Surgical instruments and implements, black eyes, split lips, Black Label Society shirts, John Saxon, abandoned places, monsters, monster makers, movies, music, art, comic books, tattooing, getting tattooed, BLADE RUNNER, fearless individuals, riding motorcycles way too fast, heavily tattooed guys, people with no sexual inhibitions, great fucking horror films, vodka and club soda, sushi, thai food, dive bars, dancing on bars in dive bars, black Panthera latex gloves, freaks, geeks, nail guns, crossbows, dead things, stapling people's balls to rusty slabs of sheet metal, 10-inch stilettos (what I call my Hooker Shoes), being covered in blood gel and superslime (for funzies!), playing Mazola Twister, fighting dirty in wrestling matches with men, having Storm Trooper orgies and embracing my inner villain. I'm also proud to have a killer tattoo collection that includes work by Paul Booth, Bob Tyrrell, Robert Hernandez, SHIGE, Kurt Wiscombe, Jeremiah Barba,Tim Kern, Nathan Kostecko and Shane Faulkner (my longtime friend and the artist behind my beloved Blade Runner sleeve).
I'd like to be in the middle of a Snake Plissken/Mad Max manwhich. Driving the shit out of my '69 Yenko Camaro through the desert at 180K with John Saxon and Micheal Ironside, rocking Thin Lizzy would also be pretty fuckin' cool.
Fabio Frizzi, Ennio Morricone, Goblin, Hans Zimmer, Vangelis, Angelo Badalamenti, John Carpenter, John Harrison, Brian May, Gov't Mule, Black Label Society, The Stooges, Johnny Fucking Cash, Van Halen, KISS, CCR, Pantera, Venom, Mercyful Fate, Bathory, Slayer, Motorhead, AC/DC, Down, The Ramones, Judas Priest, Fight, Anthrax, Hank III, Assjack, The Misfits, ZZ Top, Cypress Hill, Danzig, Alice Cooper, Dead Boys, Motley Crue, Tiger Lilies, Lynyrd Skynyrd, Iron Maiden, Black Flag, Fugazi, Minor Threat, Black Label Society, Rob Zombie, Thin Lizzy, Judas Priest, Ozzy, Black Sabbath, Skinny Puppy, Depeche Mode, Alice in Chains, Skid Row, Whitesnake, Amon Tobin, Ghoultown, Public Enemy, Ulrich Schnauss, Noisex, Throbbing Gristle, Clock DVA, Front 242, Guns 'n Roses, The Groovie Ghoulies, The Cramps, Poison Idea, Nick Cave, Delerium, haujobb, The Stooges,Testament, Thin Lizzy, Frank Zappa, Scorpions, Jane's Addiction, Mastodon, Sepultura, Electric Six, Supersuckers, Lamb of God, Sanctity, Children of Bodom, W.A.S.P., Satyricon, Queen, Re_Agent, Tiger Army, Van Morrison, The Plasmatics, X Marks the Pedwalk, Social Distortion, Sigur Ros, COC, Mozart, Bach, Verdi, Schumann, Pachebel, Holst, Beethoven, Bizet, Handel, Delius, Von Gluck, Chopin, Fauret and all sorts of other devil music!
Blade Runner, The Thing, Escape From New York, Mad Max, The Road Warrior, Galaxy of Terror, Aftermath, Cutting Moments, Deathdream, Rituals, Planet of the Vampires, The Angry Red Planet, Night Beast, City of the Living Dead, Trouble Every Day, Suspiria, Phantasm, The Fog, Deep Red, The Devil's Backbone, Session 9, Frailty, The Night of the Hunter, Blacula, The Universal Classics, Nosferatu, The Man Who Laughs, The Tingler, Ghost Story, Amityville II: The Posession, An American Werewolf in London, The Hidden, Bad Seed, The Exorcist 3, May, Irreversible, Calvaire, The Manson Family, Alien 3 Uncut, Black Sunday, Creepshow, The Howling, House of Wax, The Green Slime, Invasion of the Blood Farmers, Cannibal Holocaust, Cannibal Ferox, I Walked With a Zombie, The Sentinel, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, XTRO, Slither, Imprint, Onibaba, Hellboy, The Professional, Legend, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1920), Dead and Buried, Day of the Dead, Lemora: A Child's Tale of the Supernatural, The Changeling, Eyes Without a Face, The Masque of the Red Death, The Crawling Eye, Fiend Without a Face, Kairo, Uzumaki, Black Christmas, Shivers, Maniac, Mark of the Devil, Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer, Near Dark, Martin, Burnt Offerings, Ichi The Killer, Dellamorte Dellamore, Der Muede Tot, The Picture of Dorian Gray (1945), Invasion of the Body Snatchers (1978), From Beyond, Dagon, Shock Waves, Repulsion, The Big Lebowski, Wait Until Dark, Peeping Tom, Carnival of Souls, The Reflecing Skin, The Abominable Dr. Phibes, The Quatermass Experiment, Witchfinder General, Eraserhead, The Monster Squad, Haute Tension, The Listening Dead, In My Skin, Man Bites Dog, Santa Sangre, The Drop of Water, Jack Ketchum's The Girl Next Door, Pan's Labyrinth, À l'intérieur, Frontiers, Mulberry Street, Jan Svankmajer, The Brothers Quay and anything by Ingmar Bergman (especially The Hour of the Wolf and the Seventh Seal).
Matheson's I AM LEGEND. Lovecraft, Poe, Rulfo, Borges, Kafka (The Trial!), Harlan Ellison, Clark Ashton Smith, John Shirley, Edogawa Rampo, Junji Ito, Charles Beaumont, Philip K. Dick (naturally, Do Androids Dream of Electric Sheep? is a favourite), 100 Years of Solitude, Cabal, House of Leaves, House on the Borderland, Lautreamont's Le Chants de Maldoror, Jack Ketchum, Dan Simmons, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Hollow Man, Camu's The Plague, Ann Radcliffe, Matthew Stokoe, Clive Barker, John Douglas, Hunter S. Thompson, Richard Matheson, Ray Bradbury, Oscar Wilde,William Faulkner, Charles Beaumont, The Language of Fear, Weird Tales, Juxtapoz, Deep Red, Famous Monsters, Hellboy, From Hell, Black Hole, Preacher, RUE MORGUE! See RM61 for a complete list of alternative horror fiction recommended by the Rue Morgue staff.
Rob Bottin, Vincent Price, Richard Matheson, Rod Serling, James Whale, Boris Karloff, Philip K. Dick, Harlan Ellison, Forrest Ackerman, Jack Pierce, Bob Clark, Lucio Fulci, Mario Bava, Lon Chaney Sr. and Jr., Dick Smith, Jack Davis, Al Feldstein, Einstein, Nicola Tesla, Harry Houdini, Clive Barker, Guillermo del Toro, Rodrigo Gudino, Charlie de Lauzirika, BULK, Groton, Rocket Wolf and Robert Thomas Tyrrell.