Music, animals, sailing, soccer, painting, photography, documentaries, video games, physics, cosmology, astronomy, chemistry, physiology, martial arts, bushido, religon, the occult
a silver mt. zion, the afghan whigs, air, the album leaf, american analog set, apples in stereo, appleseed cast, aqueduct, the arcade fire, at the drive in, azure ray, badly drawn boy, the beatles, belle & sebastian, the beta band, bjork, black flag, blonde redhead, boards of canada, broken social scene, clinic, communique, css, the cure, cursive, the dandy warhols, david bowie, death cab for cutie, denali, dismemberment plan, do make say think, duran duran, elliott smith, the faint, fugazi, girls against boys, godspeed you black emperor, the go! team, goldfrapp, highwaymen, hot hot heat, ima robot, interpol, johnny cash, joy division, the junior boys, bojunior senior, kevin shields, the killers, the knife, ladytron, leiadorus, les savy fav, love and rockets, luna, magnetic fields, mates of state, matmos, metallica, mew, ministry, misfits, mogwai, mum, muse, my bloody valentine, new order, new pornographers, nine inch nails, the notwist, now it's overhead, ok go, pavement, the pixies, the polyphonic spree, portishead, the postal service, pretty girls make graves, prince, prodigy, queen, rem, radio 4, radiohead, the rapture, rilo kiley, rites of spring, roxy music, self, the shins, sigur ros, slow dive, smashing pumpkins, the smiths, snow patrol, the sounds, spoon, squarepusher, stereolab, stereophonics, the strokes, sufjan stevens, sunny day real estate, tears for fears, they might be giants, tool, tortoise, trans am, tv on the radio, underworld, vangelis, vhs or beta, weezer, the who, wilco, the yeah yeah yeahs, ysaye
Little Miss Sunshine, Stranger than Fiction, Bottle Rocket, Rushmore, Royal Tenenbaums, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Lost in Translation, Garden State, Waking Life, I Heart Huckabees, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Bladerunner, Legend, The Dark Crystal, Seven, Akira, Battle Royale, Musa, Fantastic Planet, The Goonies, anything by Hayao Miyazaki or Akira Kurosawa
Arrested Development, Home Movies, Iron Chef, Nova, Nip/Tuck, It's Always sunny in Philadelphia, Entourage, Flight of the Concords
Brief History of Time, The Eligant Universe, The Book of Five Rings, The Art of War, Philosophiae naturalis principia mathematica,
Galileo Galilei, Miyamoto Musashi, Archimedes of Syracuse,