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Books: Just about anything by Milan Kundera, especially the Unbearable Lightness of Being The River Why by David James Duncan The Virgin Suicides by Jeffrey Eugenides A River Runs Through It by Norman Maclean Zorba the Greek by Nikos Kazantzakis The Great Gatsby F. Scott Fitzgerald Short stories: Flannery O'Connor is probably my favorite, I've read everything she ever wrote. Raymond Carver is great, too, and I've always been a big fan of John Cheever. Lots of others that I can't recall off of the top of my head. As far as movies go, I'm not even going to say. With books it's easy to name off my favorites. I can't at all with movies. I really enjoy movies but there aren't any that really stick out as favorites, except for maybe Goodfellas. I really like Alejandro González Iñárritu, Wes Anderson, and the Cohen brothers as directors, among many others. I like lots of different kinds of music. I have a classical and jazz background (really like the West Coast guys: Brubeck, Desmond, Mulligan, etc.) but I like hip-hop and rock as well. Radiohead is my favorite band. I really like Nine Inch Nails too. And the Pixies are probably my third favorite band. If I had to give my top three. Since I originally wrote this description five years ago or so, I've gotten really into electronic music. Guy J and Guy Mantzur are my two favorite DJs.