Books/ Comic books (yes, these are legitimate books):
This Side of Paradise (my favorite book by my favorite author),
Siddhartha (this book changed my LIFE), Catcher in the Rye, The
Sputnik Sweetheart, Norwegian Wood, The Wind Up Bird Chronicle,
After The Quake, Cloud of Sparrows, The Autumn Bridge, Juliet;
Naked, A long way Down, The Tao of Jeet Kune Do, The Sickness unto
Death, Grendel, The Crow, Batman: Gothic, Batman: Shaman, Batman:
Gates Of Gotham, Kingdom Come, Vagabond, Blade of The Immortal (by
far my FAVORITE comic to read from Japan), Ohikoshii, Spiderman:
Ends of the Earth, Spider Island, Butcher Baker: The Righteous
Maker, Lucifer, Rurouni Kenshin, Marvel Civil War, DC Infinite
Crisis, Marvel Infinity War, the 7 Soldiers of Victory, Sandman,
100 Bullets, Filthy Dirty Rich, Azumanga Daioh, Samurai
Executioner, Lone Wolf and Cub, Usagi Yojimbo, One Punch Man,
Zetman,
Movies: The Avengers, Batman: The Dark Knight (the only
batman movie I genuinely liked and found the least wrong with), V
for Vendetta, 300, Watchmen, Iron Man, From Russia with Love,
Goldeneye, Casino Royale, Quantum of Solace, Skyfall, The Thomas
Crowne Affair, A Single Man, Royal Tennebaums, Rushmore, Life
Aquatic with Steve Zissou, Eat Drink Man Woman, 500 days of Summer,
True Grit (the remake) No Country for Old Men, Reservoir Dogs, Kill
Bill I/II, Pulp Fiction, Star Wars, The Fist of the North Star
OVA's, Paprika, Akira, Perfect Blue, Revolutionary Girl Utena,
Vision of Escaflowne, Metropolis, Cowboy Bebop: Tobira no Tengoku
(Knockin' on Heavens Door), The Samurai X OVA's, Hercules, Aladdin,
Mulan, Lion King, Last Life in The Universe, Bad Guy, The Radiant
Child, No Impact Man, Fearless, Once Upon a Time in China,
Crouching Tiger; Hidden Dragon, Master of the Flying Guillotine, 5
Deadly Venoms, Kid with the Golden Arm, Sword of the Stranger,
Fearless, Taken, Man on Fire, Letters from Iwo Jima, Flags of Our
Father, Grand Torino, Lone Wolf and Cub, Ponyo, Porco Rosso, Grave
of Fireflies, Spirited Away, Laputa; Castle in the Sky, Castle of
Colligostro,
Music: Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Norah
Jones, Julie London, Dario Marianelli, Frank Sinatra, Duke
Ellington, Dean Martin, Micheal Buble`, Kazumasa Hashimoto, Joe
Hisashi, Sade, Muddy Waters, Howlin' Wolf, The Seatbelts, Gil-Scott
Heron, Aloe Black, Erykah Badu, Jill Scott, Amy Winehouse, Maxwell,
Corrine Bailey Rae, Adele, Dido, John Mayer, Daft Punk, Justice,
Shinichi Osawa, Holy Ghost!, Tory y Moi, Goldfrapp, Kings of Leon,
Japanese Motors, Ou lest Swimming Pool, Phoenix, The Smiths, The
Kinks, Ida Maria, TV on the Radio, Kings of Convenience, Simon and
Garfunkle, Cat Power, Feist, Nirvana, 311, The Padingtons, The
Ramones, The Rolling Stones, The Strokes, The Noisettes, Camera
Obscura, Belle and Sebastian, Real Estate, The Beatles, Voxtrot,
The Kooks, Elton John, Bob Marley and the Wailers, Max Romero and
the Upsetters,