cooking, baking, volunteering at Friends for Animals (socializing abused cats), drawing & painting, design, sleeping, anime, manga, cultures, rare movies & records, languages, ancient civilizations, animals, tiki culture, kustom kulture, classic cars, steampunk, victorian era, collecting stuff from around the world, kitsch, trad tattoos, old kitchenware (especially from the 50s)

gothic rock, new wave, post-punk, darkwave, ethereal, early music (medieval-renaissance-baroque), neomedieval, neoclassical, industrial, industrial metal & rock, ebm, exotica & space age pop, chillout, idm, lounge, house, surf, shoegaze, metal (all kinds. Especially female-fronted metal and doom metal), classic rock, rockabilly, psychobilly, older japanese rock, japanese enka, pre-70s country, blues, jazz, cajun, americana, celtic, new age, world, alternative in general. Some of my favourite bands are The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Depeche Mode, NIN, Apoptygma Berzerk (not that stupid emo album though), Megumi Hayashibara, Yma Sumac, Les Baxter, Johnny Cash, The Cramps, Nekromantix, Wanda Jackson, Alan Parsons Project, Pink Floyd, Buck-Tick, Air, Lacuna Coil, My Dying Bride, Abney Park, The Chameleons, Siouxsie & the Banshees, Boards of Canada, The Cruxshadows, Children on Stun, Alice in Chains, Jane's Addiction, Leaves' Eyes, E Nomine, Malice Mizer, Schwarz Stein, Moi Dix Mois, Velvet Eden, Aural Vampire, Theatres des Vampires, Trobar de Morte, Faun, Inkubus Sukkubus, Cradle of Filth, etc

Parents, Happiness, Heathers, River's Edge, Night of the Comet, Last Night, Hellraiser, Kill Bill, Pulp Fiction, Edward Scissorhands, Beetlejuice, Stargate, Candyman, Donnie Darko, Edge of Seventeen, Gypsy 83, Interview with the Vampire, Strictly Ballroom, Eurotrip, Wicker Man (the original), Walk the Line, The Exorcist, Exorcism of Emily Rose, Kate & Leopold, anything by Tim Burton or Quentin Tarantino, dark comedies (the really disturbing ones like "Parents" or "Happiness" are my favs), any Monty Python films

musicians, artists and visionaries.