War, killing, rape, maiming, pushing over flowerpots. The usual.
Aconite Thrill, At The Drive-In, Aphex Twin, Arcade Fire, A Perfect Circle, David Bowie, Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, Crowded House, Cold War Kids, Cynic, Deftones, Miles Davis, The Decemberists, Def Leppard, Dogs, Dillinger Escape Plan, Earthtone9, Editors, Farse, Futureheads, Glassjaw, Helmet, The Hours, Hundred Reasons, I|AM|THE|DOOR, Idlewild, Incubus, Joy Division, Klay, Led Zeppelin, Living Colour, The Mars Volta, Massive Attack, McLusky, Midasuno, Muse, pretty much any Motown, Nirvana, Nine Inch Nails, Opeth, Paradise Lost, Pitchshifter, Pixies, Pulp, Portishead, Pantera, Queen, Radiohead, Refused, SikTh, Slipknot, The Smiths, Soundgarden, Sunset Cinema Club, Talking Heads, Therapy?, This Is Menace, thisGIRL, Tool
Loooads.
Lost
Histories / biographies, graphic novels, fiction: Bret Easton Ellis, Douglas Coupland, Will Self, Terry Pratchett, Dave Eggers, JRR Tolkien, Tom Wolfe, Margret Atwood, William Burroughs, George Orwell, Kurt Vonnegut, William Shakespeare, AS Byatt. Currently re-reading 'Lord of the Rings'!
Those that dare