Read. Write. Research (anything--Wikipedia is a godsend). Watch movies. Listen to music. Create/play music.

Shows: The Office, Heroes, Aqua Teen, Family Guy, Futurama, The Simpsons, King of the Hill, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy (BBC), Cowboy Bebop, Scrubs, House, MASH, The Grim Adventures of Billy and Mandy, The Colbert Report, The Daily Show. Movies: Star Wars, Lord of the Rings, Cloverfield, The Indiana Jones movies, Dawn of the Dead, Land of the Dead, Shaun of the Dead, Evil Dead, Evil Dead 2: Dead By Dawn, Army of Darkness, MirrorMask, Dreamcatcher, Stir of Echos, Back to the Future, The Butterfly Effect, Smokin' Aces, Idiocracy, Broken Flowers, Lola rennt, Ghostbusters, The Usual Suspects, I Heart Huckabees, The Life Aquatic, Stranger Than Fiction, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, Planet Terror, Slipstream, The Boondock Saints, Garden State, Braveheart, Kingdom of Heaven, Office Space, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, I Robot, The Number 23, Black Snake Moan, SLC Punk, American History X, Sleepy Hollow, Sweeney Todd, The Mummy, Stargate, Clerks, Mallrats, Dogma, Jay & Silent Bob Strike Back, Clerks II, Batman, Batman Returns, Batman Begins, X-Men trilogy, Spiderman (only the first two; the third one was a disappointment), and tons more.

Music, and all kinds of it. Queen (the most important rock 'n' roll band ever), Strung Out, Iron Maiden, Against Me!, Authority Zero, Amon Amarth, Choking Victim, Less Than Jake, Coheed and Cambria, NoFX, Anti-Flag, Bad Religion, Pennywise, The Ramones, The Clash, Sex Pistols, Generation X, Billy Idol, Wreckless Eric, The Gaslight Anthem, Rancid, Lars Frederiksen and the Bastards, Face To Face, Operation Ivy, The Casualties, The Unseen, Old Man's Child, Alkaline Trio, The Minor League, Eric Clapton, Bob Marley, Descendents, Rx Bandits, The World/Inferno Friendship Society, Bandits of the Acoustic Revolution, Catch 22, Streetlight Manifesto, None More Black, Spinal Tap, The Get Up Kids, Reggie and the Full Effect, mc chris, MC Lars, The Matches, MC Frontalot, Optimus Rhyme, Sage Francis, Atmosphere, Against All Authority, The Adolescents, The Germs, Agnostic Front, and many others. I think you get the idea.

A Song of Ice and Fire saga by George R. R. Martin. Wild Cards. The Zombie Survival Guide by Max Brooks. Anything by Ray Bradbury, Edgar Allan Poe, H.P. Lovecraft, Douglas Adams, and Kurt Vonnegut. Philosophical pieces/works/books by authors such as Camus, Nagel, Sartre, Beckett, Voltaire, Kierkegaard, and others. I'm an English major, so this list could be huge if I felt like typing it out.

During the fall and winter, I live deep in the Heart of Winter, also known as Hancock, MI, where I go to Finlandia University. During the summer, I live three hours south of there, working at what could quite possibly be one of the lamest jobs ever.

Munchkin. A Waste of Time (an excellent creation by my friend; still currently in the play-testing stage).

First and Second Edition Advanced Dungeons and Dragons. Superworld.

Risk. Lord of the Rings Trivial Pursuit.

Lord of the Rings Online. Kingdom of Loathing. Urban Dead.

Knights of the Old Republic. Age of Empires. Shenmue (I'm dying for part three). Destroy All Humans. Fable. Anything involving Sonic and/or Mario. Smash Brothers. Marvel Ultimate Alliance. The Guitar Hero series. Shadow of the Colossus. Rock Band (almost makes me want to buy an Xbox 360). Any side-scrolling Mega Man game. The Warcraft series (excluding WoW--I wasted many hours of my life with that game). Jet Set/Grind Radio. Crazy Taxi. The Final Fantasy games, but the newer ones are a little iffy. Tropico. The Sims 2. SimCity Societies. Bioshock. Roller Coaster Tycoon 3. Baldur's Gate I and II. Animal Crossing. Harvest Moon. Morrowind. Oblivion. Anything having to do with the Legend of Zelda series. Metroid.

The Green Dragon in Escanaba, MI.

Good books, good movies, and good music. Legos. Boba Fett. Comics.

Shitty books, shitty movies, and shitty music. Stupid people. Ignorance.