Hold fast to dreams
For if dreams die
Life is a broken-winged bird
That cannot fly.
Hold fast to dreams
For when dreams go
Life is a barren field
Frozen with snow.
Langston Hughes
Art, music, painting, drawing, reading, computer art (making it), being with my friends, history, psychology, dark and gothic things, halloweeny things, riding my bicycle, going to bars, museums, clubs, and any other venue where people demonstrate their obsessions.
Someone who sees the dark side of life and thinks it's worth laughing at
Also:
Tom Waits, Iggy Pop, Johnny Cash, The Ramones, Social Distortion, Nick Cave, the Buzzcocks, Bauhaus, Sisters of Mercy, Skip James, Gogol Bordello, the Clash, Franz Ferdinand, The Cramps, The Pogues, punk, rock'n'roll, rockabilly, psychobilly, gothabilly, early blues, some classical.
Fanny and Alexander, Apocalypse Now, American Werewolf in London, Lord of the Rings, Clockwork Orange, Blade Runner, anything by the Coen brothers, and, as a matter of fact, the Brothers Quay
Original Star Trek. Not a day goes by that I don't long for a transporter.
Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke, Tolkien, J.K. Rowling, T.C. Boyle, Guy Maupassant, Flaubert, Ray Bradbury, Robert Graves, Anthony Burgess, Neil Gaiman, Chekov, Gogol, Bulgakov, Dumas