Chess, swords, martial arts, music, movies, conversation, dancing, drinking, smoking, Egyptology, forensic anthropology, mythology, particle physics, mathematics.
A man with a brain who can make me laugh til I spit whiskey out my nose. Come on, I dare you!
Skinny Puppy, old-school Punk,Oingo Boingo, 80s pop, Legendary Pink Dots, Pogues, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, Bingo, Asylum Street Spankers, Sublime, Thomas Dolby, Bartok, Queen, Love and Rockets, Dead Can Dance, et hoc genus omne
Boondock Saints, Princess Bride, Big Trouble in Little China, Man Bites Dog, Miller's Crossing, True Romance, Romeo is Bleeding, Labyrinth, Adventures of Buckaroo Banzai in the 8th Dimension, Casablanca, Adventures of Baron Munchausen
Far too many to list...but anything by Judith Tarr, Sheri Tepper, Frank Herbert, Joseph Campbell, Mark Helprin, Dick Francis, John Myers Myers.
Joseph Campbell, Alexander the Great, John Nash, Robert A. Heinlein