Philosophy, stories, games, friends, artists, travelling, food, beer and wine, camping, snowboarding, sight-seeing, gambling, music, theatre, lawn sports, etc.
People who help me reach that next step by giving me a hand, holding my hand, or have a back to step on.
NOFX,AFI,Misfits,MurderCityDevils,Propagandhi,GetupKids,Deat hCab4Cutie,AgainstMe!,Built2Spill,ModestMouse,BrightEyes,Bad Religion,SageFrancis,Atmosphere,SaulWilliams,Sole,TVontheRad io,BlocParty,DavidBowie,Fifteen,FYP,Prince,BillyJoel,Rolling Stones,ACDC... just to name a few... and Mike Patton
anything directed by John Carpenter, David Fincher, Sam Raimi, Terry Gilliam, David Lynch, or Richard Linklater. Those and about a hundred other movies.
"Please don't feed my television screen!"
I read about sixty to eighty books a year. It would be hard for me to list all the ones I like. Anything fresh and original to just plain good storytelling. Some authors that I repeatedly read are: Clive Barker, Salmon Rushdie, Vikram Chandra, Kurt Vonnegot, Noam Chomsky, Howard Zinn, Hermon Hesse, Tolkien, Harry Harrison, Phillip K. Dick, again, just to name a few...