Eating. Cooking. Reading. Drawing. Laughing. Being "out of doors". Chucking tennis balls for my dog. Running. Biking. Hiking. Kayaking. Camping. Wisconsin beer. Kentucky bourbon. Organizing. Making lists. Law. Politics. Giving people nicknames. Spanning time with Emily.
Artful dodgers.
In no particular order whatsoever:
White Stripes, Beck, Radiohead, NIN, STP, RHCP, Kool and the Gang, Bela Fleck, Ben Folds, Peter Gabriel, John Legend, Elton John, Jayhawks, Blackalicious, Coldplay, Parliament, Sarah McLachlan, The Black Keys, Ray LeMontagne, Sting, Barenaked Ladies, Billy Joel, The Roots, The Allman Brothers, The Doobie Brothers, Johnny Cash, Flight of the Conchords, The Who, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Stevie Wonder, Steely Dan, Tenacious D, The Doors, OutKast, Death Cab for Cutie, Kenny Rogers, Guster, Muse, Phish, Ray Charles, Seal, James Taylor, Soundgarden, Chris Cornell, Morphine, The String Cheese Incident, They Might Be Giants, Dictatertots, Dave Matthews Band, Genesis, Jonny Lang, The Killers, Allison Krauss, Union Station, Faith No More, Mr. Bungle, Foo Fighters, Fugees, Joe Cocker, The Beatles, Metallica, Van Morrison, Blues Traveler, The Police, James Brown, Dire Straits, Mark Knopfler, The Rolling Stones, Jackson Browne, Nitty Gritty Dirt Band, Queens of the Stone Age, Zepplin.
Most anything within the realm of folk, rock and blues.
LOTR, The Departed, The Godfather (I and II), Goodfellas, Casino, Scarface, Carlito's Way, Airplane!, The Graduate, Woody Allen movies, Sideways, Kill Bill, Army of Darkness, FACE/OFF, Crash, JFK, Momento, Road to Perdition, Shaun of the Dead, Training Day, Tombstone, Glengarry Glen Ross, Pulp Fiction, Resevoir Dogs, Braveheart, Narc, Unforgiven, The Shawshank Redemption, Dr. Strangelove, Fight Club, The Empire Strikes Back, Hero, Mystic River, Run Lola Run, The Devil's Advocate, The Usual Suspects, Harry Potter movies, City of God, Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, American History X, Desperado, The Big Lebowski, An Inconvenient Truth, V for Vendetta, Airplane!, Billy Madison, The Fifth Element, American Beauty, Magnolia, Borat
First and foremost, The Sopranos.Also: Six Feet Under, Lost, Band of Brothers, The Daily Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Simpsons, Oz, Seinfeld, Conan, The Office (both American and British versions), Arrested Development
Tolkien, Vonnegut, Nelson Demille, Robert Harris, war, history and crime novels, whatever comes across my path.
MLK, Robert Kennedy, Steve Jobs, Al Gore, Theodore Roosevelt, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Matt Groening, Garry Trudeau, Carl Bernstein and Bob Woodward, Henry David Thoreau, Aldo Leopold, Steven Colbert, Tina Fey, Conan O'Brien and Bill Maher