travel, tennis, skiing/snowboarding, cycling, working out, guitar, piano, photography, talking about and keeping up with current events, maps, history, hiking, barhopping, city stuff, trying anything new, making sense of it all
cheeky monkeys, someone who might teach me something, people with some common interests, blah blah blah
the police, joy division, u2, echo and the bunnymen, the cure, rem, the smiths, new order, sonic youth, simple minds, billy bragg, velvet underground, cocteau twins, david bowie, the pretenders, the doors, rush, led zeppelin, nirvana, morphine, air, southern culture on the skids, the strokes, peter bjorn and john, bloc party, gorillaz, and much of the other 21st century 'new wavers'... surf guitar, rockabilly, instrumental world, folk, classical indian, ambient/lounge, etc.
paris texas, full metal jacket, the filth and the fury, the corporation, fog of war, dreamlife of angels, raising arizona, raging bull, spanking the monkey, amar akbar anthony, taxi driver, reservoir dogs, slacker, suburbia, trois couleurs, dekalog, the sweet hereafter, sex lies and videotape, lola rent, rain man, trainspotting, lock stock and two smoking barrels, naked, yi yi, pi, manhattan, koyanasqaatsi, happiness, once upon a time in america, before sunrise, before sunset, gerry, the wedding crashers, national lampoon's vacation, one crazy summer, goonies, sixteen candles, the neverending story, the shining, etc.
the simpsons (pre-millenium), seinfeld, the office (uk), ali g, 30 rock, mr. belvedere, moonlighting, 21 jump street, twin peaks, northern exposure, conan, globe trekker, now, frontline, documentaries on pbs, scooby doo (pre-scrappy), brady bunch, in living color, coupling (uk), thin blue line, black adder, goodness gracious me, nfl football
a people's history of the united states 1492 - present, art of the commonplace, brave new world, freakonomics, etc.
people who are unselfish, with little ego, those who follow their muse