Philosophy, reading, music, weight-lifting, movies, video games, comics, science and technology, Buddhism, mythology.
Music
NIN, Mudvayne, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Bad Religion, Stabbing Westward, Radiohead, Beck, Eels, Tom Waits, Jeff Buckley, Elliot Smith, Counting Crows, The Shins, Crash Test Dummies, Smashing Pumpkins, Pearl Jam, Temple of the Dog, STP, The Black Keys, Soundgarden, Tori Amos, Louis Armstrong, The Band, Tom Petty, Depeche Mode, Leonard Cohen, Cake, Pink Floyd, System of a Down, Godhead, Deftones, Chris Smither, Joni Mitchell, Elvis Costello, Fiona Apple, The Decemberists, Ozzy Osbourne, Velvet Underground, The Mountain Goats, The Smiths, Filter, Alice in Chains, Audioslave, VAST, Paul Simon, Weezer, Rolling Stones, The Cure, Yo-Yo Ma, Rilo Kiley, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nirvana, Gary Jules, Spoon, Pedro the Lion, Rasputina, The Postal Service, The Magnetic Fields, Okkervil River, Belle and Sebastion, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, Franz Ferdinand, The New Pornographers, Wolf Parade.
Movies
Bill & Ted's Excellent Adventure, The Terminator, 12 Monkeys, The Matrix, Existenz, Total Recall, Dark City, 13th Floor, The Truman Show, Vanilla Sky, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Gattaca, Inherit the Wind, Crimes and Misdemeanors, Annie Hall, Match Point, Love and Death, The Seventh Seal, Winter Light, Amadeus, American Beauty, The Razor's Edge, The Shawshank Redemption, Big Fish, Blade Runner, Jin-Roh: The Wolf Brigade, Boondock Saints, The Usual Suspects, Donnie Darko, Forrest Gump, Gandhi, Seven, Silence of the Lambs, American Psycho, Requiem for a Dream, Dr. Strangelove, Being There, Princess Bride, Edward Scissorhands, Blues Brothers, Animal House, Pleasantville, Groundhog Day, Lost in Translation, Life is Beautiful, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The 40 Year Old Virgin, Snatch, Clerks, Mallrats, Bubba Ho-Tep, Casablanca, Lawrence of Arabia, Harold and Maude, Punch-Drunk Love, Il Postino, Man in the Moon, Patton, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jacob's Ladder, Garden State, My Left Foot, The Virgin Suicides, The Experiment, Lord of the Rings Trilogy, Star Wars (IV V and VI), Indiana Jones (all 3), Shaun of the Dead, Alien, The Thing, Kill Bill, Seven Samurai, Ran, Rashamon, Princess Mononoke, Fiddler on the Roof, The Man Who Would Be King, Sling Blade, The Right Stuff, Cool Hand Luke, A History of Violence, American History X, Sin City, V for Vendetta, Secretary, Brokeback Mountain, Pi, Grizzly Man, Thank You for Smoking, Anchorman: The Legend of Ron Burgundy, Talladega Nights: The Ballad of Ricky Bobby, The Fountain, Re-animator, Grave of the Fireflies, Children of Men, Pan's Labyrinth, Babel, Perfume, Stranger than Fiction, Mean Girls.
Television
Simpsons, Family Guy, Futurama, Daily Show, Colbert Report, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Seinfeld, Southpark, Arrested Development, Northern Exposure, Fullmetal Alchemist, Trigun, Big O, Cowboy Bebop, Samurai Champloo, Battlestar Galactica, Firefly, Now and Then Here and There, Berserk, FLCL.
Books
Works in analytic philosophy (I won't bother listing them), The Story of Philosophy - Durant, Lolita - Nabokov, Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut, Slaughterhouse Five - Vonnegut, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern are Dead - Stoppard, The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Kundera, Nausea - Sartre, Myth of Sisyphus - Camus, The Catcher in the Rye - Salinger, Dubliners - Joyce, The Metamorphoses - Ovid, Zadig - Voltaire, Rasselas - Johnson, Flowers for Algernon - Daniel Keyes, A Separate Peace - John Knowles, Faust - Goethe, The Epic of Gilgamesh, The Denial of Death - Becker, The Sacred and the Profane - Eliade, A Confession - Tolstoy, Lives - Plutarch, The Confessions - Rousseau, On the Origin of Species - Darwin, The Mismeasure of Man - Gould, The Elegant Universe - Greene, The Fabric of the Cosmos - Greene, Neuromancer - Gibson, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams, The Book of the New Sun - Gene Wolfe, A Song of Ice and Fire series - Martin, The (Original) Dragonlance Chronicles - Weis and Hickman, Lord of the Rings - Tolkien.
Have I ever commented on the fact that you like the Mountain Goats? That is really weird...Michael has been listening to them (read: him, though now he has bandmates I guess) for years. Michael is always surprised to find another fan, since he isn't the most well-known musician.
It will be fantastic. We'll install it on everyone's computers when they aren't looking, and then they won't be able to retaliate because they won't know how to use their operating system! And I'm disregarding any potential physical retaliation! Because I'm try to get Bush to make me a general, on account of my wargaming skills!
