"I reflected, not for the first time, how mistaken it is to suppose there exists some "ordinary" world into which it is possible at will to wander. All human beings, driven as they are at different speeds by the same Furies, are at close range equally extraordinary." -Anthony Powell, "The Acceptance World"
You Are 50% Evil
You are evil, but you haven't yet mastered the dark side.
Fear not though - you are on your way to world domination. How Evil Are You?
I'm particularly fond of : the Alan Parsons Project, Aphex Twin, Bach, Bauhaus, Beethoven, Big Black, the Birthday Party, Bob Dylan, Cabaret Voltaire, the Chemical Brothers, Chris Knox, Curtis Mayfield, Curve, Death In Vegas, Deja Voodoo, Diamanda Galas, Einsturzende Neubauten, Ennio Morricone, Faith No More, Front 242, Gillian Welch, Goblin, Godspeed You Black Emperor, Goldfrapp, the Headless Chickens, Jim White, Johnny Cash, Joy Division, the KLF, KMFDM, Ladytron, Laibach, Leonard Cohen, Leoncavallo, Ministry, Minuit, MiSex, Mr Bungle, Nick Cave, Nina Simone, Nine Inch Nails, PJ Harvey, Panacea, Peter Jefferies, Pink Floyd, Roger Waters, Scorn, Shellac, Shriekback, Sisters Of Mercy, the Skeptics, Spor, Suzanne Vega, Talk Talk, The The, Theo Ray, TiSM, Tomahawk, Tori Amos, Toy Love, TV On The Radio, Verdi, Wagner, Wendyhouse. And so on. I also love the folk music of Appalachia, Armenia, the Kurds, the Sufis, Judaism, and the music of the Eastern Orthodox Church. And a big shout out to my homies in the 'Naki hardcore massive. ..
Shallow Grave, Fire Walk With Me, Cabinet Of Dr Caligari, The Insider, Network, Queen Margot, Tarnovsky's 'Stalker', Requiem For A Dream, every cheesy 70's exploitation flick, American Psycho, 'Oci ciornie', Ravenous, everything Leone made, Utu, Pasolini's 'Salo', The Day After, Thin Red Line, Bladerunner, Natural Born Killers Redux, Blue Velvet, Taxi Driver, Apartment Zero, Titus, Angel Heart, If..., Repo Man, the films of Dario Argento (especially Suspiria), 1984, Robocop, Season Of The Witch, Romeo Lies Bleeding, Dangerous Liaisons, Heat ('95), Apocalypse Now Redux, Bad Lieutenant, The Birds, Malpertius, Justine ('77), most of Mike Leigh's films, 2001 A Space Odyssey (actually all of Kubrick's films), the original 1922 Nosferatu (Murnau's), the 1979 remake of above (Herzog's), anything with Klaus Kinski in it, Insignificance, Kill Bill (prefer 2 to 1), Ghosts Of The Civil Dead, Sin City, Threads ('84), Black Robe, Magnolia, The Howling, Pink Floyd The Wall, Man Bites Dog, 28 Days Later, 'Idi i smotri', Star Wars Episode IV - A New Hope, The Grey Zone, Jacob's Ladder, Exterminating Angel (Bunuel), Miller's Crossing, and everything the two Davids (Lynch and Cronenburg) have ever done. ..
Nothing will ever beat 'Twin Peaks', but 'Carnivale' got pretty close. In fact HBO produces some superb TV - 'Sopranos', 'Deadwood', 'Arrested Development', 'Six Feet Under' and 'Rome' are/were also favourites of mine. 'Green Wing' and 'League Of Gentlemen' are my favourite comedies. ..
Anna Akhmatova, Mervyn Peake, James K Baxter, Orwell, Emily Dickinson, Anthony Powell, Chekhov, John Farris, Vonnegut, Sara Maitland, Sylvia Plath, Anthony Burgess, Mayakovsky, Kafka, Alan Moore, Roddy Doyle, Rochester, Swift, Ronnie Hugh Morrieson, Juvenal, Catullus, St. Augustine, Kath Mansfield, the King James Version, Kit Marlowe, Thomas Nashe, John Webster and most of the Jacobeans, Walt Whitman, Christopher Smart, Ginsburg, Burroughs, Anne Sexton, Anna Commena, Shirley Jackson, Sven Hassel, HPL, Auden, Eliot, the sagas of Sturrulson, the diaries of Pepys, and any and all non-fiction that catches my interest. Also, more comics than I could list - mainly DC/Marvel.