art, martial arts, exotic luxuries, simple pleasures, nature, good food, anime, role-playing games, culture, traditions, spirituality, magic, crafts, kitsch, hanging out, myths, legends, stories, folklore, making stuff up, constantly growing and changing, traveling, far away lands, skydiving, wilderness survival and tracking (future ambitions), values and principles
i like to keep my horizons broad...
classic rock, trance, jungle, dance, house, pop, hard rock, rai, world music, french rap, a little new age...meh. hum a few bars...
Fight Club, Versus (Japanese b-movie), Hero (Jet Li), LotR trilogy, Devdas and Kama Sutra (for their lush Indian period settings), anything Miyazaki, Ravenous, Swingers, Evil Dead 'trilogy', El Mariachi 'trilogy', Pirates of the Caribbean, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Blade Runner, Ghostbusters (one of the most quotable movies of all time), A Christmas Story, Pi, Ringu, Neverwhere (the BBC miniseries), El Cid, Excalibur, Big Trouble in Little China, The Hudsucker Proxy, Harold and Kumar, Shaun of the Dead,
BBC America... i love Coupling, MI-5 (Spooks), The Office, and more. M*A*S*H, Lost, The Simpsons, Avatar: The Last Airbender, Ghost Hunters. The Colbert Report and The Daily Show. Want to catch Heroes.
anything Neil Gaiman, especially "Sandman" and "American Gods". and Dumas. currently the Wheel of Time series. Lovecraft. Sir Arthur Conan Doyle. RA Salvatore.