Filmmaking, watching movies, architecture, film theory, writing, Zen Buddhism, boring post cards, ranting about politics, travelling to remote corners of the earth, torturing myself by trying to remember Kanji, cooking, discovering hole-in-wall restaurants, drunken karaoke, maps, and much much more.
Other enthusiasts.
Brian Eno, Boredoms, David Brubeck, Bill Evans, Blasthead, Beatles, Bowie, John Coltrane, Miles Davis, Tortoise, Cornelius, YMO, Eric Dolphy, Amy Winehouse, Velvet Underground, Dumb Type, Sangatsu, Pixies, Beastie Boys, Joy Division, Sex Pistols, Sonic Youth, Yo La Tengo, Lounge Lizards, Pizzicato Five, Rolling Stones, Radiohead, Acid Mother Temple, Freezepop, 80s tunes and stuff that sounds 80s-ish, and a whole lot of weird Japanese ambient/noise bands no one's ever heard of.
Possession, City of Sadness, Un Chien andalou, 2001, Los Angeles Plays Itself, When a Woman Ascends the Stairs, Sansho the Bailiff, Blow Up, Big Lebowski, Visitor Q, Charisma, Life of Brian, Pulp Fiction, Emperor's Naked Army Marches On, Conspirators of Pleasure, Brighter Summer Day, Man With a Movie Camera, Yojimbo, Sans Soleil, Unsere Afrika Reise, Mystery Train, Dekalog, Page of Madness, Land Without Bread, Fighting Soldiers (by Kamei Fumio -- if you know this movie drop me a line), In the Mood for Love, Go Go Be a Virgin a Second Time, Leche, Naked, Eraserhead, Tampopo, Weekend, Touch of Zen, Branded to Kill, Kung Fu Hustle, La Jetee, and almost anything with Kung Fu in it.
I like TV on DVD. The Day Today, Brass Eye, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office, Arrested Development, Good Eats, Iron Chef, Singing Detective, Prime Suspect, The Wire, Sopranos, Daily Show.
Gravity's Rainbow, Under the Sheltering Sky, Lipstick Traces, The Corrections, Society of the Spectacle, Austerlitz, A Confederacy of Dunces, Ransom, Jesus' Son, A People's History of the United States, CivilWarLand, anything by Raymond Chandler, Haruki Murakami, or David Sedaris.