Good music & visual art, social evolution, meeting new people worth meeting, pop culture trends, innovative thought, esoteric studies, cooking (especially pan-cultural experimenting).
Right now I also do web development in Ann Arbor, MI., and mess around with a content site at Echopraxia.org
Anybody who doesn't clog my bullshit filter. I really love meeting people, and especially like people whose values aren't defined by their need to fit in and what they bought recently. I like people who are always questioning and seeking, and are open to discussing things they don't agree with or understand.
Or A Date With Isabella or Elina Would Be Nice:
This list would be ridiculously long if it were complete. I really like all kinds of music except anything that's pointlessly negative (Trent Reznor's a genius but I pitched most of my NIN ages ago).
Any version of Roy Orbison's "Crying" makes me weepy, especially Rebekah Del Rio's "Llorando" from the Mulholland Drive soundtrack.
I can listen nostalgically to all sorts of techno/house derived sub-genres or old alternative music, but there's SO much good new stuff coming out faster than I can listen that I'm usually playing my latest find on an endless loop until something new distracts me.
Things I've liked in the past couple of years:
Pinback, Band Of Horses, Decemberists, Fujiya & Miyagi, Hot Chip, Califone, Peter Bjorn And John, Sia, Gnarls Barkley, Brazilian Girls, Elliott Smith, Middle-Eastern or Asian pop (especially things like what you'd find on Putumayo collections like "Sahara Lounge"), Mashups like "GlassBreaks" or "The Grey Album"
Things I Never Seem To Get Tired Of:
Erik Satie, Brian Eno, Stan Getz, João and Astrid Gilberto, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, K.D. Lang, Wire, Ryuichi Sakamoto, David Sylvian, Jane Siberry, Arvo Pärt, Rickie Lee Jones, Flaming Lips, Joni Mitchell, Tom Cora and The Ex, Bowie, Bryan Ferry, Roxy Music, Peter Gabriel, Radiohead, Bjork, Chemical Brothers, Elvis Costello, Soul Coughing, Beastie Boys, Stevie Wonder...I could go on. Maybe later.
I used to say there was only one movie: the original Blade Runner. I'm actually finally able to go six months or so without watching it these days though.
My list of faves would include about 50, and I'd never be able to put them in an order, but the list would include things like:
City of Lost Children, Betty Blue, Wizard of Oz, Fight Club, Wings of Desire, Far Away So Close, Until the End of the World, Paris Texas, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Thelma & Louise, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Memento, American Psycho, American Beauty, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Misfits, Seven, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet...see a pattern here? I also like certain directors pretty consistently, like Stanley Kubrick, Wim Wenders, David Lynch, Martin Scorcese, Atom Egoyan, Hal Hartley, David Cronenberg, Alfred Hitchcock, Robert Altman, Bernardo Bertolucci, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Luc Besson, Tim Burton, Joel & Ethan Coen, Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Federico Fellini, Akira Kurosawa, Oliver Stone, and pre-1990 Ken Russell.
I turned off cable TV two years ago and have never been happier.
It's been suggested that the point in history when one well-read person might've read all the available literature in their language was around the time of Voltaire. I don't read much current fiction, but when I have it included writers like Martin Amis, Will Self, J.G. Ballard, Katherine Dunn, and Salman Rushdie. Lately I've been reading things by and about C.G. Jung.
Heroes seem hard to come by these days. I think you almost have to die for a cause to be truly heroic, but without being dead, Jon Stewart does a pretty good job of at least being a pop-culture hero.