Mixed Martial Arts (esp. various styles of jujitsu)
pretty much everything about computing and bleeding-edge technology
Philosophy (especially existential and logic)
Things I don't really understand as well as I should, like high energy physics.
Dogs (especially mine)
The law of privacy and the business of information management.
Light carpentry and woodworking.
Dropkick Murphys
Flogging Molly
The Cure
Elvis Costello
Lucinda Wlliams
Dr. Strangelove
Fog of War
No Maps for These Territories
Ghost in the Shell
Akira
Rushmore
Harold and Maude
Bloody Sunday
Howl's Moving Castle
Mindwalk
The Ultimate Fighter
The Contender
Cowboy Bebop
The Simpsons
Futurama
Family Guy
Late Night with John Stewart
The Colbert Report
Weeds
Real Talk
Bullshit
Just about everything William Gibson ever wrote.
Machiavelli's "The Prince"
Sartre's "Being and Nothingness"
Heidegger's "Being and Time"
Dostoyevsky's "The Brothers Karamazov" (Especially "The Grand Inquisitor")
Baudrillard's "Simulations"
Eco's "Foucault's Pendulum"
Hosseini's "The Kite Runner"
Ha Jin's "Waiting" and "War Trash"
Salzman's "Iron and Silk"
Moorcock's Elric Saga
My mom & dad