ASP and ASP.NET programming (VB Script and VB), SQL and databases in general (they run the world), collaboration software, improvised comedy, sketch comedy, script writing, TV and Film production, boats, boating, boat things, boat related stuff, and boats, computer hardware, computer networking, Unreal Tournament 2004 (yes, I play video games with my computer), Italian motor scooters (Lambrettas in particular, Vespas sort of)
Music:
The Clash, The Jam, The Style Council, Jamiroquai, Brand New Heavies, Steely Dan, The Stone Roses, 60s and 70s soul, Northern soul, 79 mod revival bands, 80s RnB, 70s funk, pretty much anything fused with Jazz, Bossa Nova, Samba, Batucada, Beck, The Who, The Kinks, house (American and early European), techno (anything you would have heard at a warehouse party in LA in the early 90s), Quincy Jones (and anybody he produced), Groove Collective, Maxwell, Van Hunt, Pink Martini, Roy Ayers, Sun Palace, (sorry, not that Sun Palace, the English one), UFO, Digable Planets, Thievery Corporation, Corduroy, Galliano, anything on the Acid Jazz label, anything on 19th street records, Propellerheads, the 79 Ska revival bands, 2Tone, I could go on...
Press play to groove
Movies:
Juno, Lars and the Real Girl, Blood Diamond, Lock Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Snatch, Manhattan Murder Mystery, The Party, Being There, Star Wars trilogy (first three), Matrix Trilogy, Quadrophenia, V for Vendetta, Crash, M, Cinema Paradiso, Il Postino, Woody Allen, Chocolat, Red/White/Blue series, Napoleon Dynamite, Swingers, anything by Wes Anderson, Office Space, too many to list...
Television:
Anything that my wife is in!, Lovespring International, Reno 911!, Arrested Development, Futurama, Family Guy, MXC, Look Around You, The Office (the English one), Extras, The Simpsons, Deadwood, The Sopranos, Father Ted, Strangers with Candy, The Daily Show, The Colbert Report, Seinfeld, I Love Lucy, Scrubs, The TV show that I create and produce one day :)
Books:
Vonnegut (RIP), Ross Thomas, Albert Camus, Chomsky, James Ellroy, Christina Garcia, Nigel Calder