favoured its

travel, exploration, remote & extreme & unique places
tribes, ethnology, ethnolinguistics, dna ancestry
unesco world heritage sites
world music
byzantium, eastern christianity
international news, international events
[news.bbc.co.uk, english.aljazeera.net]
art, images, architecture, design
steampunk, retro future, victorian era
fantasy, psychedelia
islands in the sky, floating cities, gargantuan airships
animation, anime, comics, pulp sci-fi art
video & computer games as an art form
holocaust, third reich, soviet art, soviet architecture
nuclear stuff [chernobyl, three mile island, nuclear tests]
derelict places & industrial sites
global warming, planet wellness
travel guidebooks, baedeker handbooks
ocean liners, trains, rail networks
catwalks [not the fashion model kind], stairways & ladders
outer space, caves, volcanoes
trees, tree houses, tree villages
organic progressions [pathways, insect hives, clouds, etc]
periodic table of elements, rocks & minerals, crystals
atlases, maps, diagrams, london underground
videogame guidebooks
japanese-language videogame guidebooks
photography, cinema
hi-definition tv, hi-definition video
books, science-fiction, fantasy
randomness, anomalies, curiosities, oddities, impossibilities
weird stuff, phenomena, eeriness, alien-ness

and .. (gosh darn it) .. I suppose it wouldn't be accurate, or honest, or complete (or, indeed, even credible) if this list didn't include
the female sex, a significant portion of which I have always found rather intoxicating

reading, perusing, internet
day-dreaming, feeling wistful & forlorn
pre-travel planning & preparation
post-travel writeup & analysis
videogames, computer games, World of Warcraft
collecting:
> travel books & guides
> computer & video game guidebooks [english & japanese]
> dvds
> works of art
photography [slides, digital]
cataloguing, databasing, other random organizing
sitting in the park on summer weekends
winter-bashing

actual travel

procol harum, moody blues, yes, beatles
spirit [twelve dreams of dr sardonicus]
cream, neil young
blood sweat & tears [child is father to the man]
phil keaggy, 2nd chapter of acts
dire straits, al dimeola, eric johnson [cliffs of dover]
war of the worlds [jeff wayne 1978]
teresa teng, sujatha [tamil singer], a r rahman

mark knopfler, jeff healey, santana, al dimeola, phil keaggy, eric johnson

snowflakes(?) [priscilla chan], jack-o-lantern, yahweh you have created me, let everything else go [phil keaggy], immaculate mary, hurt [johnny cash], earth song [michael jackson]

richard burton, james earl jones, sujatha (female tamil singer)
basso profondo

other than american
federico fellini, pier paolo pasolini, stanley kubrick, ridley scott, terry gilliam, hayao miyazaki, studio ghibli, robert rodriguez, alfonso cuaron, james cameron, jean-jacques annaud

american
steven spielberg

dune, fifth element, starship troopers
monsoon wedding, crying game
a little princess, sixteen candles
lord of the rings, deep impact, gormenghast
schindler's list, grave of the fireflies
alien, aliens, alien 3, alien resurrection
blade runner, legend, stalker, quest for fire
brazil, baron munchausen
laputa, castle in the sky, nausicaa, totoro
little mermaid, mulan, yellow submarine, titan ae
kaena, mirrormask, dark city, the fall
across the universe
flash gordon, barbarella, labyrinth

lois mcmaster bujold, peter hamilton, stanislaw lem, richard morgan, dean koontz

my book house
the wonders of science
vorkosigan novels
wizard of earthsea, chronicles of narnia, harry potter
science fiction, fantasy
the road to wellville, don camillo

antiquarian
baedeker, murray

recent and current
touring club of italy, periplus indonesia series
blue, michelin neos, knopf, eyewitness

painting ~ prior to 19th century
pieter brueghel the younger, hieronymus bosch
leonardo da vinci, canaletto

painting ~ 19th century & early 20th century
sir noel paton, john simmons, maxfield parrish, arthur rackham, m c escher

