You name it I will generally be interested in it
Alive: Bill Gates, Neil Gaiman, Stephen King, Kobe Bryant (just to see if he is as smart as he makes himself out to be) and Corey Taylor.Dead (assuming its possible): Abe Lincoln, Robert E. Lee, Confucious, Socrates, and Shakespeare (just to see if he as smart as everyone ELSE makes him out to be)
Lamb of God, Slipknot, Heaven Shall Burn, Led Zeppelin, Foghat, Boston, Flyleaf, Winter Solstice, Caliban, Chimera, Incubus, Metallica, AC DC, Audioslave, RATM, and just about any other rock you wanna name. Country music should be banned from the United States in my opinion...or at least call it country "noise" and not music because you are lying to listeners everywhere
Top 5: 1.LOTR Trilogy 2. Snatch 3. The Shawshank Redemption 4. Star Wars Trilogy (original three) 5. Anchorman
Sports and whatever happens to catch my interest...I dont watch it on a regular basis
Anything by Neil Gaiman, anything fantasy, Huckleberry Finn, Catcher in the Rye, Civil Disobedience, and a ton of others