Music, film, history, Eastern religion, sociology, psychology, economics, politics, nutrition, medicine, math, science, pop-cultural trends and fads
intelligent, unusual, creative, fascinating people
I could list 200 groups or artists or composers (like everyone else does), but I'll be more general instead: classical, jazz, classic rock, alternative rock, "roots" music of the country/folk/blues/bluegrass genres that is not overcommercialized, world music with vibrant or complex rhythms (Brazil, India, Gypsy, Afro-Caribbean), "cerebral" forms of techno other than rave or house
American Beauty, The Graduate, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Willard (original version, 1971), Sunset Boulevard, Billy Jack, Godfather, Amercian Graffiti, Streetcar Named Desire, Hype, On the Waterfront, Rain Man, Almost Famous, Sounder, The Wizard of Oz, A Perfect Mind, Paper Chase, Falling Down, Wall Street, A Few Good Men, Royal Tenenbaums, Cool Hand Luke, All About Eve, Gone With the Wind, Species, Sideways, Catch Me If You Can, Psycho, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, Casablanca, Body Heat, Shadow of a Doubt, Manchurian Candidate, Gilda, Touch of Evil, Andromeda Strain, Westworld, Logan's Run, Soylent Green, Woodstock, Easy Rider, Barbarella, Invasion of the Body Snatchers (original and re-make), Cape Fear (original and re-make), Duel, Hud, The Road Warrior, Year of Living Dangerously, Network, Citizen Kane, Chinatown, The Razor's Edge(1946), Leave Her to Heaven, Laura, Double Indemnity, The Killers, The Poatman Always Rings Twice, The Roaring Twenties, 2001, All The President's Men, Lenny, Star Trek IV, The Wonder Boys, The Petrified Forest, Wuthering Heights, Rebecca, 12 Angry Men, High Sierra, Rebel Without a Cause, Giant, Gypsy, The Longest Yard, Prizzi's Honor, The Face in the Crowd, The Day the Earth Stood Still, Freud, A Place in the Sun, To Have and Have Not, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Prestige, The Departed, many others
House MD, Law & Order Shows, History Channel, MSNBC, CNN, ESPN, PBS
Books on history, health/nutrition, politics, psychology, economics.
Carl Jung, Lao Tzu, Abraham Lincoln, Benjamin Franklin, Immanuel Kant, Franklin D. Roosevelt, Albert Einstein, J. S. Bach, Jimi Hendrix, Miles Davis, Noam Chomsky, Robert Schumann, Ludwig van Beethoven, John Coltrane, Charlie Parker, Hugh Laurie, Al Pacino, Marlin Brando, Socrates, Heraclitus, Plato, Jean Baudrillard, Theodore Roosevelt, John F. Kennedy, Keith Olbermann, Thich Nhat Hanh, liberal myspace bloggers, Alan Watts, Mitch Mitchell, Elvin Jones, Art Blakey, Tony Williams, Duke Ellington, Louis Armstrong, Art Tatum, Bill Moyers, Tiger Woods, about 500 other people.