Music:
Machines of Loving Grace is the best band ever! On A Dead Machine. League of Evil. Dead Can Dance. Vas and Azam Ali. Anything Peter Murphy or David J has done. All Rhys Fulber projects. Switchblade Symphony, Gary Numan, all Cleopatra Records. Bif Naked. I Love Axl Rose and Anything He Might Do in Future. Killing Joke. Anything on Beggar's Banquet Records. Dredg! White Zombie, especially Rob solo. Jim Rose Circus Sideshow (does that count?). Everything DEVO. Sarah Brightman. Anything Depeche Mode or The Cure or Siouxsie Sioux. Kasabian. GOA. Phil Collins. Simply Red. Sade. Common. Mos Def. Les Nubians. Edith Piaf. Billie Holiday. Erik B. & Rakim. HYPHY. Matisyahu. Floetry. Dilated Peoples. Dead Prez. Andain. Stabbing Westward. Afro-Celt Sound System. Plumb. Joy Division. Skinny Puppy. The Cult. Did I leave anything out?
Movies:
All of them.
Television:
I could totally fill this space if I had cable. *****But OOOOH! Now I have a Dish. It is beautiful and shiny and tied to a tree in a small space beside my apartment. This is OUTSTANDING!!!*****
Books:
Joseph Campbell, Jeff Long, Edith Wharton, JRR Tolkien, C.S. Lewis, William Manchester, Cornelius Ryan, Victor Hugo, Gustave Flaubert, Graham Hancock, Alexander Dumas, Alison Weir, Mary Stewart, David Sedaris, H.C. Wells, Philip Pullman, Thomas Hardy
Heroes:
Jane Pettigrew, Edmond Dantes, Jean ValJean, Lily Bart, Ike (Dwight David Crockett), Undine Spragg, Emma Bovary, Anne St. George