film, art and literature: french symbolism, german expressionism, decadence, fin de siecle, existentialism, mysticism, esotericism
Bauhaus, Blonde Redhead, The Birthday Party/Nick Cave, Cab Calloway, Christian Death, The Cure, The Damned , Danzig, Dead Boys, Depeche Mode, Echo and the Bunnymen, Einsturzende Neubauten, Joy Division, Joykiller, Kraftwerk, Lords of the New Church, Morricone, Morrisey, Morphine, New Order, Pogues, Rudimentary Peni, Screaming Jay Hawkins, Lord Sutch, Slayer, Sisters of Mercy, Stiv Bators, Smiths, Siouxsie, Swans, TSOL, 45 Grave, Venom, Wagner... mississippi delta blues, many older metal bands
German Expressionists films, film noir, Fritz Lang, Sergio Leone, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, Tim Burton, Brothers Quay, Hammer Films, Kenneth Anger, Criterion Collection, El Topo, 7th Seal, The Reflecting Skin, Jacob's Ladder....endless horror films
Diary of a Drug Fiend, Dr. Faustus, Faust, The Sorrows of Young Werther, The Monk, La-Bas, A Rebours, Maldoror Lolita, Flowers of Evil, Nausea, Something Wicked This Way Comes, Lovecraft, Poe, Robert E. Howard, Marquis de Sade, Dante's Inferno, Paradise Lost, Rime of the Ancient Mariner, I Am Legend, Melmoth the Wanderer, Lord of the Flies, Heart of Darkness, EC Comics, Warren Comics, Vampirella, Ghost Rider, Famous Monsters, The Art of War, Baudelaire, Jung, Kafka, Nietzche, Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron, William Blake, Rimbaud