Art, music, writing songs, playing guitar, playing/coaching basketball (Go LAKERS!!), stand-up comedy, poetry slams. Philosophy, nature, quantum physics, spirituality. The universe. Thinking.
People who "get it."
Mos Def, Black Star, Talib Kweli, Miles Davis, U2, Rage Against the Machine, John Coltrane, Bob Marley, The Beatles, A Tribe Called Quest, Common, De La Soul, Marvin Gaye, The Police, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, 2Pac, Charlie Parker, Thelonious Monk, Dizzy Gillespie, Duke Ellington, The Fugees, Wyclef Jean, Lauryn Hill, Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, Charles Mingus, Billie Holiday, DJ Hi-Tek, Jurassic 5, Eminem, Coldplay, Counting Crows, Digable Planets, DJ Rectangle, Beat Junkies, DJ Rhettmatic, Babu, Melo-D, DJ J-Rocc, DJ What, Q-Bert, Keane, The Roots, Jill Scott, India Arie, The Jackson 5, Amiee Mann, Red Hot Chili Peppers, Linkin Park, Frou Frou/Imogen Heap, Fiona Apple, Speech, Jimi Hendrix, Thomas Newman (Finding Nemo/Shawshank), Medina Green, Erykah Badu, Van Halen, Spearhead, Maxwell, Alana Davis, Foo Fighters, Tenacious D, Silversun Pickups, Dilated Peoples, Portishead, Soundgarden, Pearl Jam, Bush Babees, Incubus, Tracy Chapman, David Gray, Little Brother, Stone Temple Pilots, Ours, Bjork, Faith No More, Filter, Travis, Tommy Fields, Dez Hope, ... and, of course my band, The Spirit Theory! :)
Lost In Translation, The Big Lebowski, Finding Nemo, Half-Baked, Shawshank Redemption, Something the Lord Made, Friday, Malibu's Most Wanted, the Star Wars saga, Gandhi, Brown Sugar, Boogie Nights, Contact, Fight Club, Team America: World Police (Fuck Yeah!), In the Name of the Father, Glory, The Fifth Element, Chasing Amy, Glengarry GlenRoss, Once Upon a Time in America, Raiders of the Lost Ark, Close Encounters, The Beach, The Commitments, The Shining, Scratch, The Karate Kid, Enter the Dragon, Searching for Bobby Fischer...
TV is a distraction. TV is a "drug." It's a controlling tool that influences and directs our desires through our emotions. Why do you think they call it "programing?"... but, when I DO decide to watch and "enter that world," I watch basketball/Lakers games, Def Peotry Jam, Family Guy, Simpsons, Ali G, Chappelle Show, South Park, Ren and Stimpy (and some old-school - Land of the Lost, The White Shadow, What's Happening), nature shows, science and quantum physics shows... and as much stand-up comedy as I can find!! Patton Oswalt, Daniel Tosh, David Cross, Louis CK, George Lopez, Paul Mooney, Frank Caliendo, Mitch Fatel, Bill Burr, Pablo Francisco, Robert Schimmel, Joe Rogan, Kat Williams, Dave Attell, Jamie Foxx, Brian Regan, Dane Cook (though I'm getting sick of him) and many, many more!
Ralph Waldo Emerson, Henry David Thoreau, Jack Kerouac, Neal Cassidy, Alan Ginsberg... and lots of eastern and Native American philosophy. Anything to do with basketball (I'm currently reading Coach John Wooden's book). I'm also into quantum physics books.
Ummmm... your mom?