knitting; ninjas; bourbon; monkeys!; baseball; useless trivia; Scrabble - or any word game for that matter; glittery sparkly things; Vegas; Edward Gorey; old monster movies.
And Charles Nelson Reilly. Or a reasonable facsimile thereof.
And Adam Savage. He makes me weak in the knees.
And Jeremy Piven. He so needs to be my boyfriend. Seriously.
And a real life, honest-to-goodness ninja.
The Jam, The Wrens, Mittens, Mando Diao, Hooray For Earth, Astrud Gilberto, The Postal Service, Paula Kelley, The Shins, Devin Davis, Okkervil River, Adam Green, Johnny Cash, Ad Frank, Scott Walker, Nancy Sinatra, Bruce Springsteen, Johnny Cash, The Bon Savants, Beck
Harold and Maude, Barbarella, Auntie Mame, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, all the Christopher Guest mockumentories, Faster Pussycat-Kill! Kill!, Breakfast at Tiffany's, any Godzilla movie(except 1998), Who's Afraid of Virginia Wolfe?, Young Frankenstein.
(Apparently, the movie must prove itself over several viewings to fall into the favorites category for me.)
More recently: Little Miss Sunshine, The Aristocrats, and yes, I liked the Borat.
I'm such a sucker for the medical/science channels, drives the roomie crazy, it does. And documentaries, of any kind really.
Reference books - yes, as in medical encyclopedias, dictionaries, thesauri, manuals, atlases, compendia, and the like. That's right.........big dork.
But also: The Every Boy by Dana Adam Shapiro, Stiff: The Curious Lives of Human Cadavers by Mary Roach