European History, Evolution of Language, Gothic Poetry, Metal Detectorism, Continental European Cinema, Organic Folk Narratives, Cantonese Food, Small Venue Gigs, Dancing Like a Halfwit, Being Introverted in Public Situations, Walking My Dog, Drinking Strong Tea, Being Nice (When I Remember To), Discussing Religion, Wondering Where My Life Has Gone and Drinking Overpriced Beverages in Service Stations.
Joy Division, Einsturzende Neubauten, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Gang of Four, Mick Harvey, Crime and the City Solution, Tim Rose, Fred Neil, McCarthy, Grinderman, Current 93, The Smiths, REM, The Fall, Radiohead, Depeche Mode, Faith No More, The Vanity Set, Gallon Drunk, Richard Hawley, Rosie Westbrook, Gudrun Gut, Anita Lane, Baby Dee, The Moodists, These Immortal Souls, Rowland S. Howard, The Cruel Sea, The Beasts of Bourbon, Hugo Race & The True Spirit, Conway Savage, Josh T. Pearson, Woven Hand, Low, Psychic TV, The Dirty Three, Tren Brothers, Dave Graney & The Coral Snakes, Faust, Can, Nick Drake, British Sea Power, New Order, David Bowie, The Clash, Go Kart Mozart, Felt, Denim, Pulp, Interpol, Aphex Twin, Bjork, Nature and Organisation, Piano Magic, Television, XTC, Nitzer Ebb, Momus, Leonard Cohen, Hefner, The French, Morrissey, Patti Smith, Nurse With Wound, Barry Adamson, Jeff Buckley, David Pajo, Bob Dylan, Smog, Galaxie 500, Scott Walker, Suede, Fatima Mansions, The Triffids, Lee Hazlewood, Broadcast, Bill Drummond, Silver Ray, Coil, The Magnetic Fields, The Future Bible Heroes, Boards of Canada, Malcolm Middleton, Manic Street Preachers, L. Pierre, Arab Strap, Belle and Sebastian, My Bloody Valentine, Durutti Column, Pavement, The Velvet Underground, John Cale, John Cage, Nico, John Zorn, Painkiller, Throbbing Gristle, Yo La Tengo, Rosario Bléfari, Johnny Cash, The KLF, Palace Music, The Cure, Lou Reed, The Pixies, Tenhi, Kid Congo and The Pink Monkey Birds, Robert Forster, Cat Power, Karen Dalton, Smog, The Go-Betweens, Antony and the Johnsons, Tim Buckley, Lift To Experience, King Creosote, Loene Carmen, Death In June, devastations, Sol Invictus.
Wise Blood, Kes, Pi, La Calvaire, Rain Man, Requiem for a Dream, Lost Highway, Funny Games, Harry; he's here to help, The Vanishing, Eraserhead, Audition, Happiness, Visitor Q, The Wicker Man, The Medusa Touch, Story Telling, Don't Look Now, La Haine, Ratcatcher, The Ladykillers, Kind Hearts and Coronets, Les Diaboliques, Bad Boy Bubby, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf?, The Elephant Man, Blue Velvet, The Last Broadcast, Red Lights, Man Bites Dog, The Beat that My Heart Skipped, Lemming, Cache, The Seventh Continent, Dans ma Peau, The Piano Teacher, L'appartment, Weekend, Wings of Desire, Orlando, Pickpocket, Uzak, Time of the Wolf, The Battle of Algiers, Save the Green Planet, Infernal Affairs, Sympathy for Mr Vengeance, Oldboy, Lady Vengeance, Gozu, The Happiness of the Katakuris, The 400 Blows, The Seventh Seal, The Virgin Spring, Dr. Strangelove, Barry Lyndon, A Clockwork Orange, The Shining, 2001: A Space Odyssey, Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me, The Idiots, Tesis, Breaking the Waves, Bedazzled, Robberto Succo, Les Revenants, Vacas, The Red Squirrel, Team America World Police, Lovers of the Arctic Circle, Innocence, Head On, Dogville, Manderlay, The Machinist, Public Enemy, Open Your Eyes, The Brotherhood of the Wolf, A Bout De Souffle, Land and Freedom, Nightwatch, The Proposition, Johnny Suede, Ghosts of the Civil Dead, Carnages... etc.
Brasseye, Jam, Nathan Barley, South Park, This Morning with Richard not Judy, Fist of Fun, Cyderdelic, Twin Peaks, The Singing Detective, Vids, The Divine David Presents, Prisoner Cell Block H, Time Team, Red Dwarf, The Simpsons, Lost, Channel 4 News, History Documentaries, Nature Programmes.
Don DeLillo, Salman Rushdie, Angela Carter, Mark Z Danielewski, James Joyce, Jean Paul Sartre, Albert Camus, H. P. Lovecraft, Nick Cave, Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu, Charles Baudelaire, Thom Gunn, Stevie Smith, William Shakespeare, Gerard Manley Hopkins, Sylvia Plath, Arthur Rimbauld, Edgar Allen Poe, William Blake, Thomas Lovell Beddoes, Friedrich Nietzsche, Ben Marcus, Bertold Brecht, Samuel Beckett, Harold Pinter... and the rest.