Human consciousness and evolution, beautiful people, Magick, Gnosticism, Secret Societies, Situationism, Surrealism, Sexuality, Erotica, Comparative Religion, Yoga, Runes, The Bhagavad Gita, The Vedas, Taoism, I-Ching, Chaos, Abraxas, Acting, Theatre, Native American Mysticism, Carlos Casteneda, Quetzecotl, Nietszche, Butoh, Shinto, Film, painting, poetry, dancing, self-sustained living, veganism, candlelight, good wine, green things, philosophy, theory, awareness, Internet news, leading a balanced lifestyle, not consuming, the sun, Tantra, Karezza, Qabala, Zos Kia, sigils, The Obeah and the Wanga, The Book of the Law, Lilith, Eris, Kali, Nuit, Isis, Maat, Babalon- all those beautiful girls...Mary Magdalene, Balthus, Francis Bacon, the exquisite photography of Francesca Woodman, Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Grant, Christian Rosenkreutz, Aleister Crowley, Austin Osman Spare, Jack Parsons, Marjorie Cameron, Edred Thorrson, Dion Fortune, Peter Carroll, Yukio Mishima, Robert Anton Wilson, Israel Regardie, Julius Evola, etc.
People who aren't crazy.
Scott Walker, Gorecki, Lee Hazelwood, Penderecki, Tuvan Throat Singing, Cambodian Hohmrong, Kenyan Witchcraft Music, Kabuki music, Nick Cave, Klezmer, Prince, Nico, Diamanda Galas, Kate Bush, Shirley Collins, Jacques Brel, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Bluegrass, Gesualdo, Iannis Xanakis, Leadbelly, Blind Lemon Jefferson, Klaus Schutze, DNA, Ikue Mori, Teenage Jesus and the Jerks, Suicide, Arvo Part, Serge Gainsbourg, Jane Birkin, NON, Boyd Rice, Kurt Weill, Love, The Yardbirds, Bob Marley, Peter Tosh, Mutabaruka, Mozart, Mahler, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Nusrat Fateh Ali Khan, Leonard Cohen, Alice Coltrane, Jimmy Scott, The Doors, The Stooges, David Bowie, the Rolling Stones, Tom Waits, Popul Vuh, Faust, Neu!, This Heat, The Sex Pistols, The Birthday Party, Public Image Ltd, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Joy Division, Gil-Scott Heron, the Last Poets, Magazine, Throbbing Gristle, Psychic TV, Thee Majesty, Chris and Cosey, Cocteau Twins, Bauhaus, Dead Can Dance, My Bloody Valentine, Lush, Slowdive, Spacemen 3, Current 93, X-mal Deutschland, Malaria!, Einsturzende Neubauten, Lydia Lunch, the Virgin Prunes, CINdYTALK, The Pogues, Glenn Branca, This Mortal Coil, Death in June, Coil, Nature and Organisation, Nurse with Wound, Merzbow, Pan Sonic, Autechre, Aphex Twin, Plastikman, Boards of Canada, Sigur Ros, PJ Harvey, Keiji Haino, Neko Case, Anita Lane, Dirty Three, Bee and Flower, Lustmord, Sunn O))), Peter Gabriel, Tactile, Gridlock, Black Dice, Charlemagne Palestine, The Gun Club, The Parlor Trick, Scanner, SUN-RA, The Pop Group, Tindersticks, 23 Skidoo, Sol Invictus, The Wolfgang Press, Lisa Gerrard, Patti Smith, David Coulter, Test Dept., Zoviet France, Dead Voices on Air, 16 Horsepower, Woven Hand, The Shangri-Las, Nancy Sinatra, The The, Barry Adamson, etc. There's really too many to mention. I love electronica, drone, NOISE, techno, house, good dub, and anyone who can push the boundaries of songwriting/composing.
