Film noir, neo-noir, post-noir, the chronicles of noir-nia.
Fred MacMurray, Bogart and Bacall, Robert Mitchum, Raymond Chandler, Jane Greer, Ladd and Lake and of course Edward Dmytryk.But mostly Barbara Stanwyck...
Jazz, Betty Boo, the blues, jazz-blues, country-blues, the occassional torch song placed in the middle of a film noir to appease the leading lady, uk garage.
Double Indemnity, Out of the Past, the Blue Dahlia, the Black Dahlia, the Killers, The Big Sleep (1946), The Big Heat, The Big Combo, The Big Steal, Big, Hollywoodland, Brick, This Gun For Hire, Manhattan Murder Mystery.
Documentaries... you know about film noir and that.
Books that were made into film noirs. And JG Ballard (who I like to call neo-future-noir).
Everyone in someway connected to the murky world of (quite oftern rain-soaked) noir. Which I like. I also quite like Ken Livingstone.