Couchsurfing is a good way to explore a city. You come (and maybe stay?) in contact with the locals, get insider tips and you kind of become a local for a few days too.

Music is a super important thing in my life and I could listening to music all the time. I prefer genres like Hip Hop (Cypress Hill, Apollo Brown, Delinquent Habits, Wu-tang Clan...), on weekends I love dancing to Techno/Deep house/electronic but I also love music like Jack Johnson, Manu Chao, Gramatik, Cigarettes after Sex, Angus & Julia Stone and so on... Oh lord, the list is endless. :) I actually don't have a favorite film genre and I don't watch a lot of movies in general but the series King of Queens is invincible!! ;-)