Vespas, Oscar Wilde, webcomics, John Gray, neologisms, commodification, portmanteaus, crosswords, vintage Star Wars action figures, art nouveau/ le style mucha, Aubrey Beardsley, Victorian literature, psychomachia, gin and tonics, whiskey, vitamins, and formal attire.
Jim Dixon.
The Divine Comedy, The Magnetic Fields, The Gothic Archies, Momus, Gary Numan, Jonathan Fire*Eater, The Octopus Project, Adam Ant, The Pulsars, Barcelona, The Rentals, Knapsack, Bendthaus Lassigue, Rainer Maria, Pulp, Gorillaz, The Pixies, The Jam, The Kills...
The Big Lebowski, Bottle Rocket, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Bubba Ho-Tep, City of Lost Children, The Dangerous Lives of Altar Boys, Down by Law, Edward Scissorhands, Empire Records, Gangster No. 1, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Howl's Moving Castle, I Heart Huckabees, Laputa, Lord of the Rings trilogy, Mars Attacks!, M*A*S*H, Max, Porco Rosso, Quadrophenia, The Royal Tennenbaums, Rushmore, Spirited Away, the Star Wars Trilogy, Trainspotting, V For Vendetta
Law & Order: SVU, Top Chef, The IT Crowd, Scrubs, Metalocalypse, The Venture Bros, The Adventures of Pete & Pete, Evangelion, Fooly Cooly
Recently Frankenstein, Lucky Jim, Invisible Man, Around the World in 80 Days, At Swim-Two-Birds
John Gray. Nick Currie. Stephin Merritt.