AMS, but would like to be involved in a lot of organizations (pro recycling and environmental -- pozhivesh tut v Texas-e --- ne prosto "environmentalistom" stanesh ... :(, for educational reform - zhut' chto u nas s obrazovaniem i naukoi na Ukraine delayut :(, anti-nationalist -- osobenno posle nashei poslednei poezdki v L'vovskuyu oblast' i vseh etih pamyatnikov UPA i SS-Galichina :( nu i.t.d.) -- but never had time and... guts, I guess

TRAVEL! :) photography and scrapbooking, math, contemporary art and art history, stock exchange and financial markets

soft contemporary jazz (Madeleine Peyroux, Katie Melua etc), blues, good country (Willie Nelson, Jonny Cash etc), bluegrass (Bill Monroe, Jimmy Martin and the Osborne Brothers, a lot of local - Tennessee, Kentucky, and Texas - bands), some musicals, latino and cuban in particular (Buena Vista Social Club, Compay Segundo)

old French and Soviet comedies, some chick movies (ex. "Legally Blond", "Sweet Home Alabama", "Knocked Up"), musicals (ex. "Fidler on the Roof", "Doors", "Cabaret"), "Forrest Gump", "Divided We Fall", etc

Too many to list: most of the stuff by Strugatskii brothers, everything related to modern art and history of art 19-21 century, some of good detective stories, Richard Bach, Lev Gumilev, geneous Remark; poetry by Mayakovskii, Sasha Chernyi, Blok and others; some books that help to understand the cultural differences between East and West, like "The Kite Runner", "Bookseller of Kabul"

national geographic documentaries and everything related to travel; some of the American and European stock and finances related shows