My family, my band 50 Grit, music, photography/art, and history.
George Harrison, Levon Helm, Rick Danko, and Stephan Ambrose. Oh... I forgot John Browning, John Cantius Garand, and Eugene Stoner.
Beatles, Elvis Costello, The Band, STAX/Volt, and then in no particular order: the Hoodoo Gurus, Bob Dylan, Kitchen Radio, The Cheap Ones, The Riffbrokers, The Small Change, Crown Aruba, The Long Winters, Harvey Danger, Warren Zevon, XTC, Blue Rodeo, Wilco, the Jayhawks, Uncle Tupelo, Golden Smog, Sycophant, Robert Johnson, Early R.E.M., the Clash, Soundgarden, Sabbath, Neil Young, The Picketts, The Old 97's, Let's Active, John Wesley Harding, Freedy Johnston, Steve Earle, The Young Fresh Fellows, The Model Rockets, Billy Bragg, John Lee Hooker, Jimmy Reed (my favorite bluesman), Oh hell, there's lot's more, but I'm sleepy now.
Empire of the Sun, Saving Private Ryan, Band of Brothers, That Thing You Do, I am Trying to Break Your Heart, Kundun, The Life Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Capote, Bubba Ho-Tep, Dr. Strangelove, The Outlaw Josie Wales, The Godfather trilogy, High Plains Drifter, Bad News Bears, ...
Dirty Jobs, House (I like to listen to my physician Father-in-Law laugh at the Zebras).
Douglas Adams, Stephen Ambrose, Anne Rice, Mark Salzman, Nick Hornby, Richard Marcinko, Tom Clancy, historical non-fiction.
My Father, my Father-in-Law, my Grandfathers, and my wife's Grandfathers. Tim Scott, Richard Dangel, Steve Kim, David Suzuki, Lao Tzu. Virgil I. "Gus" Grissom, Edward White, Roger Chaffee, Francis R. "Dick" Scobee, Michael Smith, Judith Resnick, Ellison Onizuka, Ronald McNair, Gregory Jarvis, Christa McAuliffe, Rick D. Husband, William C. McCool, Michael P. Anderson, David M. Brown, Kalpana Chawla, Laurel Blair Salton Clark, and Ilan Ramon.