Writing, movies, movie music, science fiction, movie visual effects not produced on a computer, movie props and miniatures and reproducing them in my garage, comic book art and characters esp. Marvel, funny people, watching old Star Trek reruns for the 400th time, terrible movies and the diseased minds that make them, scary monsters, politics (note the relationship). And hunting bison of course.
Stanley Kubrick, H.P. Lovecraft, Marcus Licinius Crassus, DeForest Kelley, Stephanie Miller, John Hodgman, Stephen Colbert.I would not like to meet: Dane Cook.
Jerry Goldsmith, John Williams, John Adams, John Barry, Alex North, Elmer Bernstein; pop/rock music and muzak from Sixties, Seventies; 19th & 20th century Russian composers; Eighties New Wave crap and a few more recent things that have penetrated my musty brain.
All Stanley Kubrick movies, even (especially!) Spartacus; many Spielberg movies, esp. Jaws, Close Encounters, and Raiders; any sci fi movies, from Attack of the Crab Monsters to 2001; rubber monster movies, especially any Godzilla, War of the Gargantuas, Rodan, etc.; Billy Wilder's greatest, esp. The Apartment and Sunset Boulevard; Citizen Kane, Lawrence of Arabia, Hitchcock movies, James Bond movies, Harryhausen movies, Sixties and Seventies movies: Taking of Pelham One Two Three, Diary of a Mad Housewife, The Swimmer...
Star Trek (the older the better), Rome, MTM comedies, Barney Miller, Hill Street Blues, St. Elsewhere, Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The L Word, Scrubs, The Office (American version...I'm sure the British version is very nice), Daily Show, Colbert Report, The Soup (saves me the despiriting effort of watching reality shows).
Anything by John Varley. Dune. The Making of Star Trek, Blood Music, Al Franken's books, The Hammer of God (Greg Bear is good), anything by Alan Dean Foster when I was a teenager, 20,000 Leagues Under the Sea. I promise someday to tackle actual literature...
Brooke Vimtrup, Bill Zipfel, Jerry Goldsmith, Stanley Kubrick, Stephen Colbert, others.