i don't play many things, mostly watch bad movies, my reading is broad but shallow - i like weird outliers but am probably kind of lacking in "the classics" or that kind of stuff esp as i don't have any arts education, i'm kind of a magpie who rummages through things looking for gaudy bricabrac. but i do kind of feel like it's helpful to have a sense of what's useful to you, as a material you wanna work with, whether or not it's always strictly good.