steampunk, seven & ace, jigsaw puzzles, men in crumpled suits, compulsively researching everything, my braces, escapism, class warfare, surrealist art, identifying more with fictional characters than real people
time-travellers & troubadours
The Clientele, Mary Timony, Patrick Wolf, Galaxie 500, Roxy Music, Scott Walker, The Kinks, Belle and Sebastian, The Magnetic Fields, The Smiths, Pulp/Jarvis Cocker, The Mountain Goats, The Aislers Set, Yo La Tengo, David Bowie, Clinic, Television, The Buzzcocks, Sparks, Joy Division, New Order, Franz Ferdinand, Orange Juice, Nick Drake, Love, The Divine Comedy, Kings of Convenience, The Zombies, The Left Banke, Air, Charlotte Gainsbourg, Felt, The Flaming Lips, Lambchop, Augustus Pablo, The Velvet Underground, My Bloody Valentine, Nick Cave, Arab Strap, Malcolm Middleton
Wings of Desire, Withnail and I, The Night of the Hunter, Les Enfants du Paradis, The Third Man, M, Bonnie and Clyde, Harold and Maude, The Up Series, Heavenly Creatures, The Apartment, All the Real Girls, Magnolia, Rosemary's Baby, Delicatessen, Dr. Strangelove, The Graduate, Velvet Goldmine, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Thin Man, The Triplets of Belleville, Shaun of the Dead, pretty much everything by Hayao Miyazaki, various Buster Keaton films, anything involving Klaus Kinski acting like a crazy bastard
Doctor Who, The Mighty Boosh, Nighty Night, Black Books, Snuff Box, Garth Marenghi's Darkplace, Arrested Development, The League of Gentlemen, Twin Peaks, Life on Mars, Project Runway, Top Chef, Torchwood, Cambridge Spies, Spaced, Jeeves and Wooster, Strangers With Candy, Freaks and Geeks, The X-Files, any sort of historical reality programming like The 1900 House
Of Human Bondage, Good Omens, Pride and Prejudice, Wise Blood, The Wind-up Bird Chronicles, Lolita, The Great Gatsby, Jane Eyre, The Heart is a Lonely Hunter, The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay, Take the Cannoli, Me Talk Pretty One Day, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Jeeves and Wooster stories, Sherlock Holmes stories, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Harry Potter, His Dark Materials
Julia Davis, you are a fucking inspiration.