Motorcycles, travel, books, music, dancing, booze, SCUBA, History, flying.
Scurvy pirate women, saucy lasses, bloody baronnesses & trashy tramps.
The Dusty 45s, The Wages of Sin, Placebo, Jet, AC/DC, The Sisters of Mercy, Leonard Cohen, Metric, Ramones, The Doors, Neko Case, Gotan Project, The Clash, Duran Duran, Juno Reactor, Franz Ferdinand, Daft Punk, Rammstein, Pinky's DJ. Red Neck Girlfriend, Cookie, And One, Fluke, Yoko Kanno, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, The Who, The Animals, The Zombies, Tom Waits, Vivaldi, Velvet Underground, Talking Heads, Stray Cats, Stan Getz, Sisterhood, Foetus, Radio 4, The Police, Pink Martini, Mirah w/the Black Cat Orchestra, Peaches, Chics on Speed, Oingo Boingo, Ofra Haza, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Moloko, Ministry, Marilyn Manson, Joan Jett, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Eurythmics, Delerium, Deep Forest, Dead Can Dance, David Bowie, The Cult, Concrete Blonde, Coil, Buena Vista Social Club, Bloodhound Gang, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Billy Holiday, Benny Goodman, Afro-Celt Sound System, and many more.
Apocalypse Now: Redux, To Have and Have Not, The Maltese Falcon, Casablanca
West Wing, Discovery, Learning & Travel Channels, TCM, World Superbike and MotoGP racing, Heroes.
Anything by Robert A. Heinlein and Bret Easton Ellis, The Muskateer chronicles by Alexandre Dumas, Raymond Chandler novels, Count of Monte Cristo, Kipling, Dashell Hammet, Coleen McCullough, lots of non-fiction and historical-fiction
Hunter S. Thompson, Scientists, Nanotechnologists, people who use their brain.