surfing, rock music, arts, literature, beaches, theatre, writing, painting, antiques, mysteries, movies, cooking, foreign languages, piano, fencing, mountain climbing, horse-back riding, indie music
Muse, Travis, The Fray, The Arcade Fire, Sufjan Stevens, Straylight Run, People in the Planes, Aberfeldy, The Whitlams, Our Lady Peace, Elisa, Copeland, Coldplay, Heather Nova, Mat Kearney, Aqualung, Oasis, The Beatles, Graham Colton Band, Jack Johnson, Tori Amos, Rachael Yamagata, The Smashing Pumpkins, Joshua Radin, Dave Matthews Band, Alaska!, Donovan, The Libertines, The Charlatans,Daft Punk, Foo Fighters, The Vines, Gogol Bordello, The Hush Sound, The Perishers, Ben Harper, Led Zepellin, The Rolling Stones, Arcade Fire, Aerosmith, Belle and Sebastian, The Reindeer Section, Phantom Planet, Feist, Kendall Payne, Tara Maclean, Sozzi, PJ Olsson, Adam Cohen, Alexi Murdoch, Nick Drake, Rufus Wainwright, Silverchair
Life is Beautiful, The Godfather, Paris Je T'Aime, Lord of the Rings, The Beach
Roswell, Alias, Lost, Supernatural, Prison Break, Mcgyver, The Twilight Zone, MTV Spy Groove, MTV Celebrity Deathmatch, SNL, Heroes
books by the ff. authors: brothers grimm, leo tolstoy, jane austen, andrew lang, christopher paolini, neil gaiman, j.r.r. tolkien, lewis carroll, c.s. lewis, d.h. lawrence, william makepeace thackeray, alex garland, william goldman, luis alberto urrea, isabel allende, dante alighieri, william shakespeare, mario puzo, jostein gaarder, oscar wilde, robert burns, henry wadsworth longfellow, lord byron, honoré de balzac, charles baudelaire, marquis de sade, terry pratchett, sussanna clarke, dan brown, a.s. byatt, matthew pearl, elizabeth kostova, miguel de cervantes, alexandre dumas, kate chopin, stephen king, lisa carey, paolo coelho, joseph conrad, jude devereux, jeffrey eugenides, f.scott fitzgerald, emile zola, virginia woolf, mark twain, pramoedya ananta toer, erich segal, j.k. rowling, edgar allan poe, marcel proust, vladimir nabokov, frank mccourt, guy de maupassant, gregory norminton, gabriel garcia marquez, milan kundera, victor hugo, thomas hardy, nathaniel hawthorne, arthur golden, nicholas sparks, stephen king, r.l. stine, cyndi skyzers, charles dickens, garth nix,