guitar, records, Italian (food, women, cinema, and literature), running
Intelligent people.
I like Braid, the Promise Ring, Cap'n Jazz, Kid Dynamite, Engine Down, Owen, Twelve Hour Turn, Midtown, The Casket Lottery, Small Brown Bike, I Hate Myself, Creedence Clearwater Revival, Nirvana, Tortoise, Air, Hurl, Slint, Lifetime, The Scaries, Del Rey, Sicko, The Queers, The Impossibles, Lush, My Bloody Valentine, Minus the Bear, Pink Razors, Armalite (thanks to Carl's auditory aptitude), Johnny Cash, Gunmoll, etc.
Anything by Fellini, Antonioni, De Sica, Il posto, movies with Antonio de Curtis (Toto'), Sedotta e abbandonata, Rushmore, Animal House, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Pulp Fiction, Sin City, or any Bond film (other than one starring Timothy Dalton--he was brilliant in Hot Fuzz though)
CSI, Family Guy, Sealab 2021 (when Harry Goz was still alive and kickin), 24 (the crack of tv)
La (divina) commedia, Fare un film, Midnight's Children, The Selfish Gene, Phantoms in the Brain, Caro Michele, Brave New World, Superwoobinda, The Beer Lover's Rating Guide (Klein)