art, literature, music, and film (obviously), psychology, anthropology, gnosticism, transcendence, decay, the strange, fantastic, and grotesque, internal and alternate realities, family dynamics, Nature, Expressionism, Romanticism, Symbolism, Surrealism, Re-Modernism, decadence, aestheticism, the 19th century, Gothic, ye olde avant-garde, retro-futurism, baking and cooking tasty foods, gardening, collecting junk, independent publishing, etc.
Goths and other esoteric types; spiritual wanderers; comic book writers and illustrators; serious writers, artists, and illustrators; musicians who can play accordions, junk percussion, or saws; fellow Gothic Americana enthusiasts; Raindogs!
Tom Waits, Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds, PJ Harvey, Einsturzende Neubauten, Cranes, Skinny Puppy, The Cure, Joy Division, X, The Gun Club, The Velvet Underground, Swans, Crime and The City Solution, The Birthday Party, REM, Cocteau Twins, My Bloody Valentine, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, Ludwig van Beethoven, 16 Horsepower, Johnny Cash, Geraldine Fibbers, Tindersticks, Black Heart Procession, The Dirty Three, Talking Heads, Television, Wire, Leonard Cohen, David Bowie, Scott Walker, etc.
Citizen Kane, Sunset Boulevard, Casablanca, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Grand Hotel, Sherlock Jr., 400 Blows, The Royal Tenenbaums, Requiem for a Dream, The Secret Adventures of Tom Thumb, Svankmajer's Alice, the short films of the Brothers Quay, Santa Sangre, Peeping Tom, Silence of the Lambs, Taxi Driver, Blue Velvet, Edward Scissorhands, Dr. Strangelove, Night of the Living Dead, All About Eve, Lawrence of Arabia, The Marriage of Maria Braun, The Seventh Seal, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, etc.
CSI, PBS type documentaries, Lost, The X-Files, Seinfeld, The Twilight Zone, Ren & Stimpy, cartoons from the 20's-40's, UPA cartoons, Fraggle Rock
Alice's Adeventures in Wonderland, The Brothers Karamazov, Titus Groan, Gormenghast, Wise Blood, A Confederacy of Dunces, First Love, Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man, Naked Lunch, A Prayer for Owen Meany, Geek Love, Ubik, The Metamorphosis, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, The Handmaid's Tale, Brave New World, The Theatre and Its Double, The Plague, Story of the Eye, Sexual Personae, Man and His Symbols, Great Expectations, The Sound and The Fury, Jane Eyre, Portrait of Dorian Gray, etc. (not including graphic novels and poetry)