Asphyxiation, consensual vivisection, amnesia, cigars, single-malt Scotch, sex education, horror, science fiction, fantasy, mystery, crime fiction, true crime, the mafia, North Africa, gender, literature, tattoos, piercings, motorcycles, knives, guns, punk rock, goth, BDSM -- preferably all enjoyed at once, on a Tuesday.
Well-armed panda bears, Honoria Glossop, and the Marquis de Sade.
Baroque and medieval, industrial, goth, punk, new wave, proto-punk, rockabilly, blues, swing, bop & post-bop. The Cure, Siouxsie, Sisters, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Lou Reed, Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Stooges, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Jim Carroll, Television, Neutral Milk Hotel, Beethoven, Chopin, Gorecki, Bottesini, Bocherini.
The Godfather, Exotica, The Lord of the Rings, Casablanca, Memento, 12 Angry Men, Lawrence of Arabia, Goodfellas, Sunset Blvd, Double Indemnity, Bridge on the River Kwai, A Clockwork Orange, Treasure of the Sierra Madre, On the Waterfront, The Great Escape, Sin City, True Romance, anything Hitchcock, vintage noir, Hammer movies.
TV is evil. And for the love of Christ, this last season of the Sopranos was horrible. Where the f*** do these people get off, anyway? Send 'em to Gitmo, that's what I say.
Victorian science fiction, '20s-'60s noir, true crime, New Wave sci-fi, Paul Bowles, Albert Camus, Dashiell Hammett, old porn novels (a significant number of which I happen to have written).
Mickey Spillane, Raymond Chandler, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, Robert Smith, Roger Zelazny, Michael Moorcock, Harlan Ellison, Joss Whedon, Patrick Califia.