decadence, polymorphic perversity, photography, wine, absinthe, pernod, hedonism, art nouveau, surrealism, minimalism, rococo extravagance, cyberpunk, opera, excess, industrial noise, transcendence, stirring.
fellow travellers on the road to oblivion
Nine Inch Nails, Rammstein, the White Stripes, Pet Shop Boys, Throbbing Gristle, Bjork, Patrick Wolf, Velvet Underground, Ministry, System of A Down, Serj Tankian, Rage Against The Machine, Garbage, Patti Smith, Bob Dylan, Skinny Puppy, Depeche Mode, Ladytron, Soft Cell, Gidget Gein, Martyn Bennett, June Tabor, Roaring Jack, Oysterband, Bishi, Jim Moray, Pillowfish, Rammstein, Mika, Marilyn Manson, Syd Barrett, Gary Numan, Iggy Pop, Malice Mizer, 30 Seconds to Mars, Radiohead, The Who, Julian Cope, Emigrate, The Clash, early Black Sabbath, early Pink Floyd, early Led Zeppelin, Joy Division, Daft Punk, Laibach, Blur, Feeling B, Marc Almond, Bauhaus, David Bowie, Chumbawamba, Enter Shikari, Frank Zappa, Saul Williams, Annabelle Hadland, Kate Bush, Blondie, New Order, Michael Nyman, Leonard Cohen, Prodigy, Pulp, the Communards, Erasure, A Place to Bury Strangers
Peter Greenaway, Ken Russell, Wim Wenders, Pedro Almodovar ... "Prospero's Books" dir. Peter Greenaway, "Wings of Desire"/"Faraway So Close"/"Until the End of the World" dir. Wim Wenders, "Orlando", "3 colours: Red/White/Blue", La Double Vie de Veronique" dir. Kieslowski, "Metropolis" dir. Fritz Lang, "Un chien andalou" dir. Luis Buñuel, "The Matrix", David Lynch, David Cronenberg, "Trainspotting", Derek Jarman, "Titus" dir. Julie Taymor, "Run Lola Run", "Richard III" (Ian McKellen version), "Don Giovanni" dir. Joseph Losey, "Tommy" dir. Ken Russell, "Dark City" dir. Alex Proyas, "Velvet Goldmine", "Lair of the White Worm" dir. Ken Russell, "Blow-Up" dir. Antonini, "Masked and Anonymous" dir. Larry Charles, "Clockwork Orange" dir Stanley Kubrick, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Beatles "Help"/"A Hard Day's Night", 300, "No Direction Home" dir. Scorsese, "I'm Not There" dir. Todd Haynes
Turn off. Tune out.
William Gibson, William Burroughs, Gregory Corso, Dylan Thomas, Allen Ginsberg, Junichiro Tanizaki "In Praise of Shadows", Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter "The Sadeian Woman", Camille Paglia "Sexual Personae", Veronica Woolf "Orlando"
Simone de Beauvoir, Jean Paul Sartre, Marquis de Sade, Don Giovanni, Robert Mapplethorpe, Oscar Wilde, Francis Bacon, Carrington, Anais Nin, William Burroughs, Bill Hicks, Henry Miller, Sam Taylor-Wood, Peter Greenaway, Gilbert and George, John Lennon, Dante Gabriel Rosetti, Tom Drinkwater, Hunter S. Thompson, Syd Barrett, the Pre-Raphaelites, Yoko Ono, Man Ray, Cindy Sherman, Meg White, John Cale, John Cage, Byron, Lee Miller, David Bailey, Egon Schiele, Caravaggio, Nico, John Maynard Keynes, Rupert Everett, Andy Warhol, David LaChapelle, Mark Romanek, Nan Goldin, Pete Townshend, Aubrey Beardsley, Derek Jarman, Keith Moon, Marc Bolan, Ian McKellen, Debbie Harry, Pierre et Gilles, Peter Peryer, Clara Bow, Louise Brooks, David and David, Andrew Nadolski, Diane Arbus, Moe Tucker, Floria Sigismondi, Louise Bourgeois, Elinor Carucci