Industrial design, sketching, writing, humor, brainstorming, impersonations, vocal mimicry, sound, singing, bass guitar, chapman stick, scrabble, tales, live music (for a few years i have been particularly fond of metal shows, but i would attend any performance that intrigued me).
Dangerous people.
This and that. Rock, pop, and metal mostly, 70's through to present. Currently enjoying:
Budgie. Rush. Voivod. Metallica. King Diamond. Watchtower. Mercyful Fate. Emperor. Kylesa. Dream Theater. Iron Maiden. Blind Guardian. Raven. Death. Atheist. Megadeth. Psyopus. Ahleuchatistas. Magellan. Atrocious Abnormality. Apotheosys. Wehrwolfe. Behold... the Arctopus. Direwolf. Venom. Accept. AC/DC. Phoenix Down. Between the Buried and Me. Pivot. Slugnut. 35007. Iced Earth. Led Zeppelin. Emerson, Lake and Palmer. Spastic Ink. King Crimson. Journey. Boston.
Thomas Dolby. Yes. Marillion. The Police. Pink Floyd. Kraftwerk. Jon Anderson. Vangelis. Art of Noise. The Orb. Billy Joel. Elton John. The Beatles. Soft Cell. Depeche Mode. Pet Shop Boys. Sigur Ros. Subscape Annex. The Cure. Squeeze. Portishead. Tangerine Dream. Tears For Fears. Leonard Cohen.
Modern Jazz Quartet. World Saxophone Quartet. John Coltrane. Ornette Coleman. Return to Forever. Gil Evans. Toru Arima. Esquivel. Scott Joplin. Shuki Levy.
Tim Buckley. Paul Pena. Chirgilchin. Ustaad Ghulam Ali.
Stravinsky. Debussy. Bach.
The Curse of the Were-Rabbit. The Baxter. The Crimson Permanent Assurance. Fantastic Planet. No Country For Old Men. Michael Clayton. The King of Kong. Superbad. Sicko! Paris Je T'aime. Knocked Up. Hot Fuzz. The Host. Monty Python and the Holy Grail. Notes on a Scandal. Babel. Children of Men. The Big Lebowski. Ghostbusters! Borat! The Science of Sleep. A Scanner Darkly. The Illusionist. Barry Lyndon. Liquid Sky. Fire and Ice. Light Years. Hi/Lo. Punch Drunk Love. Pride and Prejudice. Love and Death. Annie Hall. The Conversation. Ordet. Il Gattopardo. The Jerk. Miyazaki, Kurosawa, Wes Anderson, Ridley Scott, Stanley Kubrick, and Coen Brothers films
Last of the Summer Wine, Keeping up Appearances, As Time Goes By, Turner Classic Movies, YouTube(?!), The Mysterious Cities of Gold, Thundercats, Belle and Sebastian, Tim and Eric Awesome Show Good Job, Sealab 2021, Harvey Birdman, Inuyasha, Shin-chan, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Futurama, South Park, Family Guy, MST3K.
Does Wikipedia count? No? Damn. It should! The Luck of Barry Lyndon. Tristram Shandy. Conan. Fafhrd and the Gray Mouser. Don Quijote. Cerebus. Ghost Rider: Travels on the Healing Road. Alan Davis comics. Douglas Adams books. P.G. Wodehouse books. William Gibson books. Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Kid on Earth. L'Etranger. Understanding Comics. Chris Crawford on Game Design. Calvin and Hobbes. The Far Side. Great Expectations. Crito, Phaedo, and Apology by Plato.
Dad, Mad Max, Han Solo, Cerebus the Aardvark, Soundwave, Alan Davis, Mendoza, Paul Pena, Peter Sallis