It is always very interesting to meet people from a different culture brought up in different social and historical circumstances. I would call that experience an international "chemistry". This is when you learn something new for you that is absolutely usual for some foreigner an you also share some part of yourself

Modern R&B Stuff, Contemporary Jazz Stuff, Oldschool Grunge, Brown guitar sound, the Beatles, the Prodigy, Claude Debussy, Erik Satie, Maurice Ravel, etc... it all depends upon the mood. Movies: Twin Peaks, Green Mile, The Grand Budapest, Blade Runner (+2049), Once Upon a Time in America, The Big Lebowski, The Shawshank Redemption, Amelie, Groundhog Day etc. Books: only paper books