"beat" takeshi kitano,
absinthe,
akira kurosawa,
alan moore,
albrecht durer,
algernon blackwood,
ambrose bierce,
amon amarth,
andy lau,
angela carter,
angelo badalementi,
arthur conan doyle,
arthur machen,
asian cinema, atrophying friendships,
bal sagoth,
battle royale,
bestiaries,
both warren ellises,
brad neely,
british columbia,
british comedy,
bruce campbell,
chan-wook park,
charles chesnutt,
charlie white,
cheesy metal,
cheng pei pei,
chess,
clark ashton smith,
clive barker,
cradle of filth,
daniel clowes,
david cronenberg,
david lynch,
dj shadow,
dorothy parker,
douglas adams,
e.m.t.,
edward gorey, etchings and block printings,
exploration,
fairy tales,
flannery o'connor,
folklore,
franz kafka, gibbering in the darkness, gin/genever/jenever,
godspeed you black emperor,
golden harvest,
gothic literature,
guillermo del toro,
guitar wolf,
h.p. lovecraft,
hammer horror,
haruki murakami,
hayao miyazaki,
hellsing,
hiking,
history,
hunter s. thompson,
ian miller,
ingrid pitt,
irvine welsh,
istvan orosz,
italo calvino,
jack vance,
jan svankmajer,
jeffrey combs,
jello biafra,
jeunet and caro,
jim jarmusch,
john carpenter,
john kennedy toole,
john milton,
johnny cash,
jorge luis borges,
joseph conrad,
junji ito,
junko mizuno,
keith david,
kentaro miura,
king hu,
kobo abe,
kool keith,
kurt vonnegut jr.,
lupin the third,
maggie cheung,
malice mizer,
man man,
maurice leblanc,
medieval anything,
mike mignola,
mike patton,
mikhail bulgakov,
monkey punch, monsters tearing shit up,
mystery science theater 3000,
mythologies,
neo-medievalism,
nick cave,
organized crime,
orhan pamuk, poking about ruins,
pulp fiction, quality anime and manga, raechel dumas,
rob zombie,
robert anton wilson,
robert carlyle,
robert e. howard,
robert service,
romani,
satoshi kon,
screamin' jay hawkins,
sergio leone,
shaolin kung fu,
shaw brothers,
single malt scotch,
skulking in graveyards,
some adult swim,
stuart gordon,
suehiro maruo,
tadanobu asano,
takashi miike,
terry gilliam,
the coen brothers,
the league of gentlemen,
the misfits,
the pogues,
the ramones,
the reverend horton heat,
the tiger lillies,
the war poets,
the woods after sundown,
tim burton,
tom stoppard,
tom waits,
toshiro mifune,
traveling,
twin peaks,
umberto eco,
vincent price, wandering the wilds,
werner herzog,
westerns,
white zombie,
william s. burroughs,
wong kar wai,
writing