| General | Poetry, digital art, visionary use of computers, scream queens, horror film imagery, surrealism, kitschy eroticism, lite porn, dark beer, the history of Lower Manhattan where I live, the overthrow of fascist governments.
| | Music | J. S. Bach, Iggy Pop, Bernard Herrmann, Brian Eno, Nine Inch Nails, Laurie Spiegel, Gyorgy Ligeti, David Allan Coe, Iannis Xenakis, John Cage, Johnny Cash, Nikolai Andreevich Rimsky-Korsakov, Steve Reich, Kronos Quartet, Hector Berlioz, Igor Stravinsky, Erik Satie, Claude Debussy, Terry Riley, John Fahey, Gustav Mahler, ambient sound/noise.
| | Movies | Luis Buñuel's Discreet Charm of the Bourgeoisie & Belle
de Jour, Andrei Tarkovsky's Solaris, Walt Disney's
Fantasia & Dumbo, Michelangelo Antonioni's Blow-Up,
Joel M. Reed's Blood Sucking Freaks, Jean Cocteau's Blood of a
Poet, Kenneth Anger's Scorpio Rising, Samuel Fuller's
Shock Corridor, Robert Wiene's The Cabinet of Dr.
Caligari, G. W. Pabst's Pandora's Box, Erich von Stroheim's
Greed, F. W. Murnau's Nosferatu, Carl Dreyer's
Vampyr & Day of Wrath, Josef von Sternberg's The Blue
Angel & Blonde Venus, Fritz Lang's Metropolis &
M, Herk Harvey's Carnival of Souls, Chuck Jones's One
Froggy Evening & Duck Amuck, Tex Avery's Who Killed
Who? & Red Hot Riding Hood, Ingmar Bergman's Persona,
Donald Cammell and Nicolas Roeg's Performance, Federico Fellini's
La Dolce Vita & Fellini Satyricon, Ken Russell's The
Devils & The Lair of the White Worm, Hiroshi Teshigahara's
Woman in the Dunes, Alfred Hitchcock's Vertigo & The
Birds, Edgar G. Ulmer's The Black Cat & Detour, Nagisa
Oshima's In the Real of the Senses, David Cronenberg's
Videodrome, Jean-Luc Godard's Alphaville, Ridley Scott's
Blade Runner, Chris Marker's Le Jetée. | | Television | I'm partial to early/mid 60s stuff like The Avengers, The
Prisoner, The Man From U.N.C.L.E., The Twilight Zone,
The Outer Limits.
| | Books | Ovid's Metamorphoses, Dante's Divine Comedy, Milton's
Paradise Lost, Blake's illuminated texts, e.e. cummings' poetry
(because it was so beautifully designed for the printed page), Jorge
Luis Borges' wonderfully terse short fiction, haiku poetry from Basho to
Shiki to the present day. | | Heroes | Truly visionary artists like William Blake, Hieronymus Bosch,and, most of all, Matthias Grünewald. |
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World Artists Network (WAN), Creative Outreach, ! Horror Movies Morgue !, NEVER FORGET - A Special Place to Remember Our Fallen Troops and 9/11, History of Art, the r.i. horror party, Dark Ambient Support Group, Hieronymus Bosch
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