Books:
All of the works of Sir Laurance Gardner.
All of the Hitchhikers Guide to the Galaxy series.
The Cities in Flight series.
The Dune series
The Foundation series
The Harry Potter series
Most by Kurt Vonnegut... Catch-22, Slaughterhouse Fivem etc.
Most of Heinlein, Asimov, Ray Bradbury, Anne McCaffrey, Anne Rice,
Edgar Allen Poe, H. P. Lovecraft
Dr Michio Kaku, P.D. Ouspensky, D. T. Suzuki, Carlos Castenada,
Baba Ram Das
Tao Te Ching, Art of War,
Movies:
V for Vendetta, the Harry Potter series, the Matrix series, Lord of
the Rings (all), many of the Star Trek and Star Wars series, 2001,
Blade Runner, The Fifth Element, Buckeroo Bonzia, Kung Fu Hustle,
Ultra Violet, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Dr. Strangelove or How
I Stopped Worrying and Learned to Love the Bomb, The Hitchhikers
Guide to the Galaxy (BBC series, although the recent movie was
fair), the Riddick series, Men In Black, Rocky Horror, Qalaxy
Quest, most Monty Python, Blazing Saddles, Young Frankenstein, The
Producers, Space Balls, The Adventures of Baron Munchausen, The
Princess Bride, Some Like It Hot, The Lost Boys, most Peter Sellers
movies, Casablanca, Ran, The Seven Samurai, and most of Kurosawa's
works, many different "cult classics", too many others to
list
Music:
The Beatles, Pink Floyd, Moody Blues, Led Zeppelin, Cream, David
Bowie, T Rex, Velvet Underground, Venus de Mars and All the Pretty
Horses, John Fahey, Dave van Ronk, Laura Nyro, Weather Report, Bob
Dylan, Sarah McLaughlin, Loreena McKennitt, John Coltrane, John
McLaughlin, Al DiMeola, Miles Davis, Glenn Miller, Billie Holliday,
Brian Setzer, Zappa, Capt. Beefheart, Tim Buckley, Ravi Shankar,
Chronos Quartet, Beethoven, Wagner, Brahms, Satie, Chopin, Debussy,
Liszt, Mozart, and far too many others to list (I still have an LP
collection of something like 5000 LP's plus many 78's and 45's; and
several hundred CD's for the car)
Food:
Some level of veggie for the past 40 years, but currently eating
seafood and fowl. Where to start on the list?......
Sushi
Chinese
Japanese
Thai
Italian
Mexican
Cuban
Greek
Lebonese
many South American and West Indies cultural foods
American Southwestern
virtually anything using cocoa