Old movies (Cary Grant, Irene Dunne, James Cagney, Fred Astair, Katharine Hepburn, William Powell, Myrna Loy). American literature (Mark Twain, Ambrose Bierce, Booth Tarkington, Washington Irving). Acoustic music. Painting, particularly 18th-century portraiture and 19th-century landscapes.
I'm always interested in meeting other writers, particularly novelists, and fans of historical fiction.
Folk, Celtic, old-time country string bands, singer-songwriters like Gillian Welch and Richard Thompson, early Van Morrison, Tom Waits, Beatles, Emmy Lou Harris, and late 18th-century classical. The Black Eyed Peas crack me up.
Screwball comedies, musicals, and pretty much anything that Howard Hawks, Sam Fuller, Sam Peckinpah, or John Huston was involved in. I also like documentaries and old cartoons, particularly by Bob Clampett, Tex Avery, and the Fleischer brothers.
Lost. Yeah, I know, I'm way behind on this. I didn't watch TV for about five years and just got back.
Roughing It by Mark Twain, The Big Sleep by Raymond Chandler, Double Indemnity by James Cain, The Maltese Falcon by Dashiell Hammett, and The Treasure of the Sierra Madre by B. Traven.
The little guy, trying his damndest to do the right thing at all times, and the U.S. Marines.