Racing, fast cars, engine building/theory, EFI, motorcycles, hiking/camping, reading, BBQ, beer, playing in dirt..
People I can learn from....you?..I don't know. A penguin... Someone who can SPEAK normally and SPELL!! B4 is not a word!!
Sublime, ZZ Top, Jimmy Buffet, Grateful Dead, The Band, Arlo Guthrie, Pink Floyd, Roland Kirk, Deftones, David Allan Coe, Hank Jr, Jerry Jeff Walker ...
Old car movies, Dazed and Confused, Pulp Fiction, Smokey and the Bandit, comedies.
Family Guy, Simpsons, Food network, Racing.
Any technical books you wouldn't understand(and sometimes I don't understand), Hunter S. Thompson.