the future, vespa, lambretta, macintosh, python, foie gras, truffles, cheese
people willing to eat anything (stipulation: anything that is food) once; disgruntled engineers; aspiring writers; no hippies.
the faint, interpol, the smiths, pulp, joy division. typical
easy rider, logan's run, chicken run, cannonball run, the running man, run lola run, shakespeare in love, tron, 1970's charlton heston sci-fi
iron chef, nova, futurama... most stuff on PBS (especially anything with Julia Child)
the elegant universe, how to cook everything, house of leaves, immortality,identity, the book of laughter and forgetting, art objects, sexing the cherry, etc.
steve jobs, corradino d'asconio, thomas keller, ken jennings, milan kundera, colin chapman