fiddling, languages, the Red Sox, sailing, hating Dan Shaughnessy, contemporary music, Stockhausen's alien heritage, Wagner's canon twincest, deceptive cadences, the Omniscient Mussel, new music performance, fighting the frizzies (at eleven), following Dave McCarty's career obsessively
Osvaldo Golijov.
Britten, Sibelius, Corigliano, Bach, Brahms, Sheng, Stravinsky, Harbison, Bolcom, Mahler, Gandolfi, the Magnetic Fields, Barber, Sweeney Todd, Catatonia, Van Morrison, Solas, Kate Rusby, Dawn Upshaw, Glenn Gould, David Gray, Dropkick Murphys, Manic Street Preachers, Leonard Cohen, Mark O'Connor, Ives, Nickel Creek, R.E.M., Shostakovich, Prokofiev, Berio, Golijov, Pärt, Piazzolla, Tchaikovsky
Pulp Fiction, Silence of the Lambs, Spellbound, Bedrooms and Hallways, Star Wars, Solomon and Gaenor, Shaun of the Dead, South Park: Bigger Longer and Uncut, North by Northwest, Vertigo, The Producers, Screaming Men, Maria Full of Grace, American Splendor, The Red Violin, Arsenic and Old Lace, Before Sunset, Better Than Sex, The Full Monty, Mirrormask, Lost in Translation, O Brother Where Art Thou?, The Lion King, Shattered Glass, Les Miserables (the Claude Lelouch version), The Departed, waiting for Youth Without Youth
Family Guy, South Park, The Office, Veronica Mars, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Doctor Who, anything on NESN especially involving Jerry Remy
Neil Gaiman, Jhumpa Lahiri, Tolkien, Dante, Harry Potter, James Joyce, Auden, I Capture the Castle, T.C. Boyle, The Once and Future King, The Student Conductor, Colm Toibin, Pattern Recognition, Les Misérables, The Welsh Girl, Faulkner, Harry Potter, L'automne à Pékin
Stephen Bishop (the Broadway singer, not the guitarist), Tim Wakefield