I am looking for ways to travel on a budget, to possibly meet some wonderful new people in the process and maybe learn about local recommendations for where to explore!

Movies: Kurosawa's Dreams, Unforgiven, Spirited Away, Grease, The Warriors, Mulholland Drive, Purple Rain, Whale Rider, Winged Migration, Pan's Labyrinth, Goonies TV: Twin Peaks, Game of Thrones, True Blood, Curb Your Enthusiasm, The X-Files, Battlestar Galactica, Insecure Music, just a samplin': Youssoupha Sidibe, Hiatus Kaiyote, Flying Lotus, Regina Spektor, TV on the Radio, Little Dragon, Tupac, J Dilla, Fela Kuti, Joy Division, New Order, Isley Brothers, James Brown, Shuggie Otis, D'Angelo, Joni Mitchell, Neil Young, Grey Reverend, Jose Gonzalez, New Jack Swing Books, need to do them more: His Dark Materials, One Hundred Years of Solitude, Autobiography of Malcolm X, The Wisdom of No Escape, Radical Dharma, Le Morte d'Arthur, Light on Yoga, Sisters of the Yam