Antiques, Retro-modern design, Home Staging, Real Estate, Reading, Bicycling,
Nelson Mandela, Sean Bean, Claudette Williams, Thomas Jefferson (oh, well), Richard Armitage, Shag, Rudy Giuliani, Sylvia Thorpe, Gilles Peterson, and any people who are sincere and positive!
Acid Jazz, Nu-Jazz, Jazz, Bill Evans, Squeeze, Split Enz Isley Bros., Spinners, Temptations, Stevie Wonder Todd Rundgren, The Police, The Clash, Tchaikovsky, Prokofiev, Ravel, Zero 7, 4Hero, Nicola Conte Alternative that doesn't need to be played at 10!
Strictly Ballroom, Amores Perros, L.A. Confidential, Hollywood Shuffle, Amelie, Facing Windows, La Dolce Vita, Beneath the Valley of the Ultra Vixens, Alphaville, The Sixth Sense, Princess Bride, Festin, All Greta Garbo films, Birth of a Nation, The Great Dictator, Casino Royale (the original!)
Scrubs, Entourage, Ugly Betty, House Hunters, The Young Ones, Any BBC mini-series or Masterpiece Theatre
Way too many regency romances... Faulkner, Austen, Frantzen, Coehlo, Munro etc..
I admire the person who manages to get up every morning, put a smile on his/her face and do whatever needs to be done to get through the day positively and enjoy it to the utmost...