Baby grackles. The giant turtles that swim in the creek by my house. My dog. Music. Books. Learning about things that automatically classify me as a dork. Texas wildlife. Renaissance era polyphony. Things that go in straight lines.
Reptiles.
Classical stuff, Sufjan Stevens, Midlake, etc.
Jesus Camp.
I don't watch television.
Most recently: A People's History of the United States. Genghis Khan and the Making of the Modern World. Teach yourself electricity and electronics. Poems by Margaret Atwood.
William Lloyd Garrison. Harriet Beecher Stowe. Franz Kafka. More.