Scholastica, architecture, literature (books, too), film with live musical accompaniment, the arts generally (except for mime...ewww), the banal and mundane, walking around town, schmoozing.
Lounge, exotica, scratchy 78s, 80's one-hit wonders, the Burning Man '06 compilation. Frank Sinatra, Martin Denny, Nicola Conte, Peggy Lee, Pizzacato Five, The B-52's, Wall of Voodoo, Man or Astroman.
'Dr Mabuse The Gambler', 'The Thin Man', 'The President's Analyst', 'The Man Who Would Be King', 'The Maltese Falcon', 'Dr Goldfoot and the Bikini Machine', 'The Pink Panther'. Don't even get me started about 'Miller's Crossing'.
'Twin Peaks' (best show ever), 'Columbo', 'Dragnet', any 60's spy show, 'The Rockford Files', '24' (I'd like to jump on the 'I need Jack Bauer as a personal assistant for one hour a week' bandwagon), 'Miami Vice', reality programming that gives the participants ample scope to degrade themselves.
'Crime and Punishment', 'Roughing It', 'The Ingenious Hidalgo Don Quixote de la Mancha', 'Our Dumb Century', 'Decline of the West', 'One Hundred Years of Solitude', 'The Divine Comedy', Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey Maturin novels, just about anything by Dashiell Hammett, Italo Calvino, Raymond Chandler, Jane Austen, Jim Thompson, PG Wodehouse, Stanley Clisby Arthur, James M Cain, George Bernard Shaw, Umberto Eco or William Shakespeare.
This old guy I saw at a polo match in Newport. Oh, man, he was living large.