Music, music performance/composition, art (anything with a sense of surrealism), outdoors (camping, hiking, kayaks), athletics/sports, the downtown of any city
People. Funny people who have a passion for anything other than labels, names, or snobbishness. Passionate people can make empty chapstick container collecting sound interesting.
Todd Rundgren/Nazz, Pete Townshend/The Who, Shrimp Boat, PIL, Frank Zappa, any indie band that sounds like they are having melodic fun, new fave Of Montreal, and hokey 70's love songs
The Quiet Man, It's a Wonderful Life (the telephone scene is the best!), The Kids are Alright, Four Weddings and a Funeral, Blow
How I Met Your Mother, What About Brian?, Survivor Man, PBS American Experience
Anything by Vonnegut, Garrison Keilor, St. Augustines' Enchiridion on Faith, Hope, and Love
President Abe Lincoln, founding father/inventor Benjamin Franklin, Todd Rundgren, Joan, and Borden