Favorite Things
Music: Classical, mostly.
Movies: The Good, the Bad, and the Ugly; Once Upon a Time in the West; Patton; The Exorcist; Conan the Barbarian; The NeverEnding Story; Pulp Fiction; Casablanca; The Silence of the Lambs; North by Northwest; A Clockwork Orange; Alien; Blade Runner; et cetera.
TV Shows: Penn & Teller Bullshit; The Daily Show; Late Night with David Letterman; Monty Python's Flying Circus; The Twilight Zone; The Colbert Report; and lots of others.
Books: 1984, by George Orwell; The Lord of the Rings, by J. R. R. Tolkien; A Song of Ice and Fire (series), by G. R. R. Martin; and too many others to list here.
Games: I used to play Magic the Gathering, which is a card game. Besides that, I also played lots of Age of Empires; The Settlers; Lands of Lore; Colonization; Stonekeep; Command & Conquer; Counter-Strike; The Legend of Zelda; and others.
Heroes: (examples) Richard Dawkins, Ron Paul, Richard Attenborough, Desmond Morris, George R. R. Martin, Jon Stewart, Christopher Hitchens, Carl Sagan, Robert Silverberg, Gene Wolfe, J. R. R. Tolkien, George Orwell.