Music (audiophile extraordinaire), Wheels (the faster and lower, the better.. no rice please), and Psychology.
Cool, nice, down to earth people who know how to relax and enjoy themselves.
Ah.. there are so many.. The Rolling Stones, Blur, Bob Dylan, Wilco, The Jayhawks, Doves, Ray Charles, Soulive, MMW, Pavement, Coldplay, Spiritualized, Starsailor, The Meters, The Grateful Dead, Van Morrison, B.B. King, and many more..
Ronin, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Glengary Glen Ross, The Man Who Wasn't There, The Usual Suspects, The Manchurian Candidate, Dr. Strangelove, The Shawshank Redemption, Raiders of the Lost Ark, and Lawrence of Arabia.
The Simpsons and The Daily Show
Nonfiction: Phantoms in the Brain - V.S. Ramachandran The Mind's I - Daniel Dennet An Anthropologist on Mars - Oliver Sacks.Fiction: Anything by Dostoevsky and Kafka. Cat's Cradle - K. Vonnegut Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke A Confederacy of Dunces - J. O'Toole (the funniest thing I've ever read.)
My Father and Grandfather