Writing, reading, horror movies, indie/alternative rock music, real ales, Tarot reading.
Music:
Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds, Tom Waits, Arcade Fire, Tindersticks, The Smiths, P.J Harvey, The Cure, The Fall, Joy Division, Early Manics, Neil Young, Aimee Mann, Muse, Broken Social Scene, Pulp, Primal Scream, Hope of the States, The Verve, Spiritualized, Pixies, Johnny Cash, Mercury Rev, Idlewild, The Libertines, The Birthday Party, The Killers.
Movies:
The Shining, George Romero's Dead films, Badlands, Days of Heaven, The Thin Red Line, The New World, Freeway 2: Confessions of a Trick Baby, Ginger Snaps movies, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, May, Suspiria, Way Out West, The Man With Two Brains, Pat Garrett and Billy the Kid, The Proposition, The Thing, Halloween, Evil Dead, The Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Phantasm, Lost Highway, Eyes Wide Shut, Donnie Darko, The Godfather, Repulsion.
Television:
Simpsons, the footie, Buffy, The Sopranos, Lost, anything by Dennis Potter, Spongebob Squarepants.
Books:
Lovecraft, A Clockwork Orange, graphic novels by Alan Moore (especially Swamp Thing), Swamp Foetus by Poppy Z Brite, Travel Arrangements by M John Harrison, Arkham Asylum, The Lost District by Joel Lane, Counterparts by Nicholas Royal, House of Hell (Fighting Fantasy 10), Pet Sematary by Stephen King, Strange Pilgrims by Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Robert E Howard's Conan, William Blake, The Life to Come by Tim Lees, Open the Box by Andrew Humphrey, The Stormwatcher and Smoking Poppy by Graham Joyce.
Heroes:
Nick Cave, Terrence Malick, Stanley Kubrick, Vincent Gallo, Asia Argento, Captain Spaulding, Poppy Z Brite.
