film, listening to music, reading, soccer (I support Chelsea, the LA Galaxy, and the USMNT-- oh yeah, can't forget England), horsies, weird and/or enormous aircraft, running, strength training, driving, skepticism, hardcore Anglophilia, my artwork and writing when I can be arsed to spend time on it, wasting time on the internet
Are you smart? Failing that, are you funny or able to hold up your end of a conversation? Eh, that's probably enough.
Big Country, the Casbah Club, Four Good Men, Steely Dan, the Decemberists, Fleetwood Mac, ABBA, the Jam, Roxy Music, the Who, the Police, Kate Bush, Paul McCartney, the Bonzo Dog Band, Gilbert and Sullivan operettas, Paul Simon, "the great American songbook", Kylie Minogue, Beach Boys, the Beatles, very bad popular music from many different eras, Warren Zevon, Bollywood stuff, Maximo Park, Keane
Lawrence of Arabia, Master and Commander, L.A. Confidential, A Hard Day's Night, Donnie Darko (the director's cut), Laura, Almost Famous, the Evil Dead trilogy, All About Eve, Head, The Women, Bullitt, anything with Errol Flynn or Tyrone Power, Dead Again, Rope, Grizzly Man, The Mission (the Johnnie To film), I Know Where I'm Going!, Bend it Like Beckham, Ghostbusters, The Filth and the Fury, Hard Boiled, the good stuff from Turner Classic Movies, Akira Kurosawa, John Sayles, David Lean, Powell and Pressburger, Sam Raimi, Joseph Losey, Stanley Kubrick, Hong Kong cinema, British cinema, James Bond films (up through Goldeneye; the recent ones suck)
Mystery Science Theater 3000 (best show ever), Young Ones, vintage Simpsons, South Park, Beavis and Butthead, Monty Python, Absolutely Fabulous, The Critic, Mr. Show, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, British comedy in general, House M.D.
Various nonfiction (true crime, British history, science etc.), Catcher in the Rye, Lester Bangs, good rock writing in general (Nick Kent, etc.), Poe, Lovecraft, the Sherlock Holmes stories, The Jungle Books, Hunter S. Thompson, The Sword in the Stone, Harry Potter, Bloom County, Calvin and Hobbes, P.J. O'Rourke's stuff before he got married and became unfunny
John Sayles, Jane Goodall, Lester Bangs