The law, helping to point out the pagan roots of Christian holidays to rabid Catholics, crosswords, shining shoes and listening to Miles Davis, good fiction, amateur photography, cheap, well-made wine, and, recently, cooking.
Alan Turing, Joe Strummer, Thomas Pynchon, Philip K. Dick, J.R.R. Tolkien, Franklin Delano Roosevelt. In other words, mostly people who are already dead.
I'll make this simple. Recently, I've been listening to...
Elliott Smith - XO
The Arcade Fire - Funeral
Miles Davis - Kind of Blue
Bob Dylan - Blonde on Blonde
This is simple too. Recently, I've watched...
Pi (Re-viewing)
Oldboy
Lord of War
The Island
...and generally enjoyed them all.
OK, so, yeah, well...
...lately I've been watching a lot of Iron Chef and Queer Eye for the Straight Guy. And eating pints of Haagen-Dazs and crying myself to sleep.
Books I'm reading concurrently (some of which, realistically, I'll probably never even finish):
The Rise and Fall of the Third Reich, by William Shirer
The Merlin Trilogy, by Mary Stewart
The Templars, by Piers Paul Read
Gravity's Rainbow, by Thomas Pynchon
...and various others that I pick up and put down at random.