art, music, food, travel, animals, movies, shooting pool, mythology, history, cocktails, cooking, graphic novels & comics, animation, tennis, going to the gym, chasing and shaking down school children for their lunch money.
Rock n Roll (rockabilly, surf, blues-rock, hard-rock, metal, 50s, 60s, 70s, post-punk), Blues, Jazz (especially be-bop), Indian, Spanish & Latin, Flamenco, Reggae, some alternative hop-hop (especially if a real band)... some Country (Outlaw-ish stuff)
The Shield, Battlestar Galactica (new), 24, Arrested Development, Veronica Mars, Lost, (original) Twilight Zone, Hawaii 5 0, Streets of San Francisco, Bonanza, Magnum PI, Barney Miller, Star Trek, Northern Exposure, News Radio, King of the Hill, BBC world news, Frontline, Frontline: World
A History of he Devil by Gerald Messadie, anything from James Elroy, Tolkein, Robert Heinlein, Alan Moore, various world mythologies
Rama, Mahatma Gandhi, Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, Bugs Bunny, Jimi Hendrix, and my parents.