Academia, androgyny, art, art deco, art nouveau, Audrey Hepburn, Bangkok Ladyboys, bats, being contradictory, Bettie Page, big hair, black eyeliner, bondage, Brian Molko, British republicanism, burlesque, Camden, candles, castles, Catholic symbolism, cats, cellars, cemeteries, churches, corsetry, corsets, crimped hair, David Ryder-Prangley, day dreaming, deathrock, Dita Von Teese, domination, dressing up, dungeons, eating out, eccentricity, Eddie Izzard, erotic literature, Erte, felines, fetish, fetish fashion, fire, follies, freedom of speech, gender benders, gimps, gore, goth, goth clubs, gothabilly, gothic, graveyards, Greta Garbo, Hammer Horror, internet shopping, Ireland, kitch stuff, knives, lace, latex, lighthouses, literature, London, long hair, Magritte, makeup, mausolea, men in makeup, mental health, modeling, money-success-fame-glamour, Monty Python, nancy boys, necks, Nottingham, open-mindedness,organic farming, pacifism, pansexuality, Paris, passion, Phil Oakey's hair, piercings, pinstripe, platforms, poetry, pointy boots, polka dot, Pre-Raphaelite art, Pre-Raphaelite women, pretty boys, pvc, revenge, rubber, Russia, satin, Slimelight, socialism, stilettos, storms, submission, surrealism, swords, tattoos, tea, the sea, The Wake, theatre, Tim Burton's films, transvestites, undercuts on men, velvet, victoriana, vodka, watching boys kissing, wax, Whitby, Whitby Gothic Weekend, windmills, world dominationSatan's Circus burlesque troop - www.circusofsatan.co.uk
Anyone who can alleviate the boredom of weekdays in Peckham/New Cross.And Nick Cave!
Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Bauhaus, Devlish Presley, The Cramps, The Screaming Banshee Aircrew, Diary of Dreams, Dragster, Motley Crue, The Ghost of Lemora, The Sisters of Mercy, The Horrorpops, Clan of Xymox, The Cure, Kate Bush, (early) Manic Street Preachers, Rachel Stamp, Pulp, Ladytron, The Smiths, Poison, David Bowie, Leonard Cohen, Bloody Dead and Sexy, The Cruxshadows, The Modern, Sex Gang Children, The Dresden Dolls, Joy Division, Vincent Razorbacks, Sheep On Drugs, Cinema Strange, Intra-Venus, Dream Disciples, Nine Inch Nails, Placebo, Lou Reed/Velvet Underground, Rob Zombie/White Zombie, Deathboy, Peaches
*Hedwig and the Angry Inch*, Party Monster, Velvet Goldmine, Edward Scissor Hands, Dead Poets Society, Doctor Zhivago, Don't Look Now, Secretary, Preaching to the Perverted, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Withnail and I, The Shining, Pulp Fiction, The Usual Suspects, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, The Crow, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Natural Born Killers, Requiem For a Dream, The Wicker Man
Old stuff: Teachers, Monty Python, Fawlty Towers, The Young Ones.Current stuff: CSI, Waking the Dead, Lost, Little Britain, Without a Trace, any random thriller
Wuthering Heights - Emily Bronte, Crime and Punishment - Fydor Dostoyevsky, The Return of the Native - Thomas Hardy, And The Ass Saw The Angel - Nick Cave, The Plague - Albert Camus, Amsterdam - Ian McEwan, Villette - Charlotte Bronte, Jude the Obscure - Thomas Hardy, Atonement - Ian McEwan, The Well of Loneliness - Radclyffe Hall, Tess of the D'Urbervilles - Thomas Hardy, The Bell Jar - Sylvia Plath, Hamlet - William Shakespeare, The End Of The Affair - Graham Greene, Waterland - Graham Swift, The Edible Woman - Margaret Atwood
My Mum (it may sound tacky, but she is an inspiration to me), Thomas Paine, Mary Wollstonecraft, Karl Marx, the Pankhurst sisters, Aneurin Bevan, Nelson Mandela. If we're talking more frivolously, then Bettie Page and Dita Von Teese.