Books:
Nineteen
Eighty Four,
Man in the high castle,
Do Androids
Dream of Electric Sheep?, I'm becoming very fond of Phillip K.
Dick.,
The
Alchimist,
Life
of Pi,
Catcher in the Rye,
Animal Farm,
The Hobbit,
The Road, Shadow of the
Wind, The Stranger (L'Étranger), Hitchhiker's Guiade to the Galaxy,
The Harry Potter series (A guilty pleasure I guess)
Comics and graphic novels:
Batman: year One,
Dark Knight Returns, Kingdom
Come, Batman: The long halloween,
The Watchmen,
V For Vendetta, Wolverine:
Weapon X, The Ultimates, Ronin (by Frank Miller),
Ghost World, Umbrella Academy,
Fables, Scott Pilgrim
Music: It's pretty extensive... so if you want to get a better idea
of what I listen to visit my lastfm page.
http://www.last.fm/user/Blanco55
The Apples in Stereo, Arcade Fire, The Band, Bauhaus,
The Beatles, Beck,
Belle and Sebastian, Billy Brag, Bjork, Blind Melon, Blonde
Redheads,
Bob
Dylan, Boston,
Bright Eyes, Bruce Springsteen, Buck
65, Can,
Captain Beefheart, The
Chameleons, Chuck Berry, The Church, The Clash,
The Cure, Curtis Mayfield, Dead
Kennedys,
The
Decemberists, Dinosaur Jr., The Doors, Elliot Smith, The Fall,
Flaming Lips, Fugazi, Gang of Four, Gogol Bordello, Grateful Dead,
George Harrison, The Gun Club, The Hold Steady, The Jam, Jean
Leloup, Jefferson Airplane, Jimi Hendrix, Joel Plaskett, John Lee
Hooker, Johnny Cash, Joni Mitchel,
Joy Division, Julie Doiron,
The Kinks,
Led Zeppelin,
Leonard
Cohen, The Libertines, Malajube,
Modest Mouse, Mountain Goats, The
Muse,
Neil
Young (and his associated bands), Neutral Milk Hotel, New
Order, Nick Cave, Nine Inch Nails, Patti Smith, Paul Simon,
Pavement, Pearl Jam, Phil Ochs,
Pink Floyd,
The Pixies, The Pogues, Pulp, Queen,
Radiohead,
Regina Spektor,
R.E.M., R.L. Burnside,
The Replacements, Rush,
Shotgun Jimmie, Simon And Garfunkel,
The Smiths,
Sonic Youth,
The Strokes, System of a Down,
Talking
Heads, T. Rex, Tom Fun Orchestra, Tom Waits, Tool, Van
Morrison, Velvet Underground, The Weakerthans, The Who, The White
Stripes, Wintersleep, X, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, ... I also enjoy
Classical
music from time to time... Beethoven, Stravinsky, Tchaikovsky,
Holst, Etc.
Movies:
The
Godfather (part I and 2)
2001
: A Space Odyssey
Star Wars (original trilogy)
The Good, The Bad
and The Ugly
Lawrence of Arabia
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest
Pulp
Fiction
Taxi Driver
Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
Grave of the fireflies
Yojimbo
Monty Python And The Holy Grail
Fight Club
Apocalypse Now
Dr. Strangelove
Shawshank Redemption
Les Quatre cents coups
Ladri di Biciclette (The Bicycle thief)
The Third Man
Blade Runner
The Royal Tenenbaums
Annie Hall
Raiders of The Lost Ark
The Shining
Kill Bill vol 1 & 2
The Graduate
Cinema Paradiso
Brazil
The Seventh Seal
Lord of The Rings (Trilogy)
The Dark Knight
Chungking Express
Dazed and Confused
Mulholland Drive
Ghost World
A Serious Man
Spirited Away (or pretty much anything by Miyazaki)
Wall-E (and again pretty much anything by Pixar)
Plus many more but these are probably the ones that have affected
me the most. My favorite directors are Stanley Kubrick, The Coen
brothers, Martin Scorsese, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Terry Gilliam,
Quentin Tarantino, Sergio Leone, David Lynch, Woody Allen, Akira
Kurosawa, Hayao Miyazaki, Wes Anderson
TV shows:
The Office (first three seasons), Lost, Seinfeld, Freaks and Geeks,
Death Note,
Neon Genesis Evangelion,
Daria, Monty Python and the flying Circus,
Invader Zim, Stargate Sg-1, Twin Peaks, Arrested Development,
Battlestar Galactica
Food:
I enjoy most Asian and Mediterranean cuisine.