Movies, music, politics, baseball (especially the Cubs), queer politics, theatre, books, poker, the usual.
Superchunk, Death Cab for Cutie, New Order, Peter Gabriel, The Decemberists, The Postal Service, Rilo Kiley, The Shins, The Cure, R.E.M., Elvis Costello, The Beatles, Radiohead, Talking Heads, Arcade Fire, Keane, Kate Bush, Trashcan Sinatras, Wheat, The Killers, The New Pornographers, Broken Social Scene, Portastatic, Yo La Tengo, Ida, The Doves, Franz Ferdinand, etc etc etc...
8 1/2, The Silence of the Lambs, The Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Election, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Brokeback Mountain, Caché, Code Unknown, The Incredibles, Finding Nemo, Kundun, Fargo, Magnolia, Jackie Brown, Syriana, Fireworks, King Kong, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, The Godfather I & II, The Misfits, Rear Window, and many many more...
Lost, Project Runway, 24, Sex and the City, The Sopranos, Six Feet Under, The Simpsons, Futurama, The Larry Sanders Show, The X-Files, My So-Called Life, Monty Python's Flying Circus, Absolutely Fabulous, The Office, Oz, Twin Peaks
Disgrace, Doomsday Book, The Corrections, Best American Short Stories series, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Anna Karenina, The Feast of Love, The Sandman series, A Home at the End of the World, Winter Birds, Lemony Snicket, Harry Potter, Philip Pullman's His Dark Materials trilogy, etc etc