Words.... runes... art... nature. The world. The people I love and hold dear. Music - singing and listening. Learning, always learning... living with passion, living passionately and sensually immersed in this reality. Poetry and poets and the power of the written word. Art and artists and the power of visual / visceral expression. Learning to ice skate. Food and cooking... wine and mead and a really good beer or three. Compassion. Renfaires, and the suspension of disbelief that comes with attending them in garb. Making garb. Exploring....
Artists, poets, writers... creative people. Or at least, people who aren't afraid of creativity...
My musical tastes would best be described as... wildly eclectic. I'll start with Tori Amos, Fiona Apple, and Ani DiFranco. Move from there to Soul Coughing and Nine Inch Nails. Then, add a dash of Shakira and Billy Joel; David Gray and Metallica. Maybe some Frigg, some Red Hot Chili Peppers, some Dvorak and Handel... Mozart... anime soundtracks (Ghost in the Shell SAC, Cowboy Bebop)... Norah Jones, Jeff Buckley, U2, Coldplay, Audioslave, Bush, Pearl Jam, Vivaldi... Wenches a Wailing and Mince Pye... add some generic classical for flavour, and jazz for spice. Middle-eastern and Asian, Scandinavian and Celtic / Irish... yeah, I think you can get the picture...
Shows? Mythbusters, LOST, CSI (only the original, thankyouverymuch).... there are more, but those are the only ones I'm compulsive about. Almost anything on Food Network.... except Giadia DeLaurentis, because she (to me at least) looks as though she doesn't eat. Yes, I like Rachael Ray - I remember her from waaaay back on WRGB in Albany, with Dan DiNicola. Channels? PBS, except during fund drives; because the endless plugging drives me nuts. Discovery, TLC, Animal Planet -oooooh - K9 Karma, about the yoga chick and her dog Charlie...
Books would be impossible - I go with Authors. Terry Pratchett and George R R Martin; Neil Gaiman and William Gibson. Rumi. Coleman Barks. Sharon Olds. Ferlinghetti, Kerouak, Ginsberg. Li-Young Lee. Tad Williams. Neruda. William Carlos Williams. Millay. Faulkner's 'The Sound and the Fury', Joyce's 'Dubliners', Ntozake Shange's poem "With No Immediate Cause"... and what the hell, I'll shamelessly plug two poets I know and love - Nadine Lewis and Alecia Kadera.