Music (see below for a short list), sports Memphis Tigers, Memphis Grizzlies), books (see below), being outdoors, miscellaneous rocking
People of substance
My Morning Jacket, Miles, Dylan, Thievery Corporation, Hem, Grateful Dead, Flaming Lips, Band of Horses, Air, Allman Brothers, Zeppelin, Coltrane, Zappa, Beatles, Uncle Tupelo, Federico Aubele, Cannonball Adderly, MMW, Bela Fleck, Stones, Wilco, Phish, Sigur Ros, Sonvolt, The Byrds, Derek and the Dominos, Zero 7, Bob Marley, Steely Dan, Floyd, Hendrix, Pearl Jam, Fiona Apple, Elvis Costello, Emmylou Harris, Neil Young, John Scofield, Mingus, Stereolab, Cake, Morcheeba, Monk, Derek Webb, Herbie Hancock, Nick Drake, Ray Charles, Ryan Adams, etc.
High Fidelity, No Country For Old Men, Godfather I and II, Kill Bill I and II, Vanilla Sky, Way of the Gun, Snatch, old John Wayne movies (western or war), Annie Hall, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Buffalo Roam, original Star Wars, The Usual Suspects, Pink Panther movies, All The Pretty Horses etc.
Arrested Development, Flight of the Conchords, Chapelle Show, Seinfeld, Faulty Towers, BBC news, Simpsons, Sopranos, Deadwood, Mr. Show, etc.
Blood Meridian (or anything by Cormac McCarthy), Fear and Loathing on the Campaign Trail '72, 1968: The Year That Rocked the World, Miles (probably the best autobiography ever), The Republic, Geronimo Rex, The Slaughter House Five, Breakfast of Champions, On the Road, Signposts in a Strange Land (or anything by Walker Percy), Blue Like Jazz, Mere Christianity, Civil Disobedience, Moby Dick, The Great Gatsby, A Room With a View, The Age of Innocence, etc.