The Master and Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov is possibly my favourite magical realism book. I found that some of David Mitchell's writing is similar to Murakami, specifically number9dream, Ghostwritten and Cloud Atlas.
Through reading Murakami I've gotten into Kobo Abe, he shares that weirdness with him and are very Kafkaesque, I loved The Woman in the Dunes and The Box Man.
I've got 200GB+ of photos,maybe 10 times that in video, all because I have kids and I'll probably never look at most of them again , yet I NEED to save them somewhere!
I think it's crazy that echonest still doesn't have any album information in their api, for building anything to do with music when is album info not useful?