Photography. Music - both listening to it and making it on my guitars, cooking, forteana and the unexplained, owls, film, spending time with my wife, history, art, good coffee, visiting with friends, cats.
Those like-minded individuals from all over the world who share my interests in music, photography, art, the unexplained and other mysterious goings on.
Joy Division, Cocteau Twins, Siouxsie and The Banshees, Dead Can Dance, The Smiths, Bauhaus, The Cure, A Certain Ratio, Alternative TV, Buzzcocks, Chris and Cosey, Comsat Angels, The Creatures, Current 93, Curve, Death In June, Desperate Bicycles, Devo, Dif Juz, Durutti Column, Echo and The Bunnymen, Brian Eno, The Fall, The Glove, Heavenly Bodies, Robyn Hitchcock, Japan, Jesus and Mary Chain, Killing Joke, Kitchens of Distinction, Legendary Pink Dots, Love and Rockets, Lush, Mauve Sideshow, Modern English, Morrissey, Peter Murphy, Nature and Organisation, New Order, Of The Wand and The Moon, OMD, Pale Saints, The Pixies, The Prefects, Psychedelic Furs, Public Image Ltd., The Ramones, The Stranglers, Suso Saiz, Soft Boys, Sol Invictus, Sonic Youth, Swell Maps, David Sylvian, Television, Terminus, This Mortal Coil, Ultra Vivid Scene, Ultravox, Wall of Voodoo, Wire, lots of others. Some compilation albums that are important to me: Terra Serpentes (World Serpent), MM Compilation (World Serpent), Neo-folk.it Compilations, Neo-form.de Compilation, Lonely Is An Eyesore (4AD), Perpetual State of Oracular Dream (Anomalous), Dr. Death Compilations (C'est La Mort). I also like the darker side of electronic music. Thanks to my wife, classical and medieval music are in heavy rotation at our house.
Silent movies (especially Murnau, Pabst, Lang, Chaplin,Keaton, Lloyd, etc), Marx Brothers pictures, Laurel and Hardy, Maya Deren, Bruce Conner, Shorts, Film Noir , Tim Burton's pictures, documentaries, etc.
We haven't owned a TV in over eight years, but there are some shows on dvd...
A list of books I love would take a good while to complete, but here's a list of books and authors (in no particular order) to get you started. Henry Miller, Mikhail Bulgakov, James Joyce, JG Ballard, DH Lawrence, John Fowles, Colin Wilson, John Keel, William Blake, Algernon Blackwood, HP Lovecraft, Beowulf, MR James, The King In Yellow, Ambrose Bierce, Arthur MachenSheridan LeFanu, Charles Fort, Brad Steiger, Ovid, Homer (The Odyssey), Robert Anton Wilson, Sergei Dovlatov, Mark Twain, Jan Harold Brunvand, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, "The Golden Bough", almost anything about Greco-Roman and Northern Mythology. Lots of others
My maternal grandparents, my teacher - Alexander Degtyaryov, Henry Miller, Ernest Hemingway, James Abbe, Eugene Atget, Cecil Beaton, Brassai, Clarence Bull, Imogen Cunningham, Gertrude Kasebier, Cosette Harcourt, George Hoyningen-Huene, George Hurrell, Yousuf Karsh, Jacques-Henri Lartigue, Frederico Patellani, Man Ray, Leni Riefenstahl, Edward Weston. Artists, writers, photographers, musicians, dancers, dreamers, visionaries, seekers, and creators everywhere.