Reading (classics, music-related non-fiction, history and politics, humorous essays, Cormac McCarthy, Faulkner, Conrad), movies (all genres, all eras), music (ditto, though I'm partial to the blues (Delta, Chicago, or Piedmont), old-time country and folk, the Rolling Stones, Dylan and The Band, first-wave punk, and Springsteen), vegetarian cooking, and guinea pigs!
Old friends, mostly, though new friends are always good (unless they're weirdos).
You name it, I'll listen to it at least once, though I don't have much patience for new whiny-rock (talkin' to you, Coldplay!) or the noisy, grinding stuff. Some favorites: Howlin' Wolf, Muddy Waters, Robert Johnson, Little Walter, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, Bruce Springsteen, Hank Williams, Johnny Cash, Jimmie Rodgers, Bob Wills, Bob Dylan, The Clash, Talking Heads, Warren Zevon, Elvis Presley, Otis Redding, Sam Cooke, The Band, Folkways collections and field recordings.
Almost anything. Some new favorites: I'm Not There, Superbad, Pan's Labyrinth, Children of Men, Little Children, Borat, The Proposition. Some old favorites: Once Upon a Time in the West, Unforgiven, Seven Samurai, Anchorman, Jaws, Casablanca, Goodfellas, Godfather I & II, Chinatown, Nashville...
The Office, My Name Is Earl, 30 Rock, Scrubs, boxing, UFC, The Shield, The Wire
Favorites: Moby Dick, Heart of Darkness, Blood Meridian, No Country for Old MenCurrently reading: Our Band Could Be Your Life (Azerrad), The University in Ruins (Readings), Born Standing Up (Steve Martin), Dream Boogie: The Triumph of Sam Cooke (Guralnick), Bound for Glory (Woody Guthrie), lots of Spanish books porque estoy aprendiendo espanol.Just finished: Consider the Lobster, and A Supposedly Fun Thing I'll Never Do Again (David Foster Wallace); Sex Drugs & Cocoa Puffs, and Chuck Klosterman IV (Klosterman); Across the Great Divide: The Band and America (Hoskyns); The Old Weird America, and Double Trouble: Bill Clinton and Elvis Presley in a Land of No Alternatives (Greil Marcus); The Short Bus: A Journey Beyond Normal (Mooney); Finn: A Novel (Clinch)