The Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam
Music, art (Da Vinci, Gustave Dore, Edward Gorey, Rachael Huntington, Chad Michael Ward, Amy Brown, Brian Froud, Degas, C.R. Mackintosh, M.C. Escher, Arthur Rackham, Joseph Vargo, Michelangelo, Salvador Dali, William Blake) photography, performance art, writing, pewter, corsetry, burlesque, literature, mythology, philosophy, saxophones, languages, malt whiskey, tequila
Lacuna Coil, Mortiis, Collide, Reflexion, Zeromancer, For My Pain, Soulrelic, Poets of the Fall, Chrome Division, Belladonna, Rautavaara Inc., Nine Inch Nails, Nightwish, Within Temptation, End of You, Sentenced, The Who, The Cure, The Clash, Apocalyptica, Entwine, Leaves Eyes, L'ame Immortelle, The Gathering, Lovex, Darkwell, The Machine in the Garden, Switchblade Symphony, Essentia, Mankind is Obsolete, Rasputina, Inkubus Sukkubus, Theatre of Tragedy, Tristania, Placebo, Bitch So Sweet, Stabbing Westward, Metallica, Iron Maiden, Tori Amos, Katatonia, John Lee Hooker, BB King, Nina Simone
Anything involving Tim Burton or Vincent Price in a Poe adaptation, The Crow, The Labyrinth, LOtR, PotC, Fateless, The Wind that Shakes the Barley
I don't really watch television
Oscar Wilde, Victor Hugo, Janice Galloway, Edgar Allan Poe, Tolkien, Jostein Gaarder, Paul Auster, Edward Gorey, Tim Burton, Terry Pratchett, Shakespeare, Henry James, Neil Gaiman, J.D. Salinger, Brothers Grimm, Gogol, Mikhail Bulgakov, Tennyson, Dylan Thomas, William Blake, James O'Barr, Mary Shelley, Christina Rossetti, Angela Carter, Homer, Bram Stoker, Alexander Dumas, Dickens, Johann Wolfgang Goeth, Chaucer, Alighieri Dante, Descartes, Maya Angelou, Harper Lee, Lewis Caroll, C.S. Lewis, Wordsworth, Milton, Danial Defoe, Satre, Dostoevsky, Burns, Cervantes, Spenser, Charlotte Perkins Gilman, Adeline Yen Mah, Keats, Tolstoy, Ian Banks, Omar Khayyám, Meyrink