Art (To list a few favorites...Joel Peter Witkin, Kiki Smith, Eva Hesse, Orlan, Marcel Duchamp, Katan, Hans Bellmer, Gaultier, Galliano, Westwood!, Eiko...) Costuming and fashion history, corsetry, leather, latex, hoods, Victoriana mourning jewelry and postmortem photographs, insects, skeletons, skulls, coffins, fetish clothing and shoes, books, prosthetics, old dolls. Travel. German wine. Hobble skirts. Perfume.
the cool and the strange and the sincere.
Die Form, Siouxsie, Death In June, Cinema Strange, Sisters of Mercy, Clan of Xymox, Depeche Mode, The Cramps, Bowie, This Mortal Coil, X-Mal Deutschland, L'ame Immortelle, Love is Colder Than Death, Current 93, Deadfly Ensemble, Hocico, Hoictan, Bauhaus, Skinny Puppy, Ministry, Snog, Cocteau Twins, Kate Bush, The Cure, Nina Hagen, Love and Rockets, Tones on Tail, Ausgang, Chameleons, The Creatures, The Misfits, London After Midnight, The Smiths, Moz, The Damned, Adam Ant, Specimen, Pet Shop Boys, Oingo Boingo, old Prince, Christian Death, Screams for Tina, 45 Grave, Rasputina, Alien Sex Fiend... goth, deathrock, industrial, 80's, oldies...
Film Noir, anything Lynch, Peter Greenaway, Jeunet and Caro, Tim Burton, Dario Argento, Ed Wood, Brother's Quay, Billy Wilder, John Waters... Dellamorte Dellamore is probably my all time favorite.
Twin-fucking-Peaks
Sylvia Plath, Poe, Nabokov, anything Agatha Christie or Raymond Chandler, all Anthony Bourdain, Lovecraft, Erotica, Art, fashion, film and photography books. Vogue, W, Deathrock, Gothic Lolita Bibles, Citizen K when I can find it, Rush.
Vampira, Orlan