Learning languages (English, Japanese), self-improvement, foreign movies, cooking

Enigma; Delerium; Lana Del Rey; Oasis; Morcheeba; Eminem; Within Temptation; Moby; Portishead; Avril Lavigne; Stereophonics; Adele; Sting; Evanescence; The Goo Goo Dolls; Akira Yamaoka; London Grammar; Red; Thousand Foot Krutch; The Cranberries; Gorillaz; Enya; Gregorian; ERA; Crystal Castles; various movie OSTs (I particularly enjoy works by composers such as John Williams, Alan Silvestri, James Newton Howard, James Horner, Howard Shore, Ennio Morricone, and Michael Giacchino)

Star Wars (the original trilogy and the prequel trilogy); Harry Potter 1-2; The Twilight Zone; The X-Files: Fight the Future; 2001: A Space Odyssey; 2010: The Year We Make Contact; Godzilla (the Heisei series and the MonsterVerse movie); Alien and Aliens; Predator 1-2; Mulholland Drive; Fargo; Gifted; It Takes Two; New York Minute; Back to the Future trilogy; The Matrix trilogy; The Green Mile; The Shawshank Redemption; The Mist; M. Night Shyamalan's "Eastrail 177" trilogy (Unbreakable, Split, Glass); Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind; Princess Mononoke; Treasure Planet; Atlantis: The Lost Empire; Finding Nemo; Shrek 1-2; Homeward Bound: The Incredible Journey; Lemony Snicket's A Series of Unfortunate Events; Saw 1-3; Sucker Punch; Midsommar; Jacob's Ladder; V for Vendetta; The Butterfly Effect; Pan's Labyrinth; Vanilla Sky; Village of the Damned; Indiana Jones 1-3; Silent Hill; The Mummy 1-2; The Messenger: The Story of Joan of Arc; Interview with the Vampire; Black Swan; The Fountain; The Pianist; Bridge to Terabithia; Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind; Some Like It Hot; Groundhog Day; The Frighteners; The Blair Witch Project; Mystic River; The Devil's Advocate; Constantine; Terminator 1-2; RoboCop 1-2; The Lord of the Rings trilogy; Cube; Triangle; American Beauty; What Lies Beneath; Pirates of the Caribbean 1-3; Jurassic Park 1-2; King Kong; 8 Mile; Dirty Dancing; Taxi Driver; 21; Once Upon a Time in America; A Clockwork Orange; Ghost; Good Will Hunting; White Oleander; Gone Girl; Dead Poets Society; Jumanji; Lost in Translation; 12 Monkeys; War of the Worlds;Blade Runner 1-2; The NeverEnding Story; Stuart Little 1-2; Schindler's List; One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest; Breakfast at Tiffany's; Kill Bill; Pulp Fiction; Speed; Jumper; Starship Troopers 1-2; Cast Away; The Terminal; Scream 1-3; A Nightmare on Elm Street 1-6; Final Destination 1 and 3; Halloween 1-2; Hellraiser 1-2; The Fifth Element; Inception; The Evil Dead trilogy; District 9; Moon; Spy Kids 1-3; Ghostbusters 1-2; Cloverfield; The Thing

Arthur C. Clarke - Space Odyssey series; J.R.R. Tolkien - The Hobbit, The Lord of the Rings, The Silmarillion; J.K. Rowling - Harry Potter; Brian Jacques - Redwall; Richard Adams - Watership Down; Jules Verne - The Mysterious Island; Michael Crichton - Prey, Jurassic Park; James S.A. Corey - The Expanse series; H.G. Wells - The War of the Worlds; Koushun Takami - Battle Royale; Clive Barker - Books of Blood; Daniel Keyes - Flowers for Algernon; Jonathan Swift - Gulliver's Travels; novels by Stephen King, Dean Koontz, and H.P. Lovecraft's stories

The X-Files; Lost; The Sopranos; Better Call Saul; Breaking Bad; True Detective; Fargo; Twin Peaks; The Twilight Zone; American Horror Story; Heroes; Charmed; Xena: Warrior Princess; ALF; Kommissar Rex; Tales from the Crypt

«Your future hasn't been written yet. No one's has. Your future is whatever you make it. So make it a good one.» (Dr. Emmet Brown)

«Don't tell me what I can't do.» (John Locke)

«Waaaaaaaaaaaalt!» (Michael Dawson)

«Happiness can be found, even in the darkest of times, if one only remembers to turn on the light.» (Albus Dumbledore)

«There's some good in this world, and it's worth fighting for.» (Samwise Gamgee)