Horror and cult films, electronic music, experimental literature (William S. Burroughs and the like), philosophy, art films, psychology, counter-culture topics (sex, drugs, occultism, etc.), friendship, obsessions (romantic especially), survival, beauty, imagination/creation, the pursuit of truth, lesbianism, radical politics of any kind, guinea pigs, coelacanths; making life, not just art, surreal; making life, not just art, pre-Raphaelite.
People with similar interests and/or personalities. Eccentrics, intellectuals, anarchists/libertarians, introverts. Old schoolmates. Succubi. Attractive and intelligent women; it helps if you're willing to make the first move. And I'd love to converse with Whit Stillman and Quentin Tarantino. Fred Olen Ray, Jim Wynorski and David DeCoteau. Also Aimee Graham, wherever she may be. Heather Graham I wouldn't mind either.
Cabaret Voltaire, Throbbing Gristle, Devo, Kraftwerk, Brian Eno, Roxy Music, Japan, Joy Division, Donna Summer, Talking Heads, The Police, Peter Gabriel, ABBA, Rolling Stones, Pentangle, Can, Neu!, SPK, Cerrone, Comsat Angels, Psychic TV, Soft Cell, Wire, Giorgio Moroder, Gang of Four, Killing Joke, Gary Numan, Genesis, Snuff TV, David Bowie, Magazine, Buzzcocks, Sex Pistols, Elvis Presley, Fats Domino, Buddy Holly, Gene Vincent, Little Richard, Bill Haley and His Comets, Dead Can Dance, The JAMS/KLF, Velvet Underground, Popol Vuh, Vivaldi, Tchaikovsky, Rossini, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, J.S. Bach, Bizet, Ravel, J. Strauss, Steve Reich, Philip Glass, Terry Riley, NUGGETS compilations, STREET JAMS: ELECTRIC FUNK compilations, Charlie Parker, John Coltrane, Herbie Hancock, Master Musicians of Jajouka
Drugstore Cowboy, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Videodrome, Blue Velvet, A Clockwork Orange, Taxi Driver, The Hills Have Eyes (1977), Shivers, The Evil Dead, Lolita (1962), Wild at Heart, Aguirre: The Wrath of God, Contempt, The Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie, Mean Streets, Night of the Living Dead (1968), Dawn of the Dead (1978), Day of the Dead, Re-Animator, Return of the Living Dead, A Nightmare on Elm Street, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre (1974), Scorpio Rising, Lucifer Rising, Eaux d'Artifice, Un Chien Andalou, The Tingler, Suspiria, Inferno (1980), The Decline of Western Civilization, Jackie Brown, Heavy Metal, My Own Private Idaho, Easy Rider, The Trip, Nightmare Sisters, Halloween (1978), Halloween II, The Exorcist, Dimensions of Dialogue, The Tenant, Ms. 45, Dirty Harry, La Dolce Vita, Assault on Precinct 13 (1976), Tommy, Altered States, Boogie Nights, Phantasm, Fists of Fury, The Conformist, Barbarella, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, American Graffiti, Blood Simple, The Warriors, Massacre at Central High, Murmur of the Heart, Pretty Baby, Psycho (1960), Up in Smoke, Claire's Knee, River's Edge, Over the Edge, The Virgin Spring, Don't Look Now, Duck Soup, Five Easy Pieces, Fellini Satyricon, Towers Open Fire, The Cut Ups, Beau Pere, Hollywood Boulevard, Death in Venice, Bonnie and Clyde, The Toxic Avenger, The Toxic Avenger Part II, The Toxic Avenger Part III: The Last Temptation of Toxie, Rabid, The Brood, Cries and Whispers, Sirens, Deliverance, The Wicker Man (1973), The Vampire Lovers, Desert Hearts, Maedchen in Uniform, Death Race 2000, Eating Raoul, The Big Doll House, Sweet Sugar, Pets, Terminal Island, Anarchism in America, Breathless (1960), Sweet Movie, WR: Mysteries of the Organism, Celine and Julie Go Boating, Night Tide, The Graduate, The Silent Partner, Meshes of the Afternoon, Devo and Peter Gabriel music videos
Twin Peaks, The L Word, SCTV, The Twilight Zone (original), The Young Ones, The Prisoner, Monty Python's Flying Circus, The Office (US; haven't seen British version yet), Mystery Science Theater 3000, Absolutely Fabulous, Fawlty Towers, Weeds, Arrested Development, Police Squad!, The Kids in the Hall, Parker Lewis Can't Lose, The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Incredibly Strange Film Show, Saturday Night Live (1970s), Tales from the Darkside, Mostly True Stories: Urban Legends Revealed, The South Bank Show, Soul Train, Da Ali G Show
William S. Burroughs NAKED LUNCH; THE WILD BOYS, George Orwell 1984, Georges Bataille STORY OF THE EYE, Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford SLEAZOID EXPRESS; ANGER, John Waters SHOCK VALUE; CRACKPOT, Jack Gelber THE CONNECTION, Vladimir Nabokov LOLITA, Jean de Berg THE IMAGE, Mark Leyner MY COUSIN, MY GASTROENTEROLOGIST, Ayn Rand THE FOUNTAINHEAD, J. Hoberman and Jonathan Rosenbaum MIDNIGHT MOVIES, Ira H. Robbins THE TROUSER PRESS RECORD GUIDE, Kim Newman NIGHTMARE MOVIES, Mikhail Bakunin GOD AND THE STATE, Murray Rothbard EGALITARIANISM AS A REVOLT AGAINST NATURE AND OTHER ESSAYS, NOSTRIL magazine, Amos Vogel FILM AS A SUBVERSIVE ART, Charles Bukowski POST OFFICE, Aleister Crowley (or is it Aiwass?) THE BOOK OF THE LAW, Robert Anton Wilson COSMIC TRIGGER VOL. 1, Jean Genet FUNERAL RITES; THE BALCONY, Robert A. Heinlein STRANGER IN A STRANGE LAND, Lars Ullerstam THE EROTIC MINORITIES, Danny Peary CULT MOVIES; CULT MOVIES 2; CULT MOVIES 3, RE/Search Publications INCREDIBLY STRANGE FILMS; WILLIAM S. BURROUGHS/BRION GYSIN/THROBBING GRISTLE; INDUSTRIAL CULTURE HANDBOOK; SEARCH AND DESTROY magazine reprints
Whatever happened to the heroes? Roland Pericles, Samuel Edward Konkin III, Genesis P-Orridge, Alan Sokal, Stanley Kubrick, Wendy McElroy, Roger Corman, Voltairine de Cleyre, The Swedish Chef, Sailor and Lula, Timothy Leary, Bill Landis and Michelle Clifford, The Man with No Name, Susie Bright, Susan Sontag. Aside from that, no more heroes anymore.