In school on the 15-yr plan, working as an illustrator, living in Lovecraft country.
 
art, music, fantasy, sci fi, polynesian pop, architecture, history, martial arts, shiny objects, things that light up
people with non-streaking and mild abrasive action. people that stay crunchy, even in milk. ghosts. deities. richard feynman. nikola tesla. brunelleschi. king arthur. rameses II.
lounge, exotica, goth, some britpop, old-school metal, industrial, ebm, film scores, traditional world music, etcetera, etcetera. anything of reasonable musical value. if it's radio stuff, it probably sucks.
akira kurosawa, jean-pierre jeunet and marc caro, terry gilliam, roman polanski, hayao miyazaki...the ninth gate, the fifth element, the thirteenth warrior, the entire geek canon (star wars, LOTR, etc., et al)
hawaii five-o, alton brown, metalocalypse.
umberto eco, tolkien, douglas adams, lovecraft. phillip pullman. historical fiction/nonfiction, eastern spirituality, and almost any coffee-table art book.
thomas jefferson, bruce lee, sanjuro kuwabatake, steve mcgarret, derek flint, nick jainschigg, einstein, ben franklin, kanbei shimada, kyuzo, conan the barbarian, conan o'brien