Music, music, music. I play guitar and bass, I sing, I play keyboard, and drums. And I'm not like, crap at those things. I also actually like philosophy at U of T, I'm not doing it just for the piece of paper.
Humans. Call me a speciesist, but I am uninterested in "friending" non-simian-descended sentient lifeforms. Exception: the extraterrestrial variety.
Check out my influences on the Cold Dead Hands site.
Rushmore, 2001: A Space Odyssey, 2010: The Year Me Make Contact, The Kids Are Alright, Star Trek movies, The Wrong Guy, Pee Wee's Big Adventure
24, Apprentice, Family Guy
White Noise by Don DeLillo
Ender's Game/Speaker For The Dead by Orson Scott Card
The Stand by Stephen King
Childhood's End by Arthur C. Clarke
Time Enough For Love & Stranger In A Strange Land by Robert A. Heinlein
Atlas Shrugged by Ayn Rand (I am NOT an Objectivist - I merely found the novel to be interesting).
course material that I liked quite a lot: Plato - Republic, Descartes - Meditations on First Philosophy.
Guitar heroes: Graham Coxon, Martin Tielli, Doug Martsch.