A Few of My Favorite Things:

Movies

Directors

Alfred Hitchcock, James Cameron, Akira Kurosawa, Walter Hill, Sam Raimi (additional Raimi stuff), Brian De Palma (additional De Palma stuff), Kathryn Bigelow, Terry Gilliam (additional Gilliam stuff), Bruce Seven, Roger Corman, Ridley Scott, Francis Ford Coppola, David Cronenberg, Peter Jackson, Frank Capra and the Cohen Brothers

Actors

Humphrey Bogart, Carey Grant, Gregory Peck, Harrison Ford, Clint Eastwood, Johnny Depp, Robert Deniro, Jeremy Irons, James Woods, John Hurt, Jack Lemmon, Peter Sellers, Al Pacino, Jimmy Stewart, Spencer Tracy

Actresses

Bette Davis, Ingrid Bergman, Raquel Welch, Jodie Foster, Winona Ryder, Michelle Pfeiffer, Geena Davis, Sigorney Weaver, Faye Dunaway, Vanessa Redgrave, Audrey Hepburn, Joan Fontaine, Katherine Hepburne

Martial Artists

Bruce, Jet Li, Sammo Hung

I guess I find weird looking bugs pretty interesting too. At least when they are not threatening or in my sleeping bag or something.

Musicians

Jazz

Benny Goodman, Fats Waller, Miles Davis

Blues

Buddy Guy, John Mayall, Albert King, Rory Block, Blind Willy Mactel, The Reverend Blind Gary Davis, Lightning Hopkins, Albert Collins, Bessie Smith, Willie Dixon, Sonny Boy Williamson

Rock and Roll

Big Joe Turner, The Grateful Dead, The Rolling Stones, The Who, The Jefferson Airplane, Shanana, Pink Floyd, The Allman Brothers

Funk

George Clinton

Punk and The New Wave

Talking Heads, Nina Hagen

Ambient experimental electronica

Brian Eno

Reggae

Israel Vibrations, Bob Marley, Bunny Wailer, Peter Tosh, Culture, Delroy Wilson, Burning Spear

World

Lucky Dube, Baaba Maal, Youssou N'dour, Alpha Blondy, Boukman Esperyans, Salif Keita, Malathini and the Mahotella Queens

Writers

Ovidius Naso, Vergil, Polybius, Plato, Plutarch, Snorri Sturluson, Robert Louis Stevenson, Thomas Hardy, The Mevlana Rumi, Jalal Al Din Juwaini, Umberto Eco, Edgar Allen Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Larry Niven, Frederick Pohl and Neal Stephenson