These are a few of my favorite things . . .
Actual imported Absinthe
Aikido, Muy Thai, Shotokan
Being a Goth inside but not always having to dress like one
Bloody Marys first thing on a weekend morning
Bondage and fetishes
Cajun food
Creative endeavors even when they fail
Dive bars
Dusk, twilight, night
Fellow Rude Boys
Firearms, especially fully auto
Full moons on cloudy evenings
Incense filling the room
Intelligent conversations
Kinky, wild, passionate sex
Maker's Mark and a PBR back
Marlboro Lights
Milwaukee's Best Light
OI!
Paris and Florence in Autumn
Pin-Ups past, present, & future
Poetry in her many forms
Punk fucking rock
Self expression
Sexual desires
Ska, Modism, skanking, and the whole second wave
Socratic dialogue
Steak rare
The heat, appearance, and taste of blood
The Occult, theology, apocrypha, and the unknown
The Portland Timbers & The Timbers Army
Using candles as the only source light
Vodka Martini's that come with a sidecar
Walking in the fog
Most of them are long since dead, some will be too soon, and the others will probably want nothing to do with me. If they did I'd have to say:
Rob Zombie
Clive Barker, again
Siouxsie
Traci Lords
Greg Graffin
Eliza Dushku
(This would be to actually spend time with them. Meeting is too fleeting.)
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I wasn't going to make a massive list but what the hell. These, I must preface, are in no particular order and are just what is coming off the top of my head at the moment. Except for Siouxsie being first because she always holds that space in my soul.
Siouxsie & The Banshees, Flogging Molly, The Lawrence Arms, The Creatures, Joy Division, New Order, Bauhaus, Tones on Tail, Love & Rockets, Christian Death, Sisters of Mercy, NIN, Skinny Puppy, Pigface, The Changlings, London After Midnight, Bella Morte, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Lisa Loeb, Lycia, KMFDM, Dead Can Dance, Crash Worship, Steroid Maximus, Ministry, M. Manson, The Smiths, The Cure, The Pixies, Bad Religion, Drop Kick Murphys, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Rancid, White Zombie, Rob Zombie, DK, GBH, Exploited, Suicidal Tendencies, Ramones, Social Distortion, Tiger Army, Dillinger Four, Iron Maiden, Black Sabbath, TSOL, Killing Joke, The Squirrel Nut Zippers, Oingo Boingo, Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Pantera, Big Bad Voodo Daddy, Robert Johnson, Louis Armstrong, Frank Sinatra, Johnny Cash, Glenn Miller, Benny Goodman, Count Basie, Duke Ellington, Misfits, Danzig, Black Flag, Henry Rollins, Echo & The Bunnymen, The Replacements, Mozart, Beethoven, Wagner, Bach, Tchaikovsky, The Swans, Jesus & Mary Chain, Soft Cell, Depeche Mode, English Beat, The Jam, The Specials, Garbage, Tori Amos, Kate Bush, Bassboosa, Rasputina, The Goo Goo Dolls, Nirvana, Alice in Chains, STP, Jane's Addiction, Husker Du, Bob Mould, Tool, Perfect Circle, Jawbreaker, The Cramps, and of course . . . my bros in Secret Army, BeerZone, & Goldblade. (There are still tons I am missing which I'll have to put in there)
Everything by Kevin Smith, everything by Quentin Tarentino, Fight Club, everything by Tim Burton, House of 1000 Corpses, Hellraiser, Halloween, Nightmare on Elm Street, Swingers, Made, Manga Anime, Saving Private Ryan, Indiana Jones 1st & 3rd, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Where the Buffalo Roam, Barfly, Rosencrantz & Gildenstern are Dead, really bad b horror movies-slasher movies-exploitation movies, Evil Dead, Army of Darkness, From Hell, Donnie Darko, Braveheart, Glory, Enemy at the Gates, Underworld, the Matrix trilogy, The Crow, Brotherhood of the Wolf, The Craft, almost everything by Hitchcock, Se7en, Casablanca, Taxi Driver, Seven Samurai, Silence of the Lambs, Clockwork Orange, The Usual Suspects, Exorcist 1st & 3rd, everything by David Lynch, and so on . . .
The majority of the shows that I have admired and loved have since been canceled. The world of reality, time, and channels have killed the airwaves. But here they are: Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Angel, X-files, Millennium, Tru Calling, Dead Zone, The Simpsons, Tales From the Crypt, The Tick, Dead Like Me, Harvey Birdman, The "old" Twilight Zone, SeaLab 2021, Cowboy Beebop, La Femme Nikita, Heros, Six Feet Under, Arrested Development, and CSI.
If you look at heros then you get the general idea.
Hunter S. Thompson, Jack Kerouac, Charles Bukowski, Clive Barker, Chuck Palahniuk, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, Stephen King, Anne Rice, Jean Paul Sarte, Albert Camus, Dante Alighieri, James Joyce, Franz Kafka, Carl Gustav Jung, Socrates, Voltaire, Oscar Wilde, Arthur Rimbaud, just to name a few . .