In order of importance: My wife & boys, music, baseball, video games, golf, kung-fu & horror flicks, dark brew, and throwing rocks at people (including myself on occassion).
GWAR, Blood Duster, Anal Cunt, The Pixies, White Stripes, The Distillers, Turbonegro, Joshua Redman, Dave Brubeck, Motorhead, Dead Milkmen, Rollins Band, The Hives, Slayer, The Crown, Bolt Thrower, The Hellacopters, Scissorfight, Ornette Coleman, David S. Ware, Derek Bailey, Neurosis, Clutch, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Fear, Beck, Agony Column, Wargasm, Death, The Strokes, The Saints, Charles Mingus, John Zorn, Fugazi, Rompeprop, Blood Freak, Demented Are Go, Nekromantix, Bathtub Shitter, Ghoul, Exhumed, Impaled, Frightmare, Simon & Garfunkle, Kansas, Rolling Stones, The Dayglo Abortions, AC/DC, Goatsnake, The Hidden Hand, The Jim Carroll Band, Peter Brotzmann, Matthew Shipp, Queens Of The Stone Age, Eagles Of Death Metal, Atari Teenage Riot, Anal Blast, Gorgasm, Noothgrush, etc.
Catcher In The Rye, Slaughterhouse Five, I Am The Cheese, White Line Fever, Breakfast Of Champions, Imajica, Carrie, Dandelion Wine, Neuromancer, Player Piano, Old Man And The Sea, The Shining, Concrete Jungle, Wormwood, The Great Gatsby, All Creatures Great And Small, At The Mountains Of Madness, A Book Of Five Rings, Weaveworld, Galapagos
Bongos, the instrument. Take any product on the market today and add a set of bongos to create an even better version of said product. Everything is better with bongos.