Conversation, Movies, Music, Philosophy, Piano, Politics, Science, Skiing (badly), Words.
Music:
The Beatles, Beck, David Bowie, Eric Clapton, Coldplay, The Doors, Bob Dylan, George Harrison, Interpol, Led Zeppelin, John Lennon, Tom Petty, Pink Floyd, Radiohead, REM, Paul Simon, Sloan, Supergrass, U2, The Who, XTC, Neil Young; Adams, Beethoven, Bernstein, Brahms, Bruckner, Copland, Foss, Glass, Haydn, Ligeti, Mahler, Markevitch, Ravel, Shostakovich, Strauss Family, Stravinsky.
Movies:
2001: A Space Odyssey (Kubrick), Spirited Away (Miyazaki), The Lord of the Rings (Jackson), Rear Window (Hitchcock), Finding Nemo (Pixar), I Know Where I'm Going! (Powell and Pressburger), The Passion of Joan of Arc (Dreyer), Seven Chances (Buster Keaton).
Television:
24, 60 Minutes, Alias, Boston Legal, Carnivale, The Cosby Show, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The Daily Show with Jon Stewart, Deadwood, ER, Family Guy, Fawlty Towers, Futurama, The Honeymooners, Jack and Bobby, Lost, Malcolm in the Middle, Medium, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Mr. Bean, Nightline, PBS, Scrubs, The Simpsons, Smallville, That '70s Show, The West Wing, Whose Line Is It Anyway?
Books:
Calvin & Hobbes (Watterson); Everything That Rises Must Converge (O'Connor), The Forgotten Soldier (Sajer), The Great Gatsby (Fitzgerald), King Lear (Shakespeare), Pilgrim at Tinker Creek (Dillard), The Sirens of Titan (Vonnegut), Timeline (Crichton); American Cinematographer, Entertainment Weekly, The Nation, The New Yorker, The New York Times; CommonDreams.org.
