Music:
kate bush, cocteau twins, bjork, antony and the johnsons, regina spektor, siouxsie and the banshees, yello, sparks, alison moyet, arleta, dead can dance, blonde redhead, cabaret voltaire, coil, the creatures, michael nyman, diamanda galas, lena platonos, julee cruise, meredith monk, laurie anderson, les rita mitsouko, marc almond and soft cell, mylene farmer, nico, piano magic, pulp, moloko and roisin, rufus wainwright, sad lovers ang giants, serge gainsbourg, sinead o connor, sonic youth, stevie nicks,evripidis and his tragedies, tarnation, this mortal coil, wim mertens, eleni vitali, ultravox, tori amos (but i always object to the fact that she has adopted the music forms of kate bush...)- this is typical of me, morrissey, modern english, mazzy star, everything but the girl, magnetic fields, kraftwerk, throbbing gristle, joy division, cure, saint etienne, philip glass, divine comedy, sufjan stevens, leonard cohen, in general most of the 80s romantic new wave groups, early experiments in electronic music, glam rock and early post punk with glam rock elements, 80s and early 90s aethereal music, 60s and 70s french music, some contemporary indie and electronic groups, american folk, classical music, minimalism, minimalist opera, manos chatzidakis and greek composers influenced by him
Movies:
everything by peter greenaway : especially the drauhgtman's contract, drowning by numbers, zoo, the cook the thief his wife and her lover. atom egoyan's first movies(adjuster, exotica). orlando. rosemary's baby. the wicker man. everything by david lynch. david cronenberg's spider. a history of violence, dead ringers. dario argento's older ones. women in love. the seventh seal. gosford park. james ivory's maurice, a room with a view, howards end.
Books:
wuthering heights, when nietzsche wept, pride and prejudice and other jane austen novels, uncle petros and goldbach's conjecture, the trial, the unbearable lightness of being.