RESIDENT EVIL, old man pubs, motorways, making lists, board games, DIY, Trial & Improvement, eccentricity, paradoxes, geometric string designs, biro-art, making tapes, turning ordinary household objects into WMD's (mostly by accident), sock-wearing, continuity errors, cloak-&-dagger, smoke-&-mirrors, Sturm und Drang, clove cigarettes, covert operations, code-breaking, useless facts, things to make & do, cut-out-&-keep, field trips, rambling (both kinds), loitering in stairwells, libraries, dusty old tomes, the history of science, astronomy, lens-flare, irrational fear, the macabre, the peculiar, the sinister & the curious, Edwardiana, Victorian Lowbrow, Nauticalia (smuggler's cove's, lighthouses, shipwrecked ghosts... y'know, that sort of thing) the lore of the land, urban myths & the concept of Subterraneans...
Mogens "Mogge" Moesgaard. We even share a birthday. It was meant to be.
Raggedy arsed stuff like... Smog, Red House Painters, Magnetic Fields, Yo La Tengo, Neutral Milk Hotel, Papa M, Bright Eyes, Edith Frost, The Pastels, Belle & Sebastian, Built To Spill, Modest Mouse, Guided By Voices, Jonathan Richman, Daniel Johnston, The Langley Schools Music Project, The BBC Radiophonic Workshop, Paul Simon, Harry Nilsson, The Flying Burrito Brothers, Lee Hazlewood, Hank Williams... Pixies, Wire, Elastica, My Bloody Valentine, Dinosaur Jr., Sonic Youth, The Velvet Underground, Julian Cope, John Cale, Leonard Cohen... Ivor Cutler, Lionel Belasco, Kronos Quartet, Brigitte Bardot, The Chordettes, The Walker Brothers (& all sorts of other brothers), Buddy Holly, The Mamas & The Papas, Edison Lighthouse, Elton John (you think I'm joking, don't you??), The The, The Smiths, The Cure, Echo & The Bunnymen, Teenage Fanclub, Beach Boys, N*E*R*D, JT (& anything else that is 'thuggin' or a 'bangin choon'...), Scando-pop, Barbershop, Doo-Wop, torch songs, shanties & sea songs, murder ballads, hymns, dirges, standards, 60's girl groups, 70's MOR, the Charlie & Lola theme tune, Motown, the doomed folkies, my mum's '70's Pin-up's' double CD, POP!!
Hmmm... anything by George Melies, Woody Allen, Mike Leigh, Tim Burton, Roman Polanski, Alfred Hitchcock, Billy Wilder, David Lynch... 80's Stephen Spielberg!! ALSO: Onibaba, The Match Factory Girl, WR - Mysteries Of The Organism, Les Diaboliques, Little Otik, Hidden - Cache, Fucking amal, Next Stop Wonderland, Limelight, The Night Of The Hunter, The Window, Lolita, Barefoot In The Park, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Magnolia, Pi, Last Night, The Young Poisoner's Handbook, Phantom Of The Rue Morgue, The Fall Of The House Of Usher, The House That Dripped Blood, The Fly I & II, Blood Simple, Suspiria, Dont Look Now, Picnic At Hanging Rock, The Wicker Man, Blow Up, Jumpin' Jack Flash, The Man Who Knew Too Little, The Burbs, The People Under The Stairs, Return to Oz, Flight of the Navigator, Stand By Me, The Breakfast Club, The Great Escape, ...
Twin Peaks, The Kingdom (Riget), This Life, Green Wing, Black Books, Father Ted, Spaced, I'm Alan Partridge, Red Dwarf, Blackadder, Quatermass, Dr. Who, The Hitchhiker's Guide To The Galaxy, The Crystal Maze, Top Gear (I know, I can't even drive) QI, Room 101, Columbo, Murder She Wrote, Midsomer Murders, What The Tudors/Victorians/...Did For Us, TinTin, Count Duckula, Potsworth & Co., Round The Twist, Come Dine With Me.
by... Kurt Vonnegut, J. D. Salinger, Douglas Coupland, Mikhail Bulgakov, Vladimir Nabokov, Truman Capote, Anton Chekhov, Italo Calvino, Fyodor Dostoyevsky, Leo Tolstoy, Edgar Allan Poe, Edward Gorey, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Jorge Luis Borges, Albert Camus, Bret Easton Ellis, Hunter S. Thompson, Thomas Pynchon, Richard Brautigan, George Orwell, Bill Bryson, Roald Dahl, JK Rowling, Tim Burton, Daniel Clowes and other Fantagraphics stuffs, Sigmund Freud... Detective's Handbook, Spy's Guidebook
Sir Isaac Newton (1643-1727)
(as mad as a bag of spanners, if you didn't know)