animals, devil worship, gardening, poisons, herbal medicine, cooking, sewing, costume history, serial murder, chemistry, witchcraft, old houses, mycology, decay processes, mortality, hyping the metric system to suspicious teenagers on park benches/bus stops
Owls, mycologists, poisoners, home chemists, sewing geeks, people with too many books, kids, dogs. Synthetic chemists (if you are Rolf Winter that is a plus). Mice (on toast).
GOBLIN, Coil, Swans, the Fall, Emperor, Acid Mothers Temple, Kimya Dawson, Shangri Las, Devendra Banhart, Diamanda Galas, Josephine Foster, Billy Childish, Sexton Ming, Joanna Newsom, Pere Ubu, Elvis Costello, Drive Like Jehu, David Bowie, X Ray Specks, Tiger Lillies, the Pixies, Joan Jett, Ash Ra Temple, the Make Up, Ween, Nurse with Wound, Wire, Rhapsody, the Thrones, Ghost, Burzum, Talking Heads, Einsterzende Neubauten, Beastie Boys, ACDC, Antony and the Johnsons, Death in June, Def Leppard
zombie movies, The Tempest by Derek Jarman
NMR Garage (like Monster Garage only with nuclear magnetic resonance spectrometers)
books from the 1600s on microfiche
Graham Young (the poisoner)