Film, first and foremost. I spend a lot of my time searching for movies to tape on my TiVo, and then making excuses not to watch them every weekend. Lifting weights and running road races. Attending I-Cub games. Iowa Hawkeye and Chicago Bears football.
Drake friends, DSM and Lake City's finest.
The new Grateful Dead Channel Sirius Satellite Radio is rocking my world. The Grateful Dead remain my number one band. I'm still into The Flaming Lips. I recently got turned on to The Kinks and The Rolling Stones.
Too many to count, The Blues Brothers is my all time fave. Anything by Wes Anderson; cult classics: Harold and Maude, Freaks, Pink Flamingos; old horror movies, especially Universal monster movies from the 40s; 70s gore classics; Italian horror movies.
Gangland, Earl, The Office, Reaper, Around the Horn, PTI, Dirty Sexy Money, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia, Hawkeye and Bears football.
Chuck Palahniuk; Will Christopher Baer; Craig Clevenger; Kathrine Dunn; Christopher Moore; the Fletch series; Max Barry; basically any nihilistic author.