Mind-altering experiences, music, people, sensations, chemicals, journeys, tastes, kisses. Novelty. Euphoria. Hedonists. Arsonists. Dreadlocks. Extravagance in black eyeliner. Tribalism. Self-mockery. Satire. Strangers with stranger tales than me. Sakura.
Since I have not climbed
The mountains of Yoshino,
I can do nothing
But listen to others talk
Of the cherry blossoms there.
Ki no Tsurayuki (866-946)
Erotica. Insatiability. Femininists. N6FAA11779. Going further, deeper. Urasenke. Fucking up and writing it off. Cire!
x who ate butterflies soon went mad.
Tattoos. Voices in the dark whispering all the twisted thoughts you never thought you'd hear outside of your own head. Kissing until your legs give way and your lips bleed. Ukiyo-e. Crazy fantasies. Metalwork!
Kenrokuen.
Improbable relationships. Travelling. Kimono. Keeping promises. Dancing.
Okunoiin at dusk.
corsets, masques, and stockings.
Arrangements to meet in distant cities in distant times - Ill be there with a drink in my hand, will you?
Spare me the attentions of all the relentless self-publicists.
Bowie, Sisters, The Cure, Nick Cave, Elliot Smith, Sex Gang Children, RevCo, Front 242, Ministry, Covenant, Dead Can Dance, Fugazi, the Cramps, Icon of Coil, Depeche Mode, Matchbook Romance, Minor Threat, Black Flag, The Birthday Party, Velvet Acid Christ, White Stripes, Ministry, Germs, AFI, Bella Morte, Tiger Army, Nekromantix, Wrecking Crew, The Hating Tree, Planes Mistaken For Stars, No Use For A Name, Siouxie, the Merry Thoughts, From First to Last, Motion City Soundtrack, The Faint, the Pixies, Sex Pistols, Police Bastard, the Deep Eynde, Converge, Tragic Black, 45 Grave, UK Decay, Screams for Tina, The Vanishing, Me Without You, Anathema, Opeth, My Dying Bride, Helium Vola, Velvet Acid Christ, Einsturzende Neubauten, Bloody, Dead and Sexy, Laibach, VNV Nation, Juno Reactor, Project Pitchfork, Rancid, Zeromancer, Ohgr, the Carrs, Killing Joke, Rammstein, Gary Numan, White Zombie, Tom Waits, Boy Sets Fire, Virgin Prunes, The Smiths, Ladytron, Death in June, Alien Sex Fiend, Snog, The Mission, London after Midnight, KMFDM, Die Krupps, Jack Off Jill, Skinny Puppy, Pulp, The Merry Thoughts, Taking Back Sunday, My Chemical Romance, Sick of it all, A-ha, Interpol, The Clash, John Frusciante, Boards of Canada, Sounds from the Ground, Deep Dive Corp, Cafe del Mar, Brian Eno, Blondie, Placebo, The Verve, Massive Attack, Lemon Jelly, Big Chill compilations, Talvin Singh, Banco de Gaia, Solar Stone, Deep Dish, Young American Primitive, Cosmosis, Hallucinogen, Space Tribe, Shpongle, The Orb, Astral Projection, Aphex Twin, Mu-ziq, Lamb, Autechre, 13 Crystal Skulls, Ninja Tune, Venetian Snares.
Ilsa: I wasn't sure you were the same. Let's see, the last time we met...
Rick: Was La Belle Aurora.
Ilsa: How nice, you remembered. But of course, that was the day the Germans marched into Paris.
Rick: Not an easy day to forget?
Ilsa: No.
Rick: I remember every detail. The Germans wore gray, you wore blue.
Amelie, Brick, Hero.
Mystery Science Theatre 3000. Lexx. Cowboy Bebop. Monkey Dust.
Use of Weapons, Excession, Wraeththu, The Sandman, Lord of Light, Feersum Endjin, Dead Babies, Perfume, The Liar, Hyperion, Ubik, Revelation Space, The Prince, Wuthering Heights, The Discovery of Heaven, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Walking on Glass, The Techno Pagan Octopus Messiah, The Wasp Factory, Lanark, Love and Peace with Melody Paradise, Donnerjack, American Gods, Another Roadside Attraction, Poor Things, Pattern Recognition, The Lieutenant of Inishmore, A Fire Upon the Deep, Drawing Blood, Snow Crash, The Master and Margharita, The Art of Looking Sideways, the Petit Prince, .
Protest!, The Abolition of Work, The Evolution of Cooperation, Nutrition and Physical Degeneration, Why I am not a Christian.
Oscar Wilde, Bertrand Russell, Voltaire, Jung, Pablo Neruda, Artaud, Martin Millar, J.P DonLevy, Alasdair Gray, Iain Banks, Irvine Welsh, George Orwell, George Bernard Shaw, Henry David Thoreau, Tom Robbins, Hunter S Thompson, Storm Constantine, Neil Gaiman...