Everything: cultural anthropology; world music, mythology and folklore; theoretical physics; anything unusual or belonging to the realm of metaphysics, philosophy.
Extraterrestrial life- forms and/or astrophysicists... anyone wishing to discuss string theory, anthropic principle, supersymmetry, cosmological constant, etc. Authors. Philosophers. Folklorists. Metaphysicians.
Music is my mood-altering substance of choice. I am passionate about music. I love just about all varieties of music from all points and places of history. The following is a list of bands currently on my newest toy, but is by no means all-inclusive: A-Ha, Alice in Chains, All About Eve, Annie Lennox, Audioslave, Aztec Camera, B52's, BAD, Bauhaus, Belly, Blur, Breeders, Broose, Bruce Haack,Bryan Ferry, Catherine Wheel, Charlatans, Chris Cornell, Cocteau Twins, Coldplay, Concrete Blonde, Cream, Crowded House, CSNY, Cyndi Lauper, David Bowie, Debussy, Depeche Mode, Doves, Dramarama, Dream Academy, Dresden Dolls, Duran Duran, Dutch Treats, Dykeenies, Echo and the Bunnymen, Eels, Elastica, Erasure, Eurythmics, Faith No More, Falco, Fine Young Cannibals, Flesh for Lulu, Fuel, Gary Jules, Gin Blossoms,Goo Goo Dolls, Halflight, Happy Mondays, Hector Berlioz, Howard Jones, Icicle Works, Information Society, Janes Addiction, Jellyfish, Joe Jackson, Johnny Hates Jazz, Joy Division, Juliana Hatfield, Kings of Convenience, Lemonheads, Letters to Cleo, Level 42, Lightning Seeds, Lords of the New Church, Lush, Madness, Mary's Danish, Mazzy Star, Men at Work, Miklos Rozsa, Ministry, Molly's Yes, Moody Blues, Morrissey, Mussorgsky, Naked Eyes, Ned's Atomic Dustbin, New Order, Newsum Turn, No Doubt, Ocean Blue, OMD, Our Lady Peace, Pat Benatar, Percy Grainger, Pet Shop Boys, Peter Gabriel, Peter Murphy, Peter Schilling, Pioneers, Pop Poppins, Primal Scream, Psychedelic Furs, PIL, Real Life, REM, School of Fish, Schubert, Screaming Trees, Seal, She Wants Revenge, Simple Minds, Sing Sing, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Sixpence, Skinny Puppy, Smithereens, Sneaker Pimps, Social D, Spandau Ballet, SPOT, Starsailor, SVR, Sting, Stone Roses, Sugar Cubes, T'pau, Talk Talk, Talking Heads, Tears for Fears, The Beautiful South, The Church, The Clash, The Cult, The Cure, The Farm, The Fixx, The Jesus and Mary Chain, The Outfield, The Plimsouls, The Police, The Rave-ups, The Rembrandts, The Replacements, The Smiths, The Sundays, The the, They Might Be Giants, Thomas Dolby, Thompson Twins, Til Tuesday, Tom Tom Club, Toto, Train, Type O Negative, U2, Urge Overkill, Veruca Salt, Waterboys, Ween...and many, many others.
B&W, 80's (John Hughes), Sinbad!, Hal Hartley, Cameron Crowe, Vampire, adventure, Vincent Price, sci-fi/fantasy, any classic literature adapted to film...Stroszek...Velvet Goldmine...that about covers it. Would you like to play the "only speak in movie dialogue" game? My friend Brandy would suggest watching The Tempter (aka L' Anticristo). I'm trying to drag her (or anyone else who will humour me) to see any upcoming James McAvoy movies...
Steph has me addicted to Flight of the Conchords. I would like to add that I have a deep appreciation and abiding reverence for Sid and Marty Krofft, Inger Nilsson, and eccentric redheads in general.
I have a library (translation: three book cases with books overflowing off of the shelves and onto the floor, which is full of boxes full of books, overflowing onto the floor...), and more in boxes in storage...so it's really hard to say which genre, much less book, is my absolute fave. I just can't seem to recycle them either. Currently I'm reading Terry Windling and Patricia McKillip. A general, but by no means all-inclusive list: Anne Rice, Clive Barker, Ray Bradbury, DH Lawrence, Henry James, Marion Zimmer Bradley, Alice Hoffman, Astrid Lindgren, Lois McMaster Bujold, CS Lewis, Anne McCaffrey, Patricia McKillip, Peter O'Donnell (aka Madeleine Brent), Evangeline Walton, Chelsea Quinn Yarbro, Terry Pratchett, Rowling, Ursula Le Guin, Tanith Lee, Lewis Carroll, Frank Baum, Sara Teasdale, Anne McCaffrey, Frances Hodgson Burnett, Hans Christian Andersen, Brom, Angela Carter, Joan Slonczewski, HD Thoreau, Stephen King, Mercer Mayer, Eugene Field, Jorge Luis Borges, Baudelaire, Hermann Hesse, John Polidori, any of the Romantic poets...I know I'm missing a ton of people here... Brian Froud...but then, that borders on art...and in that vein...Amy Brown, Waterhouse, Millais, Burne-Jones, Gericault, Fuseli, Mucha, Leighton, Collier, Dicksee, Alma-Tadema, Hennessy, Cabanel, Amoreno, Canty, Kinuko Craft, Daniels, Delamare, Fishman, Lewis, Lippincott, MacDougall, Orwick, Potts, Ravenscroft, Stewart, Toball, Vacher, Vess, Windling, etc *sigh* Those listed above, are mere forays into fiction...I have tons of nonfiction loves as well...so many good books, exquisite art, so little time...If I listed everything, we could be here all day. You should check out Audrey Kawasaki if you have the time: http://i-seldom-do.livejournal.com/ and Mark Ryden: http://www.markryden.com/ and Kinuko Craft: http://www.kycraft.com/