It's book and video and music recommendation time!

So, spazzkat, solarbird, and I are going to Japan for Worldcon this year. Which in and of itself warrants a large WOO!, but that's not the point of this post. The point of this post is that we will be in the air for a perfectly ridiculous number of hours getting to and from Yokohama, and so I'm thinking to load up my iPaq and my iPod with various amusing things to read and/or watch and and/or listen to.

So my question for you all is this: what ebook, audio book, movie, TV show, or album do you think I should purchase to take with me on this vacation to amuse myself?

What I like to read: science fiction, fantasy, mysteries, thrillers, the occasional horror novel, romantic suspense, the occasional actual romance if it's a good one. Heck, I'll even read general fiction if it comes highly enough recommended.

What I like to listen to: I post enough about my favorite artists that y'all should already have a decent idea of what I like to listen to. Assume I'm already eying albums I don't already have yet by artists I already listen to (Carbon Leaf, Seven Nations, the Young Dubliners, Solas, Altan, most notably). Thanks to buying those collections of music that might have been played by Jack Aubrey and Stephen Maturin, I have begun to develop a fondness for Vivaldi, Boccherini, Corelli, and other Italian composers as well. So I'm looking for recommendations that might fill in a sentence like "since you already like <foo>, you should check out <bar>".

Hit me with your best shots, folks!