Reading, soccer, arguing, baseball (Giants and Red Sox), movies, watching the early episodes of American Idol when the contestants are awful and have their dreams crushed
Stephen King
Right now, bizarrely, I'm into Brandi Carlile, Eva Cassidy, and Arcade Fire. Von Karajan doing Beethoven. I love classic rock and country, and Motown. My new favorite? Missy Higgins, Missy Higgins, Missy Higgins.
The Orphanage, Psycho, Usual Suspects, Grindhouse, The Insider, Quiz Show, Reservoir Dogs, Brick, Oldboy, The Dirty Dozen, Rear Window, His Girl Friday, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Shoot 'Em Up, Inside Man, Juno, Michael Clayton, The Lady Eve, and, hell, fine, okay -- The Bodyguard
Battlestar Galactica. The Shield. Entourage.
(and authors): Manhattan Nocture, Motherless Brooklyn, Masters of Atlantis, Civilwarland in Bad Decline, Faulkner, Shakespeare, Thomas Harris, Stephen King, The End of Alice, Lehane, James Ellroy, Diablo Cody, Robert Crais, T Jefferson Parker, Michael Connelly, Garth Ennis, Christopher Hitchens, James Wolcott, Franzen, Chandler, Cain, Andrew Klavan, Lullaby, Caught Stealing, Gerald's Game
The Punisher, Ignatius J. Reilly