Violin, cryptozoology, megaliths, languages (I speak French, Japanese, English, and some rusty Italian, so feel free to write to me in any of these languages! I always love the opportunity to use them!), Morgellon's disease, mycology, monoliths, the morphogenetic grid, medical oddities, feral children, lithopedions, invertebrates, food/eating things, scents, harlequin fetus, ley lines, paraphilias, triops and other add-water pets, dinosaurs, cults, occult, esoterica, Fibonacci numbers, brainwashing, fungus, freemasonry, secret societies, linguistics, joshi puroresu, conspiracy theories, ghosts, forteana, nanotechnology, Aleister Crowley, Jack Parsons, ghost/monster-hunting, virgin births, urban exploration, incorruptibility, geniuses/mad scientists, exercise/fitness, and the color red-orange!
Music:
Kayo Dot (you can listen if you click the name!), Toby Driver , Gregor Samsa , Elgar Cello Concerto, CRASS, La Monte Young, Ahleuchatistas, Current 93, The Cramps, The Birthday Party, Schubert, Ergo , Brian Tyler, Michael Jackson, In/humanity , Cerberus Shoal , The Cocteau Twins, Saint-Saens, Blonde Redhead, Gene Vincent, I Have Eaten The City , bossa nova, John Zorn, Paolo Conte, 60's European and Japanese porn soundtracks, Islaja, Morton Feldman, Wha ha ha, The Plastics, Amebix, Serge Gainsbourg, The Velvet Underground, ASVA , Wienawski, Hanayo, Syzygys, Converge, Eric Satie, Pram, Yma Sumac, Larval , Claudine Longet, Tujiko Noriko, Supersilent, Scott Walker, Khanate, The Wickerman Soundtrack, Lali Puna, Crucifucks, Disrupt, Zoundz, Jun Togawa, Kurt Weill, Made Out of Babies , Glenn Branca, Scott Walker, Bauhaus, Broadcast, Rudimentary Peni, Stomach Earth , Ennio Morricone, Rasputina , Dead Kennedys, Rorscach, Antony and the Johnsons, etc.
Movies:
Possession, M, Un Chien Andalou, L'Age d'Or, Rosemary's Baby, Kwaidan, City Lights (and all Charlie Chaplin films!), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Even Dwarves Started Small, Battle Royale, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, cannibal flicks, The Wickerman, The Cabinet of Doctor Caligari, Blue Velvet, It Happened One Night, It is Fine! Everything is Fine!, The Double Life of Veronique, Solaris (Tarkovsky), Rashomon, Ugetsu Monogatari, The Happiness of the Katakuris, Cafe Flesh, Vital, Existenz, Dead Ringers, Tampopo, Dreams, Godzilla, Jan Svankmajer, David Lynch, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Jean-Luc Goddard, Miike
Television:
LOST, Animal Planet, The Discovery Channel, Louis Theroux's Weird Weekends, Beauty and the Geek, Twin Peaks, In Search Of...
Books:
"Cryptozoology A-Z" by Loren Coleman, Robert Anton Wilson, "Stiff" by Mary Roach, "A Feather On The Breath of God" by Sigrid Nunez, "Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World" by Haruki Murakami, "Story of the Eye" by Georges Batailles, "Deathbird Stories" by Harlan Ellison, "Griffin and Sabine" series by Nick Bantock, "Lolita" by Vladimir Nabokov, Cliff Pickover ("Strange Brains and Genius", "The Girl Who Gave Birth to Rabbits", "The Science of Aliens", "Sex, Drugs, Einstein, and Elves"), Adam Parfrey, "The Lover" by Marguerite Duras, "Great Mambo Chicken and the Transhuman Condition" by Ed Regis, "Encyclopedia of Unusual Sex Practices", "Crash" by J.G. Ballard, Anais Nin, The Montauk Project books, Henry Miller, Oliver Sacks, Jan Bondeson, Flannery O'Connor, Suehiro Maruo, Kazuo Umezu, "The Guide to Bodily Fluids", Junji Ito, Hideshi Hino, Wilderness Survival Guides, and Mushroom Field Guides.
Heroes:
Loren Coleman, Emperor Norton I, Mary Toft, Freddy Krueger (He's a long-time childhood crush of mine - no joke!), Anna Karina, Charles Fort, Charlie Chaplin, Trevor Brown, Nikola Tesla, Marguerite Duras, Alushe "de Pelushe" (see picture below: he's a Mexican wrestling midget werewolf!)
