Music:
Asking me to list all of my musical interests is a silly question... I can't, not in one sitting..and I like a vast variety...but here's to trying.......45 grave, adam & the ants, air, alien sex fiend, angels of light, annette hanshaw, arab strap, bauhaus, bella morte, billie holiday, black tape for a blue girl, blonde redhead, blur, bollywood music, bowery electric, chicks on speed, cinema strange, clor, cocorosie, cocteau twins, colin meloy, cranes, crispin hellion glover, cult of the psychic fetus, damien rice, david bowie, dead boys, dead can dance, dead or alive, death in june, death in vegas, depeche mode, echo & the bunnymen, fad gadget, faun fables, france gall, gang of four, gary numan, go sailor, gogol bordello, green monster, gun club, guns n roses, i am x, iggy pop, interpol, jelly roll morton, jesca hoop, jimi hendrix, johnny cash, jon brion, joy division, katzenjammer kabarett, king oliver's creole jazz band, klaus nomi, ladytron, lali puna, lata mangeshkar, le tigre, lene lovich, lords of the new church, lou reed, love and rockets, love spirals downwards, lpd, marc bolan, marlene dietrich, mazzy star, miranda sex garden, mission of burma, mohammed rafi, muse, my bloody valentine, nancy sinatra, new model army, new order, nico, nina hagen, operation ivy, paul whitman and his orchestra, peaches, penis flytrap, peter murphy, pj harvey, placebo, portishead, pulp, queen adreena, radiohead, rasputina, robert johnson, robots in disguise, serge gainsbourg, sexgang children, siouxsie and the banshees, sisters of mercy, sneaker pimps, soundtracks to tarantino films, specimen, st. vincent, stephanie rearick, stereolab, t rex, the 6ths, the arcade fire, the beatles, the birthday party, the bolshoi, the brides, the buzzcocks, the church, the cinematic orchestra, the cramps, the creatures, the cure, the damned, the dresden dolls, the faint, the fall, the genitorturers, the glove, the gun club, the jam, the kinks, the london suede, the misfits, the mummies, the naked and the dead, the new york dolls, the pixies, the postal service, the psychedelic furs, the ramones, the sex pistols, the shins, the smithereens, the smiths, the stooges, the sugarcubes, st. vincent, strawberry switchblade, the tiger lillies, the undead, the velvet underground, the vibrators, the zombies, throwing muses, tom waits, tones on tail, tori amos, tragic black, vast, vhs or beta, virgin prunes, vnv nation, wanda jackson, wolfsheim, xray spex, zombina and the skeletones, etc..
Movies:
eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, cabaret, the labyrinth, the neverending story, city lights, almost famous, the cabinet of dr. caligari, the birds, sisters, the affairs of anatol, sid & nancy, the hunger, rock n roll highschool, night of the living dead, harold & maude, donnie darko, amelie, the 5th element, clockwork orange, willy wonka, limelight, nosferatu(1922), alice in wonderland, hedwig & the angry inch, velvet goldmine, pulp fiction, pecker, ghost world, the city of lost children, cecil b demented, female trouble, crybaby, nightmare on elm st, run lola run, the dreamers, garden state, quills, house of fools, igby goes down. 200 cigarettes, crash (feat james spader), twin falls idaho, pretty much anything by jean-pierre jeunet, secretary, les triplettes de bellevilleI find myself constantly having to update this section and add more. It's pretty hopeless. I am in love with the movies and therefore can't ever make a list of favorites when I ACTUALLY have to. Too many to remember all at once...
Television:
the Young Ones, Carnivale, Family Guy, Black Books, Kids in the Hall, that 70s show (though I have to say I haven't watched the last two seasons. It's just getting ridiculous), Taboo on National Geographic, Absolutely Fabulous.... that is, when i actually do watch tv.
Books:
Authors, Poets:George Orwell, Oscar Wilde, Shakespeare, J.D. Salinger, Slyvia Plaith, pretty much anything by Chuck Palahniuk (though its sort of a passing phase), Charles Simic, Robinson Jeffers, T.s. Eliot, Francesca Lia Block etc. And yes, I have read the Harry Potter Series more than once :x Currently switching off between Kafkas short stories and the Clown by Heinrich Boll I also like to random page select and read through the Penguin Dictionary of Symbols from time to time. Is that odd?
Heroes:
Music............ Oh, are you looking for names? Oscar Wilde, Charlie Chaplin, Robert Smith, Margaret Cho, Floria Sigismondi, Charlie Kaufman, quite a few starlettes of the silent screen(gloria swanson, clara bow), Alice...Alice and I could talk for hours.