Backpacking, hiking, backpacking, hiking, backpacking (in that order)
Also, building and riding road and fixed gear bicycles, refrigerator poetry, thinking about writing a novel, and sitting around on my butt.
Gandhi, Salvador Dali, Haruki Murakami, Lance Armstrong, Beethoven, Dr. Phil, Sherlock Holmes, and Ansel Adams (to name a few)
Everything.
Opera. (No, seriously.) Check out: Die Zauberflote, La Traviata, La Boheme, La Sonnambula, Turandot, and Giulio Cesare for starters...
This ain't yer Uncle Jimbo's bluegrass! Hackensaw Boys, Chairs, and Blue Harvest, as well as Split Lip Rayfield
And so you don't think I'm a complete idiot...here's some music I like you might recognize:
Elvis Costello, Counting Crows, Five for Fighting, Beatles, Graham Colton Band, Pixies, Calexico, Aqualung, Coldplay, Dave Matthews Band, Bob Dylan, The Ramones, Neil Young, O.A.R., Ryan Adams & the Cardinals
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Any Guy Pierce movie
V for Vendetta
Princess Bride
Monty Python & the Holy Grail
Survivorman; Man vs. Wild; Mythbusters; CSI (the original); Criminal Minds; Macgyver; Judge Judy; old Transformers cartoons
Now, I fully admit to being addicted to Passions (yes, the soap opera) and after that's over, I watch Dr. Phil. I love Passions. I love Dr. Phil. I'm a pansy.
East of Eden
South of the Border, West of the Sun
The Kite Runner
Soul Mountain
The Attack
The Pillars of the Earth
Walking with Spring
Don Quixote
Roget's New Pocket Thesaurus
Roots
Such A Long Journey
Tao of Photography
Watership Down
Never Let Me Go
Jude the Obscure
The Life of Pi
Family Matters
American Purgatorio
Any of Simon R. Green's Nightside series
Currently, I'm working through the Islam Quintet by Tariq Ali.