Comics! Movies, music, pop culture... video games (someone want to buy me an XBox 360?), DVDs, concerts, hanging out with friends, BBQ, Rolling Rock, Mohito, etc.
Check out MC Chris giving Bridge City Comics a shout-out (1:06 into the video) during his recent concert at Dante's here in Portland!
Alan Moore, Warren Ellis, Brian K. Vaughan (I did once!), Joss Whedon (met him), Ed Brubaker (was mistaken for him at a party), Neil Gaiman (had dinner with him), Mike Mignola (he scowled at me lovingly), Eric Powell (my favorite hillbilly and good pal), Hiroaki Samura, Brian Wood, Paul Hornschemeier, Ashley Wood, Farel Dalrymple, Keith Giffen, Master Shake, Frylock, the Mooninites, Bruce Campbell, Tom & Mary Beirbaum, Hal Jordan, Dave Gahan, Martin Gore, Geoff Darrow, Stan Sakai (nicest guy in comics), John Bellairs (well, if he wasn't dead)... Jeffery Brown, James Kolchaka, Jessica Alba (we had a moment once), Chris Cerasi, MC Chris, the guy who invented the POst-It Note (he's made my life SO much easier!)
Depeche Mode, Interpol, Built to Spill, Dandy Warhols, The Cure, Modest Mouse, New Order, Curve, Soul Coughing, Afghan Whigs, Portishead, INXS, Jay-Z, Catherine Wheel, Frank Sinatra, Chemical Brothers, Beastie Boys, Beloved, Captain vs. Crew (RIP), ChemLab, Consolidated, Crystal Method, The Cult, DangerDoom, Dave Gahan, David Byrne, David Gray (I'm so sensitive!), Dead Milkmen (I'm not sensitive at all!), Dido, Dr. Dre, Econoline Crush, Eels, Elastica, Electronic, Empty Set, Erasure, Eurythmics, Evanescence, Fatboy Slim, Foo Fighters, Front 242, G. Love, Garbage, God Lives Underwater, Gorillaz, Gravity Kills, Guns N Roses, Hole, Husker Du, Ice Cube, Jane's Addiction, Jesus & Mary Chain, Jesus Jones, John Prine, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, KMFDM, Kraftwerk, La Tour, Local H, Lords of Acid, Loretta Lynn, Ludacris, Lush, Machines of Loving Grace, Madder Rose, Maggie Estep, Manufacture, Massive Attack, Matthew Sweet, Max Q, MC 900 ft Jesus, MC Chris, Meat Beat Manifesto, Method Man, Michael Hutchence, Midnight Oil, Milkhouse, Ministry, Missy Elliot, Moby, Monaco, Morphine, Morrissey, Murder Inc., Mustard Plug, My Bloody Valentine, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, Neil Young, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, nitzer Ebb, Nirvana, NWA, Oasis, Outkast, Pailhead, Pearl Jam, Perfect Circle, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Phil Collins, PIG, Pixies, PJ Harvey, Plastikman, Podigy, Propellerheads, Psykosonic, Public Enemy, Rage Against the Machine, Rally Boy, Recoil, RHCP, REM, Replacements, Republica, Revenge, Rolling Stones, Ruby, Salt, Sarah McLachlan, Semisonic, Sister Machine Gun, SISTERS OF MERCY!, Smashing Pumpkins, Smiths, Snoop, Dogg, Social D, Soundgarden, Stabbing Westward, Stereo MCs, Stevie Wonder, Stone Roses, The Strokes, Sugar, Bob Mould, Talking Heads, Tenacious D, The The, They Might Be Giants, Tonic, Tool, U2, Underworld, VNV Nation, Wolfgang Press, The Killers, Franz Fedinand, and your mom. Just wanted to see if you really read that far.
Oh man, where do I start? Superman, Star Wars (original trilogy, natch)
Venture Brothers, Brak, Sealab 2021, Arrested Development, Project Runway, Farscape, Stargate (SG1 and Atlantis), Battlestar Galactica (old and new), the 4400, West Wing, Amazing Race, Survivor, It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia,
What's a book? You mean graphic novel?
Hal Jordan, of course!