History, film (especially--but not limited to--horror, sci-fi, and pre-1975 cinema), cooking, walking, reading, dancing (believe it or not), volunteering, writing fiction and repellently amateurish film criticism, music, living, breathing, etc., etc.
"You're a groovy boy... I'd like to strap you on sometime..." --I've never met them, but when I do, I'm sure things will be interesting. Unsure if anything will happen, but interesting nonetheless.
The Kinks, Sleater-Kinney, Super Furry Animals, Curtis Mayfield, David Bowie, Claude Debussy, The Faces, The Decemberists, Erik Satie, Til Tuesday and Aimee Mann, The Velvet Underground, Blur, Brian Eno, Georges Bizet, Traffic, Guided By Voices, Saturday Looks Good To Me, Prince, The Jam, Starling Electric, Into the Freylakh, Wilco, The Jam, Roxy Music
The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Touch of Evil; Flash Gordon; Lawrence of Arabia; The Wicker Man; The Thirty-Nine Steps ('35); Casablanca; A Matter of Life and Death
Doctor Who, Buffy, NewsRadio, The Simpsons (pre-'00), Veronica Mars, Blackadder, Mystery Science Theater 3000, Coronation Street
The Three Musketeers (Dumas pere), Barnaby Rudge (Dickens), Middlesex (Eugenides), Lucky Jim (Amis), Dark Star (Furst), Japanese By Spring (Reed), The Bloody Chamber (Carter), Nostromo (Conrad), Therese Raquin (Zola), A Confederacy of Dunces (Toole), The Fatal Shore (Hughes), Prince Caspian (Lewis), Isara (Soyinka)
Bill Mauldin, Fred Rogers, Jim Henson, Orson Welles, Preston Sturges, Nelson Mandela, Abraham Lincoln, Tom Allen, Charles Nelson Reilly