surfing, sea kayaking, fire arts, dance, stage combat/fight choreography, reading, writing, juggling, bats, knife throwing, FMA (Kombatan/Modern Arnis), Filipino stick fighting, spinning (wool/flax/fire/etc), Marx Brothers, women who kick ass, world domination, modular origami, cats, BDR529, bones, sushi, scrabble, performing, roller coasters, Armenia, Pez dispensers, ravens, string, stone circles, knitting, fire, water, salt, cemeteries, Rell Sunn, witches, rain, thunderstorms, chocolate, oatmeal, tea, sharks, disused London Underground stations, motherhood, cheese, Dickens Fair
Slimey the Worm (from Sesame Street)
Sudden Rush, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Billy Bragg, Ozomatli, Cab Calloway, The Cramps, Bradda Iz (Israel Kamakawiwo'ole), The Billy Nayer Show, Louis Jordan, X, U Utah Phillips, Kristen Hersch, The Toy Dolls, Ojos de Brujo, Hoagy Charmichael, The Pogues, The Knitters, Steeleye Span
The Court Jester, Grosse Point Blank, The Thin Man, Young Frankenstein, The Grey Fox, any Marx Bros. film, My Man Godfrey, The Whale Rider, Lilo & Stitch, My Neighbor Totoro, To Have and Have Not, Dogtown and Z Boys, Nightmare Before Christmas, An American in Paris, Withnail and I, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern Are Dead, Impromptu
The Muppet Show, Animaniacs, Firefly, Black Books, Midsomer Murders
I'm a voracious reader...a literary slut...so it's hard to break it down, Naguib Mafouz, Angela Carter, Idries Shah, Neal Stephenson, Tim Cahill, Edward Gorey, Ronald Searle, Charles de Lint, Sherman Alexie, Jane Austen, Charles Palliser, Terry Pratchett, Mary Shelley, Lewis Carroll, Neil Gaiman, e.e. cummings, Christina Rossetti, Emily Dickenson, W.H. Auden, ...
Harpo Marx, Rell Sunn, Mick Foley, Mary Wollstonecraft