painting, sculpture, photography, nature, forests, botanic gardens, butterfly houses, big headphones, live music, tacos, lots of exercise, softly-lit rooms, various shades of red, violet and teal, riveted metal, abandoned factories and hospitals, wearing scarves, scented candles and incense, building things out of wood by hand, big coffee-table art books, vivid dreaming, men with tattoos, writing letters, biomechanoids, holiday lights, high heels and tall boots, knee-high socks, drinking coffee, late-night conversation, art-making, book-making, love-making, watercolor pencils and tiny paint brushes, red wine, optimus prime, wearing black, keyholes in old doors, antique bathtubs, costume design.
AC/DC, Alice in Chains, Amos Lee, Amy Winehouse, Aqualung, Arcade Fire, Beastie Boys, Beck, BeeGees, Bjork, Blonde Redhead, Bob Marley, Camera Obscura, Chemical Brothers, Cold War Kids, Coldplay, The Cult, The Damnwells, The Dandy Warhols, David Gray, David Poe, Deftones, Depeche Mode, Dido, The Ditty Bops, The Eagles, Elbow, Faithless, Fesit, Ferry Corsten, Filter, The Flaming Lips, The Fratellis, Gary Numan, Golden Earring, Goldfrapp, Gomez, I Monster, Imogen Heap, Interpol, iNXS, Iron and Wine, J.C. Bach, Jeff Buckley, Joseph Arthur, Keane, KMFDM, The Knife, Korn, Kosheen, Lauren Hill, LCD Soundsystem, Live, Magnet, Massive Attack, Metallica, New Order, Nick Drake, Nine Inch Nails, Ozzy, Pantera, Pete Yorn, Portishead, Prince, The Prodigy, Queen, Queensryche, Radiohead, Rammstein, Rob Zombie, Rob Stewart, Ryan Adams, Sarah McLachlan, Sevendust, The Shin, Smashing Pumpkins, Snow Patrol, Sondre Lerche, Sonic Animation, Stabbing Westward, Starsailor, Tears for Fears, Tool, Tori Amos, Vangelis, VAST, White Zombie, Wilco, Will Dailey, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, local Brooklyn talents Jessi Robertson, Sami Akbari, Tom Hayes, Matt Singer, Paul Basile, Peter Inc, The Picture, Kevin Johnston, Derek James, God Fires Man and Leah Siegel, 89.3 The Current, pandora.com.
mostly sci-fi and suspense thrillers...any movie with some sort of large, relentlessly evil creature running around. alien, alien 3, blade runner, resident evil, underworld, the labyrinth, spinal tap, space balls, american psycho, the machinist, batman, batman begins, thomas crown affair, basquiat, the dark crystal, monsters inc, the last unicorn, reservoir dogs, city of lost children, princess bride, anything hitchcock, ridley scott or jim henson, pan's labyrinth, twelve monkeys, brazil (terry gilliam is awesome).
the history channel, scifi network, and antiques roadshow.