too many to mention in a list... Really good discussions, without barriers and being annoyed about friend's opinion. A good wine or a Vin Santo with Cantuccini! Reading good books. Mind-travelling to the Event Horizon. In a search for the new scourges of mankind.
Human beings....they're hard to find in these days.
Fields of the Nephilim, Sisters of Mercy, Christian Death, Bauhaus, etc.Midtimers (the 90ies era): Qntal, Estampie, Deine Lakaien,Garden of Delight Beyond the Wall of Sleep, Dreadful ShadowsNIN, Rammstein, etc......Metal: Paradise Lost, My dying bride, Iron Maiden, Opeth, Old Tiamat, Slayer, Anathema etc. etc.Altogether: Music that rocks or impresses me. (Yes, also Classic)
"Foucault's Pendulum" and "The Name of the Rose" by Umberto Eco//"The Naked Ape" and "The Human Zoo" by Desmond Morris// "Il Principe" and "Discourses on Livy" by Niccolò di Bernardo dei Machiavelli// Current on the desk: "History of Western Philosophy" by Bertrand Russell Soon: "The Thirteen and a Half Lives of Captain Bluebear" by Walter Moers Some works of Thomas Henry Huxley, Julian S. Huxley and Aldeous L. Huxley.(brainfood!)
Cognitive and social human beings.(the rare ones)