sharks, diving, nature, history, guitars (they're like porn to me), literature, comics, sci-fi, philosophy, just plain thinking about things, travel, movies, aikido, martial arts movies, cartoons, motorcycles, (real) metal, death metal, gothic aesthetics, music (though sometimes I hate it...), canned soup, food in bar form, women, cuddling and snuggling, sleep....
Aliens. (What do you think of this ridiculous concoction we think passes for a civilization we've managed to get going here? Pretty funny, eh? Now, about those "death-rays"....)
death metal, baroque, romantic period orchestral, European opera, ethereal, bebop, JS Bach, Devin Townsend, Cocteau Twins, Meshuggah, Krisiun, the Sundays, Opeth, Melt-Banana, Joni Mitchell, Niacin, Nile, Napalm Death, Bjork, Junkie XL, etc.
Serenity, Tetsuo the Iron Man, Brazil, All About Eve, Iron Monkey, Aliens, The Life of Brian, Star Wars (ep. 4-6), The Thin Man, Hero (any H.K. Jet Li, like Kung-Fu Cult Master!), Woody Allen, 13th Warrior, Mystery Men, Poltergeist, House of Flying Daggers, Dead Man, Throne of Blood, Perfect Blue, Ghost in the Shell, tons more - I freakin' love movies.
colbert report, venture brothers!, monty python, young ones, law/order, spaced, fawlty towers, battlestar galactica (best new show on tv PERIOD), firefly (WAS the best show on tv...), star trek, star trek tng, simpsons, futurama, family guy, wild discovery, spongebob, south park, kids in the hall, most nature/historical documentaries (jacques/jean-michel cousteau, shark week, of course)
catch 22, the death of virgil, i claudius, island, tao te ching, oscar wilde, the italian, downsize this!, snow crash, doomsday book, notes from a small island, the trial, the idiot, gospel, junky, JTHM, the soft machine, ham on rye, red mars, galactic center series, a scanner darkly (any PK Dick), vladimir nabokov, the birth of tragedy, chung kuo, journey to the ants, lots more.....
Jacques Cousteau, Dr. Erich Ritter, my dad, Stanislav Yefgrafovich Petrov, Carol Kaye, Devin Townsend, Frida Kahlo, Joni Mitchell, William S. Burroughs, Sr., Richard Branson, Alexander the Great, 'King of Kings' Cyrus, Martin Luther, Martin Luther King Jr, Dante Alighieri, Jackie Chan, Niccolo Machiavelli, Cyrus Spitama, Gore Vidal, Malcolm X, Julian Augustus; more to come as I think of them....