Computers, music, guitar, movies, people with alliterative names (they just might be superheroes), video games, snowboarding, chillaxin' like bill paxton...
Your mother... ohhhhhh, how original... I'd like to meet you, so why not say "hi"? Oh, and I also wouldn't mind meeting Natalie Portman...
The Fibonacci Sequence in Tool's "Lateralus"
Old Weezer, Jimmy Eat World, Keane, Coldplay, Death Cab for Cutie, Bright Eyes, QOTSA, Coheed and Cambria, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Gordian Knot, Dream Theater, The Mars Volta, The Beach Boys, cheesy power metal, assorted other crap...
Star Wars, Hero, Garden State, The Matrix, Serenity, Spider-Man 2, Gladiator, Toy Story, The Emperor's New Groove, The Prestige, The Birdcage, This Is Spinal Tap, Borat, Napoleon Dynamite, Little Miss Sunshine, Memento, Eternal Sunshine, Batman Begins, Casino Royale, Ghostbusters, Dumb and Dumber, Cannibal! The Musical, anything Python, Shaun of the Dead, Sin City, Kung Fu Hustle, Children of Men...
LOST, Scrubs, Family Guy, Futurama, Home Movies, Firefly, CSI, The Colbert Report, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Da Ali G Show, Cowboy Bebop, The Office...
Tao Te Ching, Thus Spoke Zarathustra, The Lord of the Rings, The Demon-Haunted World, The Prophet, Ishmael, Ich und Du...
Martin Buber (for concisely articulating what it means to be human and live in an intentional, reciprocal relationship with the world), Paul Gilbert (for being a consummate musician and performer)...