| General | Running, politics, music, chocolate AND DEBATE!!!! | | Music | Beatles, The Millennium, Wilco, Dusty Springfield, Calexico, Burt Bacharach, Nickel Creek, Eternity's Children, Arcade Fire, Gram Parsons/ Burrito Brothers, Chris Hillman, Prefab Sprout, Peanut Butter Conspiracy, The Cyrkle, Grizzly Bear, Loretta Lynn, Sufjan Stevens, The Byrds, Johnny Cash, Turtles, Association, Scott Walker, Gillian Welch, Paul Williams, Lambert and Nuttycombe, Petula Clark, Love, Nick Drake, Ian and Sylvia.
| | Movies | Lost in Translation, Billy Liar, Dig, It's A Wonderful Life, The Third Man, The Invasion of the Body Snatchers, The General, Das Boot, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, High Noon, Hard Days Night, Tarzan, Lost Horizon, The Big Sleep, M, The Man Who Knew Too Much, The Great Escape, DOA, Duck Soup. | | Television | The Prisoner, Leave It To Beaver, PBS News Hour, C-SPAN, Secret Agent, Lost in Space. | | Books | 2nd World War--Winston Churchill;
Darkness at Noon--Arthur Koestler
| | Heroes | Ronald Reagan, Raoul Wallenberg |
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