Couchsurfing - it's a good chance to work on developing your social skills, good way to know world from other people and to extend your own limits. Also it's a good chance to improve your foreign languages skills ^^

Books: "Grapes of wrath", "Gone with the Wind", "American Dirt", "Carrie", "Moby Dick". Music: italo disco, 80s, techno, house, rock, gothic Cinema: "Beautiful Mountain", "Control", "Sid and Nancy".