Foreign alcohol and tobacco prodcuts
Hey, a stranger is just a friend you haven't met yet, right? Puh-leeze - what is this, bliss ninny central?
Jazz - the real thing. Classical. Roots rock. Country. I hesitate to generalize, because I hold that if you love music, you can't arbitrarily rule out a genre until you've heard everything it has to offer.
Kurosawa, early Woody Allen, Jean-Pierre Melville, Besson, Scorcese, Welles, Truffaut, Polanski, Cohen Bros, Capra, anything with Bill Murray
This bumper sticker told me to kill mine, so I did. I'm impressionable like that.
Perez-Reverte, Zafon, Akunin, Doyle, Schama, Eco, Sobel, Parker, Hemmingway, Melville, Poe, Tennyson, Singh, Chabon, Ackroyd, Dickens, but none of that David Copperfield crap.
DaVinci (not the cipher hoopla), Henry V, J.S. Bach, The Great Satchmo, The Punisher and Kinky Friedman.