people, places, things, nouns, verbs, airports, subways, coffeehouses, libraries, museums, old photographs, baseball, mental hygiene films, medieval music, medieval history, cathedrals, graveyards, archives, triskelions, Bretagne, London, Ireland, Morocco, Egypt, the Silk Road, unconventions, secrets, back roads, attics, ivy, stone walls, velvet, the sea, wind, storms, pine trees, transhumanism, surrealism, absurdism, sarcasm, linguistics, linguini, culture jammers, mammals, birds, puppets, papasan chairs, hot water, dark chocolate, ice, information, pantoums, white merlot, the internet, reading, writing, dancing, gin, old yearbooks, neovictorianism, steampunk, stained glass, silver, and the bluegreen light in the sky right after the sun goes down.
Weirdos. And time travelers! And people who intend on becoming weirdo time travelers!
Nick Cave, Robyn Hitchcock, Dead Can Dance, Innocence Mission, klee, October Project, Moon Seven Times, Nina Hagen, Gary Numan, the Cure, Ofra Haza, Siouxsie, Steve Wynn, Kirsty MacColl, Dar Williams, The Postal Service, REM, Depeche Mode, Duran Duran, Arcadia, Thompson Twins, Babble, Guided by Voices, Bel Canto, Peter Murphy, Wir Sind Helden, The Pogues, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, VHS or Beta, Mulatu Astatke, and pretty much anything dark and swirly.
MST3K, Venture Brothers, The Adventures of Pete and Pete, Northern Exposure, The Real Ghostbusters, QED, the Muppet Show, Mythbusters, Cowboy Bebop, Doctor Who, Voyagers!, documentaries on places I've never been and/or mad scientists, that sort of thing.
The Count of Monte Cristo, Freedom and Necessity, The Name of the Rose, The Diamond Age, Housekeeping, Good Omens, The Archivist, Agyar, Nero Wolfe, Dear Enemy, A Distant Mirror, Gaudy Night, League of Extraordinary Gentlemen, Sunshine, Snow Crash, Sherlock Holmes, The Orientalist, anything by Steven Brust, Jules Verne or Nick Bantock, and the list goes on and on and on. My "to read" list is about 25 pages long and growing.
are sorely lacking these days. Jon Stewart is close, though.