Music, Politics, Astronomy (ask me about The Ten), Reading, Triple-Creme Cheese, Playing with Tasers, College Football, Dark Chocolate (God Bless You, Scharffen-Berger) and the art of the Spiral Tube....
Art Bell, Patty Griffin, Peter Gabriel, Paul McCartney, Manu Katche', Anthony Hopkins, Tim Burton, Click & Clack, Garrison Keillor, and anyone who's got a drummer joke that I've never heard (sorry- that person doesn't exist - heard 'em ALL - thanks, Maiya!)
Lately, it's been The Killers, The Fray, Amy Winehouse, Arcade Fire, Timbaland, Patty Griffin, Brandi Carlisle.
Braveheart (I know, I know - every guy who's read Wild At Heart says this, but I liked it a LONG time before that book came out), LA Story & Bowfinger (I love Steve Martin), Rushmore, Lost In Translation, Broken Flowers (also dig Bill Murray), Big Fish, Gladiator (I cried, okay?), Ray, Standing In The Shadows of Motown, Waiting For Guffman, Best In Show, A Mighty Wind, For Your Consideration, Trekkies, Walk The Line
The Office (I LOVE you, Pam....no, seriously), any British comedy, but especially Fawlty Towers and Monty Python.... 24, ESPN, Fox News and C-Span (during bouts of insomnia)
I just finished Cormac McCarthy's "The Road." It may be the most haunting, most upsetting, and also the most perfect book I've ever read. In general, I love anything by: Peter Hathaway Capstick, Robert Ruark, John Steinbeck, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Garrision Keillor, C.S. Lewis, Stephen Hawking, Voltaire, Machiavelli, and whoever writes all the _______ for Dummies' books - I owe you everything.
Jesus Christ. The Men and Women in our Armed Services. Brak. And Chris "Lush" Dowis.