Gene Wolfe, Charles Dickens, Philip Pullman, Dan Simmons
Book of the New Sun/Book of the Long Sun/Book of the Short Sun, The Forever War, His Dark Materials trilogy, Bleak House, Moby Dick, Hyperion/The Fall of Hyperion
Foreign Policy, The Atlantic, Slate.com, The Daily Beast
NY Times
LOTR (70s version); LOTR (Peter Jackson version); Starship Troopers, Se7en, The Matrix, Possessed (1947), Blade Runner; Crouching Tiger, Hidden Dragon, Mad Max, Strait-Jacket, Showgirls
The Walking Dead, American Horror Story, 24, Buffy the Vampire Slayer; Star Trek: DS9; Angel
Vin Diesel, Kiefer Sutherland
Dance (Trance/House/Disco/Eurobeat/NRG)
Paul Van Dyk, Tritonal, Kyau & Albert, Roger Shah, Matt Darey, Donna Summer, Armin Van Buuren, Nile Rogers/Bernard Edwards, SAW
Brazilian Jiu-Jitsu, Muy Thai Boxing, Bicycling
India, Anywhere in the world (but in a pinch, Central Park)
Korean, Thai, Tex/Mex, and anything with a berry or cherry flavor