Favorite Books Consider Phlebus and The Player of Games. Girl with the Dragon Tattoo. The Long Goodbye
Favorite Authors Iain Banks (both his science and straight fiction), James Ellroy, Henning Mankel, John Le Carre, Chandler
Favorite Movies 2001, Godfather I and II, Inception, most of the Harry Potter films (! I know), virtually anything by Hitchcock or with Cary Grant in it.
Favorite TV Shows Breaking Bad, House of Cards
Favorite Music Rock, modern indie, electronic. Radiohead, The Stranglers, Hawkwind, Depeche Mode