Filmmakers I enjoy are Claire Denis, Andrei Tarkovsky, Pier Palo Pasolini, John Cassavetes, Satyajit Ray, Luchino Visconti, Stanley Kubrick, Andrzej Zulawski, Krystof Kieslowski, Billy Wilder, Andrzej Wadja, Jean Cocteau, Peter Brook (his theatre too) Bela Tarr, Nicholas Ray, Mike Leigh, David Lynch, Elia Kazan, Maya Deren, John Shlesinger, Orson Welles, Michelangelo Antonioni, Catherine Brellait, Gaspar Noe, Bruno Dumont, Atom Egoyan, Robert Altman, Roman Polanski, Ingmar Bergman, Nicolas Roeg, Donald Cammel, Leos Carax, Kenneth Anger, Derek Jarman, Chantal Ackerman, Peter Greenaway, Agnes Varda, Jean Eustache, Jean-Luc Goddard, Liliana Cavani, Eric Rohmer, Jean Renoir, Alejandro Jodorowski, Lena Wertmuller, Ferdinando Arrabal, Michael Haneke, Leni Riefenstahl, Maurice Pialat, Luis Bunuel, Vincent Gallo, Werner Herzog, Lars Von Trier, Matthew Barney, Sam Peckinpah, Fassbinder, Akira Kurosawa, Wong Kar Wai, etc. My favorite films are as follows "Bad Timing" by Nicolas Roeg, "The Intruder" by Claire Denis, "In the Mood for Love" by Wong Kar Wai, "Rabbit Moon" by Kenneth Anger, "The Angelic Conversation" by Derek Jarman, "The Bitter Tears of Petra Von Kant" and "Querelle" by Fassbinder, "Fat Girl" by Catherine Breillat, "Repulsion" by Roman Polanski, "Rashomon" by Akira Kurosawa, "Pola X" by Leos Carax, "Betty Blue" by Jean-Jacques Beineix, "The Piano Teacher" by Michael Haneke, "Husbands" and "A Woman Under the Influence" by John Cassavetes, "Naked" by Mike Leigh, "3 Women" by Robert Altman, "The Night Porter" by Liliana Cavani, "The Passenger" by Michelangelo Antonioni, "The Mother and the Whore" by Jean Eustache, "Inland Empire" by David Lynch, "Salo" and "Teorema" by Pier Paolo Pasolini and many, many more.
NO. Well, maybe Twin Peaks, disinformation TV, etc.
Jean Genet, Comte de Lautreamont, Michel Foucault, Aleister Crowley, Colette, Susan Sontag, Camille Paglia, Samuel Beckett, Sarah Kane, Henry Miller, Lao Tzu, Amiri Baraka, Kirsty Gunn, Oscar Wilde, Hubert Selby Jr. Harold Pinter, Anais Nin, Gore Vidal, Francois Lyotard, Franz Kafka, Theodor Adorno, Basho, Kenneth Grant, Israel Regardie, Dion Fortune, the Gnostic Texts, Edred Thorrson,The Tibetan Book of the Dead, the Egyptian Book of the Dead, "The Mystical Qabala," by Dion Fortune the Marquis de Sade, Goethe, Jerzy Kosinski, Graham Greene, Racine, Christopher Marlowe, John Ford, Alain Robbe-Grillet, Hakim Bey, Albert Camus, Gregory Corso, Soren Kierkegaard, Michel Houllebecq, Jean-Paul Sartre, Bret Easton Ellis, Elfriede Jalinek, Martin Heidegger when I want to make myself angry, Kathy Acker, Louis Ferdinand Celine, Knut Hamsun, August Strindberg, Andre Breton, Arthur Rimbaud, William Burroughs, Brion Gysin, Howard Barker, Marcel Proust, Brendan Behan, Berthold Brecht, Tennessee Williams, Joyce Carol Oates, Edward Albee, Margaret Atwood, Isabelle Eberhardt, Peter Weiss, Fyodor Dostoyevski, Plato, Aristotle, Euripedes, Aeschylus, Sophocles, Nikolai Gogol, James Joyce, Immanuel Kant, Michel de Ghelderode, Sam Shepard, Antonin Artaud, Julius Evola, Jorge Luis Borges, Paul Bowles, Dennis Cooper, Federico Garcia Lorca, Charles Baudelaire, Pierre Klossowski, H.P. Blavatsky, Oswald Spengler, Carl Jung, Joseph Campbell, Peter Carroll, Robert Anton Wilson, Wilhelm Reich, Yukio Mishima, Guy Debord, Jean Baudrillard, Gilles Deleuze, etc. The Koran, "Our Lady of the Flowers" by Jean Genet, "Lolita" by Nabokov, "Nadja" by Andre Breton, "The Book of Pleasure" by Austin Osman Spare, "LIBER ABA" by Aleister Crowley, "The Magical Revival" by Kenneth Grant, "Sun and Steel" by Yukio Mishima, "The Sexual Life of Catherine M," by Catherine Millet, "The Empty Space" by Peter Brook, "Blood and Guts in High School" by Kathy Acker
My friends.