Music
Mike Portnoy, Neil Peart
Dream Theater, Liquid Tension Experiment, Opeth, Rush, Metallica, Pantera, Porcupine Tree, Killswitch Engage, Children of Bodom, Iron Maiden, Led Zeppelin, Black Sabbath, Ludwig van Beethoven, Frederic Chopin, OSI, Arch Enemy, In Flames (before they started writing all this nu-metal garbage), Scorpions, Rage Against the Machine, Johann Sebastian Bach, Dragon Force, Down, Busta Rhymes, Boston, Kansas, Blue Oyster Cult, Ozzy (before he became the laughing stock of the metal world), Three Inches of Blood, NWA, Run DMC, Megadeath, Any riff by the Johns or the Mattsican, Trivium, Aerosmith, Guns n Roses, Yngwie Malmsteen, Joe Satriani, Steve Vai, Buddy Rich, Steve Smith, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, certain opera singers, Nicolo Paganini, Just about any classical music you can dig up, The list continues...
Tons- Seven, Dumb and Dumber, Stir of Echoes, Caddyshack, Boondock Saints, Ace Ventura 1 and 2, Goodfellas, Saving Silverman, Braveheart, Tombstone, Scary Movie 1 and 2, Rainman, Naked Gun, A Beautiful Mind, Falling Down, Office Space, Analyze This/That, Silence of the Lambs, Forrest Gump, Zoolander, Back to the Future, Old School, Breakfast Club, Anchorman, Something About Mary, A Time to Kill...to name a few...
UFC, Boxing, NFL (Go Raiders!!!), Pride Fighting, Family Guy, Jay Leno, Chappelle Show, Mind of Mencia, Colbert Report, Conan O'Brien, Saturday Night Live, Max X, MXC
I don't know how to read... just kidding. Mostly just philisophical writings (Rene Descartes) and psychology books. I highly recommend Solipsist by Henry Rollins and House of Leaves by Mark Danielewski. That book is insane... literally!
Mike Portnoy, John Petrucci, Jordan Rudess, John Myung, NOT James Labrie, Neil Peart, Geddy Lee, Alex Lifeson, Dimebag, Jerry Rice, John Bender, Chuck Norris, and last but certainly not least...AGAINST!!!
Family and friends- Mom, the late Mike B. (you are and will always be missed), Janell, Nicole, Sabian, A.S., Elizabeth, Uncle Scott (thanks for showing me the basics), G-pa and G-ma, Chris, Meredith, and Colton, Mikel and Denise, The Johns, The Mattsican, Tina, Keola, and his Royal Sickness