Metal, writing, black metal, wolves, winter, poetry, druidry, horror, scriptwriting, screenplays, death, doom metal, death metal, pilates, yoga, fashion, Vikings, cemetary photography, reading, haunted asylums, UE, the ancient world, ancient history, ancient warfare, siege warfare, the dark ages, dead queens, quasars, the fae, goth fashion, Beowulf, art, paranormal stuff, paganism, renaissance fairs, bards, history, books, novels, film noir, dance, absinthe, autumn, Ogham, ballet, nightmares, hauntings, editing, danvers, sff, winter, horror authors, druids, wicca, mythology, the occult, nature, dead worlds, the apocalypse, shadow people, Erzebet Bathory, medieval warfare, the medieval world, medieval literature, medieval music, samurai, the classical age, the renaissance, castles, the Tudors, the Medicis, ancient Rome, the Viking world, Celtic mythology, magick, ghosts, art, dark poetry, haunted places, forests, prose, small press, Vikings, ancient Japan, dressage, the Victorian era, hedgehogs, publishing, sound engineering, hr geiger, necronomicon, writing, writing, writing, writing, writing. Also, writing.
People who don't suck.
Emperor, My Dying Bride, Dimmu Borgir, Slayer, Dead Can Dance, Mayhem, Kataklysm, Suicidal Tendencies, Amon Amarth, Fear Factory, Beherit, Bathory, At the Gates, Sinister, Arsis, Black Sabbath, Dying Fetus, Death, Moon and the Nightspirit, Satyricon, Anathema, Tori Amos, Slechtvalk, Cradle of Filth, 1349, Danzig, Trouble, Disincarnate, Keep of Kalessin, Swallow the Sun, Corvus Corax, Hypocrisy, The Soil Bleeds Black, Dead Elizabeth, Carpathian Forest, Acid Bath, Deadboy & the Elephantmen, Agents of Oblivion, Thyrfing, Goatwhore, Dismember, Cannibal Corpse, COC, Type O, Kyuss, Alice in Chains, Corvus Corax, Samael, Agathodaimon, Dying Fetus, Blue Oyster Cult, Thryfing, Skyforger, Soundgarden, Medieval Baebes, Megadeth, Marduk, WASP, Asguard, Obituary, Fintroll, Tony Iommi, The Wounded, Malevolent Creation, Fear of God, Testament, Satyricon, Vince Conavay, Zeppelin, The Doors, Pink Floyd, The Cult, 13 Winters, lots of 80's, Unleashed, Dark Funeral, Duran Duran, King Diamond, Tea Party, Loreena McKennit, Rasputina, Iron Maiden, Tiamat, The Beautiful, Stevie Nicks, LA Guns, At the Gates, Pantera, Dokken, Queensryche, Tristania, Pat Benatar, Faith and the Muse, Faun, Bill Miller, Agalloch, Celtic Frost, Pollyn, Soledad, Anthrax ... this list could get really long so I'll just stop there.
Queen Margot, 300, Braveheart, Session 9, The Seventh Seal (the Ingmar Bergman one), Ice Age, Pan's Labyrinth, Zoolander, old black and white horror movies, The Lost Boys, Elizabeth, LOTR, Hellraiser, The Legend of Hell House, Dragonhead, Shaun of the Dead, High Tension, Frankenstein, Rob Roy, Dracula, Eric the Viking, Nosferatu, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Lemony Snicket, Les Miserables, Trick or Treat, Ginger Snaps, Evil Dead, Suspiria, Prince of Darkness, The Wall, The Goonies, The Doors, Once were Warriors, Tristan & Isolde, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Last Unicorn, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Incubus, all the old Romero zombie movies, The House by the Cemetary, Carrie, The Shining, Dagon, Firestarter, Princess Monoake, Donnie Darko, Save the Last Dance, Center Stage, anything with dancing, anything apocalyptic, anything without a bunch of glaring plot holes or stupid cliches, Blair Witch, Exorcist .... just to name some.
I'm a documentary whore.
Tanith Lee, Clive Barker, Brian Lumley, Robert McCammon, King, CJ Cherryh, George RR Martin, Jane Gaskell, HP Lovecraft, Edgar Allen Poe, JV Jones, CS Friedman, Dan Simmons, David Morrell, Juliet Marillon, Kealan Patrick Burke, Anais Nin, William Gibson, Robert E Howard, Frank Herbert, Gene Wolfe, Anne Rice, David Eddings, MZB, Cordwainer Smith, Morgan Llewelyn, a huge chunk of the 70's Daw line (I like those yellow spines!), Jean Plaidy, Evangeline Walton, Joan Vinge, some Tolstoy, Charles de Lint, L Sprague de Camp, sci-fi, horror, fantasy, the occasional chick lit or gothic novel, anything medieval, historical, paranormal, or occult-related, anything related to the ancient or medeival worlds, the Celts, the Romans, the Greeks ...Actually, I'll read pretty much anything.
GRRM and whoever invented cappucino.