Nocturnal.
The pursuit of happiness and/or free alcohol.
Mentors. Benefactors. Bishounen. David Hoyle. J.G. Ballard. Jarvis Cocker. People who don't eat with their mouths open.
Too much to list but generally: marching music, scratchy post-punk, disturbing electro, no-wave, dirty rock n roll, ethereal pop, krautrock, grind, glam, garage, britpop also-rans and anything with a mellotron in it.
Performance, Jubilee, The Night Porter, The Tenant, Don't Look Now, O! Lucky Man. All that Kenneth Anger's done, most of what Kubrick's done and pretty much anything involving Marlene Dietrich.
Currently instigating book swap-type behaviour - I'll see your book and raise you a better...