Music:
D'angelo, A Tribe Called Quest, The Roots, Mos, Talib, Common, RES, UA, Badu, Madlib, Blur, Kasabian, Massive Attack, Jamiroquai, Madvillain, Pharcyde, Cassandra Wilson, Keiko Lee, Bjork, Underworld, etc
Movies:
Lock, Stock and Two Smoking Barrels, Smoke, James Bond (except Roger Moore), Friday, Akira, Eat Drink Man Woman, and lots of Japanese movies
Books:
Haruki Murakami, Kuniko Mukoda, Shu Fujisawa, Paul Auster