Contrasts and Diversity, Hats and Weird Suits, Ties and Cufflinks, Eccentric Characters, Strange Girlz, Japan, Accordions, Eyeballs, Open Mouths, Wolves, Stuffed and Pickled Animals, Colour Red, Snow, Blood, Polar Bears, Birds, Lapland, Pixies, Lederhosen, Red Crosses, Hitler Youth, Wolf Cub Scouts, Sushi, Swastikas, Tribal Masks, Geisha, Anatomy, Surrealism, Shamanism, World War II, Military Uniforms, Camouflage, Action Man and Dragon Figures, Dolls, Skulls, Sub Machine Guns, Bull Fighting, Folk Rituals, Chaos Magick, Kendo, Medical, Amputee, Animal Sex, Fetish, Body Art, Twisted Cabaret, Performance Art, Cutting Edge Fashion, Art, Photography, Martial Arts, Sky Diving, Skiing, Travel, Museums, Temples, Antique Markets Imperial War Museum, Unusual Restaurants, Lewes Bonfire, Country Pubs, Man Utd, Party Party Party
Mostly new people who I don't know outside of TG world. People who are more than they appear to be. Original open minded characters and diverse eccentric misfits. Plus performers, artists, models, (sorry no bands - message me and post music if you reallly think i'd like it) etc for Torture Garden. Show me something original, contemporary and surprising! Prefer if you email info to: [email protected]. My top friends list is for friends who's work I like and for a few people I've never met - who's page I like. My real social friends know who they are and don't need to be there.
Very Eclectic: Love Accordions and Eccentric Vocalists, Lounge Exotica, Neo Swing, Bizarre Cabaret, Circus, Sleazy Electro, Dirty Booty, Dark Drum n Bass, Experimental Electronic/Industrial, Traditional/Ritual Eastern, Military Kitsch, Weird Folk, Bavarian Beer Hall, Film Soundtracks etc. Fav include: Tiger Lillies, Lee Press On and The Nails, Throbbing Gristle, early Psychic TV, Death In June, Russian Red Army Choir, Nazi Swing, Anthony and the Johnsons, Diamanda Galas, Peaches, Cobra Killer, Princes Superstar, Disco D, Squirrel Nut Zipper, Current 93, Nurse with Wound, SPK, Test Dept, Bad Company, Ed Rush / Optical, Pendulum, Kimmo Pohjonen, Nouvelle Vague, Coil, Jyonen, Noblesse Oblige, Joy Division, Paris Sisters, Dick Dale, Rev Horton Heat, Yma Sumac, Anton LaVey, Max Raabe, William Shatner, Loveage, Minty, Goldfrapp, Nancy Sinatra n Lee Hazelwood, Dietrich, Leningrad Cowboys, Red Elvises, Tokyo Ska Paradise, Neubauten, Kodo Drummers, Boyd Rice, Crass, Specials, Electronicat, Selfish Cunt, Urban Voodoo Machine, Irrepressibles, Lili Marlene by Finnish Waffen SS, Flower of Carnage by Meiko Kaji.
In the Shadow of the Sun, Ai No Corrida (Realm of the Senses), Eyes Without A Face, Apocalypse Now, Wicker Man (original), Lawrence of Arabia, Operation, If..., Night Porter, Imagining October, Romper Stomper, Fight Club, Kill Bill 1, Scorpio / Lucifer Rising, Naked Tango, Seven Sinners, Z and Two Noughts, Wild at Heart, Blue Velvet, Pandora and the Flying Dutchman, Peeping Tom, Reflecting Skin, Lady Snowblood, Red Angel, Triumph of the Will, Gattaca, 24 Hour Party People, Clockwork Orange, Love is the Devil, Audition, Battle Royale, Dead Ringers, Matador, Sante Sangre, The Beast, Possession, Vertigo, The Devils, Un Chien Andalou, Man With X-Ray Eyes, Conformist, Salo, Mishima, Cabinet of Dr Caligari, You Only Live Twice, Cafe Flesh, Tetsuo, Crash, Betty Blue, Gun Crazy (old version), Midsummer Nights Dream (old version), Birds, Lon Chaney Snr, Cremaster Cycle, films by Suka Off, Damon Barr, Richard Kern, Cerith Wyn Evans. Salad Fingers 2. Fav artists include Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, Chapman Bros, Franko B, Suehiro Maruo, Trevor Brown; Fav photographer - Nick Knight; Fav designers - E Garbs, Alexander McQueen, Hussein Chalayan;
Not Using TV is like not opening your eyes or looking out of the window. Nip Tuck, Weird Documentaries, History, anything World War II,
Black Sun + Shadows of the Sun: biography / diary of Harry Crosby, Story of the Eye, Blue of Noon, Eroticism, Visions of Excess, Guilty and everything by Georges Bataille, Maldoror - Lautreamont, Liber Null and Psychonaut - Peter Carrol, Mishima, Jean Genet, Ballard, Burroughs, Crowley, Images and Oracles of Austin Osman Spare - Kenneth Grant, Black Corps - R Lumsden, HJ - J Angolia, Youth Led By Youth - Philip Baker, Medicine Man - Henry Wellcome, Male Fantasies - Klaus Theweleit, Body Invaders, Body Probe, RE/Search and Creation - various, Voluptuous Panic - Erotic World of Weimer Berlin, Wreckers of Civilisation - Story of Coum and Throbbing Gristle, DPM - Camouflage Manual, Polysexuality, Russian Prison Tattoos, Suehiro Maruo - Miminashi Hohichi in the Dark + New National Kid, Torture Garden, Body Probe. Current fav book is Nanoq: Flat out and Bluesome - about stuffed polar bears.
No Heroes - but i've been inspired by: Harry Crosby, Georges Bataille, Lawrence Of Arabia, Genesis P Orridge, Malcolm McDowell, Aleister Crowley, Kenneth Anger, Eric Cantona, Marlene Dietrich, Suehiro Maruo, Salad Fingers.