yes: moral ambiguity, the rigid and frigid and distant, being left the f*** alone, blow-drying my hair, the topography of Richard Ashcroft's face, ants, Curta calculators, nappy hair, Baader-Meinhof, playing cords on the cello and running it through a bunch of pedals and making a really big noise,
no:the puritanical
...no one. I hate all of you. I am not the kind of person any of you are allowed to associate with - I let my participles dangle like mad!
Afghan Whigs, The Auteurs, Angels of Light, Black Box Recorder, Big Black, Delicatessen, Nina Simone, Elevator to Hell, My Bloody Valentine, Blonde Redhead, Huggy Bear, Black Heart Procession, the Microphones, Polly Jean Harvey, the Supremes, Mirah, Eric's Trip, Suede, Radiohead, Slowdive, Another Girl Another Planet, Hunchback, Elevator to Hell, Elevator to Hell, Elevator to Hell. All I listen to now is Elevator to Hell.
Ichi the Killer, The Three Colours trilogy by Kieslowski (especially Blue), Morvern Callar, The Legend of Billie Jean, Ladies and Gentlemen the Fabulous Stains!, The Warriors, Purple Rain, Amelie, The Color Purple, most Hitchcock movies (especially Marnie), Dancer in the Dark, Suddenly, The Swimmer, Scream, The Bad Seed, The Hitcher, Robocop I & II, The Darkman series, Amores Perros, The Devil's Backbone, Uzumaki, The Piano Teacher.
static
Lorrie Moore, Richard Brautigan, Joyce Carol Oates, Joy Williams, Toni Morrisson, B.S. Johnson, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Elie Weisel, Ray Bradbury, India Nikit, William Faulkner, Haruki Murakami, David Foster Wallace, William Steig, Zilpha Keatley Snyder, Langston Hughes, Ben Marcus, Vladimir Nabokov, Knut Hamsun, Ian McEwan
villians, imposters, the imposed upon, Jane Dark, Ada Price, Marcel Ibsen-Brixton