Dancing, Sailing, Swimming, Scuba Diving, Motorcycles, Bicycles, Traveling, Live Music, Theater, Reading, Movies, Guitar, Politics, Economics, and Religion to name a few.
Its hard to tell who your stars will be. I'll I can say for certain is that mine fall way off the main sequence.
Sonic Youth, Blonde Redhead, Maserati, King Missile, STS9, LCD Sound System, Gotan Project, Ghostland Observatory, The Black Angels, The Arcade Fire, The Killers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Comas, Liz Phair, Coldplay, The Dead Kennedies, The Damned, Pocket Fishermen, Radiohead, Todies, Primus, The Little Ones, The Polyphonic Spree, Interpol, The Stills, The Shins, Air, Modest Mouse, Ween, Massive Attack, Goldfrapp, Ladytron, Metric, Cake, Cibo Matto, Regina Spektor, The Cranes, Portishead, Mazzy Star, Johny Cash, Lious Armstrong, Ella Fitzgerald, Benny Goodman, Duke Ellington, Rocket 69, Midori Umi, Experimental Aircraft, The Octopus Project, The Arm, The Nash Hernandez Orchestra, Two Tons of Steel, The Faceless Warewolves, Spoon
Bend it Like Beckham, La Sirène Rouge, The Constant Gardner, Garden State, Donnie Darko, Love Actually, Tank Girl, Lawn Dogs, Brazil, 12 Monkeys, Pitch Black, The Big Lebowski, O Brother Where Art Though, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Amily, The Lover, The House of Yes, American Beauty, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, Freeway, Before Sunrise, The English Patient, Lost in Translation, Igby Goes Down, The Shipping News, The Jacket, The Good Humor Man, D.E.B.S., Stage Beauty, Dodgeball, History of the World pt 1, Top Secret!, Shaun of The Dead, Mallrats, MirrorMask, Full Metal Jacket, Saved!, Kung Fu Hustle, Run Lola Run, Me and You and Everyone We Know, Levity, Shopgirl
Farscape, Buffy, Angel, Babylon 5, Andromeda, Heroes, Alias, Veronica Mars
Favorite Fiction: Lord of The Rings, Dune, The Ender Saga, The Chronicles of Narnia, Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Watership Down, and Where the Wild Things Are as well as multiple books by the authors Greg Bear, Robert Anton Wilson, Neal Stephenson, and Cormac McCarthy.
Nonfiction: The Moral Animal, Guns Germs and Steel, The Evolution of Desire, The Blind Watchmaker
I used to read voraciously but in recent years I have come to prefer more visceral, less vicarious activities.
When I read these days it almost always non-fiction that applies to some project or other I am working on.
Martin Luther King Jr. because he sought justice when most would have sought only revenge
Benjamin Franklin for his adventerous mind and clear insight into the cost of individual freedom.
Jack White for inspiring me to take up the guitar.