Tap dance, Hilarious Shit, Gothic & Lolita Bible, French Bulldogs, needless subversion, vegan junk foods, playing guitar badly, fa-fa-fa-fa-fashion, northern soul, The Famous Mysterious Actor, lindy hop, all dance subcultures, New Wave, The E-Z Bake Coven, The Pursuit of Zolo, riding my bike, arty art, and non-arty art.
The Most Stringent Requirements.
Antony and the Johnsons, Sixteen Horsepower, The Dutch Treats, Peroxide Mocha, Gothic Archies, The Smiths, The Boys Next Door, Brian Eno, Rufus Wainwright, Pere Ubu, Telethon, Momus, Magnetic Fields, Pulp, The Housemartins, Robyn Hitchcock. Comedians: Bill Hicks, Ron and Fez, Merrill Markoe, Elayne Boosler, Steve Martin, Paul F. Tompkins, Eddie Izzard, Dylan Moran, Mitch Hedberg (RIP), Arj Barker, Dave Attell.
Hedwig, Apartment Zero, Santa Sangre, Strictly Ballroom, 24 Hour Party People. Artists: Leigh Bowery, Mark Ryden, Yoshitomo Nara, William Blake, Christian Marclay, Joseph Beuys, Big Ed Munch, and all pre-Raphs, but most especially Dante Gabriel Rossetti.
30 Rock, The Mighty Boosh, Famous Mysterious Actor, So You Think You Can Dance (BOOJA BOOJA BOOJA OWWW).
Books by Calvin Tomkins, Richard Martin (RIP), Douglas Adams (ditto), Ted Polhemus, John Berger, Harlan Ellison, Harry Crews and Nick Hornby.
Laurie Anderson, Marcel Duchamp, and Donald O'Connor.