Music:
beethoven, rachmaninov, trance, drum and bass, house, 80s, opera, indie rock
Movies:
pcw's revenge "trilogy" (sympathy for mr. vengeance, old boy, lady vengeance), 2046, in the mood for love, days of being wild, happy together, chungking express, cube, the machinist, the president's last bang, tokyo story, apt pupil, bent, american history x, the seventh seal, wild strawberries, delicatessen, full metal jacket, richard iii, kurosawa's the idiot, rashomon, ozu's ohayo, a clockwork orange, donnie darko, rosencrantz and guildenstern are dead, blue velvet, rope, north by northwest, the king and the clown, max, breathless, breakign the waves, full-time killer, gods and monsters, chihwahseon, raise the red lantern, to live, the red violin, walmart: the high cost of low prices, the trial, rushmore, fight club, immortal beloved, triumph of the will, the shining, taegukgi, memories of murder, nobody knows, three...extremes
Television:
whatever's on ifc, the sundance channel, turner classic movies, or bravo
Books:
friedrich nietzsche, albert camus, osamu dazai, haruki murakami, chang rae lee, ludwig wittgenstein, paul auster, jean-paul sartre, franz kafka, fyodor dostoevsky, samuel beckett, plato, georges bataille, gunter grass, arthur nersesian, marcel proust, william shakespeare, milan kundera, chinua achebe, natsumi soseki, oscar wilde, jonathan franzen