I like to eat, and to cook. Music, across the board. I read as much as can, with little discernment, more greed. Art, although veering more towards sculpture, crafts and architecture as i hit those reactionary mid-twenties. I follow sports, even if i don't play them anymore. Studied philosophy, so that too.
Not too fixed an idea on this one. I originally joined to keep up with extant social groupings, so any new people would be a bonus. Nice people would be a start. I like to go to concerts a lot, so gig-buddies (?) maybe. You may already have worked out that i'm not much of a scene-hound. I seem to be on a load of these sites now, which is most confusing. I'm on, but don't use much, Bebo - http://rdavie6.bebo.com and Mog - http://mog.com/fodder. Otherwise i appear to've migrated to facebook pretty entirely
Wilco, Smog, Calexico, Iron and Wine, Nick Drake, Loose Fur, Sparklehorse, Uncle Tupelo, Vashti Bunyan, Neil Young, Richmond Fontaine, QOTSA, Beach Boys, Sly and the Family Stone, Devendra Banhart, Rolling Stones, Kinks, Funkadelic, The Shins, Beatles, Curtis Mayfield, Ray Charles, My Morning Jacket, Arcade Fire, Cat Power, Dr John, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Autechre, Galaxie 500, Flaming Lips, Josh Rouse, Deftones, Crystal Method, Sleater-Kinney, Howie B, LCD Soundsystem, Kruder & Dorfmeister, Go! Team, Animal Collective, Nightmares On Wax. Pixies, Frank Black, Breeders, The Amps, Nirvana.
I tend to get into directors or clumps of films - Woody Allen, Akira Kurosawa, Will Ferrell, Studio Ghibli offerings, the Coen Brothers, Ealing Comedies, Sergio Leone/Westerns and so on. Really, really love The Straight Story, Ghost World, Three Colours trilogy, Get Carter, Amelie, Godfather I&II, Buena Vista Social Club, Punch-Drunk Love, Coffee and Cigarettes, Rushmore and King of New York.
I don't tend to watch much. Although i like Peep Show and The Office, i tend away from cringe humour. Spaced, Black Books, Garth Marengi's Darkplace, The Mighty Boosh and Look Around You. I've a soft spot for cartoons, Spongebob, Simpsons, South Park, Samurai Jack and so on.
Like with films, i read an author's work in chunks, then sidle onto another and come back after an abscence. Lots of Terry Pratchett, John Wyndham, Douglas Adams and Arthur C. Clarke when i was young; then piecemeal - Greene, Atwood, Waugh, Ishiguro, Mo, Eco, Marquez, Vonnegut, Borges, Palahniuck, Dostoyevski, Wodehouse, Murakami, Bulgakov, Heller, Montaigne, Kundera, Bellow, Koestler, Gide and Solzhenitsyn and on. Poetry in moderation, came out of 'A' levels big on Ted Hughes and broadened my scope a bit from there, but i'm not so voracious a reader of poems.
Used to Be David Bowie. Probably not anymore. Very taken by Michel de Montaigne when I read his Essays. Wayne Coyne. I find latter-day inspirational figures like Lance Armstrong difficult to empathise with. That singular drive seems inhuman almost, but then i want to judge people largely on whether they'd be good to talk to over tea. But then, Alan Bennett is unlikely to to inspire sloganed charity wristbands, so it's swings and roundabouts.