My dreamgirl, or a reasonable fascimile thereof.
Swans/Jarboe/Angels of Light, Laibach, Front 242, Beethoven, Modern Cubism, K-Bereit, 32Crash, Atari Teenage Riot, The Cramps, Danzig, Goldfrapp, Cobalt 60, C-Tec, Speed Tribe, Maleorfemale, Julie London, Reflex, Emilie Simon, Carla Bruni, April March, Autour De Lucie, Rammstein, The Smiths/Morrissey, Juno Reactor, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, KMDFM, RevCo, Clock DVA, Greater than One, Pig, Pigface, Gunshot, The Cure, Black Eyed Peas, Run-DMN, Rev Run, Ice-T, Public Enemy, A Tribe Called Quest, Portishead, Lamb, Massive Attack, Tricky, Joesph Arthur, Lolo, U2, Larsen, Meg Lee Chin, Rob Zombie/White Zombie, Rock City Morgue, The Moscow Coup Attempt, Lisa Gerrard/Dead Can Dance, Nitzer Ebb, Recoil, Depeche Mode, Fixmer-McCarthy, Bond, Brian Setzer, Ottmar Liebert, Slick Idiot, Snake River Conspiracy, ELO, Reverend Horton Heat, Genitorturers, Mozart, Tori Amos, Hanzel Und Gretyl, New Order, Cat Rapes Dog, Godflesh, Garbage, Enigma, Sisters of Mercy, Claude Chalhoub, Die Krupps, Smashing Pumpkins, Billie Holliday, Duke Ellington, Nina Simone, Frank Sinatra, Dean Martin, Louie Prima, Julie London, Meat Beat Manifesto, Leoncavallo, ABC, OMD, and FUCK I'm exhausted, I'll update later.
Baraka, Killing Zoe, Devdas, Lolita, Karam, Romeo is Bleeding, Europa Europa, Leon, and Black Cat/White Cat are my favorites.I've also an unhealthy penchant for Bollywood films, for some reason.
US : Law & Order and its official cousins, Dexter, K-Ville, Ghost Hunters, House is pretty good.UK : MI-5 (Spooks,) Doctor Who (Tom Baker years, as well as Christopher Eccleston and David Tennant,) Bottom, Young Ones, AbFab, Fawlty Towers, Filthy Rich & Catflap.
The Dictionary of the Khazars (Milorad Pavic,) The Blood Countess (Andrei Codrescu,) Imajica (Clive Barker,) Exquisite Corpse (Poppy Z Brite,) The Unbearable Lightness of Being (Milan Kundera,) Blood Rites 'The History and Passions of War' (Barbara Ehrenreich,) The Fountainhead (Ayn Rand,) A History of Numbers (Georges Isphrah,) In The Heart of the Sea (Nathaniel Philbrick.)
Albert Spaggiari, Theo Jansen, Leonardo DaVinci, Gen. Patton, Napoleon Bonaparte, Clive Barker, Joel-Peter Witkin, Jan Suadek, Milorad Pavic, Robert Wuhl, Penn & Teller, Gary Oldman, Alphonse Mucha, Roger Avary, Neil Gaiman, Christopher Eccleston, Dave McKean, Kate Convery!