Design, fashion, Bagpiping, Medieval and Early Modern Europe, clubbing, scotch, gin, absinthe, Terry Pratchett novels, discussing why Foucault sucks in an informed and enlightened fashion, good company, dancing, historic buildings, ironwork, emerging technology, historic trends in our cultural aesthetic.
Anyone who can hold up their end of a conversation.
Portishead, Eliza Carthy, Covenant, ThouShaltNot, Provocateur, the Mediaeval Baebes, Imogen Heap, Gravity Kills, The Field Marshal Montgomery Pipe Band, Steeleye Span, Goldfrapp, Massive Attack, mindFIELD, Infrastructure, Portishead, Goldfrapp, :Wumpscut:, Pzychobitch, the Faint, Hungry Lucy, Ladytron, Icon of Coil.
Anything with Buster Keaton, Harvey, Spirited Away, Princess Mononoke, Le Huitieme Jour, almost anything by the Brothers Quay, The Incubus, Harryhausen films, most pieces from Tim Burton, and a thousand others that catch my fancy from time to time.
Carnivale, Nip/Tuck, Firefly, other bits and pieces.
The Gormenghast trilogy by Mervyn Peake, any and all Terry Pratchett, American Gods, Religion and the Decline of Magic, The Song of Roland, any Neal Stephenson, almost any Steven Brust, whatever I happen to be reading at the moment.
Louis XIV.