penguins, aquaculture, cooking, North Atlantic right whales, Ireland, Albania, Peru, museums, avian conservation, cnidarians, archaeology, geography...and finding the best beer in the world.
The Cure, Tori Amos, The Clash, Tool, Orbital, Hum, KMFDM, Front Line Assembly, Placebo, Fear Factory, Massive Attack, The Smiths, David Bowie, Type O Negative, Juno Reactor, Nine Inch Nails, Bright Eyes
The Butcher Boy, Broken Flowers, Shadow of the Vampire,Spirited Away, The Usual Suspects, The Princess Bride; Edward Scissorhands, American Beauty, Strange Brew; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Vanilla Sky; The Green Mile
The Simpsons, Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, The Outer Limits, MST3K
Books: Great Expectations; The Hitchiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Dubliners, Portrait, Ulysses; Jane Eyre; Heart of Darkness; The Golden Compass/Subtle Knife/Amber Spyglass; The Chronicles of Narnia (but not in that self-righteous Bible belt Christian way); The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings; Alice in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass; The Grapes of Wrath; The Human Stain; Bonfire of the Vanities; Prose Authors: Ray Bradbury, Jules Verne, H.G. Wells, Anton Chekhov; Poets: Eliot, Dante, Tennyson, Heaney
Jacques Cousteau, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick