Music:
Bleed The Dream, Atreyu, Armor For Sleep, The Starting Line, Insane Clown Posse, Mindless Self Indulgence, Marilyn Manson, Diatribe, PIG, Anberlin, Hawthorne Heights, Hidden In Plain View, Acceptance, Funeral For a Friend, A Second Chance, Simple Plan, New Found Glory, Emery, DJ Tiesto, Dead Poetic, Coheed and Cambria, Bullet For My Valentine, Zeromancer, Ill Nino, Stabbing Westward, Brad Paisley, Fall Out Boy, Kenny Chesney, Keith Urban, Dierks Bentley, Something Corporate, Taking Back Sunday, The Ataris, Sibelius (classical), Panic! at the disco, Hellogoodbye, AFI, Shai Hulud, As I Lay Dying, A Static Lullaby, My Chemical Romance, Saosin, Thursday, Vex Red, Nothingface, POD, Rammstein, EastWest, Secret Lives of the Freemasons, Underoath, most any band on Tooth and Nail or Solid State, Glory of This, Remembering Never, etc, etc. I also like my share of hip-hop and pop that I can dance to.
Books:
Laurell K. Hamilton or anything else rather cultish, and of course soo much geeky reading, that includes lots and lots of scientific papers and science magazines. And right now I am diving into lots of car textbooks as well as a book on Shibari.