Music:
Pink Floyd - the first band I ever really got into, Bob Marley, Sumblime, B.B. King, Taj Majal, Bela Fleck & The Flecktones, The Doors, Led Zeppelin, Sound Tribe Sector 9, Railroad Earth, The Grateful Dead, The String Cheese Incident - these guys are incredible in concert, Oka - band I heard at an open-air market in Australia, NOFX, The Misfits, Beethoven - my favorite classical artist, Yonder Mountain String Band, Perpetual Groove, New Monsoon, Hot Buttered Rum String Band, Tea Leaf Green, ALO, Kid Beyond, DJ Logic, Bassnectar, Tool, Rage Against the Machine, U2, Eric Clapton, Paul Simon, Peter Frampton, Nirvana, Flogging Molly, Zero, Steve Kimock, Peter Tosh, Souleye, Marshall Paul, Stonefed, more that I'm probably leaving out but can't remember right now.
Movies:
Natural Born Killers, A Beautiful Mind, American History X, the original Star Wars Trilogy, Lord of the Rings trilogy, The Matrix, Pulp Fiction, Rain Man, Platoon, Goodfellas, Casino, The Usual Suspects, Napoleon Dynamite, Monty Python & The Search for the Holy Grail, The Princess Bride, The Basketball Diaries, Braveheart, Full Metal Jacket, Saving Private Ryan, Petey Wheatstraw and Dolomite (because they suck so damn bad), My Name is nobody (for the same reason), Forest Gump, The Shawshank Redemption
Television:
I rarely watch T.V. at all. The only thing I watch with any regularity is NOVA.
Books:
The Monkey Wrench Gang - one of the most entertaining books I've ever read, HAYDUKE LIVES... Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance - very inspiring read, I almost became an English teacher after reading this book, For Whom The Bell Tolls - Hemingway... just about anything by Hemingway actually, The Electric Kool-Aid Acid Test - Tom Wolfe, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas - Hunter S. Thompson, 1984 & Animal Farm - George Orwell, On The Road, Big Sur, and The Dharma Bums - Jack Kerouac, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest - Ken Kesey, Catch-22 - Joseph Heller, Childhood's End - Arthur C. Clarke, Junky - William S. Burroughs, Lord of the Flies - William Golding, and the entire Dune series by Frank Herbert.I also like Tom Clancy and R.A. Salvatore, the latter especially if I don't feel like thinking a great deal about my reading.