My friends call me Ace. Take my word for it. :P

Books, laughs, friends, people in general, the culinary arts (cooking!), dogs, fishing

The English Patient, The Shawshank Redemption, Instinct, Platoon, Malcolm X, Ghandi, Kevin Smith movies, anything by Eddie Murphy, Chris Rock, and Richard Pryor

The Simpsons, South Park, Duckman, King of the Hill, Futurama, Traders, Due South, The PJ's, Chicago Hope, Homicide: Life on the Streets, Yes Minister, Yes Prime Minister, Red Dwarf, It's Ain't 'Alf 'Ot Mum, Blackadder

The Haj and Exodus by Leon Uris, Shashi Tharoor's The Great Indian Novel, James Herriot, V.S. Naipaul in general, Shogun and King Rat by James Clavell, and most of all - Australian Financial Accounting by Craig Deegan. A riveting read.

Quite a few, but Anthony Hopkin's speech at the end of Meet Joe Black is particulary stirring.