Music, Philadelphia sports, traveling, movies that don't suck, reading great books, archaeology, playing the drums
Friends, musicians, Republicans with brains (unlike most Democrats, I'm willing to concede that they exist, and that they are just in hiding.....)
Twilight Singers, Afghan Whigs, Sugar, Husker Du, Superdrag, Tommy Keene, Catherine Wheel, Swervedriver, Dismemberment Plan, Rocket from the Crypt, Too Much Joy, Jawbox, China Drum, Mando Diao, Superchunk, Nada Surf, Seaweed, Jets to Brazil, Uncle Tupelo, Descendents, Unrest, Poole, Big Drill Car, Doughboys, Guided by Voices, Teenage Fanclub, Pavement, Leatherface ( the British punk band, not my ex-roommate!), Velvet Crush, the Posies, Small 23, J Church, etc.
The Name of the Rose, The Master of the Flying Guillotine, Donnie Darko, Gladiator, the X-Men movies, Glory, Miller's Crossing, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Clerks, Sneakers, Cry Freedom, etc.
Carnivale, Real Time with Bill Maher, Dead Like Me, Tales from the Crypt, The Mind of the Married Man, ESPN Sportscenter, Philadelphia sporting events, the History Channel, Discovery Channel and not a whole hell of a lot else....
The Historian, The Name of the Rose by Umberto Eco (all of his books are amazing), the Repairman Jack novels by F. Paul Wilson, the Keep, most novels by Arthur C. Clarke, historical fiction by Robert Harris (Pompeii, Archangel, Fatherland), anything by Ray Bradbury, the Agent Pendergast series by Douglas Preston and Lincoln Child (Relic, Reliquary, Cabinet of Curiousities, Brimstone, Dance of Death, Book of the Dead), Prague by Arthur Phillips (the greatest historical/fictional travel book I've ever read!). For fans of horror movies, a must read is 'If Chins Could Kill,' the auto biography of Bruce Campbell from Evil Dead. Funny as hell! I just finished 'Book of the Dead,' and now I'm reading 'The Serial Killer Club,' which is a great dark comedy, I heavily recommend after 50 pages....My personal advice to the avid reader is steer clear of John Saul, because cookie cutter books suck!
Raoul Wallenberg, Terri Gilliam, John Kruk