Wing Chun Kung Fu, Five Animal Fist, Tai Chi, Chin Na, Heavy Metal, Funny Movies, Video Games, etc.
Martial Artists, musicians, people with something interesting to say.
All That Remains, Type O Negative, Opeth, Amorphis, Iron Maiden, Slayer, Metallica, Lacuna Coil, Rush, Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, In Flames, Soilwork, The Haunted, Divinity Destroyed, Andromeda, Evergrey, At The Gates, Into Eternity, Nevermore, Death, Joe Satriani, and I was recently turned onto Mercenary... Also other non-metal stuff like Tori Amos... a bunch more..
American Beauty, Donnie Darko, every View Askew movie, MYSTERY SCIENCE THEATER 3000: The Movie, Goldmember, Old School, Zoolander, 40 Year Old Virgin, Bruce Almighty, Interview with the Vampire, The Machinist, and my current favorite: Equilibrium
LOST, Family Guy, and Scrubs.
The Vampire Chronicles by Anne Rice.... Ray Bradbury.. Christian authors like Ravi Zacharius, C.S. Lewis, Lee Strobel
Steve Harris, Joe Satriani, John Petrucci, Phu Ngo, My Parents, and Jesus Christ, not in that particular order.