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General reading: Snow Falling on Cedars, David Foster Wallace, George Saunders, all of Amy Tan, Walt Whitman, Tracks, Empire Antarctica, House of the Scorpion, His Dark Materials, Cosmos, The Count of Monte Cristo, Saga Saga Saga Movies and such: The Fall, Moulin Rouge, Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away, The Last Samurai, Seven Samurai, Equilibrium, Firefly (but not Serenity), Mystic River, Brave, Up, Empire of the Sun, X-Files Music: Kings of Convenience, Alt-J, The National, Fleet Foxes, The New Pornographers, Frightened Rabbit, Neko Case, Childish Gambino, Nicki Minaj, Sufjan Stevens, Joni Mitchell, Josh Pyke, Explosions in the Sky, Hozier, Sigur Ros, The Fratellis, The Decemberists, Young the Giant, Ben Howard, The Inkspots, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holiday, the soundtracks for Bastion and Transistor Food: Sushi, pancakes, waffles, egg rice, pho, mangoes