Strumstick (!), History, boats, muzzleloading, reading, woodstoves, dogs, cats, the Adirondacks, the Thousand Islands, Rhode Island politics, New England, re-enacting, St. Lawrence River manatees
Carbon Based bi-peds. Preferably warm blooded.
Strumstick (!), Folk, Bluegrass, traditional Quebec folkmusic, fiddles, bagpipes, Irish, English, Scottish, Gregorian, and other sundry stuff that I can't get on my damn car radio!
O' Brother, Where Art Thou? A Christmas Story, Patton, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Saving Private Ryan, Saving Ryan's Privates, John Ford's calvary movies (She Wore a Yellow Ribbon, Fort Apache, etc.), The Quiet Man, It's a Wonderful Life, Jeremiah Johnson, Unforgiven, The Patriot, Last of the Mohicans, The Jerk, Waking Ned Devine, Michael Collins, The Butcher Boy, Barry Lyndon, Waterloo, Napoleon (the old, 1920's silent movie), Lawrence of Arabia, The Light Horsemen, Gallipoli, All of the Witch Mountain movies, All of the Herbie movies, except this last one, 'cause Herbie went commercial, man!
I love the Weather Channel!OK, and Deadwood, Rome, Carnivale, And the Sopranos. I guess most of HBO's Series. My Name is Earl. 24. Heroes. I watch WAY too much TV.
Anything by John Keegan, Christopher Duffy, Donald Kagen or Victor Davis Hanson. Lord of the Rings. C.S. Lewis, especially the Space Trilogy, Til We Have Faces, and the Screwtape Letters (and of course, the Narnia stuff), the Sharpe's Rifles series, and Kipling's poetry.
Epaminondas, Wellington, Sherman, and Jimbo, the Hobbit who was rejected by the other Hobbits in the Fellowship of the Ring, because he was just too damn much of a crazy bad-ass, and it made them uncomfortable.