Art (Dark Fantasy, Pinups), Music, Film, Photography, Reading, Knitting, Cooking, Outdoors, Languages and Cultures, UFO's, Vegetarianism, hair colors, Funky Makeup (the blue superhero style), Thrift Stores, Scrapbooking, Meeting New People.. pretty much open to anything.
Honestly, I'd like to meet more cool people who aren't magazine cutouts. Perhaps people who can listen to world music while decorating a cake in honor of Norman Bates. Oh well!
Alternative, alternative, alternative. Industrial (EBM), female melodic metal bands, Euro metal, Darkwave, New Wave, Synthpop, Experimental, Samba, Bossa Nova, New Age, Middle Eastern Percussion and anything Bollywood of course . Some examples of favorite music are: Kamelot - Bjork - Depeche Mode - Lacuna Coil - The Pretenders - Amy Winehouse - Tom Waits - Sirenia - Enigma - The Mars Volta - Das Ich - Epica - Covenant - Suicide Commandos - Enigma - Tristania - Heart - Daft Punk - Tom Jobim - Nightwish - After Forever - Astrud Gilberto - Massive Attack - Rush - SADE - Edenbridge - Therion - The Cure - Within Temptation - Ministry - Malice Mizer - Portishead - Funker Vogt - Children Of Bodom - Aphex Twin - Bowie - Olodum - Project Pitchfork - Duran Duran - Juliette and the Licks - Rammstein - Sepultura - Minor Threat - Fugazi - Assemblage 23 - Murphy's Law - Shelter - Rise Against - Rage Against - Switchblade Symphony - Brooklyn Bounce - The Smiths - Type O Negative - Wumpscut - Wolfsheim - DJ Tiesto - DJ Sammy - Enya - Apoptygma Berzerk - VnV Nation - In Strict Confidence - The Clash - Shit by Yuzo Koshiro - HIM - Prodigy - Judas Priest - Future Sound of London - Tapping the Vein - Razed in Black, etc, etc
Comedies, Horror, and Indie Dramas. Anything 80's Requiem for a Dream, Dances with Wolves, Weird Science (Anthony Michael Hall *drool*), Mommie Dearest, Splash, Little Shop of Horrors, Like Water for Chocolate, The Exorcist, The Shining, Suspiria, Psycho, The Omen, Texas Chainsaw, Silence of the Lambs, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, The Breakfast Club, Creepshow, Trainspotting, Welcome to the Dollhouse, The Station Agent, A Clockwork Orange, Europa Europa, Das Boot, Amelie, Delciatessen, True Romance, City of God, Run Lola Run, Donnie Darko, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Rocky Horror, etc. etc.
Anything on the Sci-fi Channel, Comedy Central, Adult Swim, Discovery and the Food Network (gotta love those cooking shows ). X-files, Twilight Zone, Family Guy, The Oblongs, Mission Hill, Reno 911, Chappelle, Aqua Teen, and of course Thirty Minute Meals (seriously, I love Rachael Ray ).
Alternative History, UFO Conspiracies, Langauges/Linguistics, Recipe books, Vegetarianism, Japanese Graphic Novels. Magazines: Juxtapoz.
Olivia De Berardinis, Luis Royo, Mark Ryden,
Drew Posada,
Todd Lockwood,
Carlos Cartagena,
Boris Vallejo,
Matt Hughes,
Jennifer Janesko,
Brom,
Michael Möbius,
Ricky Carralero... etc.
And Pete
Some of my favorite art books can be found : Sqpinc.com