anthropology, art, archaeology & ancient history, costuming, daguerreotypes, film, heraldry, history, linguistics & grammar, literature, motion picture technologies, mythology, national parks, roleplaying, the science-fiction and fantasy genres, social justice, toys, video games, werewolves, zoology
Games - Asheron's Call, Katamari Damacy, Kirby, MYST and its many iterations, Super Smash Bros. Melee, World of Warcraft
Anyone who shares my interests, be they artists, gamers, or linguists. My group of friends have a vicious tendency to absorb people into their ranks rather abruptly, so we're always on the lookout for more people to run about in pretty costumes with.
Film soundtracks & scores, good musicals, bagpipes, the sort of classical music that makes your heart beat faster, traditional hawai'ian music, world music, crooners.
Bands and Artists - Adiemus, The Aquabats!, Balkanarama, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Bing Crosby, Christine Lavin, Danny Elfman, David Bowie, Devil Doll, Ella Fitzgerald, Frank Sinatra, Jack Johnson, John Williams, Lords of the Rhymes, Le Mystere de Voix Bulgares, Nightwish, Niyaz, Parios Combo, The Phenomenauts, Ron Sexsmith, Russian Red Army Choir, Sara Groves, Scott Walker, Tenacious D, They Might Be Giants, Vas, Voltaire, other things which currently escape me.
300; A Goofy Movie; The Adventures of Robin Hood; Beauty and the Beast; Casablanca; Ducktales: the Movie; The Emperor's New Groove; Goonies; Harry Potter; The Iron Giant; Lilo & Stitch; The Lion King; Lord of the Rings; Newsies; The Princess Bride; Run Lola Run; Secretary; Serenity; Shaun of the Dead; Singin' in the Rain; V for Vendetta
Arrested Development; Battlestar Galactica; Children of Dune; Darkwing Duck; DuckTales; Due South; Dune; Family Guy; Fawlty Towers; Firefly; Heroes; House MD; Jeeves & Wooster; Kids in the Hall; Lost; Monty Python's Flying Circus; The Office; Scrubs; Stat Trek: TOS; Star Trek: The Next Generation; Stargate Atlantis; Stargate SG-1; Talespin; Venture Bros.; What's My Line; Wonderfalls
A Series of Unfortunate Events, Beowulf, The Dark Tower, the Dune trilogy, Harry Potter, Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell, Lord of the Rings, the Myst novels, No Exit, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are Dead, The Silmarillion; Slowness; The Thursday Next saga; Twelfth Night; Waiting for Godot
Authors - Austen, Fforde, Kundera, Tolkien, Wilde, Wodehouse
Comics - The Authority, Batman/Superman, Belladone, Bone, The Flash, Impulse, the MYST comic but not really, SkyDoll, Transmetropolitan, V for Vendetta, X-Men, Young Justice
Benedict Arnold, Alexander Hamilton, John Hancock, the Marquis de Lafayette, the King of All Cosmos, and, above all, Erica Henderson.