hey! yeah, as far as stories go, really anything that feels like a lucid dream. Anything with imagery and mood and setting that's captivating and compelling. I like shorts a lot, because there is so much said with so little, and they do a great job of manipulating literary elements in those stories. i like ray bradbury, john grisham, randy alcorn, just to name a few.
as far as music goes, this might sound weird, but my favorite genre is orchestral/film scores. there's a complexity so innate, about each little piece of the orchestra all forming a coherent piece that's just intrinsically beautiful in my opinion. my musical palette is decently varied though, save for rap.
how about you?