Music (particularly the many facets of heavy metal), playing guitar (badly), going to new and exciting places, history, movies, sustainable development, the culinary arts, edgy philosophy, rock shows, moderate politics, pagan mythology (Norse, Celtic, Greek), religious history, being generally random, Wikipedia, Irish whiskey, video games, quality beer, conspiracy theories, and LaLa.com.
Nathan Explosion, Pickles, Skwisgaar Skwigelf, William Murderface, and Toki Wartooth.
AC/DC, Aerosmith, Agalloch, The Allman Brothers Band, Amalgamate, Amon Amarth, Amorphis, Anata, Anthrax, Arch Enemy, Arcturus, Arsis, At the Gates, Bathory, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beneath Oblivion, Black Label Society, Black Sabbath, Burzum, Cake, Candlemass, Carcass, Johnny Cash, Cathedral, Celtic Frost, Children of Bodom, Clutch, John Coltrane, Alice Cooper, Corrosion of Conformity, CCR, Cult of Luna, Dark Tranquillity, Darkthrone, Miles Davis, Death, Deathspell Omega, The Dillinger Escape Plan, Dimmu Borgir, Dio, Dissection, The Doors, Down, Dream Theater, Emperor, Enslaved, Entombed, Exodus, Faith No More, Finntroll, Freekbass, The Gathering, Gojira, Gov't Mule, Guns N' Roses, The Haunted, Hypocrisy, Iced Earth, Immortal, In Flames, Iron Maiden, Isis, Elton John, Judas Priest, Katatonia, Kiss, Kyuss, Lamb of God, Led Zeppelin, Machine Head, Mastodon, Megadeth, Meshuggah, Metallica, Minsk, Moonsorrow, Morbid Angel, Motörhead, Mouth of the Architect, My Dying Bride, N.W.A., Necrophagist, Neurosis, Nevermore, Nirvana, Opeth, Orphaned Land, Ozzy Osbourne, Overkill, Pantera, Paradise Lost, Pearl Jam, Peccatum, Pelican, Pink Floyd, Porcupine Tree, Pride & Glory, Primus, Public Enemy, Queen, Queens of the Stone Age, Queensryche, Radiohead, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Reverend Horton Heat, Rush, Joe Satriani, Satyricon, Sentenced, Sepultura, Silver Cypher, Frank Sinatra, Slayer, Soundgarden, Strapping Young Lad, Suffocation, The Sword, Tchaikovsky, Testament, Tiamat, Tool, Devin Townsend, Derek Trucks, Type O Negative, U2, Ulver, Vader, Steve Vai, Van Halen, Venom, Voivod, The Who, Stevie Wonder, Zakk Wylde, Neil Young, Frank Zappa, and countless others...
The Big Lebowski, Raising Arizona, Life Aquatic, The Shawshank Redemption, Kung Fu Hustle, Crouching Tiger, Hero, Braveheart, Pulp Fiction, The Royal Tenenbaums, Star Wars, The Fifth Element, The Godfather Pts. I & II, Frat Pack movies, Goodfellas, Kill Bill, The Matrix, The Goonies, Lord of the Rings, Ghost Busters, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, Zoolander, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid, Spaceballs, Silence of the Lambs, Munich, Indiana Jones, V for Vendetta, 12 Monkeys, Caddyshack, Animal House, Cool Hand Luke, many, MANY...more.
The Simpsons, Seinfeld, South Park, Wrastlin', The Daily Show, That 70s Show, King of the Hill, Deadwood, Myth Busters, Scrubs, The Shield, Iron Chef, The Office, 30 Rock, Metalocalypse
Tolkien, Harry Potter, Hitchhikers Guide, Dune, Frank Zappa, and anything on the topics mentioned above. I need to read more, but I'm getting better, honestly.
William Shatner and Frank Zappa.