Astronomy, solar astrophysics, high energy astrophysics, galactic astrophysics, even stellar astrophysics on a slow day. Hiking, road cycling, mountain biking, backpacking, photography, astrophotography, photoshoping, programming, building telescopes. Space exploration, astronauts.
Those poor souls who can actually tolerate me.
Barenaked Ladies, Wide Mouth Mason, Weakerthans, Finger Eleven, Nelly Furtado, Tegan & Sara, Yo-Yo Ma, Moby, k-os, Hawksley Workman, Matthew Good Band, Sum 41, Green Day, Michael Franti, The Postal Service, Snow Patrol, Billy Talent, Death Cab for Cutie, Moist, Emm Gryner, Xavier Rudd, Christine Fellows, The Vanity Project, Rise Against, Bedouin Soundclash, Fall Out Boy, The Stills, Broken Social Scene, Stars, Metric, Pilate, Sam Roberts, Sloan, Weezer, The Tragically Hip, Buck 65, Our Lady Peace, Motion City Soundtrack, Coldplay, The Paperbacks, Wintersleep, The Lovely Feathers, The New Pornographers, Caribou, Controller.Controller, Death from Above 1979, Blood Meridian, Chad Vangaalen, Wolf Parade, The Constantines, Black Mountain
Ferris Bueller's Day Off, From the Earth to the Moon, Top Gun.... pretty much anything cool.
Almost anything on discovery channel, and the "guy" shows on TLC (with the addition of What Not to Wear... lol), also Much Music
A Case for Mars, anything by Robert J. Sawyer (Hominds was really good), A Scientific Romance by Ronald Wright, The Pleasure of Finding Things Out by Feynman, Cosmos, Pale Blue Dot
Galileo, Chris Hadfield (astronaut), and my friends and family