Playing drums, riding my motorcycle, hardwood charcoal grilling, gardening, watching vintage and experimental aircraft, birding, playing piano/guitar/bass, reading thick boring books, eating very small bowls of ice cream, and of course kicking it old-school
Brett Favre
Dresden Dolls, Ditty Bops, They Might Be Giants, Modest Mouse, Police, Johnny Cash, Buddy Rich, Bela Bartok, John Coltrane, Gang of Four, Ludwig Von Beethoven, Josh Redman, Rodrigo y Gabriela, J.S. Bach, Neil Young, Gordon Goodwin, Beatles, Tom Waits, Rolling Stones, Hector Berlioz, Who, Led Zeppelin; the musicals West Side Story and Jesus Christ Superstar.
Brazil, Apocolypse Now, Buckaroo Banzai, Blade Runner, Dr. Strangelove, Das Boot, Blues Brothers, Team America World Police, It's a Mad, Mad, Mad, Mad World
The History Channel, Red Sox, Nova, Flight of the Concords
The Origin of Consciousness in the Breakdown of the Bicameral Mind by Julian Jaynes; Flight of Passage by Rinker Buck; Godel, Escher, Bach by Douglas Hoftstadter; Guns, Germs and Steel by Jared Diamond; The Baroque Cycle by Neal Stephenson
Richard Feynman (physicist), Butch Miles (Count Basie's drummer), Gordon Sumner