physics, extolling the virtues of Hinduism to horrified Shintoists, watching intricate balancing acts containing large numbers of limber Japanese girls, and...ummm...falconry.
Niels Bohr, Michael Jordan, Jessica Alba, Isaias Afewerke, Aaron McGruder, Warren Ellis, Confucius, Wu Ti, Huey Freeman, Peter Griffen...
Man, my musical tastes are so eclectic...I'll just give a short list here, in absolutely no order whatsoever: Alicia Keys, A Tribe Called Quest, The Arcade Fire, Murs, Little Brother, Nas, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Beatles, The Roots, De La Soul, Jimi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Foo Fighters, MF Doom (and any of his aliases), Outkast, Public Enemy (back in the day), Bob Dylan, Kanye West, Rilo Kiley, Jenny Lewis & the Watson Twins, Common, Mos Def, Talib Kweli, The White Stripes, The Strokes, Beastie Boys, Coldplay, Nine Inch Nails, Black Star, The Beach Boys, Pink Floyd, Eric B. & Rakim, Death Cab For Cutie, DJ Shadow, Kings Of Leon, Zero 7, Belle & Sebastian, Marvin Gaye, Spoon, Elbow, Blur, Jurassic 5, Bloc Party, No Doubt, Wu-Tang Clan (especially Ghostface Killah & GZA), Sade, Sam Cooke, Gnarls Barkley, The Zombies, David Bowie, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Rolling Stones, LCD Soundsystem, Jimmy Eat World, M83
Anything by Stanley Kubrick, Akira Kurosawa or Alfred Hitchcock, The Godfather I & II, The Professional, Half Baked, Super Troopers, early Spike Lee works (School Daze, She's Got To Have It, etc.), Annie Hall, Apocalypse Now, Platoon, The Silence of the Lambs, Network, Forrest Gump, Rocky, Goodfellas, Casino...
That 70's Show, Family Guy, The Boondocks, The Simpsons, Southpark, ESPN Sportscenter...
Anything by Warren Ellis, Shura No Mon (The Book of Five Rings), The Art of War, Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Watchmen, Frankenstein, The Count of Monte Cristo, The Big Sleep, Brave New World, Lolita, Things Fall Apart, 1984, Farenheit 451, Satyagraha, Kingdom Come, the Sandman series...
Gil Scott Heron, Gordon Parks, Miyamoto Musashi, Akira Kurosawa, Stanley Kubrick, Girmay Futwi, Malcolm X