Music (all kinds of shit, especially when it annoys anyone older than me, and even better if it simultaneously confuses anyone younger), religion (if you're gonna be an atheist, ya might as well get to know the opposition), science (evolution and big shit in space being my favorite bits), history (though I tend to stick to a few specific areas, which I'm kinda annoyed at myself about), genealogy (I see dead people!), food (you can tell if you look at my pics), and women (which is ironic since they seem to have absolutely no fucking interest in me,. Or no interest in fucking me. No interest at all, in fact. Goddammit.)
A truckload of cash
From the time I was in diapers listening to early Elton John and Doobie Brothers hits, to my conversion to Beatle-fandom the summer after John Lennon left us, to my brain-shattering discovery of 70s progressive rock as a teenager, and then an explosion of soaking up every damn thing that got in my way (I'm as apt to put on a Harry Partch album as I am The Ramones, I value Miles Davis as much as I do Frank Zappa, I rock out to J.S. Bach and sit back with a beer to Stockhausen, and I've barely escaped arrest while driving to Warren Zevon) I find that if I'm going to call myself a musician, I better be willing to listen to as much of it as possible. Unfortunately, I'm getting older and have less time on my hands, so please, do us all a favor and don't talk about American Idol or Lynyrd Skynyrd to me. I may have to insert one of Harry Partch's homemade instruments in an unwilling orifice of yours.
I think I've seen The Aristocrats 60 times in the past year. I'm also a huge David Lynch fan.
I've been watching a ton of Penn & Teller's Bullshit! recently, along with various science documentaries. When my daughter is over, it's usually loads of MST3K and Fawlty Towers.
Been reading a hell of a lot about the early history of Christianity lately, much of it Bart D. Ehrman's works. I'm a huge H. P. Lovecraft and Hunter S. Thompson fan, and I've recently discovered Carl Hiaasen. I sometimes pull out my Bible when I need a good laugh.
Hunter S. Thompson, Frank Zappa, Neil Young, Mike Keneally, Miles Davis, Doug Stanhope, Lewis Black, Bill Hicks, H.L. Mencken, Thomas Jefferson, Warren Zevon, John Lennon, Jimi Hendrix, Andy Partridge, George Carlin, Katie Boucher