Learning something new from someone, progressive/ underground music, picking up the guitar again, the continual search for inspiring and enriching art (literary, musical, and visual), traveling, eating and drinking well, exercising via running/riding my bike/yoga, and puzzles in varied forms.
Those that don't take themselves too seriously.
Been listening to a lot of The Action, The Divine Comedy, The Lilac Time, The Darkside, Roddy Frame, and Beck lately. New favs include Pony Club (brilliant!), The Clientele, Persephone's Bees, Mojave 3, The Tyde, and Carmen Rosa. Stalwart fan of Thievery Corporation, VU, Billy Bragg, The Clash, The La's, XTC/ Dukes of Stratosphear, The Jam, The Who, Stranglers, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, The Pogues, Blondie, Ramones, Husker Du, Paladins, Blue Hawaiians, X, The Replacements, fIREHOSE, Minutemen, Shins, TMBG, CVB, B-52's, Pink Martini, almost anything bossa nova, garage-pop, rocksteady, and Two Tone.
Fargo, End of the Century, Welcome To The Dollhouse, Happiness, Repo Man, But I'm A Cheerleader, Swimming Pool, Rushmore, Brain Candy, Naked, Galaxy Quest, Pi, Ronin, Mulholland Drive, GBU, Sound of Music, The Princess Bride, pretty much anything by Jim Jarmusch, and all McKean/ Guest/Shearer collaborations.
I don't have a TV, but will watch on your TV: Top Chef, Man vs. Wild, Flight of the Conchords, Big Love, Adult Swim, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Reno 911, South Park, The Simpsons, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Star Trek, and
Currently reading: Tried to read but couldn't finish: Porno-Welsh (Scottish dialect too taxing). Recently read: Getting Stoned with the Savages-Troost; Into the Wild-Krakauer; Lunar Park-Ellis; Illusions-Bach; Walking Through Clear Water in a Pool Painted Black-Mueller; Between Thought & Expression-Lou Reed; Wild Years: The Music & Myth of Tom Waits-Jacobs; The Truth About Drug Companies-Angell; Candide-Voltaire; Confessions of an Economic Hitman-Perkins; Donor Boy-Halpin; The Wind Up Bird Chronicles-Murakami. One of my favs: