Cephalopoda, Taxidermy, Cryptozoology, Alchemy, Etymology, Archaeology, Art History
Artists and exhibition organisers who firmly believe in the idea that art has to be affordable and approachable to leave its trace in history.
Aphex Twin, Architect, Bauhaus, Björk, Cdatakill, Celluloid Mata, cEvin Key, Coil, Contagious Orgasm, Depeche Mode, Doormouse, Einstürzende Neubauten, Element of Crime, Enduser, Erik Satie, Fall of Efrafa, Foetus, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, Iszoloscope, Joy Division, Laibach, Larvae, Merzbow, Mono Atro, Mr Bungle, Múm, Neurosis, Nick Cave, NIN, ohGr, PJ Harvey, Regina Spektor, Röyksopp, Scraps of Tape, Sigur Rós, Skinny Puppy, Somatic Responses, Squarepusher, Synapscape, Tarmvred, The Cure, The Notwist, Venetian Snares
Anything by: Aki Olavi Kaurismäki, Akira Kurosawa, Alan Parker, Christopher Nolan, Coen Brothers, David Cronenberg, David Fincher, David Lynch, Francis Ford Coppola, Fritz Lang, F.W. Murnau, George Lucas, George A. Romero, Guillermo del Toro, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Jim Jarmusch, Lars von Trier, Luis Bunuel, Martin Scorsese, Michel Gondri, Michelangelo Antonioni, Milos Forman, Peter Jackson, Quentin Tarantino, Ridley Scott, Roman Polanski, Sergei Eisenstein, Stanley Kubrick, Steven Soderbergh, Terry Gilliam, Thomas Vinterberg, Tim Burton, Volker Schlöndorff, Werner Herzog, Wim Wenders, Wong Kar-Wai. Movies with pianos in them: The Piano, The Piano Teacher, The Pianist. Oh, and The Last Unicorn. Seriously.
I hate TV.
Anything by: Aldous Huxley, Charles Dickens, Charlotte Brontë, E.A. Poe, Emily Dickinson, E.T.A. Hoffmann, Flann O'Brien, Franz Kafka, Friedrich Nietzsche, Gabriel GarcÃa Márquez, Gebrüder Grimm, George Orwell, Gustave Flaubert, Henrik Ibsen, H.P. Lovecraft, Jane Austen, Jean-Paul Sartre, Johann Wolfgang von Goethe, John Milton, Karl Marx, Lewis Carroll, Mary Shelley, Oscar Wilde, Ovid, Simone de Beauvoir, Thomas Mann, Virginia Woolf, oh and "Crooked Little Vein" because I'm mentioned in it.
Ada Lovelace, Maria Sibylla Merian, Marie Curie, Virginia Woolf, Emily Dickinson, Artemisia Gentileschi, Madame Bovary, Sophie Scholl, Lyudmila Pavlichenko, Bonnie Parker, Sue Perkins, Grossmama, Ernst Haeckel, Albertus Seba, Hieronymus Bosch, Shaun Greenhalgh, Stephen Fry, Nicolas Mahler, Peter Blegvad, Warren Ellis, Alex CF.