Books, travel, languages and music. Gratuitously violent films, counterculture media and MAC eyeshadows. Fake blood and fake fur. Nintendo DS.And a nice cup of tea.
Anyone off-beat, interesting and amusing. Losers, lovers, fighters. Anyone who can expand my horizons. Backstabbers, drama queens and those short of a few brain cells need not apply.
In no particular order: The Cure, Dresden Dolls, Minor Threat, Cursive, The Smiths, Tiger Army, Mad Sin, Sunshine, MCR, Dir En Grey, Alkaline Trio, Op Ivy, Tweaker, Evaline, Blutengel, HelloGoodbye, Godflesh, Jane Air, Animal Jazz, A7X, Atari Teenage Riot, The Used, The Get-Up Kids, Taking Back Sunday, Demented Are Go, Joy Division, Atreyu, David Bowie, The Wildhearts, The Cramps, The Hives, AFI, Sisters of Mercy, Siouxsie & the Banshees, FFAF, Fall Out Boy, Shiny Toy Guns, Black Flag, Coheed & Cambria, Eighteen Visions, Bleeding Through, Blondie, PWEI, Jeff Buckley, Depeche Mode, Misfits, Placebo, Jimmy Eat World, The Kinison, Brand New. Kylie fucking Minogue. Many more.
The Lost Boys, The Pianist, Sleepy Hollow, Labyrinth, Eddie Izzard, Chopper Chicks in Zombietown, The Constant Gardener, Clerks, Black Books, Buried Alive, Sin City, Foxfire, Blue Velvet, High Fidelity, Tattoo, Ichi the Killer, Secretary, Boondock Saints, Girl, Interrupted, Pulp Fiction, American History X. Black and white, old glamour, film noir, good, old-fashioned slasher violence.
Grey's Anatomy, CSI, NCIS, etc. When I can be bothered.
Ricardo Pinto, Phillip Pullman, Mary Gentle, Terry Pratchett, Anne Rice, Christopher Gutierrez, Iain Hollingshead, Robert Jordan, John Le Carre, Iain M. Banks, Stephen Chbosky, Fyodor Dostoevsky, Arthur Golden.
Graphic novels: Sin City, Preacher, Blue Monday, Wet Moon, Jhonen Vasquez, The Amory Wars.
"Everyone is necessarily the hero of his own life story."-- John Barth