Akhenaten and Nefertiti, Alice (in all her guises), anarchism, AV, bande dessinee, black lingerie, book collecting, bulging cleavage, CD collecting, Jean Cocteau, Hazel Court, cute goth girls, drones, the eternal return, existentialism, experimental film, fetish fashion, film collecting, French actresses, German Expressionist cinema, gansha, the Golden Dawn, the Grail legends, le Grand Jeu, Joan Greenwood, hamipai, heterology, Bill Hicks, Japanese bikini idols, JLG, Anna Karina, Krautrock, Veronica Lake, Carole Landis, the "mad black Hegelians", the Marlowe was Shakespeare theory, minimalism, musick to play in the dark, the Nouvelle Vague, onanie, paizuri, the women of Palomar, panchira, Pataphysics, the Presocratics, Renaissance occult philosophy, the revolution of everyday life, rope bondage, Yvonne Romain, schoolgirl uniforms, the Situationist International, stone circles, Surrealism, Symbolism, Taoism, Temporary Autonomous Zones, voyeurism, weird tales, West Ham United (for my sins)...
Andrew Liles' ongoing "black" series. Rhys Chatham's A Crimson Grail (for 400 electric guitars). Organum's Birds' Wings Were Glued To Their Bodies So Their Feet Froze To The Ground. David Lang's piece "Men" from the album Elevated. Waiting with baited breath for the new TG album.
Anything starring Gene Tierney or Veronica Lake. Cape Fear (the original). Out Of The Past. The Killers. Pabst's The Love Of Jeanne Ney. The BFI's three new Jarman DVDs. Volume 1 of The Films Of Kenneth Anger (Fantoma DVD).
Depressing. For the most part.
Arthur Machen. H P Lovecraft. Thomas Ligotti. Algernon Blackwood. M R James. And Trevor Brown's beautiful new book, Rubber Doll.