Mountain biking of all flavors, cycling in all its forms, photography, vintage bike art, Antarctic lore, earth sciences, physics, homebrewing, the culinary arts, eating my way from continent to continent, design, architecture, modernism
Music:
Dave Brubeck, John Coltrane, Stephane Grappelli, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Martin Denny, Thievery Corporation, Federico Aubele, any Gilberto, Radiohead, Marvin Gaye, Death Cab For Cutie, The Strokes, The Smiths, The Cure, Belle and Sebastian, Primus, The Streets, Black Star Liner, Crystal Method, dZihan and Kamien, Grant Lee Buffalo (Phillips), Zero 7, Morcheeba, Beth Orton, Mosquitos , Brazilian Girls , Quantic, Morphine (RIP Mark Sandman), Satchel, Brad, Pink Martini , Royal Crown Revue, Big Bad Voodoo Daddy, Jamie Cullum , Sarah McLachlan, Los Angeles Guitar Quartet, Rise Against, The Weakerthans , Zion I, Jurassic 5, Makoto, LTJ Bukem, E-Z Rollers, Thunderball, Ursula 1000, The Decemberists , The Epoxies . Nouvelle Vague , Stereolab , Neko Case , Calexico , Corn Mo .
Movies:
Seven Samurai, Kill Bill, Manhatten, Breaking Away, American Flyers, Annie Hall, The Longest Day, Contact, Lost in Translation, Lock Stock & Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Heat, Bend it Like Beckham, Princess Mononoke, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Hero, House of Flying Daggers, Red, White, Blue, The Last Emperor, March of the Penguins , Les Triplettes de Belleville, Office Space, Better Off Dead, This is Spinal Tap, Swingers, Waiting for Guffman, Best in Show, A Mighty Wind, Life of Brian, Something's Gotta Give, Napoleon Dynamite, The Imposters, Godfather trilogy, High Fidelity, The Life Aquatic, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Collective , I ♥ Huckabees, The Aristocrats .
Television:
Most eXtreme elimination Challenge ("Get it on!!"), Iron Chef, The West Wing, Family Guy, Da Ali G Show, Six Feet Under.
Books:
It's Not About the Bike. My Family and Other Animals. Godel Escher Bach. Alan Lightman: Einstein's Dreams, Good Benito, Reunion, The Diagnosis. In the Heart of the Sea: The Tragedy of the Whaleship Essex. Antarctic lore including South: A Memoir of the Endurance Voyage, Terra Incognia: Travels in Antarctica, Last Place On Earth. The Mother Tongue: English and How it Got That Way. John Adams by David McCullough. Tao of Physics. The Scent of the Gods by Fiona Cheong (ask me about my ghost story). The Pleasure of Finding Things Out and The Meaning of it All by Richard Feynman.
Periodicals: Dwell , Atlantic Monthly, Scientific American, Bike, Dirt Rag, and *yawn* Geophysical Research Letters, Journal of Geophysical Research.
Heroes:
Ernest Shackleton , Roald Amundsen , Galen Rowell , Werner Heisenberg
