Books: The Night Circus, Daughter of Smoke and Bone, Geek Love, The
Lock Artist, Snowcrash, Pattern Recognition, American Gods, Carter
Beats the Devil, The Black Dahlia, The Crimson Petal and the White
and many others; Movies: Dead Man (my favorite movie of all time),
The Saddest Music in the World, Fight Club, anything by Wong Kar
Wai and Tsui Hark (especially Time and Tide, one of my other
favorite movies of all time), Brother and almost any film with/by
Beat Takeshi; anything by Wes Anderson (especially Rushmore),
Jesus' Son, Snatch, The Winslow Boy, The Salton Sea, Requiem for a
Dream, Memento, The Elephant Man, Go, Oldboy, The Quick and the
Dead, The Professional, Bound, Layer Cake, Head On, Sexy Beast, The
Big Lebowski, Lord of the Rings (especially the first one); Music:
Devotchka, The Decemberists, Jesse Sykes, Neutral Milk Hotel, The
Trucks, The Black Angels, Beirut, Tiny Vipers, Silversun Pickups...
And always (in no particular order): Uncle Tupelo, Mekons, Nirvana,
Pixies, Joy Division, Velvet Underground, Elliott Smith, My Bloody
Valentine, PJ Harvey, Breeders, Morphine and many, many more; Food:
Thai Food, Mexican (esp. Mole), fresh fruit, esp. Mangos,
Pomegranates and Pineapple.