Bands I keep going back to are Radiohead, U2, The Cure, and the Red Hot Chili Peppers. I also enjoy the music of Smashing Pumpkins, Led Zeppelin, Metallica, Ozzy Osbourne, Ramones, NWA, Tupac, Bob Marley... Oh, and I can’t forget Beethoven, Brahms, Mozart... and all of that...
Movies
I like all genres particularly French New Wave, German Expressionism, Italian Neorealism, American Film Noirs, and Chinese New Wave. I like movies by Francis Ford Coppola, Brian De Palma, Bob Fosse, William Friedkin, Akira Kurosawa, Sidney Lumet, Sam Peckinpah, Martin Scorsese, Andrei Tarkovsky... and the list goes on...
Television
I watch TV mainly for sports, talk shows, or cartoons. That's all.
Books
All kinds. In fiction: Charles Bukowski, Frank Chin, Louis Chu, John Fante, Luo Guanzhong, Ernest Hemingway, George V. Higgins, Jack Higgins, Elmore Leonard, Cormac McCarthy, Norman Mailer, Edgar Allan Poe, Steve Richmond, J. D. Salinger, Wu Cheng-en. Playwrights: Edward Albee, Anton Chekhov, Stephen Adly Guirgis, Kenneth Lonergan, David Mamet, David Rabe, Peter Shaffer, Michael Weller, August Wilson. I also like books on history, science, and theology. And I'm an avid collector of graphic novels.
Heroes
My parents, Frank Chin, Yue Fei, George V. Higgins