Music, I love to listen to it all the time, I have the curse of the bass player, you know, the one where you can only hear the bass line, thats why I love Motown.
James Jamerson(If only he was still around),Victor Wooten, and Les Claypool(weirdest mother fucker alive)
Red Hot Chili Peppers,Bela Fleck, Talking Heads, No Doubt, Stone Temple Pilots, Sublime, Primus, Suicidal Tendancies, The Four Tops, CCR, Pearl Jam, The Jimi Hendrix Experience, Aretha Franklin, The Beatles, Jefferson Airplane, Stevie Wounder, Simon & Garfunkle, Paul Desmond, Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Marcey Playground,
The Big Labowski, all Quinton Terintino films, Donny Darko, The Life Aquatic, V for Vendetta, Wedding Crashers, Naked Gun (all 3), Airplane (both), Wayne's World (both), Austin Powers (all 3), and Thank You For Smoking
The Office(American Version), Family Guy, The Simpsons, Arested Development :(, South Park, Scrubs, and Late Night with Conan OBrien
"The Things They Carried" by Tim O'Brien, "Grapes of Wrath" by John Steinbeck, and I love "real" books
Flea, Les Claypool, Victor Wooten, James Jamerson, and my bass teacher Brian Levine