Photography, writing, rugby, running, reading, playing guitar, secular humanism, Western Buddhism
Richard Dawkins, Ian McEwan, Ben Folds, Harper Lee
Ben Folds, Snow Patrol, Jeff Buckley, Nick Drake, Stan Getz, Richard Ashcroft, Brian Wilson, Paolo Nutini, James Morrison (the Scottish songwriter), Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Sondre Lerche, Leslie Feist, Grateful Dead, Ratdog, Widespread Panic
The Right Stuff, All The President's Men, Monty Python's The Meaning of Life, Casbalanca, Sullivan's Travels, early Woody Allen (right up to about Crimes and Misdemeanors),
BBC America, Coupling, Anderson Cooper 360, No Reservations with Anthony Bourdain, A Cook's Tour, Iron Chef, Family Guy, The Daily Show, League of Gentlemen (BBC),
Notes From Underground, Atonement by Ian McEwan, The Source by James Michener, Ben Elton (anything by him), Dostoevsky, Tolstoy, all the Russians, Laurens van der Post, if you care at all about what colonialization does to people it's important you read van der Post's "A Far Off Place."
JFK, Ian McEwan, Ernest Hemingway, Anthony Bourdain, Bertrand Russell, Joseph Campbell, Seth MacFarlane, screenwriter Julius Epstein, Lenny Bruce, George Carlin, Raymond Carver, Alan Watts, E. O. Wilson, Richard Dawkins, Coleman Barks, Penn Jilette, Clarence Darrow