absinthe, acting, antiquarian books, ants, art, baudelaire, cicadas, cigarettes, clem snide, clive barker, cooking, costuming, curry, death, decrepit dolls, dioramas, dirt, dr. seuss, edward gorey, epoxy, fairytales, feathers, found objects, freaks, geeks, homemade bears, hot sauce, hummous, indian classical music, kinetic boxes, lewis carroll, life, monoliths, mortality, movies, music, neutral milk hotel, nick cave, paint, performance, philosophy, poppies, reading, religious iconography, rocks, rubber duckies, rust, samuel beckett, shellac, silence, southern decay, strange beauty, tequila, theatre, tom waits, unswerving loyalty, veves, wormwood, writing
anyone who's likely to make me laugh at my foibles. oh... and winged monkeys... definitely, winged monkeys.
everything with heart, humour and savage rawness... nick cave, tom waits, Billie Holiday, Bauhaus, clem snide, Tom Waits, Ornette Coleman, Peggy Lee, Eric Satie, John Coltrane, Chet Baker, Flaming Lips, Miles Davis, Lou Reed, David Bowie, Lord Kitchener, Sparrow, Dead Kennedys, OutKast, Wu-Tang, Classical Indian, Curtis Mayfield, Flogging Mollies, Johnny Cash, Astor Piazzolla, Ice Cube, Husker Du, Big Mama Maybelle, Devo, Duke Ellington, John Lee Hooker, Al Green, Led Zeppelin, ACDC, Cocteau Twins, Eric Dolphy, Public Enemy, Etta James, Damned
Zatoichi, My Friend Totorro, Harold & Maude, Amelie, The Princess and the Warrior, Run Lola Run, Wings of Desire, Heavenly Creatures, The Professional, Le Jette, Evil Dead, Big Fish, Harder They Come, Absolute Beginners, Gothic, High Fidelity, Made in Heaven, Delicatessen, City of Lost Children, Alice, Wings of Desire, Peter Greenway's films, Requiem for a Dream, One Hour Photo, Fear & Loathing in Las Vegas, Big Lebowski, Donny Darko, Nightmare Before Christmas, Young Frankenstein, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Jan Svankmajer movies
try as I might to avoid it.... Law and Order is my drug.
Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Donald Barthelme, The Lorax, Through the Looking Glass, Siddartha, Geek Love, Brave New World, Faustus, Catcher in the rye, random non-fiction, Naked Lunch, Junkie, Unbearable Lightness of Being, Frankenstein, monster folklore, anything that I might learn from, Baudelaire, Samuel Beckett, The Last Man, The Trial, poetry be it good; bad or ugly, anything by Flannery O'Connor
Johnny Cash, Ghandi, Shel Silverstein, Lewis Carroll, Flannery O'Connor, Tom Waits, Samuel Beckett