Potato Salad, Volkswagens, Music, Graphic Design, Jägermeister, Heineken, Center Square Albany, Programming (sometimes)...
Cool people, un-cool people. Anyone really... Musicians, Artists, Chiropractors, silly pink bunnies, Shoe Cobblers, Old Friends (people who use too many commas)... etc.
A few points I would like to make
1: Watching Fox news has been known to cause cancer in laboratory rats, your mileage may vary. My mileage varies, depending on if I'm using my "homemade gasoline" or not.
2: Went to a restaurant in Toronto a bunch of months back where the waiter had 2 thumbs on each hand. This makes me an expert on all deformities and I hereby proclaim myself fully qualified to discuss such things and make a ruling on other such sightings, should they surface.
3: My sense of smell is expert due to my 26 years of smelling things. If you make some Macaroni and Cheese, I will smell it and verify that you mixed it correctly - then you will receive a thumbs up and I'll head off to the next house.
4: My computer at work has a retractable drink-holder and a lit-up foot pedal, yet it cannot mend my slacks.
5: I saw a turtle.
I really did.
"I can't hear you, BK Broiler!"
Metal, Hardcore, Glam Rock, Rock, Emo, Screamo, damn... all kinds of random shit... Lets see here...
Pantera, Corrosion of Conformity, Prong, Helmet, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, Fear Factory, Metallica, Rage Against the Machine, Tool, Down, Cromags, 36 Crazyfists, Machine Head, Cheech, 25 Ta Life, Alice in Chains, Ben Folds, Avenged Sevenfold, Skinless, Clutch, David Bowie, Dillinger Escape Plan, Gov't Mule, Blue Oyster Cult, Murphys Law, The Violence Sequence, Johnny Cash, Killswitch Engage, Lamb of God, Mastadon, Megadeth, The Misfits, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Biohazard, House of Pain, Everlast, Waylon Jennings, Crowbar, Kyuss, White Zombie, Detriment, Stigmata, Subzero, Superjoint Ritual, The Supersuckers, System of a Down, Mercyful Fate, Last Call, The Erotics, Bright Eyes... Like I said... Random!
Campy horror movies, bad comedies, anything bad, lame or unwatchable I'll pretty much be up for. I have been known to watch terrible movies OVER and OVER again, just because they are on. In fact, if my roommate comes home to me watching 'Ghost Ship' one more time - I'm pretty sure that I'm getting socked in the head. Let's see...
Friday the 13th series, Nightmare on Elm Street, Evil Dead Trilogy, Michael J. Fox movies, The Shining, Deliverance, Shaun of the Dead, House of 1000 Corpses, Groundhog Day, I don't know... lots of crap - I'll think of it later....
All HBO channels most of the time, but I used to be a dedicated Simpsons fan... anything funny and slightly off beat will do... I'm not good at making lists like this... I'm currently digging Dead Like Me, Carnivale, Monster Garage, American Chopper, Mythbusters, Miami Ink, South Park, Family Guy, Simpsons, Seinfeld, House MD, Studio 60, Heroes (yeah, I know) plus all the usual stuff... I'll watch Discovery Channel for days too, it could be about midgets, humpback whales, roving ant colonies, or Tom Brokaw's hairpiece... Its all about learning.
The more you knoooooww! (ding ding ding ding)
In NO particular order: Stephen King (before he 'jumped the shark'), Dean Koontz, Mike Patterson, Hemingway, William Gibson, Michael Crichton, Mark Twain, Robin Cook, H.P. Lovecraft, John Saul, Lewis Carrol (one fucked up dude), Dan Brown... currently reading NEXT by Michael Crichton...
Individuals who have true respect for other people; and act that way...
Oh yeah, and Mitch Hedberg.
I admire anyone who can make a living doing what they love. I envy you, the rest of us have to settle for careers in 'what we're good at'.