Dance -- especially Chicago Tap Theatre and Hubbard Street Dance Chicago -- as well as reading (mostly kids' books!) and writing (no 'rithmatic, not that I can't, but really, if I have a choice? No.). Chocolate and champange. Hob Nobs and Jammie Dodgers. All things English (except marmite and Lady Thatcher).
Musicians in and around Columbia interested in working with a tap dancer on percussion, as well as just generally cool folk. Tap dancers with interesting news for my blog are also encouraged to give me a shout.
Well, I love anything by Tappuccino, of course! ;) Other than that, I like the jazz greats, past and present (Charlie Parker, Dizzy Gillespie, The Bad Plus, etc.); English choral music; wickedly fast Bach; shamefully danceable pop tunes.
Anything with dance. I'm also partial to Jimmy Stewart (Philadelphia Story, It's A Wonderful Life), Gregory Peck (Gentleman's Agreement, Roman Holiday) and Brendan Fraser.
Fiction ranging from JK Rowling to Susan Cooper to PG Wodehouse to CP Snow (see a trend other than a shortage of first names?). Every jazz musician should read "The Bear Comes Home" by Rafi Zabor. It has amazing insights into the improvisational process, all told from the perspective of a talking, saxophone-playing bear.