I dunno. Pretty much everything is interesting. What do I currently spend my time on outside work? Painting, printmaking, cat spoiling, yoga, dancing (out or in), massage (self/other, give/receive), sitting outside with friends talking for hours and drinking tea or wine, smelling things, making and enjoying delicious food and drink, and socializing on the Internet Machine.
And all of this is why my dissertation isn't finished yet. Oh well, you gotta live while you're alive, right? It'll get done.
People who are more a part of the creator class rather than the consumer class? And that is creating construed broadly...
My favorite band for ever and always is The Cure. It's like a religious faith.
I also spent lots of time in goth/industrial clubs in Atlanta in the mid-to-late 90s, so there's also all of that kind of stuff, too...
However, I also like The Bangles, have a thing for 60s girl groups and bad covers, go hot and cold on trying to keep up with new music, (hello, overwhelm!) and swoon to Dave Gahan's voice.
Most people think my favorite movies are boring because they are usually slow, subtitled, and/or depressing.
My favorites are also beautiful, and they turn around and stab you in the heart. (Or are cleverly disturbing).
All Kieslowski's later work, anything by Deepa Mehta, The Pillow Book, Dead Ringers, Me and You and Everyone We Know, City of Lost Children...
I watched Heathers a lot in my formative years and it shows.
I don't really watch television. I like sitting down and watching Twin Peaks in long stretches every few years or so. I liked early X-Files. I've seen a couple episodes of 6 Feet Under and they were awesome. Stephen Colbert is my Fake News Boyfriend, but I really only see him in Internet video clips.
I have too many books and don't do enough not-for-school reading any more. I probably don't do enough for-school reading, either. For school, I'm obsessed with classification and categorization--how humans do it, not how to make machines do it. Outside school, lately I've been obsessed with reading nonfiction biology, neurology, and psychology books about sex and love, or about depression. The Science of Orgasm is fascinating. Last fiction that I really loved: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime by Mark Haddon, Perfume by Patrick Süskind. Oh and always, always Henry Miller.
S.R. Ranganathan, beeyotches.