abandoned buildings, alphabets, alternaporn, books, calligraphy, castles, cemeteries, chartreuse, chess, chinese, coffeehouses, cooking, cycling, film, foreign policy, french, globes, goths, guns, immortality, international relations, kung fu, languages, literature, maps, martial arts, national geographics, new orleans, philosophy, politics, rare meat, red wine, skinnydipping, spies, taoism, tattoos, tea, travel, warriors, weapons training, writing, writing systems, zen.
George Carlin, Bernard Henri Lévy, and the Dalai Lama. And if I can meet the dead then Bertrand Russell, Bruce Lee, and Teddy Roosevelt.
Trip hop/goth hop, rockabilly, gothic, lounge, ebm, industrial. But I'll listen to anything from opera to gangster rap if I likes.
I'm addicted to the revenge/redemption subgenre, ie: La Femme Nikita, V for Vendetta, A History of Violence, Black Snake Moan. Some other likes... Dr. Strangelove, Traffic, Enter the Dragon, Fight Club, 300, Snatch.
Anthony Bourdain: No Reservations, Dexter, Battlestar Galactica, The IT Crowd, MI-5 (Spooks), Alton Brown: Good Eats.
I read mostly history, philosophy, politics, dark fiction, and travelogues.
Lara Croft ;-)