philosophy, fencing, physics, history, urban exploration, chess, go, demonology, Indian food, sleep, teaching, children, subversion, vegetarianism, teetotaling (I think the kids today call it 'straight edge')
Ben Franklin, Tim Booth, Richard Burton, Socrates, Miamoto Musashi, Ehrich Weiss, Bertrand Russell, Jesus, P.T. Barnum, Granny Weatherwax, Sidharta Gautama, Opus, Akhenaten, Richard Feynman, my wife at sixteen, myself at ten and eighty.
Dead Can Dance, Bach, Oingo Boingo, Rasputina, Nick Cave, Miranda Sex Garden, Bach, Beethoven, Faith and the Muse, They Might Be Giants, the Pogues, the Smiths, the Velvet Underground, Tom Waits, Elmore James, Little Walter, Birdsaw, Bach, Tempest
2001, The Last Temptation of Christ, The Blues Brothers, Lawrence of Arabia, Buckaroo Banzai, Leningrad Cowboys Go America, LA Story, God of Cookery, Rushmore, Donnie Darko, Alien, Duck Soup, Dr. Strangelove, Princess Bride, Ghostbusters, The Muppet Movie
Nova, Good Eats, The Daily Show, Mythbusters, Buffy the Vampire Slayer, The Twilight Zone, Charlie Rose, Star Trek
The Scarlet Letter, Seven Pillars of Wisdom, Magister Ludi, The Plague, the Foundation series, Small Gods, The House With a Clock in its Walls, Why I am Not a Christian, The Phantom Tollbooth, Cryptonomicon, The Dunwich Horror, Our Dumb Century