Music.... metal, classical, anything melodic. Music theory. Old video games (and some new ones). Politics (I'm not actually as insanely, unwaveringly liberal as I make myself seem, but I am still way left-of-center). Practicing bass for hours while watching re-runs of The Sopranos (or when I've finally irreparably exhausted that show, my sister's My So-Called Life DVDs, lol). Italian food. Italian chicks. Slavic chicks. Mediterranean chicks. Middle Eastern chicks. Nickelodeon nostalgia. Hiking, and anything nature-related. Reading non-shitty poetry. 3D art, modeling, rigging, etc. Greek tragedy, tragic opera, literary tragedy in general. Mythology (Norse, Greek, Indian).
Anybody, although allow me to adress a common misconception: if you listen to nothing but brutal death metal, thrash metal, crusty black metal, et cetera, I most likely have more in common musically with the average rapper than I do with you.
I'm cool:
"What a burden knowledge is, when knowledge is of no avail!" - Sophacles
amon amarth, anacrusis, andres segovia, anthrax, arch enemy, at the gates, atheist, avantasia, avenger of blood, ayreon, bach, beatles, BEETHOVEN, bizet, blind guardian, bob dylan, borknagar, brahms, cacophony, children of bodom, control denied, death, death angel, deicide, destruction, dissection, doa, dragonforce, dragonlord, dream theater, dvorak, edge of sanity, embryonic devourment, evergrey, fear factory, finntroll, gamma ray, grieg, gwar, hadan, handel, haydn, helloween, helstar, holst, iced earth, in flames (but nothing after Clayman), into eternity, iron maiden, iron savior, john williams, khrysler, legnani, liszt, mahler, megadeth, mendelssohn, morbid angel, mozart, mussorgsky, necrophagist, nevermore, nocturnal rites, nuclear assault, opeth, pachelbel, paganini, pink floyd, provokiev, psypheria, rachmaninov, rhapsody, rimsky-korsakov, schoenberg, schumann, severed savior, shostakovich, sinergy, slayer, sod, sodom, soilwork, sol asunder, stratovarius, stravinsky, symphony x, tchaikovski, telemann, testament, the haunted, theory in practice, thy primordial, vader, vaugh williams, vehemence, villa-lobos, vivaldi, wagner, winter sun, witchery, yngwie malmsteen
GODFATHER 1 & 2 (but especially 2), Lord of the Rings series, Harry Potter series, Dr. Strangelove, Almost Famous, Downfall, Farenheit 911, any Star Wars film that's older than me, Memento, The Boondock Saints, Excalibur, Goodfellas, Death of a Salesman, Of Mice and Men, Guilty by Suspicion, that Russian version of The Idiot, Amadeus, An Occurance at Owl Creek Bridge, Glengarry Glen Ross, The Deer Hunter, Raging Bull, Taxi Driver, The Departed, Pan's Labyrinth, Wayne's World 1 & 2, Half Baked, The Secret Garden wasn't one of my favorite movies, but it had probably the best soundtrack I've ever heard in my life. Un fucking believable.
I also really like movies that suck, like Gigli, One Night in China, Mortal Kombat Annihilation, Catwoman, Gypsy 83, Spice World, Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles 3, any kids movie from the 90's with a monkey as one of the main characters, any modern-day adaptation of Shakespeare, I haven't seen Battlefield: Earth yet, but I bet it rules.
Operas:
CARMEN, Così fan tutte, Don Giovanni, Madame Butterfly, Otello (Verdi's, not Rossini's), Robert le Diable, Die Zauberflöte, The Ring cycle, Fidelio, The Barber of Seville, Norma
The Simpsons (but only the older ones. New Simpsons can fucking blow me), Family Guy, Aqua Teen Hunger Force("MC Pee Pants is in HELL!!"), anything on VH1 that sucks (especially the stuff that sucks), THE SOPRANOS, anything that was on Nickelodeon from around 1990-1995ish (with a slight lean towards that stuff that sucked), Beavis and Butthead!!! I don't know if The Angry Nintendo Nerd counts as television, but I'll list it anyways.
Dostoyevsky, Gogol, Shakespeare (tragedies and histories), Checkov, Tolstoy, Kafka, Orwell, some Neil Gaiman, Neitzsche, Aristotle, Aeschylus, Euripades, Homer, Sophacles, Schoenberg, Tolkien, Fitzgerald, Faulkner, Whitman, Thich Naht Hanh, Fuentes, Miller, Mamet, Sartre, Book of Job and certain shit from the Old Testament, The Book of Revelation, Anything by Maynard Solomon, The Eddas, traditional shit like The Epic of Gilgamesh, that one translation of the Bible that has the phrase "fucking douchebags" in it
First and foremost, my parents Laurie and Paul, and my fucking bitch ass sister Arianna. Second, Ludwig van Beethoven and Fyodor Dostoyevsky are two of the greatest geniuses ever to have lived!
Musicians:
Anthony Arjen Lucassen, John Lennon, Arnold Schoenberg, Hansi Kurch, Andi Deris (vocal god, imo!!), Michael Romeo, Koji Kondo, John Williams, Troy Tipton
Teachers I've had:
Sylvia Nance, Rian Cooney, Steve Hoffman, Richard Riley, Nell Smith, Marie Charmichael
Misc.
INAFKING AND FUCKING MIAMOTO, John Cazale, Sara Rue, Milhouse, the Angry Nintendo Nerd, Gayli, The Immortal Beloved, Syd Lexia, Johnny Sack (for being the only character on The Sopranos to redeem himself :)), Rossana Potenza
Al Gore used to be one, but since he didn't run for president he can suck my fucking dick.