Reading,F1, procrastinating, being self-critical, writing, balling up and throwing away things I've written, doting on friends, wearing clothes, cheeses, cognac, KoL, and coffee. And dogs.
A misanthropomorphizer.
Thelonious Monk, Coltrane, Mingus, Saint Etienne, Mississippi John Hurt, Jolie Holland, Kings of Convenience, The Louvin Brothers, Bill Withers, Joanna Newsom, Nick Drake, The Chesterfield Kings, The Magnetic Fields, Son House, Honeyboy Edwards, Teddy Pendergrass, Fats Waller, Muddy Waters, The Housemartins, Del, Røyksopp, The Sonics, Al Green, The Stooges, Cole Porter, Ralph Stanley, EPMD, Los Lobos, Los Super Seven, Latin Playboys, Feist, M. Ward, Dilla (he was too young; I was too late)
Le Mans, Grand Prix, Breathless, La Haine, Rules of the Game, Rashomon, Fanny & Alexander, Amarcord, Road to Morocco, Rear Window, Oldboy, Alphaville, Bullitt.
BBC World News, McLaughlin Group, Mystery!, Cops, Girlfriends, Pardon the Interruption, The Office (ur- and nbc), faux news shows, any shows with real police chases (preferably with self-righteous voice-over).
Sebald, Kadare, Saramago, Taducchi, Borges, David Lewis, Robert Kaplan, Orhan Pamuk, McSweeney's, various dictionaries, and The Hypnerotomachia Poliphili -- my copy of which has been located. Save the last three, these are authors, not books. Forgive the myspace category transgression.
The Green Lantern, Shuggie Otis, my old man.