The pursuit of truth, happiness, good cheese, margaritas and a hell of a good time. Oh and aquariums. Aquariums rock. If you can't mellow out in an aquarium you have issues far more serious than anyone else around you, and you should be paranoid about it.
Someone who can read the minds of those around me and sing their thoughts to me using popular music lyrics...or the person who invented knobs. Genius.
Ani Difranco, the Jayhawks, Counting Crows, Van Morrison, Madeleine Peyroux, Elton John, Easyworld, Goldfinger, Neil Diamond, the Rolling Stones, Aerosmith, Ray LaMontagne, Nick Drake, Tori Amos, Billy Joel, Simon and Garfunkel, Joe Purdy, Davie Bowie, Neutral Milk Hotel, Jack Johnson, Joan Jett, Tom Petty and the Heartbreakers, Damien Rice, the Eels, the Ditty Bops, the Cranberries, Wreckless Eric, Erykah Badu, Coldplay, Donavon Frankenreiter, Etta James, Bob Marley, Bob Dylan, the Eagles, Bree Sharp, the Handsome Charlies, America, James Taylor, Jim Croce, most '80s music...other good stuff...etc
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Home for the Holidays, Donnie Darko, Serenity, Romancing the Stone, Match Point, The Upside of Anger, Empire Records, Reality Bites, I Heart Huckabees, Big Trouble in Little China, Anywhere But Here, Garden State, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, High Fidelity, Mr. and Mrs. Smith, The Fifth Element, Only You, Something's Gotta Give, Spiderman, Spiderman 2, Zoolander
Lost, Scrubs, Family Guy, Xena, Buffy, Rocko's Modern Life, South Park, My So-Called Life, Firefly, Dead Like Me, Sex and the City, Arrested Development, Project Runway, anything on the Travel Channel, the forecast on the 8's on the Weather Channel
Anything written by Kurt Vonnegut. Anything written by Stephen King (except that gross one where the aliens all come out of their asses). Anything written by Christopher Moore or Gregory Maguire. Both books by Bruce Campbell. Biting the Sun by Tanith Lee. Forbidden Game and Dark Visions by L.J. Smith. And of course everything that my sister has ever written, ever (some of which I have read, and some of which hasn't quite come my way yet, but I love it anyway!).
Otters...i both respect and fear what they are trying to do...