Art History, Languages (French especially), Judaism, Paganism, Catholicism, Existentialism, Ontology, Writing, Music, Football, Hockey, Soccer, Hurling, Painting, Reading, and Anthropology (Physical, Cultural, and Linguistic). Any -isms really.
Frans de Waal, Jane Goodall
311, Cat Stevens, David Bowie, Dead Milkmen, Devo, GWAR, Mamas and the Papas, MC Paul Barman, Misfits, Ramones, The Clancy Brothers, The Saw Doctors, Gaelic Storm, Ben Folds (Five), Lisa Loeb, Iggy Pop, Grateful Dead, Iggy and the Stooges, Tommy Makem, Sondheim, Webber, Larson, Weezer, Johnny Cash, Simon and Garfunkel, KISS, Tenacious D, Great Big Sea, Hot Hot Heat, Franz Ferdinand, Dance Hall Crashers, Allman Brothers, Barenaked Ladies, Beastie Boys, Blind Melon, Gin Blossoms, Nico, Blues Traveler, El Pus, Goldfinger, Gogol Bordello, Goo Goo Dolls, Mighty Mighty Bosstones, Operation Ivy, Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Reel Big Fish, Big D and the Kids Table, Regina Spektor, Red Hot Chili Peppers, The Velvets, Fiona Apple, et al...
I love films by: Truffaut, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Wes Anderson, Peter Jackson, Kevin Smith, Judd Apatow, Any foreign films really.... Period films... Douchey comedies...
Seinfeld, Lost, Ed, Father Ted, Strangers with Candy, Little Britain, Ab Fab, SO Graham Norton, Keeping up Appearances, Are You Being Served, As Time Goes By, Top Chef, Two and a Half Men, The Office (US), The Office(BBC), Scrubs.
Shakespeare, Austen, Marlowe on occasion, Homer, Poe, Montgomery, Vonnegut, Anything by:The Algonquins-Parker, Kauffman/ The Jews-Malamud, Englander, Roth / The Russians-playwrights.../ The Irish-Joyce, Beckett, Yeats, et al./ The Beats-Kerouac, Ginsburg / The French-Sartre, Camus, and yes, Fabre.
Jerri Blank, Jan van Eyck, Shaki, de Waal, Andy Warhol's mother.