dark art, post-punk, high contrast aesthetics, catholic imagery and art, bones, feathers, substantial fabrics, innovative and subversive design, practical fashion and by contrast entirely impractical fashion, unusual musical instruments, Scotland and Scottish history, voracious reading, spontaneous travel, my Twin, funerary art, millinery, cathartic dancing, collecting Halloween cookie cutters, tea, people watching, being by the seaside, the history of punk, Scotlandophilia, weird and interesting hair, unpretentious discussions of music, art and literature
dave vanian circa 1984, unpretentious folk who don't take themselves too seriously, my twin zanne more often
The Damned, Depeche Mode, Sex Pistols, Iggy and the Stooges, Tones on Tail, PIL, New Model Army, She Wants Revenge, Sexbeat, The Cult, The Church, Ausgang, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Birthday Party, Cock Sparrer, Joan Jett and the Black Hearts, Johnny Cash, Sergei Prokofiev, Love and Rockets, The Cure, Horrorpops, Tiger Army, Prince, Rasputina, The Exploited, Misfits, Rancid, Transplants, Bloodhound Gang, Richard Cheese, Sam Cooke, Wilson Pickett, James Brown, Parliament Funkadelic, Meat Beat Manifesto, Alien Sex Fiend, Specimen, Bauhaus, Flogging Molly, Dropkick Murphys, Jimi Hendrix, Ramones, Christian Death, Billy Idol, Nekromantix, Blondie, Busta Rhymes, old AFI, Glen Miller, Squirrel Nut Zippers, Icehouse, Jake the Evil Redneck, Man Man, Tom Waits, Missy Elliot, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Red Lorry Yellow Lorry, The Brides, The Creatures, Joy Division, Captain Sensible, The Levellers
The Filth and the Fury, Loser, Braveheart, Shaun of the Dead, Snatch, Princess Bride, any Marx Brothers film, Fifth Element, Amelie, POTC, Gypsy 83, The Wedding Singer, Tiptoes, Secretary, White Christmas, Batman Begins, Titus, cheesy oldschool horror flicks
M*A*S*H, Scrubs, Mythbusters, The Young Ones, Spaced, Black Books, The Mighty Boosh, The IT Crowd, I dream of a Simon Pegg, Dylan Moran, Noel Fielding dog pile.
David Sosnowski's 'Vamped' and 'Rapture', Christopher Moore's 'Lamb', the thrillers of Louise May Alcott, Shakespeare's 'Hamlet', 'Titus Andronicus', and sonnets, Edgar Allen Poe's poetry and short stories, Groucho Marx's 'Groucho and Me', Neal Stephenson's 'Snow Crash', John Lydon's 'Rotten: No Blacks No Irish No Dogs', Alan Spence's 'Way to Go', Terry Pratchett's 'Monstrous Regiment', Anthony Burgess' 'A Clockwork Orange', 'One Hand Clapping', 'The Wanting Seed', Rose Tremain's 'Sacred Country', Leon Whiteson's 'Killing Lana', the essays of E.B. White, soundbites of Arthur Schopenhauer's philosphy
Sub Girl, Batman, John Lydon