surfing, skateboarding, sumi-e, macross, tv/film production, fine arts, lighthouses, whale watching, baseball/softball, camping, frisbee, beachcombing, loud dark clubs, orbs, bonsai, clean energy, tesla, astronomy, sustainable resources
adam ant, the sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, radiohead, interpol, leonard cohen, this mortal coil, muse, peter gabriel, buena vista social club, bjork, pigface, the mermen, the 5.6.7.8's, the presets, brian jonestown massacre, benny benassi, cocteau twins, bauhaus, sol invictus, the cure, david bowie, nine inch nails, dead can dance, amorphous androgynous, dead kennedys, tsol, agent orange, echo and the bunnymen, the future sound of london, kid 606, einsturzende neubauten, joy division, nick cave, the pixies, pop will eat itself, front 242, the strokes, tom waits, prodigy, u2, nas, 50 cent, lonely kings, shout out louds, ween, the concretes, rem, vast, cop shoot cop, bloodhound gang, outkast, ministry, leftfield, beastie boys, jane's addiction, gorillaz, aphex twin, iggy pop, switchblade symphony, blonde redhead, chopin, franz ferdinand, johnny cash, alien sex fiend, nurse with wound, frontline assembly, subhumans, coil, rabbit in the moon, the misfits, elliott smith, juno reactor, coldplay, white stripes, current 93, dandy warhols, new order, oingo boingo, miss kittin, mozart, etc.
raising arizona, blade runner, the shining, 2001: a space odyssey, shadow of the vampire, batman begins, man bites dog, wings of desire, alien, trainspotting, das boot, hell in the pacific, enemy mine, dark city, big wednesday (r.i.p. lynnette), lost in translation, apocalypse now, the natural, star wars, edward scissorhands, spider-man, the good the bad and the ugly, pulp fiction, zatoichi, amadeus, sanjuro, hidden fortress, one flew over the cuckoo's nest, the last temptation of christ, sin city, the doom generation, the silence of the lambs, yojimbo, lord of the rings, the machinist, spirited away, akira, the motorcycle diaries, tron, the incredibles, toy story, final fantasy, the sixth sense, amelie, taxi driver, dellamorte dellamore, buena vista social club, tetsuo the iron man, house of flying daggers, henry fool, down by law, saving private ryan, eraserhead, dr stangelove, ghost dog, la double vie de veronique, full metal jacket, kill bill, the promise, back to the future, gladiator, the secret of nimh, raiders of the lost ark, crouching tiger hidden dragon, big lebowski, vertigo, minority report, fear and loathing in las vegas, donnie darko, the dark crystal, memento, hero, natural born killers, the bourne identity, ghost in the shell, shaolin soccer, the matrix, american beauty, hulk, thx-1138, riding giants, napoleon dynamite, logan's run, the royal tenenbaums, the hunger, la belle et la bete, etc.
nova, battlestar galactica, six feet under, mythbusters, stargate, secrets of the dead, heroes, nature, csi, lost, spark, x-files, simpsons
some of my favorites, in no particular order: