The best way to get to know a new place is to meet interesting people who actually live there.

Movies: Fight Club, Apocalypse Now, Interview with the Vampire, Alexander and I really loved Spielberg's Hook when I was a child. Music: Pink Floyd, Iron Maiden, HIM, Dandy Warhols, Garbage, Lake of Tears, Genesis Literature - the classics (Proust, Hermann Broch etc) and the contemporaries (Nádas). 20th century philosophy. And I am always in the middle of a history book.