Stuff I like

Books: Goncharov - Oblomov, Turgenev Father & Sons, Gorky, Pushkin, Gogol, Chekhov, Leskov (The Enchanted Wanderer is one my favourite stories ever), Tolstoy, Dostoevsky, Solztinyszen, Palahniuk, Stephen Donaldson, Joseph Heller, Heinlein, K**** Asimov, Wells, Verne, [Non-fiction] I read The Economist, BBC, Al Jazeera, Der Spiegel, The Australian, I also source any papers I read from think thanks such as the Lowy Institute, CJR and many others - if it's foreign policy, geopolitics or security I'm following it.

Music: Radiohead, Smashing Pumpkins, You Am I, INXS, Tortoise, Lorde, Foo Fighters, Led Zeppelin, Pink Floyd, Rolling Stones, The Who, Ian Dury, Joy Division/New Order, Chopin, Brahms, Beethoven, Mozart, Blondie, Big Scary, The Men, Seabellies, Rhubarb, Like A Version, Sufjan Stevens, Tame Impala, The xx, The Strokes, The Shins, Architechture in Helsinki, the Cardigans, Fuel, Filter, Jimi Hendrix, John McLaughlin, Miles Davis, John Coltrane, Neil Young, Modest Mouse, Opeth, Something for Kate, Temper Trap, Fleet Foxes, Rollins Band, My Morning Jacket, Calexico, Living Colour, Jose Gonzales, KT Tunstall, Josh Pyke, the list goes on for sometime.

Films: Das Leben die Anderen, Stalingrad, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, Fear and Desire, Beaufort, Donnie Darko, Evangelion, Margin Call, anything with Steve Coogan, there are too many to list here really.