See below...
The DaVinci Code, Anais Nin, Hermann Hesse (number one on my list), Von Goethe, Kant, Merleau-Ponty, Pirsig, Epicurious, Philosophers in general, Ayn Rand, Guido Argentini, The Scarlet Pimpernel (Sigme!), Dostoevsky, Tom Robbins, JT Leroy, Paolini, CS Lewis, Frank Herbert, Jenna Jameson, Dimestore Sleaze, photography books on the human figure and female nudes/erotica, books on graffiti, low art, pin-ups and artists of all genres...
Interstate, Juxtapoz, Sculpture, Walnecks, Classic Motorcycle Mechanic, Motorcycle Classics, Classic Bike, Dice, Garage, Paper Arts, Fiber Arts, etc...
Scarlet Diva, The Dreamers, Harold and Maude, Y Tu Mama Tambien, Malena, Gia, Hackers, The Breakfast Club, Donnie Darko, Secretary, Midnight Cowboy, Sayonara, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Kill... (all Meyer's movies), Last Days, The Heart is Deceitful..., Stray Cat Sex Rock..., Sex, Lies and Videotape, Swimming Pool, The Ballad of Jack and Rose, Velvet Goldmine, The Rear Window, Strangeland, High Art, Bladerunner, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Hardware, Scarlet Pimpernel (B&W version), All Bettie Page Movies, Pride & Prejudice (A&E), Brown Bunny (just watched it again... so fucking good... Mmmmmm... motorcycle across the salt flats. Purrrrrrr), Bertolucci, John Waters, Ghost World, Heathers, Nightmare Before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Pretty in Pink, Lost in Translation, Groundhog Day, City of the Lost Children, Angels and Insects, Say Anything, Brazil, Lolita, Boys Don't Cry, Foxfire, Metropolis, Killing Zoe, Prozac Nation, Buffalo 66, Fahrenheit 9/11, Bowling for Columbine, Newsies, American Psycho, The Hot Spot and all Brando movies, An American in Paris, Funny Face, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Gigi, Sinatra and Kelly movies, Julie Strain and Jenna Jameson flicks, Exotica, The Last Unicorn, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Basquiat, The Juniper Tree, Mary Reilly, Dangerous Liaisons, Requiem for a Dream, Maria's Lovers, Tess, Purple Rain, Cold Mountain, DUNE, Girl with a Pearl Earring, A Night to Remember, What's Eating Gilbert Grape, Henry and June, Red, Searching for the Wrong Eyed Jesus, The Cook, the thief, his wife and her lover , Amores Perros, On Any Sunday, The Science of Sleep, Pan's Labyrinth, The History Boys, Steve McQueen's my hero...still working on this list, too....
Family Guy, ATHF, Simpsons, South Park, Old Cartoons, Old Nickelodeon (anyone remember Special Delivery?), anything that isn't defined as "reality tv", Deadwood (bastards cancelled the next season!!!!), Six Feet Under, PBS, Discovery Channel, Sunday Night Sex Talk, The L Word.. I have no cable!!!!!!!!!!
All, but rarely delve into Rap, RnB, Reggae, Easy listening, Show tunes and opera (though I am trained to sing it)
Bowie, Bjork, Allison Moorer, Shelby Lynne, Mark Knopfler, Kasey Chambers, Emmylou Harris, Gillian Welch, Ryan Adams, Keith Urban, Simon Bruce, Jesse and Noah Bellamy, Deborah Allen, Julie Miller, J-Henry, Dead Can Dance, Apop Berzerk, Oneriod Psychosis, VNV, Severed Heads, Pink Dots, Skinny Puppy, Tear Garden, Tom Waits, Neko Case, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Merle Haggard, Johnny Cash, Hank Willians, John Prine, Suzanne Vega, George Jones, Tom Jones, Joni Mitchell(but if I hear that BLUE album one more time!!!!! **laughing**), Wings, Clapton, Little Feat, The Band The Allman Brothers, Bob Dylan, The White Stripes, Interpol, NIN, Jane's Addiction, The Jayhawks, The Thorns, The Stones, Delaney and Bonnie, Kitty Wells, Dottie West, Rosie Flores, The Pixies, Charlie Pride, Willie Nelson, Webb Pierce, Louvin Brothers, Audioslave, Black Tape, Cowboy Junkies, The Cure, Diamanda Galas, Grant Lee Phillips/Buffalo, Julie Miller and Buddy Miller, LPD, Lucinda Williams, Maria McKee, Peter Gabriel, Portishead, Radiohead, Rosanne Cash, Rufus Wainwright, Loudon Wainwright III, Severed Heads (going through my Ipod at this point), Tori, VAC, Velvet Revolver, Daphne, VNV, Bessie Smith, Sarah Vaughn, Count Bassie, BB, Coltrane, Screamin' J Hawkins, Billie Holiday, Leonard Cohen, Echo and the Bunnymen, Erasure, The Dixie Chicks, Vanessa Hill, Hank Jr and Hank III, John McNicholas, Duran Duran, Blondie, Aimee Mann, Pearl Jam, Mama Cass, Deep Purple, Lynard Skynard, Floyd, Prince and the Revolution, Led Zeppelin, Sex Pistols, Ramones, Hendrix, Joplin, Randy Newman, Kinky Friedman, Warren Zevon, Townes Van Zandt, Julian Lennon, John Lennon, Kris Kristofferson, The Highwaymen, Jeff Buckley, The New Pornographers, Johnny Paycheck, Haujobb, Velvet Acid Christ, Nusfrat F.A.K., Soundtracks to Hackers, Eyes Wide Shut, Macross Plus, Breakfast Club, Pretty In Pink, Harold and Maude, Schindler's List... DEVO, The Flaming Lips, Coldplay, Edith Piaf, Nina Simone, The Psychadelic Furs, Men at Work, Doc Watson, Death Cab for Cutie, The Decemberists, The Raconteurs, PJ Harvey, The Books, Fatboy Slim, Boxcar Willie, Cowboy Junkies, David Byrne, Delay, The Eels, Keane, Ray LaMontagne, RHCP, Wilco, Modest Mouse, Billy Bragg, Old Crow Medicine Show, Nick Drake, Jesse Sykes, Boom Bip, CloudDead, CSNY, Belle and Sebastian, Levon Helm, Iris Dement, Michelle Shocked, Neil Young, Van and many more to be added upon remembering (sorry if I've repeated any!!!! I tried to erase the random ones I had).
If it involves a good beer (an' I don't mean no BUD or Coors or the like) and brat, then I'll watch it.
Anywhere but here.
All food, all ethnicities... but I've a sweet spot for sushi.