entranced by 50's jazz, devour archaeology and history, crave Gaelic Football and Irish Hurling, drink Guinness & Irish whiskey, dream of discovering antique medical equipment, collect apocalyptic & religious folk art, acquire blacksmithing classes, worship classic films, love drunken one night stands, converse with imaginary friends, construct wood and metal folk art, play with fire and sharp objects, find irresistible the realms of mysticism & spiritualism, create noise, wonder at obsessive-compulsive behaviors, frequent old cemeteries, record gravestone folk art, covet old things, build pin-hole cameras, collect records, cheer/jeer at soccer matches (West Ham FC & Celtic FC), practice socially unacceptable sexual behaviors, indulge in sushi, speculate on the macabre and the unusual..., and love the things that go bump in the night
"Pay your respects to the vultures, For they are your future"
I had a whole list below, but unfortunately most people tend to be bland, shallow, superficial, and boring...
happy music, sad music, evil music, experimental music...
Gang of 4, Serge Gainsbourg, Wire, Spacemen 3, Douglas P. and Death in June, Sol Invictus, Neko Case, Austin Lyric Opera, Chet Baker, Sinatra, Current 93, Nick Cave, the Birthday Party, Brian Lustmord, Billie Holiday, Mark E. Smith and the Fall, Guided by Voices (Guided by Vodka), Sigur Ros, Uncle Tupelo/Son Volt/Wilco trilogy, Pogues and their drunken frontman, Joy Divison and early New Order, old scratchy Blues on 78rpm, Big Star, Nick Drake, Chris Bell, Coil (R.I.P. John Balance), Mum, old and new Einsturzende Neubaten, Nancy Sinatra & Lee Hazlewood, Barry Adamson, the Jam, Undertones, Zoviet France, Clash, Mingus, NWA, Nurse with Wound, NEU!, Charley Patton, Japanoise, Hijokaidan, Gerogerigegege, Merzbow, Les Joyaux de la Princesse, Leonard Cohen, 70s & 80s Pop Punk, the exotic sounds of Martin Denny, Johnny Cash, Ann-Margaret, Julie London, Connie Francis, Jane Birkin, VU, Frances Gall, 50s-60s girl groups, classic 1950s Jazz from Blue Note and Pacific Coast, Giuseppe Verdi, Giacomo Puccini, & lots & lots of really lame stuff
COIL First Five Minutes After Death + Golden Section + Häxan
independent and foreign films, anything in the Dawn of the Dead/Zombie genre, Gunga Din, Amelie, Big Sleep, My Life As A Dog, Marx Brothers, Holiday (Grant & Hepburn), Cinema Paradiso, bad sci-fi in foreign languages, Toto the Hero, Curse of the Demon, Cocteau's Beauty & the Beast, classic summer films at the Paramount Theatre especially screwball comedies, Kurosawa samurai films, My Life in Pink, Waking Ned Devine, Quiet Man, film noir, b-grade horror, z-grade horror, Fritz Lang's M, Wings of Desire, Begotten, Brothers Quay animation...did I mention zombie films?...
Venture Brothers, Family Guy, King of the Hill, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Ballykissangel (Irish Soap Opera), cooking shows, Firefly, This American Life (and the version on Public Radio), Farscape, the new Battlestar Galatica, Simpsons, Turner Classic Movies, Modern Masters on the Fine Living Channel, Sealab 2021, actually I don't watch a lot of TV since I don't own one... and anything with zombies...
Confederacy of Dunces, Arkham House Books (Lovecraft, Howard, Smith, etc.), boring archaeological books & journals, traditional folk art books, To Kill A Mockingbird, David Sedaris, Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay, hard-boiled detective stories by Raymond Chandler & Dashiell Hammett, Harry Potter, Quitting the Nairobi Trio, Howard Phillip Lovecraft, the Robert Anton Wilson's Cosmic Trigger trilogy, photographic books by Joel-Peter Witkin, forensic anthropology books, Zombie books, Robert E. Howard, odd or unusual photography books, ghost stories, real-life crime, Lord of the Rings, old medical journals, Philip K. Dick, Jim Thompson, anything creepy...
My Father, Archibald Leach (film actor), William Edmonson (folk artist), Tod Browning (film director), Toshiro Mifune (actor), Doctors Without Borders....
"I shall have no other Gods before myself".