writing, books, art for art's sake ....stuff....
guess
Adam and the Ants, Antony and the Johnsons, Bauhaus, the Birthday Party, Coil, The Cramps, the Cure, Current 93, Death in June, Depeche Mode, the does, Echo and the Bunnymen, the Floating World, Fields of the Nephilim, Franz Ferdinand, Joy Division, The Legendary Pink Dots, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Rozz Williams, Sex Pistols, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Stone Breath, Velvet Underground
aaahhh... books! Mikhail Bulgakov, Ray Bradbury, Steven Brust, C.J. Cherryh (the 'Fortress' books), Storm Constantine, John Crowley, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Jean Genet, Elizabeth Hand, J.K. Huysmans, Jack Kerouac, Ellen Kushner, Walter Pater, Arthur Rimbaud, Jack Vance, Paul Verlaine, Oscar Wilde, Gene Wolfe, and too many more....