snowboarding, world travel, hiking, alpine climbing, glaciers, astronomy, mathematics, 3d graphics, natural history, linguistics, absinthe, cognac, desolate places, books books books, crossword puzzles, shiny flashy things, making drinks, drinking drinks
Cocteau Twins, Collide, Curve, Dead Can Dance, Flunk, Goldfrapp, Gridlock, Interpol, The Faint, The Magnetic Fields, Sigur Rós, Slowdive, Emiliana Torrini
No TV at home, so whatever happens to be on when I invite myself to Tony's & Kris's place
Recent favorites: The Dream of Scipio, Iain Pears; King Leopold's Ghost, Adam Hochschild; The Black Book of Stories, A S Byatt, The Honors Class: Hilbert's Problems and Their Solvers
Other stuff:
Nabokov (especially Pale Fire), Kundera, Andrea Barrett, PD James mysteries, Lonely Planet guides, Edward O Wilson, Stephen Pinker, an embarrassing number of other science popularizations