Cooking, politics(much to my chagrin), tv, movies, wine, beer, tequila, mid century modern design and architecture, Japanese things, decorating, music, art museums, restaurants, shopping, to be continued...
Abba, Style Council, Garbage, Fiona Apple, Simple Minds, Vince Guiraldi, Cole Porter, Henry Mancini, Benny Goodman, Dorsey Brothers, Green Day, Vivaldi, Bach, Sheryl Crowe, Siouxie And The Banshees, Creatures, Blondie, Angelo Badalamenti, Queen, No Doubt, The Supreme Beings Of Leisure, Dido, Peter Gabriel, Ella Fitzgerald, Elton John, Cheap Trick, ... I could do this all night.
American Beauty, Sixteen Candles, Casablanca, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Pulp Fiction, True Romance, Lost In Translation, L A Story, Someone Like You, Shakespeare in Love, Operation Pettycoat, Rear Window, Amelie, The Red Balloon, Ghostbusters, The Man Who Knew Too Little, ...I am Going to have to come back to this one later as well.
Alias, Sopranos, Dead Like Me, Scrubs, Monk, The Power Puff Girls, House (I'd watch Hugh Laurie read the phone book), The Daily Show, Signifigant Others, Family Guy, Futurama, Sea Lab 2020, Harvey Birdman... I can not think of a time when there were fewer good things on TV than there are now.
To Say Nothing Of The Dog by Connie Willis, The Drawing Of The Dark by Tim Powers, The Stand by Stephen King, Disc World novels by Terry Pratchett, American Gods by Neil Gaiman, Death Is A Lonely Business by Ray Bradbury, Contact by Carl Sagan, Various nonfiction titles by Carl Sagan, Hitch Hiker's Series by Douglass Adams, Chronicles Of Prydain by Lloyd Alexander, Moral Politics by George Lakoff,