Music
Gravenhurst, Low, Kristen Hersh, Rykarda Parasol, Anoushka Shankar, Antony & The Johnsons, Bjork, Legendary Pink Dots, Einsturzende Neubauten, Espers, Faun Fables, Fairport Convention, The Decemberists, Patti Smith, Sixteen Horsepower, The Smiths, VNV Nation, Vashti Bunyan, Woven Hand, Concrete Blonde, The Innocence Mission, Amanda Palmer, Dead Can Dance, Zoe Keating, Stina Nordenstam, CocoRosie, Ladytron, Assemblage 23, Lush, Catherine Wheel, Marianne Faithfull, Edith Piaf, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Neutral Milk Hotel, The Dresden Dolls, Pentangle, The Cure, Blue Foundation, Nick Cave, Tom Waits, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Edward Ka-Spel, Faith and the Muse, Rasputina, Gogol Bordello, Itzhak Perlman, Niccolo Paganini, Attrition, Kate Bush, Death in June, Coil, Meg Lee Chin, Pamela Wyn Shannon, Porcupine Tree, Shirley Collins, Sufjan Stevens, Suzanne Vega, Tegan and Sara, and on...
Books
We Have Always Lived in the Castle (Shirley Jackson), Wuthering Heights (Emily Bronte), Something Wicked This Way Comes (Ray Bradbury), Singing Innocence and Experience (Sonya Taaffe), The Dune Chronicles (Frank Herbert), Frankenstein (Mary Shelley), A House of Pomegranates (Oscar Wilde), The Haunting of Hill House (Shirley Jackson), Pattern Recognition (William Gibson), Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood), The Secret History (Donna Tartt), Perfume: The Story of a Murderer (Patrick Suskind), The Secret Garden (Frances Hodgson Burnett), Watership Down (Richard Adams), House of Leaves (Mark Z. Danielewski), The House on the Borderland (William Hope Hodgson), Jane Eyre (Charlotte Bronte), The Lord of the Rings Trilogy (J.R.R. Tolkien), The Picture of Dorian Gray (Oscar Wilde), Moby Dick (Herman Melville), The Dispossessed (Ursula Le Guin), 2001: A Space Odyssey (Arthur C. Clarke), Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky), The Xenogenesis Trilogy (Octavia Butler), To Charles Fort with Love (Caitlin R. Kiernan), Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll), Dracula (Bram Stoker), The Hunchback of Notre Dame (Victor Hugo), The Lost World (Sir Arthur Conan Doyle), The Discworld Series (Terry Pratchett), Earth Abides (George R. Stewart) and on and on...