Once i tried it and after that i can't stay in a hotel anymore - so boring:) I really like to meet locals, they are one real treasure for traveller. The best advantage of couchsurfing for me is breaking stereotypes(especially about Ukraine;)

Music - Queen, Ray Charles, Carlos Santana, Gal Costa, Adele, Michael Jackson, Simply Red, Terrence Howard, Fleetwood Mac, Gipsy Kings, George Michael, Sam Cooke, Portico Quartet, Cesaria Evora, Pink Martini....... Ukrainian music - Okean Elzy, Vopli Vidoplyasova, Trio Marenychi, Jamala, Ivan Dorn, Skryabin, TNMK.... Books - "1984" and "Animal Farm: A Fairy Story" by George Orwell, almost all books by Erich Maria Remarque (especially "Three comrades"), Stefan Zweig "24 hours in the life of a woman", Kōbō Abe "The Woman in the Dunes" and "The Face of Another", "One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest" by Ken Kesey, Oscar Wilde "The picture of Dorian Gray", William Golding "Lord of the flies"... Movies - "Midnight in Paris", "Transformers 1,2", "Cats don't dance", "Overboard", "3 idiots", "Fantastic Mr.Fox", "Moneyball", "Agora", "Bachelor party(1984)", "My blueberry nights", "Moonrise Kingdom"...