Anxiety, architecture, being on the outside looking in, bizarro sex loops, black clothing, emergency broadcasts, Film Noir, German Expressionism, J-horror, late-night rock'n'roll shows in sweat-drenched clubs, the modern world, neon-lit Montreal after dark, nihilism, paranoia, the permafrost, red lights, reverb, skyscrapers, sleep deprivation, Songs in B flat minor, the Stendhal Syndrome, stories from life's other side, thunder + lightning, treble, watching people
My cigarette diet means my throat hurts like hell
My 101 friends say I'm dying
The Flaming Stars
The Sadies
The Dead Brothers
The Drones
The Devastations
Vicious/Delicious
The Deadly Snakes
Mick Harvey
Tindersticks
Calexico
Grinderman
Dirty Three
Stuart A. Staples
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
Melo
Lexsie
Phil
Julia
Dany
Raph
Bruno
Martin
Melissa
Alex
Seb
Livia
Annik
Martine
but I do it so well
Hungover, fucked up... : Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds, The Birthday Party, Black Pony Express, Crime + The City Solution, The Dead Brothers, The Devastations, Dirty Three, The Drones, The Flaming Stars, Gallon Drunk, Grinderman, Mick Harvey, Stuart A. Staples, These Immortal Souls, Tindersticks -----... And blue: The Aislers Set, Belle And Sebastian, Broadcast, Isobel Campbell And Mark Lanegan, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Lee Hazlewood, Eleni Mandell, everything Stephin Merritt-related, Stereolab, Tom Waits, Scott Walker, Yo La Tengo -----South of the border: Frank Black And The Catholics, Bonnie Prince Billy, Calexico, Johnny Cash, Andre Ethier, Paula Frazer, Friends Of Dean Martinez, Edith Frost, Giant Sand / everything else Howe Gelb-related, Holly Golightly, Jon Langford And His Sadies, Mekons, Palace Songs / Music / Brothers, The Sadies, Tarnation, The Unintended, Vicious / Delicious, M. Ward, Hank Williams Sr., Ennio Morricone's western spaghetti soundtracks -----Crypt-style: Thee Headcoats/ Headcoatees / Mighty Caesars / Milkshakes / Delmonas / Buff Medways / everything else Billy Childish-related, Beat Happening, The Black Lips, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, The Compulsive Gamblers, The Deadly Snakes, Demon's Claws, The Devil Dogs, The Dirtbombs, The Gories, The Greenhornes, Guitar Wolf, The King Khan And BBQ Show, King Khan And His Shrines, The Leg Hounds, The Masonics, Mr. Airplane Man, New Bomb Turks, The Prisoners, The Reigning Sound, Turpentine Brothers -----Noise Annoys: The Adverts, Buzzcocks, The Cramps, The Damned, The Dead Boys, The Gun Club, The Modern Lovers, The New York Dolls, Radio Birdman, Ramones, The Saints, The Stooges, Johnny Thunders And The Heartbreakers-----I Wasn't Made For These Times: The Beatles, Kinks, The Rolling Stones, The Small Faces, Them, The Velvet Underground, The Who -----Just like I'm 15 again: David Bowie, Elvis Costello And The Attractions, Devo, Brian Eno (early years), The Fall, Robyn Hitchcock And The Egyptians, The Jesus And Mary Chain, Joy Division, Nick Lowe, Magazine, Iggy Pop (Bowie-era), Lou Reed, Roxy Music (pre-Manifesto) The Soft Boys, The Stranglers (Hugh Cornwell-era), Suicide, Ultravox (John Foxx-era), Wreckless Eric