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Existentialist Philosophy
Russian Literature
My Stuffed Elephant
Myself
Cookies
World Peace
If you've heard of Kierkegaard, I love you.
Abney Park
Aesma Daeva
After Forever
Angels of Venice
A Perfect Circle
Apocalyptica
Ataraxia
Attrition
Autumn Tears
Avrigus
Bauhaus
Beethoven
Bel Canto
Bella Morte
Björk
Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Blue Öyster Cult
Bond
Butterfly Messiah
Maria Callas
Chopin
Christian Death
Chris Vrenna
Clan of Xymox
Cocteau Twins
Coffin for Mary
Collide
Cradle of Filth
Cranes
Danny Elfman
Darkwell
Dead Can Dance
Death in June
Depeche Mode
Diary of Dreams
Ennio Morricone
Enya
Fields of the Nephilim
Francis Cabrel
Front Line Assembly
Garbage
Helium Vola
Howard Shore
Indochine
Inkubus Sukkubus
Jack off Jill
Kate Bush
Lahka Muza
Laibach
Leaves’ Eyes
Led Zeppelin
Jean Leloup
Lesiëm
London After Midnight
Loreena McKennitt
Malice Mizer
Marilyn Manson
Mediaeval Baebes
Metallica
Midnight Syndicate
Miranda Sex Garden
Mors Syphilitica
Nico
Nightwish
Nirvana
Opeth
Our Lady Peace
Qntal
Queen
Radiohead
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Rasputina
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Sigur Ros
Siouxsie and the Banshees
Skinny Puppy
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System of a Down
Theatre of Tragedy
The Beatles
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This Ascension
This Mortal Coil
Tori Amos
Tristania
Type O Negative
Unto Ashes
Vangelis
Voltaire
Within Temptation
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Movies that aim to entertain above anything else, but that are still artsy and intelligent. Books are made to be deep, movies to be fun. I'm particularly fond of Tim Burton, Quentin Tarantino and Hiyao Miyazaki. Old-school Walt Disney isn't bad either.
28 Days Later
A Clockwork Orange
Amelie
Batman
Batman Returns
Beetlejuice
Benny and Joon
Castle in the Sky
Charlie and the Chocolate Factory
Donnie Darko
Edward Scissorhands
Ed Wood
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Finding Neverland
From Hell
Harold and Maude
Howl's Moving Castle
Kill Bill
Monty Python and the Holy Grail
Moulin Rouge
Napoleon Dynamite
Night of the Living Dead
Plan 9 from Outer Space
Princess Mononoke
Pulp Fiction
Romeo + Juliet
Run Lola Run
Shaun of the Dead
Sleepy Hollow
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
Spirited Away
The Corpse Bride
The Fellowship of the Ring
The Lion King
The Nightmare Before Christmas
The Return of the King
The Shining
The Two Towers
Un Chien Andalou
Waking Life
What's Eating Gilbert Grape?
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Nineteenth-century literature is the best. I rarely read anything written after 1930, although I do have a weakness for decent high fantasy, horror, and creepy children's books.
Lloyd Alexander (The Prydain Chronicles - dark Welsh fairytales)
Aristotle (The Nicomachean Ethics)
Anthony Burghess (A Clockwork Orange)
Albert Camus (La Peste, L'Etranger, Sisyphe)
Lewis Carroll (Alice's Adventures in Wonderland)
Charles Dickens (Little Dorrit and Great Expectations especially)
Fyodor Dostoevsky (The Brothers Karamazov - best book ever written - Crime and Punishment, The Possessed, The Idiot)
E. R. Eddison (The Worm Ouroboros - high fantasy written in Elizabethan English)
Gustave Flaubert (Madame Bovary)
Nathaniel Hawthorne (The Scarlet Letter, his short stories)
Victor Hugo (Les Misérables, Notre-Dame de Paris)
Tove Janssen (the Moomintroll series - strange but cheerful children's books about an innocence we have long left behind)
Franz Kafka (all of his short stories and novellas, especially The Metamorphosis and the Hunger Artist)
Soren Kierkegaard (Fear and Trembling, Either/Or)
Stephen King (his horror is overrated, but the Dark Tower series is a classic)
Immanuel Kant (his metaphysics and ethics grew on me but I still prefer The Critique of Judgment)
C. S. Lewis (The Chronicles of Narnia - the fundamentalist undertones make me uncomfortable now, but these books shaped my childhood)
H. P. Lovecraft (the only horror writer who can consistently freak me out)
Friedrich Nietzsche (Thus Spake Zarathustra, The Will to Power, Beyond Good and Evil, The Gay Science - fireworks in the night)
Edgar Allan Poe (the Masque of the Red Death taught me how to be twisted)
Jean-Paul Sartre (Le Mur, L'Etre et le Néant)
William Shakespeare (Macbeth, Hamlet, Troilus and Cressida, Measure for Measure, A Midsummer Night's Dream - but everything he did is just beautiful)
J. R. R. Tolkien (I grew up with The Hobbit and the Lord of the Rings)
Leon Tolstoy (Anna Karenina, War and Peace, The Confessions)
Oscar Wilde (The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, De Profundis, all of his fairytales)
I also like the Romantics and the Poètes Maudits - Byron, Keats, Shelley, Baudelaire, Verlaine, and Rimbaud.
Fyodor Dostoevsky
Harry Clarke
Johnny Depp
Siouxsie Sioux
Soren Kierkegaard