I much prefer to stay with a local and have an authentic traveling experience than stay at a hotel and travel like a tourist

Movies: Too many to list! But I guess my fave is Babel at the moment My "feel good" movie is Amelie Music: (very broad topic): The Beatles, Nahko & Medicine for the People, The Grateful Dead, Journey, MGNT, Radiohead, Ella Fitzgerald, Louis Armstrong, Janice Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, The doors, Jack Johnson, Jason Miraz, latin, jazz, Brazilian, bossa nova, house, drum & bass, and any original music that can't be described Books: The Wish, Water for Elephants, Middlesex, Into the Wild, Into thin air, The Nanny Diaries, Incredibly loud and extremely close, The little friend, Remember me? and many other books I'm forgetting to mention