I'll make this brief and painless: Amy, Karaoke, Roleplaying games, Computer games, Movies, Cooking, Traveling, Foreign Languages and Cultures, Etymology, Einstein, Multi-tools, Exotic Cars, New-Age Spirituality, Accumulating knowledge of the finer things in life. I'm a veritable Rennaissance Man, ain't I?
Intelligent, cultured people who don't take themselves too seriously.
The Red Elvises, E nomine, Metallica, Paul simon, Simon and Garfunkel, Billy Joel, Sting, Jethro Tull, The Eagles, Andrea Bocelli, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, and various types of Jazz, Celtic and New-age music.
I tend to be a sci-fi/fantasy junkie: I'll try anything considered a "genre" film. I like indie films, but am not snooty about them; there are far too many big-budget hollywood films with more meaning than i've seen in many "art" films. As far as that goes, i've always said that I go to see a movie for all the things I can't get in a book: special effects, great acting from my favorite stars, great cinematographic visuals, gratuitous nudity...sorry, I'm getting ahead of myself.But i don't go there looking for the meaning to life; I go to books or talking with other intelligent people for that. I think my theory works, for I have as of yet not been disappointed in any movie for its lack of theme or any of that English professor bullshit.Okay. Enough of my "Why I go to the movies" rant.I like action movies, spy thrillers, martial arts epics, even some chick flicks. I'm not a big fan of the recent craze of gore-for-the-sake-of-gore movies (i don't even think some of their trailers are fit for television). Quite frankly, I see it as a sign of the sad state of our collective consciousness that anyone would find these things entertaining.
Food Network, Comedy Central, History Channel, Animal Planet, TLC, Cartoon Network, Discovery Channel, Spike TV, and yes, 'E'(mainly for The Soup - Joel McHale cracks me up).
Rich Dad Poor Dad, How to Think like Einstein, The Darwin Awards, The Zombie Survival Guide, The Dancing Wu-Li Masters: A Layman's Guide to the New Physics, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Lord of the Rings
Andrew Carnegie, Albert Einstein, Pierce Brosnan, Gov. Arnold Schwarzenegger, and everyone else who immigrated to this country and made it big.