I love reading, listening to music, and watching movies, and then writing reviews on them, or at least talking about them with friends, 
While I enjoy writing both poetry and prose, I believe I'm better at poetry, but I'm working on prose as much as I can. 
My favorite authors are:
David Mitchell
James Joyce
Thomas Pynchon 
John Steinbeck
Dennis Lehane 
Chuck Palahniuk
Norman Mailer 
Patrick Rothfuss

Favorite Books:
Ghostwritten, Cloud Atlas, Number9Dream, The Naked and the Dead, Gone Baby Gone, The Name of the Wind, Frankenstein, The Grapes of Wrath, East of Eden, Hamlet, Macbeth, King Lear, Fight Club.