Stuff I Like

Music

  • Tom Waits
  • Brian Eno
  • The Velvet Underground
  • U2
  • David Bowie
  • Bloc Party
  • Nine Inch Nails
  • Elvis Costello
  • Talking Heads
  • Radiohead
  • Underworld
  • Peter Gabriel
  • Jon Hassell
  • The Rolling Stones
  • Massive Attack
  • Trentemoller
  • Joy Division
  • Jeff Buckley
  • Johnny Cash
  • Richard Hell And The Voidoids
  • The Pixies
  • The Violent Femmes
  • Blur
  • Big Black
  • Son House
  • Nick Cave And The Bad Seeds
  • The Clash
  • Van Morrison
  • T-Rex
  • The Kinks
  • Ladytron
  • LCD Soundsystem
  • Morphine
  • David Sylvian
  • Mike Doughty
  • Ministry
  • David Byrne
  • The Church
  • Bruce Springsteen
  • Paul Simon
  • Nina Simone
  • The Happy Mondays
  • The Magnetic Fields
  • PJ Harvey
  • Leonard Cohen
  • Mogwai
  • Robert Johnson
  • The Indelicates
  • Eleni Mandell
  • TV On The Radio
  • Daniel Lanois
  • The Jesus And Mary Chain
  • Joe Henry
  • Soul Coughing
  • They Might Be Giants
  • The Cure
  • Sigur Ros

Movies

  • Until The End Of The World
  • The Fisher King
  • Brazil
  • Legend
  • Blade Runner
  • Hellboy
  • The Fall
  • Se7en
  • Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
  • The Dark Knight
  • 300
  • The Crow
  • Wings Of Desire
  • Lawrence Of Arabia
  • Sweeney Todd
  • Wristcutters: A Love Story
  • Solaris
  • The Shining
  • The Adventures Of Baron Munchausen
  • Ghostbusters
  • Real Genius
  • Joe Vs. The Volcano
  • Death To Smoochy
  • Love Actually
  • In Bruges
  • Snatch
  • Apocalypse Now
  • The Big Empty

Writers

  • William Gibson
  • Neal Stephenson
  • Douglas Adams
  • C.S. Lewis
  • W. Somerset Maugham
  • Clive Barker
  • G.K. Chesterton
  • Stephen King
  • Jonathan Carroll
  • Kathe Koja
  • Neil Gaiman
  • Hunter S. Thompson
  • Lester Bangs
  • Bruce Sterling
  • Warren Ellis
  • Grant Morrison
  • Garth Ennis
  • H.P. Lovecraft
  • Anne Sexton
  • Charles Stross
  • Mike Carey
  • Richard Dawkins
  • China Mieville
  • Federico Garcia Lorca
  • Carl Sagan
  • Naomi Klein
  • Alfred Bester
  • Philip K. Dick
  • Haruki Murakami
  • Franz Kafka
  • Greil Marcus
  • T.S. Eliot
  • Antoine de Saint-Exupery
  • Bruce Chatwin

Television

  • The Wire
  • Doctor Who
  • Torchwood
  • Action
  • Wild Palms
  • Terminator: The Sarah Connor Chronicles
  • The IT Crowd
  • The Venture Bros.
  • Firefly
  • Blackadder
  • Family Guy
  • Buffy The Vampire Slayer
  • Monty Python
  • Pushing Daisies
  • Deadwood

People I’d Like To Have A Conversation With

  • Bill Hicks
  • Brian Eno
  • Ada Byron
  • Constantine The Great
  • Leonardo da Vinci
  • John von Neumann
  • Thom Yorke
  • Trent Reznor
  • Lester Bangs
  • Hunter Thompson
  • Meister Eckhart
  • Peter Gabriel
  • David Byrne

Totally Random Things I Like

  • My family
  • Synthesizers
  • Chili
  • Corduroy pants
  • Leather jackets
  • San Francisco
  • Steampunk computer mods
  • Violent techno music
  • Films about London
  • Istanbul
  • The Tiergarten in Berlin
  • All of Berlin, actually
  • Absurdity
  • Physics (especially the quantum stuff)
  • Smart horror movies
  • My friends
  • Cigarettes (sigh)
  • Traveling
  • Macintosh computers
  • Fog
  • Overcast weather in general
  • Rain (see above)
  • Big black cashmere overcoats
  • Mocha lattés
  • Women who look like Louise Brooks
  • Cleverly multipurpose things
  • Shaker furniture
  • Japanese interior architecture
  • Not knowing the primary language of the place I’m at
  • The smell of old bookstores
  • Record shops
  • British culture
  • African music (all of it, pretty much from anywhere)
  • Italian food
  • Bacon-wrapped dates at a tapas restaurant
  • The middle of the night