Music, Movies, and Books
Movies: The Graduate, Notting Hill, No News From the God, Pulp Fiction, Das Experiment, Knocking On Heaven's Door, Roman Holiday, Arizona Dream, The Addams Family, Burn After Reading, The English Patient, Moonrise Kingdom. Pedro Almodovar, Guy Maddin, Michael Haneke.
Russian films - Rusalka (by Anna Melikyan), Chapiteau-Show (by Sergei Loban), Tired By the Sun (by Nikita Mikhalkov).
TV Series: The American Horror Story, Black Mirror (highly recommend!), Forbrydelsen, Broen.
Music: mostly "The -s" (The Beatles, The Rolling Stones, The Doors, The Kinks, The Beach Boys, The Libertines, The Films), Aerosmith, Patti Smith, RHCP, Bright Eyes, ABBA, Lily Allen, Amy Winehouse, Robbie Williams, Edward Grieg, Petr Tchaikovskiy.
Russian - Zemfira, Mumiy Troll, Multfilmy, Bravo, Tsoi.
Books: Leo Tolstoi, Victor Pelevin, Sergei Dovlatov, Nikolai Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Alain de Botton, John Fowles, Michel Tournier, William Thackeray, Henry Fielding, Tove Jansson, Astrid Lindgren.