painting ~ modern
frank r paul, the brothers hildebrandt, patrick woodroffe, daniel merriam, kinuko y craft, thomas kidd, tim jacobus, don dixon, h r geiger

anime
hayao miyazaki

architecture
antoni gaudi

engineering
isambard kingdom brunel

other than churches & cathedrals
hagia sophia (istanbul), gol gumbaz (bijapur), pantheon (rome), victoria terminus (bombay), surya temple (konark), brihadeeswarar temple (tanjore), eiffel tower (paris), gateway arch (st louis), burj dubai

churches & cathedrals
st peter's (rome), st paul's (london), st isaac's (st petersburg), st john the divine (new york), sagrada familia (barcelona), lincoln, peterborough, salisbury, wells, westminster abbey (all in England)

dark seed, doom, dune, kyrandia, system shock, riven, torin's passage, ultima, ultima underworld, world of warcraft, isometric viewpoint games in general

2nd generation [genesis, super nes]
alien 3, axelay, blackthorne, castlevania iv, gods, landstalker, the lost vikings, prince of persia, sonic the hedgehog, soul blazer, super mario world, super metroid, super turrican, yoshi's island, the legend of zelda, isometric viewpoint games in general

3rd generation [saturn, playstation, nintendo64]
abe's exoddus, alundra, crash bandicoot, grandia, pandemonium, super mario 64, tomb raider, wachenroder, xenogears, isometric viewpoint games in general

4th generation [dreamcast, playstation2, gamecube]
alone in the dark, devil may cry, final fantasy xii, gigawing 2, ico, klonoa 2, metroid prime, phantasy star offline, prince of persia ~ the sands of time, skies of arcadia, shadow of the colossus, sonic adventure

banyan, fig, baobab, camphor, oak, willow

mango, soursop, kiwi, peach, lime, cold watermelon, raspberry, prune, (forbidden) fruit of the tree of knowledge of good and evil

cheddar, gouda, havarti, swiss, gruyere, romano, parmesan, crotonese, st jorge, tilsit

unbrewed Starbucks French Roast coffee beans, unsmoked pipe tobacco in a pouch, patchouli oil, lilac, tar, sandalwood, cedar, incense, burberry brit eau de toilette, toast, early morning fresh air, wood burning, the oiled metal smell in the passageway between cars on a moving train, the smell of hops on the air near a brewery

thunder, heavy rain pounding on the roof of a house or (even better) heavy rain pounding the canvas walls of a tent, the rumble of a train rushing by in the distance - punctuated by the horn, the thunder of ocean surf at night, the mourneful wail of a foghorn across the waters, wind blowing through trees, wind whistling through an almost-closed window, the sweet and wonderful cacophony of many children laughing and playing together in a school yard

(in order of appearance)
Anna, Andrew, Angela, Alison

(in decreasing eventual height order)
Andrew, Angela, Alison, Anna

(in birth-month order)
Angela, Andrew, Anna, Alison

(in decreasing number-of-letters-of-the-alphabet order)
Alison (Lauretta Wong), Angela (Theresa Wong), Andrew (Lewis Wong), Anna (Maria Wong)

politics in general
the carefully cultivated culture of patriotism that so effectively serves the ends of political and business elites
we the indoctrinated and trained sheep who just keep on voting for the same old tiresome and visionless governments
pseudo-democracies (like Canada and Britain and the USA) that are not based on proportional representation
lotteries
hidden taxes in gasoline prices

doctor phil
judge judy
the price is right, game shows
american tv commercials
[especially commercials for (1) prescription drugs (2) health-related services (3) investment options]
reality tv
televangelists

political correctness
work
big business
fabulously popular coffee-shop chains (tim horton's) flogging 3rd rate coffee
grotesque salaries paid to high-level sports celebrities
grotesque salaries paid to high-level corporate executives
televangelists
bank service charges
the expression "for all your [substitute anything you can think of] needs"