Listening:
Debussy, Stravinsky, Rodrigo, Ravel, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Imogen Heap,
Radiohead, Passion Pit, Bloc Party, Eagles of Death metal, Pinback,
Broken Bells, Freeland, Mastodon, Beastie Boys, ELO, Phoenix,
Pixies, M83, John Williams, James Newton Howard, General Midi,
Alpha Conspiracy, Hybrid, Death From Above 1979, Great Lake
Swimmers, Various friends and colleagues
Reading:
Tom Robbins, Dave Eggers, Salman Rushdie, Jose Saramago, Helen
DeWitt, Gabriel Garcia-Marquez, Dostoyevsky, Ender's Game, Iain
Banks, Mikhail Bulgakov, Patrick Suskind, Kurt Vonnegut, Guy
Gavriel Kay, Old SciFi (Bradbury, Asimov etc.), Harry Potter,
Tolkien, Jordan, Pullman
Watching:
Waking Life, Baraka, Prisoner of Azkaban, Anything Miyazaki, The
new Star Trek, Anything Brad Bird - esp Iron Giant and Incredibles,
Anything Jeunet, Most Pixar, V for Vendetta, Fight Club, Serenity,
Scott Pilgrim vs. The World, Bourne Identity, Fantastic Mr. Fox,
Quantum of Solace, Bound, Run Lola Run, Memento, Shawshank
Redemption, Jacob's Ladder, How to Train Your Dragon (see it,
seriously)
TV is fairly rare for me (I eschew cable) but I have some
favourites on DVD/Netflix:
Buffy The Vampire Slayer, Firefly, Mad Men, BBC's New Sherlock
Holmes, Californication, Fringe, Walking Dead, BattleStar
Galactica, Blue Planet, Band of Brothers.