John Ruskin, social critic. JS Foer, fiction. George Saunders, social critic, satirist, all through fiction.

Bergman, Woody Allen, Kurosawa, Vanderhooven, Le Samurai, The Third Man, Good Shepherd, Apocalypto, Brittney Spears' Crossroads, Ralph Macchio's Crossroads, Gymkata, Enter The Dragon, Five Venoms, pretty much everything I enjoy, either as art or entertainment, or satire, or parody of itself.

Most verbs.