books, sci-fi, fantasy, linguistics, anthropology, ancient cultures, modern languages, life, music, singing, Bollywood (cos everything's a musical in Bollywood...), shiny things
Queen Elizabeth I, Cleopatra, other historical figures - to find out what really happened
Cranberries, Trapt, Seether, Joydrop, Berlin, Inna and the Farlanders, Metallica, The Offspring, Tom Petty and the Heart Breakers, No Address, The B-52s, Herb Alpert and the Tijuana Brass, Jimmy Eat World, KYO, Nirvana, Puddle of Mudd, Taproot, Evanescence, Stepa, The Stray Cats, Weird Al, Berlin, Joydrop, KT Tunstall, Black Eyed Peas, Pink Floyd, R.E.M., M.I.A.
Star Trek IV: The Voyage Home, Labyrinth, The Princess Bride, POTC, LOTR, Crash
Star Trek TOS, TNG, DS9, VOY; Stargate SG-1, Atlantis; MacGyver; BTVS; Charmed; Dark Angel; Xena: Warrior Princess; random anime; the CSIs when there's nothing else on
The Great Book of Amber - Roger Zelazny; anything by Mercedes Lackey, Tamora Pierce or Marion Zimmer Bradley; Nineteen Eighty-four - George Orwell; The Beauty Myth - Naomi Wolf; Neil Gaiman rocks my world; the Fables comic series; too darned many books to name
Real: Veronique Gimenez, Mr. and Mrs. Ware, my mama, R. HeinleinFictional: Dr. Daniel Jackson, Max Guevara