Books - Wendell Berry's A Place on Earth, William Gibson's Neuromancer, Walter Isaacson's Benjamin Franklin, Verner Vinge's True Names and A Fire Upon the Deep.
Movies - SXSW film festival. In addition to Wim Wenders' films, I'm a sucker for Juzo Itami, Hayao Miazaki, and Barry Sonnenfeld. Some of my favorite movies include: Bed and Board, Bladerunner, Cinema Paradiso, Grand Canyon, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Meet John Doe, Mononoke-hime, North by Northwest, Pulp Fiction, Rio Bravo, Silverado, Small Change, & Tampopo.
Music - Austin City Limits, KGSR, The Beatles, Sarah Brightman, David Byrne, Ani DiFranco, Alejandro Escovedo, The Flatlanders, Nanci Griffith, Tish Hinojosa & Vangelis.
Other fun - camping (Big Bend, Enchanted Rock, Grand Canyon, Havasupi Canyon, Yosemite), bicycling, star gazing.
Places I've been and enjoyed: Arizona, Beijing, Bora Bora, Barcelona, Florence, London, Madrid, Moscow, Naples and Pompeii, Philmont, Paris, Port Aransas, Puerto Rico, Rome, Saint Petersburg, Shanghai, Texas, & Tokyo.