reading, music, singing, theater (watching & performing), cooking, baking, sailing, going to theme parks, getting lost in Orange County..the usual.
The Beatles, Fountains of Wayne, Duran Duran, Better Than Ezra, Franz Ferdinand, The Clash, The Cure, OMD (Orchestral Movements in the Dark-just about the coolest band name ever), They Might Be Giants, Flesh For Lulu, lots and lots of 80's music that escapes me at the moment. Slinker, The Killers, Elliott Smith (if i want to end up depressed) Flogging Molly, Muse, Cake, Maroon 5, Reliant K, Switchfoot.. um. Jazz. Latin. aaalmost anything but rap and country, blech. lots of showtunes :o)
24..and House sometimes.
Books- The Grapes of Wrath, The Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy, The Rubayat of Omar Kayyam, Authors- Ted Dekker, Michael Crichton, sci-fi. and a lot of historical fiction and non-fiction