Coffee, garlic, cheese, fried foods, my super-cool retro split-level house, IKEA, lately I've developed an interest in all things French.
Lloyd Dobler.
Elvis, Jawbreaker, Dean Martin, the Misfits, Loretta Lynn, Bing Crosby, Hank Williams, the GZA, Patsy Cline, Mozart, the Jackson 5ive, etc.
True Romance, the Thin Man series, Bond movies, Bogart movies, mob movies, Hitchcock movies, Fellini films, Monroe movies, Noir movies, old movies, foreign movies, art-ish movies, etc.
Educational and adult chanels. I'm also slightly obsessed with MXC. We don't currently have TV. My co-workers don't get it. At least once a day someone says, "Hey, did you see such-and-such last night?" And I'm like, "Um, no...we don't have TV." And then they just go "Oh," like they have never heard this, even though we went through the same scene the day before. ***Ok, update: We have rabbit-ears now and get 4 channels. So now I just spend a lot of time saying, "we don't have cable."
Too many. I majored in English. But I collect and read Agatha Christie with a fiery passion. Also the god-like Mr. John Steinbeck. I quit my old job so that I could have the time to read everything he ever wrote. My new house needs more bookshelves...Oh, and James freaking Morrow is my new passion.
Lili St. Cyr for beauty and valor. Hedy Lamarr for being ingenious, beautiful and a little risque. Aeon Flux (Um, the Peter Chung version not the Charlize Theron one.) Ayn Rand ("To grasp the axiom that existence exists, means to grasp the fact that nature, i.e., the universe as a whole, cannot be created or annihilated, that it cannot come into or go out of existence. Whether its basic constituent elements are atoms, or subatomic particles, or some yet undiscovered forms of energy, it is not ruled by a consciousness or by will or by chance, but by the Law of Identity. All the countless forms, motions, combinations and dissolutions of elements within the universe - from a floating speck of dust to the formation of a galaxy to the emergence of life - are caused and determined by the identities of the elements involved. Nature is the metaphysically given - i.e., the nature of nature is outside any volition."-- Ayn Rand, "The Metaphysical Versus The Man-Made," Philosophy: Who Needs It?)