Comparative Indo-European poetics. Latin, Greek and Sanskrit. Modern German and Dutch. Quality opera, be it professional or amateur. Gender and sexuality studies; the "B" and "T" in that ludicrous acronym. Travel - anywhere from the Midwest to the Far East. Food, albeit somewhat selectively. Coffee. The theremin. Expatriation from the U.S. and its wretchedly low quality of life and usurpation of civil liberties under this mockery of a presidency. Schön wohnen in Berlin/(snel) mooi wonen in Leiden!
Anyone! Why be exclusionary?
Opera, no? Tannhäuser, Parsifal, Tosca and Pelléas et Mélisande; Maestri James Levine and Peter Schneider; tenor Giuseppe di Stefano, bass René Pape and soprano Marina Tropina. Also the Pet Shop Boys, Steely Dan, Simon and Garfunkel, David Bowie and many a thereminist.
La Vita è Bella (It 1998), Casablanca (USA 1942), Love Actually (UK 2003), Komm Näher (D 2006).
Queer as Folk, Smallville, M*A*S*H, German and Dutch television for educational purposes.
Ancient Indo-European letters (and the dusty, venerable scholarly treatises that elucidate them), Horace, 19th- and some 20th-c. Russian literature, opera libretti, and - last but not least - quality textbooks.
My Dad and (naturally) my teachers.