Music: '77 punk, hardcore, crust, thrash, grind, sludge, doom, drone, noise, dark ambient, black psych, PSF free-form, heavy rock, Brit pop/rock, select trip-hop. . . Collecting records. Academia. Film. Reading too many books at the same time. Writing. Dada. Surrealism. Excessive use of profanity. ¢50 words at 10% off. Hanging out. Going to shows. Monkeying around on the computer and internet. Japanese Heavy Rock. BORIS. Black Psychedelia. Samsara. Nothingness. Infornography. Smashism. Karma. Cigarettes. BABYSHAMBLES. Solitude. Psychoanalysis. Travelling. Albion. London. Tokyo. Berlin. And possibly other shit.
You. Me. La Belle Et La Bête. City Kids. Black Angels. Angels With Dirty Faces. Blackened Doves. Beautiful Losers. Hollow Mockeries of the Human Condition. Voidoids. Wrong'n's. Etcetera. Oh, and Klaus Kinski if he was still alive. Anna Karina. Charlotte Gainsbourg. And last but not least, Hope Sandoval!
Velvet Underground, MC5, Stooges, Blue Cheer, Hawkwind, 13th Floor Elevators, Roky Erickson, Black Sabbath, Pentagram, Witchcraft, Electric Wizard, Iron Monkey, Dystopia, -16-, Black Cobra, Cavity, Church of Misery, Sleep, High on Fire, Om, God's Iron Tooth, Moss, Earth, Boris, Ash Ra Temple, Amon Düül, La Düsseldorf, Les Rallizes Denudes, Merzbow, Keiji Haino, Fushitsusha, Acid Mothers Temple, Mainliner, High Rise, LSD March, Up-Tight, The Black Angels, Howlin' Rain, The Black Lips, Threadbare, Kiss it Goodbye, Amebix, Axegrinder, Assuck, S.D.S., Nasum, Yacopsae, Toxic Holocaust, Totalitär, Man Is The Bastard, Left For Dead, (The Infamous) Gehenna, Unruh, His Hero Is Gone, Deathreat, Tragedy, The Sonics, Johnny Thunders, Pistols, Clash, Sham 69, Gen X, Buzzcocks, Blondie, Stiff Little Fingers, The Jesus & Mary Chain, Spacemen 3, Spiritualized, Oasis, Verve, Death in Vegas, St. Etienne, Noisettes, Leonard Cohen, Lloyd Cole, Nick Cave, Ton Steine Scherben, Slime, Die Toten Hosen, Wipers, Screaming Trees, My Name, Seaweed, Hellacopters, Backyard Babies, AC/DC, Thin Lizzy, Motorhead, Iron Maiden, Venom, Kreator, Dark Angel, Possessed, Dissection, Ulver, Immortal, Nifelheim, Nattefrost. . .[You get the idea.]
Anything David Lynch has ever had his hands in!!!! The following in particular: Eraserhead, Dune, Blue Velvet, Wild At Heart, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, Lost Highway, Mulholland Drive, Darkened Room, Inland Empire... Gregg Araki's teen angst trilogy (Totally Fucked Up, Doom Generation, Nowhere), Happiness, Storytelling, Ken Park, Nadja, The Ninth Gate, The Wickerman (1973), The Pillow Book, All Over Me, The Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation, Pumpkin, Prozac Nation, Stay, The Rules of Attraction, Thirteen, Peaceful Warrior, Down in the Valley, Hurricane Streets, Repo Man, Mystery Train, Down By Law, Ghost Dog, Grosse Pointe Blank, High Fidelity, Ghost World, eXistenZ, Ghost in the Shell, Serial Experiements: Lain, Perfect Blue, Noir, A Clockwork Orange, Goodbye Charlie Bright, The Football Factory, The Business, Made In Britain, The Firm, Children of Men, Dirty Pretty Things, London to Brighton, 16 Years of Alcohol, This is England, Rude Boy (feat. The Clash), Suburbia (orig. with Vandals, T.S.O.L., etc.), Another State of Mind, The Filth and the Fury, American Hardcore, The Corporation, Sicko, H-Street's Hokus Pokus, Baise-Moi, Fucking Åmål, Lola Rennt, Der Krieger und die Kaiserin, Jisatsu Circle, Ôdishon, MPD Psycho, Gozu, Visitor Q, Ichi the Killer, IZO, Shark Skin Man and Peach Hip Girl, Loved Gun, School Of The Holy Beast, Female Yakuza, Chungking Express, Fallen Angels, Timecode, Un Chien Andalou, Blowup, Breathless, Alphaville, Masculin Feminin, Sympathy for the Devil, etc., etc. (I'm pretty partial to French New Wave cinema in general), most if not all Pedro Almodovar films... [This list could go on forever].
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, The L Word, Rescue Me, Veronica Mars (I can't believe the bastards canceled it), Californication, Stromberg, arte documentaries, BBC/Channel 4 documentaries on all things sex, music, war.
I'm not much into fiction, but I do like most everything Kafka and Bataille ever put to paper. I also dig Proust a lot. When it comes to non-fiction the never ending list (in no particular order) includes Marx, Nietzsche, Freud, Ferdinand de Saussure, Jacques Lacan, Louis Althusser, Etienne Balibar, Gayatri Spivak, Judith Butler, Luce Irigaray, Joan Copjec, Alenka Zupancic, Saskia Sassen, Slavoj Zizek, Jacques Derrida, (some) Michel Foucault, Edward Said, Homi K. Bhabha, The Frankfurt School, Guy Debord, André Breton, Antonin Artaud. . .