Comics, cooking/baking, ice skating, swimming, history, geography, classic sci-fi, bunnies, and communication in general but especially the art of story telling.
Rene Goscinny and Albert Uderzo. Not that actually meeting them would do me any good seeing as how I never learned French.
Interpol, Starsailor, Elliott Smith, Postal Service, Beatles, Badly Drawn Boy, Eve 6, Classical, Death Cab for Cutie, Ugly Duckling
Amelie, The Shawshank Redemption, The Road to El Dorado, Chungking Express, Mulan, Kiki's Delivery Service, Fight Club, Roman Holiday
Band of Brothers, Star Trek TNG, Scrubs, Ultimate Fighter
Shogun, The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, The Moon is Down, Lamb, Asterix, Whiteout, 1602, Banana Sunday, American Gods, the Harry Potter series... and many many more...
Thomas Paine