favorites:

Games -- AZEL: Panzer Dragoon RPG, Akumajo Dracula: Moonlight Nocturne, Biohazard 4, Dragon Quest III, Final Fantasy X, Gabriel Knight: Sins of the Fathers, Genso Suikoden II, God of War II, Grandia, Grim Fandango, ICO, Ikaruga, Kingdom Hearts, Klonoa, LUNAR: Eternal Blue, Metal Gear Solid 4: Guns of the Patriots, Phantasy Star, Policenauts, Princess Tomato in Salad Kingdom, Quest for Glory II, Radiant Silvergun, Rockman 2, Shenmue II, Silent Hill 2, Space Channel 5 Part 2, Street Fighter III 3rd Strike, Street Fighter IV, Super Mario 64, Tactics Ogre, Tengai Makyo II, The Legend of Zelda: Ocarina of Time, The Longest Journey, Umjammer Lammy, Vampire Hunter, Wander and the Colossi, Ys II, many others

Films -- 2001: A Space Odyssey, A Clockwork Orange, Apocalypse Now, Blade Runner, Brazil, Citizen Kane, Close Encounters of the Third Kind, Dr. Strangelove, The Elephant Man, Fantasia, The Godfather series, Grand Illusion, Indiana Jones series, In the Mood for Love, Kill Bill, Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Lawrence of Arabia, The Lord of the Rings series, Memento, Metropolis, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Mulholland Drive, Nausicaä of the Valley of Wind, Nosferatu, Pan's Labyrinth, Psycho, Pulp Fiction, Raging Bull, Ran, Rashomon, Seven Samurai, The Seventh Seal, Star Wars series, Taxi Driver, Terminator 2, There Will Be Blood, Tokyo Story, many others

Books -- Canterbury Tales (Chaucer), The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (Gibbons), Memory, Sorrow and Thorn series (Tad Williams), Official NightWarriors Strategy Guide (GameFan Books), Oliver Twist (Dickens), On the Road (Kerouac), A Song of Ice and Fire series (George R.R. Martin), many others

Music -- 60s/70s Japanese GS bands, The Beach Boys, The Beatles, The Doors, Koichi Sugiyama, Led Zeppelin, Michael Jackson, Morrissey, Nirvana, Puffy, Queen, Radiohead, The Rolling Stones, The Sex Pistols, Sparks, Tamio Okuda, Tomoko Kawase, Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart, many others