Music: Depeche Mode, Sigur Rós, Radiohead, Placebo, The Smiths, Joy Division, Muse. Books by John Fowles, Sergei Dovlatov, Lyudmila Ulitskaya, Gabriel García Márquez, Isaac Bashevis Singer, Knut Hamsun. Movies: The Big Lebowski, all Wes Anderson's, and also Coen brothers' and Stanley Kubrick's.