Personal blog: froia_arme
Linguistic blog: ilani ilani
Linguistics, dead languages, nearly-dead languages, ancient religion/mythology, cooking, eating, knitting, sleeping, reading, imitating my cat
Classic/folk rock, (Fleetwood Mac, CSNY, Queen, America...), disco, Rachmaninov, Bruckner, Ravel, Pärt, Salonen, Raimbaut de Vaqueiras, Llibre Vermell, motets, Carnatic (unhappy ragas; happy bhajans), Hindustani, Arabic, Persian, oud from anywhere, the ubiquitous duduk, Chinese (especially guqin & guzheng, but basically anything except for that guy in the square). Music theory and history (chant, counterpoint, tonality, tuning, etc.) as well.
The Hittites, narrated by Jeremy Irons. Anything with Johnny Depp playing a freak. A Beautiful Mind, Hero, Gattaca, American Beauty, Ong Bak, Zoolander. Also anything animated and involving animals, e.g. Madagascar, The Wild, Ice Age 1 & 2.
Babylon 5, Boston Legal, House, Futurama, Grey's Anatomy, Rome, South Park, American Idol, So You Think You Can Dance, Top Chef, Trading Spouses, Wife Swap, Ultimate Fighter, The Colbert Report, 24, Everybody Hates Chris, Hell's Kitchen, Real Time with Bill Maher, Big Love, Two and a Half Men, Good Eats, Unwrapped, Mythbusters, Chanakya
The Catcher in the Rye, The Brothers Karamazov, Anna Karenina, Ahunavaiti Gatha, Catullus, Plautus, Greek lyric & invective (Sappho, Alkaios, Archilochos, Semonides), Anna Akhmatova, An Béal Bocht, Finnegans Wake, Bhagavad Gita, The Minimalist Program, KUB 3.24/3.59 (letter from Puduhepa to Ramses II)
David Lightfoot