Indian food, playing drums, vegetarianism, baseball, lefty politics, music minutiae.
Devo, Sparks, Screamers, Darkthrone, Celtic Frost, State, Rudimentary Peni, GISM, Poison Idea, Tommy James and the Shondells, Death Strike, Wire, Mika Miko, Magazine, Articles of Faith, Repulsion, Celebration, Joy Division, Koro, Nomeansno, State, Die Kreuzen, Le Tigre, Middle Class, No Security, Framtid, Crucifucks, Crucifix, Buzzcocks, Crime Desire, Complications, Repercussions, Brutal Knights, Discharge, Mayhem, NYC Mayhem, Heart Attack, Redrot, Really Red, The Dicks, Big Boys, The Portly Boys.
LOTR franchise, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, This is Spinal Tap, Dr. Strangelove, Johnny Got His Gun, Over The Edge, The Ring, Harold and Kumar Go To White Castle.
Veronica Mars, The Wire, Battlestar Galactica.
J.R.R. Tolkien, H.P. Lovecraft, Norman Finkelstein, Eric Hobsbawm, Howard Zinn, Robert Fisk, James Loewen, The Trouser Press Record Guide, and a couple of Oprah faves like Middlesex and the Kite Runner. Right now, a couple of bad US History textbooks that I have to read but my students never bother reading.
Norman Mayer.