self-defense, pretty guns, working out, party games ("Apples to Apples" or "Would you Rather" anyone?), real conversation, things that matter, animals, freedom, the environment, real love, laughter, connection, geisha, culture, humor, other languages, compromise, understanding, vampires, Indian food, Japan, marines, medical ANYTHING, athletic training, biology, pirates, ninjas, raccoons (even if they are evil!) ;)
friends who value friendship, God, myself from a different perspective, a tame tiger, real people who still know how to laugh
Scissor Sisters, Air, Gary Jules, Lamb, Tori Amos, The Dresden Dolls, Our Lady Peace, Nickleback, Alanis Morissette, Peter Gabriel, Ani Difranco, Anthony Stewart Head, The Beta Band, Fleming & John, The Killers, Gretchen Wilson, Jem, Remy Shand, Justin Timberlake, Sneaker Pimps, Fallout Boy, Theory of a Deadman, John Mayer, random songs from random artists...
300, Knocked Up, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Elizabethtown, Garden State, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Harry Potter (all of them), Fight Club, American History X, Brotherhood of the Wolf, Shaun of the Dead, Bruce Almighty, Even Almighty, Big Fish, Muppet Treasure Island, It's All Gone Pete Tong, Mr. & Mrs. Smith, Kill Bill, The Salton Sea, Alice Through the Looking Glass, Constantine, Party Monster, Serenity, Fido, The Indiana Jones Movies...
Firefly; Buffy the Vampire Slayer; House, M. D.; Veronica Mars; Gilmore Girls
"The Book of Lost Things" - John Connolly, "The Tattoo Artist" - Jill Ciment, "Blue Like Jazz" - Donald Miller, "Girlfriend in a Coma" - Douglas Coupland, "Till We Have Faces" - C. S. Lewis, "Autobiography of a Geisha" - Sayo Masuda, The Harry Potter Series - J. K. Rowling, Anything by James Rollins, The Banned & the Banished series - James Clemens, "The Taking" - Dean Koontz, The Vampire Argeneau series - Linsay Sands, Exhiles series - Melanie Rawn, "Memoirs of a Geisha" - Arthur Golden, The Family Dracul series - Jeanne Kalogridis, "The Burning Times" - Jeanne Kalogridis, "Lullaby" - Chuck Palahniuk, "Another Day In the Frontal Lobe: a brain surgeon exposes life on the inside" - Katrina Firlik, "Candy Girl: A Year in the Life of an Unlikely Stripper" - Diablo Cody, "The Book of Joby" - Mark J. Ferrari...
Jesus Christ, C. S. Lewis, Spartan women, and yes, the characters Veronica Mars, Buffy, and Lara Croft