Travel, reading, long naps, salsa dancing, trying new ethnic foods, cooking, film and film-making, massage and acupuncture, redheads, sailing, portugese and arabic, gang bangs, stand-up comedy, bar hopping, economic development for third world nations, community service, music, theme parties, dancing, prancing, kabitzing, and other tomfoolery.
A few really hot redheads
80's, Billy Joel, Elton John, The Shins, Flaming Lips, Tom Waits, Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, White Stripes, Robert Johnson, Charlie Patton, Son House, John Lee Hooker, Gomez, Beck, Chemical Bros, Tall Paul, Kid Icarus, Willie Nelson, Johnny Cash, Merle Haggard, Hank Williams Sr., Allison Kraus, The Mars Volta, Enya, Gift of Gab, Blackalicious, Diggable Planets, The Spooks, Beatnuts, Jurassic Five, Outkast, Snoop, NERD, Weezer, Bjork, Sieger Rosse, the Toadies, Keb Mo, Lyrics Born, Aesop Rock, Dire Straits,The Guess Who, Jimmi Hendrix, Led Zeppelin, Nick Drake, Jeff Buckley,Jay-Z, Aphex Twin, Reverend Horton Heat, The Roches, and too many more to list them all here.
The Princess Bride, The Usual Suspects, old Clint Eastwood westerns, His Girl Friday, all three Godfather movies, Casino, Goodfellas, Korean film, Lord of War,The Constant Gardner,The Bros Grimm, both Bourne Movies,Patton, Stalag 17, The Great Escape, Crash,The Jerk, Harold and Kumar...,Tombstone,Ken Burns' The Civil War, Japanese anime, and so many others.
Arrested Development, Frazier, Seinfeld, Simpsons, Family Guy, Harvey Birdman, Home Movies, West Wing, Lonely Planet, Father Ted, Black Adder, Are You Being Served, Fawlty Towers, The Sopranos, Rome, Six Feet Under
The Peloponesian War by Thucydides, East of Eden by John Steinbeck, The Way We Live Now by Anthony Trollope, Dandelion Wine by Ray Bradbury(and any of his short stories), To Have and Have Not by Ernest Hemingway(and any of his short stories), almost anything written by Fyodor Dostoyevsky but especially The Dream of a Ridiculous Man, and many many more that will be added some other time...
I guess I do look up to Ol' Abe Lincoln and Thucydides more than others.