fabulous coffee, languages, communication, interpreting, Latin dance, music, ethnic drumming, art, SUSHI!!!!!!!!!, spinning poi, resistance training, gender identity, GLBT community, Mensa puzzle games, DCI (Scouts, bay-BEEEEEE!!!), and the ongoing quest for the perfect martini....just to name a few.
The ones who would challenge me to continually explore myself and my surroundings...and that laugh at fart jokes. (...'cause that's just damn funny.)
BILLY JOEL, Martin Sexton, Bela Fleck, Mickey Hart, Paul Simon, Djembe Kahn, Portishead, David Foster, October Project, Ben Folds, Rob Zombie, Dave Matthews Band, The Beastie Boys, Bobby McFerrin, Ozomatli, Morphine, System of a Down, Branford Marsalis, Jurassic 5, Chanticleer, Voices of Ascention, Ray Charles, Stevie Wonder, The Smiths, Godsmack, Disturbed, Toy Dolls, Marc Broussard, The Moody Blues, Nikel Creek, William Jackson, Gerry O'Beirne, Tinsmith, Roger Drawdy and The Firestarters, The Gipsy Kings, Howard Jones, Outkast, Oleta Adams, The Cure, Andrea Bocelli, Sting, Cake, Bette Midler, Sister Hazel, Oasis, Puddle of Mudd, Queensryche,Dream Theater, Harry Connick, Jr., Ella Fitzgerald, Prince, The 5th Dimension, The Mamas and the Papas, ABBA, Concrete Blonde, Stone Temple Pilots, Missy Elliot, Kenny Loggins, John Williams,...and so many more.
GLORY, Boondock Saints, Plunkett and McClane, Velvet Goldmine, Moulin Rouge, Zero Effect, Brokeback Mountain, Monster, SUPER TROOPERS, The Aristocrats, Bend It Like Beckham, GOONIES, The Princess Bride, MONTY PYTHON (any!), The Golden Child, Coming to America, The Village, Crash, Bound, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Amelie, Roger Doger, Gia, Forrest Gump, From Hell, Sleepy Hollow, The Passion of the Christ, Rush Hour...
X-FILES, GORMANGHAST, DEADWOOD, LOST, House, Queer Eye for the Straight Guy, CARNIVALE...all on DVR or DVD, really. I'm not home much.
American Gods, The Metamorphosis, The Westing Game, ALL HARRY POTTER!!!, The Kite Runner, LOTR trilogy, All Quiet on the Western Front, To Kill a Mockingbird, any Dan Brown, any James Patterson, any Douglas Preston/Lincoln Child, The Lovely Bones, Wicked, The Celestine Prophecy, The Green Mile (in original novella form), The DaVinci Code, early Michael Crichton, John Donne
WILLIAM KATT, of course. *duh*