Grilling, photography (Holga, Diana), reading, writing (stories, letters, essays), gaming.
Light, motivated, substantial people.
Pixies, Lush, Cocteau Twins, Camper van Beethoven, DEVO, Elvis Costello, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Billie Holiday, Bix Beiderbecke, Glenn Miller, Frank Sinatra, the Police, the Cure, the Smiths, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Boards of Canada, Kommunity FK, Xmal Deutschland, Magazine, Skeletal Family, 45 Grave, MISFITS, SWANS, Cranes, Siouxsie, Dead Can Dance, Death In June, Delerium, the Birthday Party, Nina Hagen, Infected Mushroom, Dr. Octagon, Moi Dix Mois, the Billy Nayer Show, the Silver Hearts, Neko Case, Johnny Cash, Willie Nelson, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Einsturzende Neubauten, Wagon Christ, Negativland, Claire Voyant, Cibo Matto, Shonen Knife, Daniel Balavoine, ELO, Killing Joke, T. Ride, Roger Whittaker, Gordon Lightfoot, Gerry Rafferty, Najwa Nimri, Basia, Sixpence None the Richer, Squarepusher, Morphine, Yello, Orbital
Coen Brothers, Wes Anderson, Michel Gondry; indie films, Hong Kong cinema, Japanese cinema, black comedy, absurdism, anime.
The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, The X-Files, Little Britain, Metalocalypse, Murder in Suburbia, Home Movies, Futurama, The Office (UK), Upright Citizens Brigade, Mr. Show, Dexter, Arrested Development
Dorothy Parker, Agatha Christie, Ellis Peters, Mark Twain, David Sedaris, Amy Sedaris, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Arturo Perez-Reverte, Steven Milhauser, Robert van Gulik, Gene Wolfe, Chip Kidd
Hercule Poirot, Usagi Yojimbo