World Domination
Fidel Castro
The Pogues, Billy Bragg, Rasputina, Nouvelle Vague, The Clash, Kristin Hersh, Siouxsie, Gogol Bordello, The Proclaimers, Warren Zevon, Joanna Newsom (no, really), Loch Lomond, the Stomps (the NZ ones, not those kids with the drumming), Sinatra, Fitzgerald, Armstrong, Monk, Davis, Bessie Smith, Billie Holiday, Cab Calloway, Regina Spektor, pre-Missing Everything But the Girl, Pastel Vespa, Dylan, the Eels, Ani, Neko Case....Animal from the Muppets
Bad Documentaries. Heavenly Creatures. Tideland. The Road to Wellville. The Revenger's Tragedy. Mona Lisa. Harrison Bergeron. Diabolique (not the remake). The Philadelphia Story. Adam's Rib. Woman of the Year. Die Schwestern. A Question of Silence. Vertigo. Rear Window. North By Northwest.
Farscape. Torchwood. I, Claudius. Babylon 5. Dr Who. The Simpsons. Blackadder. Red Dwarf. Second Sight. Prime Suspect. Dead Like Me. The Tudors.
The Cousin Rosamund Trilogy by Rebecca West. The Waves, To the Lighthouse, The Years by Virginia Woolf. The Lord of the Rings and The Silmarillion by J.R.R. Tolkien. Human Croquet and Emotionally Weird by Kate Atkinson. No Name, The Moonstone, The Woman In White by Wilkie Collins. Middlemarch and The Mill on the Floss and Adam Bede by George Eliot. Everything Thomas Hardy wrote. Everything the Brontes wrote except for The Professor. Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man and Finnegan's Wake but not Ulysses by James Joyce. A Long Way From Verona by Jane Gardam. Queen of Stones but nothing else by Emma Tennant. Everything by Angela Carter. Everything by Jane Austen. Woman Native Other by Trinh T. Minh-Ha. Foucault's Pendulum by Umberto Eco. The White Goddess and I, Claudius/Claudius the God by Robert Graves. But wait...: Jules Hardy, Ted Hughes, Keats, Coleridge, Blake, Donne, Ray Bradbury, Kurt Vonnegut, Karl Marx, Antonia White, T.H. White, Housman, Maria Edgeworth, Ovid, Rachel Ferguson, Barbara Comyns, Margaret Atwood, James Tiptree/Alice Sheldon, Neil Gaiman, Neil Stephenson, Jeff Noon, Sue Townsend, Nina Bawden, Julian Symonds, Helen Humphries, A.C. Doyle...well, you asked....and that's just the first 2 minutes' worth... Antonia Forest, Anthony Trollope, Dorothy Sayers, Martha Grimes, Jeanette Winterson, Monique Wittig, Mebdh McGuckian, Adrian Mitchell, Michael Niemi, Ingeborg Bachmann, Gerd Brantenberg, Peter Straub's Blue Rose Trilogy, Douglas Adams, Manuel Puig, Marie Louise von Kaschnitz, Sir Walter Scott, some Tennyson, some Poe, some Hawthorne, Matthew Lewis, Horace Walpole, Swift, Addison, Hurston, Rushdie, Thackeray, Clare Boylan, Emma Donoghue, Henry James... M.R. James, Algernon Blackwood, all ghost story writers & on & on & on...want more, just ask (you may be sorry)
Sherlock Holmes. Emily Bronte. Fidel Castro. Derek Jacobi. Shane MacGowan. Emma Goldman. James Joyce. Bialar Crais. Celia in Middlemarch. George Eliot, for that matter. Faramir. Vanessa Bell. Rube. Richard Jury. Aeneas. Monique Wittig. Roger Fry. Stephen Fry. O, right, and tony