Lost loved ones...failing that a rich benefactor would be nice.
Adam and the Ants, Allerseelen, Marc Almond, Angels of Light, Antony & the Johnsons, The Archies, Associates, Backworld, Beach Boys, Bobby Beausoleil, Belle and Sebastian, Big Black, Black Sun Productions, Blood Axis, BMX Bandits, David Bowie, Butthole Surfers, Isobel Campbell, Carter Tutti, Michael Cashmore, Nick Cave, Changes, Chris & Cosey, Coil, Julian Cope, Crash Worship ADRV, Crisis, The Crystals, Current 93, Cyclobe, Death In June, De Salvo, Alex Fergusson, Fire and Ice, Foetus, Foresta Di Ferro, Gavin Friday, Futon, Serge Gainsbourg, Getting the Fear, God, Godflesh, Lesley Gore, IANVA, Into A Circle, The Jam, Jesu, Joy Division, Andrew King, KnifeLadder, Labradford, Larsen, Legendary Pink Dots, Lemonheads, Liars, Loop, Love, Billy Mackenzie, Charles Manson, Matmos, Joe Meek, Mekon, Minty, Momus, Mother Destruction, Mount Vernon Arts Lab, Naevus, Nancy and Lee, Nature and Organisation, Jack Nitzsche, NON, Pan Sonic, Pantaleimon, The Paris Sisters, The Pop Group, Psychic TV, Boyd Rice, The Ronettes, Scritti Politti, The Shangri Las, Shellac, Sigur Ros, Six Comm, Soft Cell, Sol Invictus, Sorrow, Phil Spector, Mark Stewart, Strawberry Switchblade, Sugarcubes, Suicide, Swans, Sword Volcano Complex, Tactile, Terminal Cheesecake, Thighpaulsandra, Throbbing Gristle, Velvet Underground, Virgin Prunes, Rufus Wainwright, Tom Waits, Waldteufel, Scott Walker, Werkraum, While Angels Watch, David E. Williams, Wire, Zos Kia, various post-industrial and experimental type things, and lots of sixties girl groups, Northern Soul stuff...
The Wicker Man, Performance, The Servant, The Night Porter, Death In Venice, A Girl On A Motorcycle, Psychomania, Lucifer Rising, Jubilee, The Last of England, Deliverance, Witchfinder General, Don’t Look Now, Kes, A Taste of Honey, Quadrophenia, Scum, Walt Disney films...
Six Feet Under, Our Friends In The North, Blackpool...
J.G. Ballard, William S. Burroughs, James Ellroy, Alasdair Gray, Brion Gysin, Stewart Home, Chuck Palahnuik, Iain Sinclair, Colin Wilson, Robert Anton Wilson...
Not so much heroes but people who I never tire of include:
Art:
Joe Coleman, Frank Kozik, Coop, Gilbert & George, Francis Bacon, Hans Bellmer, Savage Pencil, Mark Ryden, Franko B., Henry Darger, Norbert H. Kox, Vonn Stropp, William Blake
General:
Adam Ant, Joe Orton, Kenneth Anger, Bobby Beausoleil, Charles Manson, Mel Lyman, Boyd Rice, Nick Bougas, Adam Parfrey, Jim Goad, Anton LaVey, John Aes-Nihil, Peter Gilmore, Dirk Bogarde, Kenneth Williams, Donald Cammell, Andrew Loog Oldham, Marianne Faithfull, Austin Osman Spare, Grant Morrison, Bill Drummond, John Waters, David Tibet, Douglas P., Michael Moynihan, Bee, Rose McDowall