Travel (especially train travel), Bay Area labor activism, progressive/radical politics, 20th century design & culture, music for dancing and/or thinking, regional & international cuisine, sophisticated comedy, art gallery hopping.
Folks with some creativity, unorthodoxy, & intelligence to share - maybe with a little humility and humor to season the mix, and spontaneous salsa dancing is always encouraged.... I'm also quite fond of polyglots, and have generally avoided risk/adrenaline junkies.
20th cent. classical (Barber, Copland, Part, Reich, Rorem, Szymanowski, Vaughn Williams), salsa, jazz, + James Taylor, Manu Chao, Ozomatli, English Beat, Tori Amos, Roberta Flack, Me'Shell Ndegeocello, Kate Bush, Camel, Focus, Michael Hedges, Stanley Clarke, Luther Vandross, Mahavishnu Orchestra, early Chicago
The Grey Fox, Duck Soup, A Hard Day's Night, Mephisto, Animal House, Life of Brian, The Lives of Others
CSI [but only in Vegas, bay-bie!], almost any travel, cooking, science, or home repair show on PBS
Art or architecture or language or railroad/train or automobile reference books of almost any stripe, pop-up books, books about making pop-up books, American Fried, Metropolitan Life, Doctor Faustus
Miss Manners, and "Get Fuzzy" resident half-breed dog, Satchel