Good food, good beer, good wine, walking around the West Village, having waterfront beers at sunset, the Redskins, watching TV and bad television at that, anything where camaraderie is involved: bars, crab feasts, flip-cups, what have you. I particularly enjoy camaraderie in Charleston, boating...in Charleston
Howard Stern, Oprah, Cory Booker, the inventor of the purse hook on a bar, Clinton Portis
Neil Diamond, Cake, Bob Marley, Outkast, Goodie Mob, Frank Sinatra, Pharcyde, Shakira, Allman Brothers, Aretha Franklin, The Black Crowes, Black Eyed Peas (pre-Fergie), Buju Banton, Common, David Gray, De La Soul, Dolly Parton, English Beat, Everclear, Field Mob, Fiona Apple, Foxy Brown, Hagfish, Isreal Kamamawiwo'ole, Jack Johnson, Jackson 5, Janis Joplin, Jimmy Buffet, Jimmy Cliff, Jurassic 5, Keith Sweat, Kenny Rogers, KRS-One, Lauryn Hill, Led Zeppelin, Lenny Kravitz, Toots and the Maytals, Men at Work, Mobb Deep, Mos Def, Nappy Roots, Nikka Costa, Notorious BIG, Outkast, Prince, Q-Tip, R. Kelly, Roots, Sade, Sarah Vaughan, Simple Plan, Slimm Calhoun, Snoop, Specials, Sublime, SWV, Tom Petty & the Heartbreakers, Tony Bennett, Trick Daddy, Van Morrison, Weezer, Wu Tang, Wyclef, Ziggy Marley (yes, I just picked my faves off of my iPod)
Michael Lloyd falling on the jetty but preserving his adult beverage (actually a home movie, but it still counts), Chasing Amy, The Burbs, The Truman Show, Contact, Usual Suspects
MTV (True Life, Real World, Laguna Beach, Made), Discovery Health (especially when it deals with medical oddities and surgery), Howard Stern OnDemand, all the movie channel OnDemands, Oprah, Redskins. I watch A LOT of TV, so I'm not sure why I can't think of more.
Anthony Powell, John Irving, Roots, She's Come Undone, The Lords of Discipline, The Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye (so cliche, I know, but I reread it as an adult and it really is good), A Man in Full, Bonfire of the Vanities, A Season in Purgatory, I Know This Much is True, Dry, Romeo and Juliet, 1984
Bill Clinton, my grandfather, my parents and Danielle Walton because she lets me listen to Howard.