Music, Writing, Books, Taekwondo, American and Japanese Sign Language, Korean, Japanese, Spanish, Linguistics, World of Warcraft (Nile on Steamwheedle Cartel), NPR, web design, education, Living comfrotably on the fringes of a decadent and dying society, etc.
Oustmarting Simon, Marigold, Robots and Empire, The Appleseed Cast, Bane, Mastodon, El-P, Citizen Cope, Cat Power, The Shins, Carry On, Codeseven, Barrit, The Postal Service, Death Cab For Cutie, A Life Once Lost, Ben Kweller, Asobi Sekusu, Utada Hikaru, Depeche Mode, The Pillows, Year of Our Lord, Sisters of Mercy, Rhapsody, Say Anything, Isis, Pelican, Talib Kweli, De La Soul, Sondre Lerche, Bloc Party, Ben Kweller, Quicksand, Pavement, Jeff Buckley, Fiona Apple, Metallica up to and including the Black album, but not after, Converge, Aesop Rock, 3 Inches of Blood, Johnny Fucking Cash, Merle Hagard, Shonen Knife, Boris, New Order, Black Flag, Al Green, A Prairie Home Companion, The Chameleons, anything produced by people who don't give a fuck what's current, cool, appropriate, or accepted.
Rushmore, The Royal Tennenbaums, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Waiting For Guffman, This Is Spinal Tap, Lost In Translation, Battle Royale, Anchorman, Pi, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Boondock Saints, Princess Bride, The Prestige, The Last Wave, The Life Aquatic, just Wes Anderson in general, really
Lost, Dexter, House M.D., Law & Order: SVU, Adult Swim (especially Futurama and Home Movies), City Confidential, Nip/Tuck, anything on the History Channel. I listen to alot of public radio: Wait Wait Don't Tell Me, Talk of the Nation, This American Life, Michael Feldman's What Do You Know, Morning Edition and Weekend Edition, Fresh Air.
Atlas Shrugged, The Fountainhead, Dune, Lord of the Rings, Night, Our Band Could Be Your Life, The Last Samurai, Everything is Illuminated, The Teachings of Don Juan, Tropic of Cancer, The Power of Babel, An Anthropologist on Mars, Speed Tribes, Cryptonomicon, Story, Get In The Van. Anything by: Haruki Murakami, Neal Stephenson, Milan Kundera, Henry Miller. Comics: 20 Seiki Shonen, Monster, The Invisibles, Watchmen, Sandman, Batman: Year One