Andrew Eldritch, books, movies, music, art, pets and all the little animals that make life worth living, boots, Pocky, "haunted" houses and attractions, museums, feta and other cheeses, ramen and yakisoba, armadillos, wingtips, the dictionary, photography, squid and other Cephalopod, drawing, architecture, words, British comedy, cartoons, candy, playing the clarinet badly, comic books and manga (see "Books" section) and comic strips ("Mutts", "Nice Hair", "Peanuts", etc.), Neopets, Torg, Pears Soap, Wrights Coal Tar Soap, sandalwood, walks in the woods, rain, concerts, dollar stores, scented candles, incense, temporary tattoos (still deciding on the real ones), Andrew mail (only special people get to know what this is), real letters (the kind that come on paper and are written by real people with pens or pencils), pretty little books of paper I can write and sketch in, Hello Kitty, fishnets, yoga (when my joints will play along), my friends, my family, writing, dark rides, Horlicks (the hidden key to good and nutritional smoothies), black cats, Egyptian cotton, painting (no matter how bad I may be at it), sewing, my concert t-shirts, people that like me despite everything, quilts, Halloween socks, makeup, glitter and other sparkley things, mood rings (and other silly, goofy, fun things), school supplies, walks at night, hiking, helping people, Scrabble, pirates, Halloween, church, the internet, anime, and many more things...

The Sisters of Mercy (The Sisterhood, Near Meth Experience, essentially everything Andrew Eldritch has touched), The Cherry Poppin' Daddies, Cruxshadows, Leonard Cohen, Enzo and the Tendrils, Bauhaus, Peter Murphy, The Star Industry, David Bowie, Carmen (the Christian performer), The Damned, Creature Feature, The Divine Madness, Tones on Tail, Love and Rockets, Voltaire, The Oddz, London After Midnight, Alien Sex Fiend, Iggy Pop, The Stooges, Venus Fly Trap, Robert Palmer, Falco (RIP), Attrition, Dead Can Dance, He Said, They Might Be Giants, The Ramones, Blondie, Radio Werewolf, Ex Voto, The Chameleons UK, Duran Duran, Morrissey, The Smiths, Siouxsie, Requiem in White, Fields of the Nephilim, Specimen, The Clash, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Shadow Projekt, Premature Ejaculation, Robyn Hitchcock, Motorhead, The Empire Hideous, Skinny Puppy, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, My Life with the Thrill Kill Kult, Dead or Alive, Nightmares in Wax, Human Drama, The Birthday Party, 45 Grave, Sister Machine Gun, Jesus Jones, Pere Ubu, Ministry, The Virgin Prunes, Joy Division, Johnny Cash, Collin Raye, Diamanda Galas, Billy Idol, Dramarama, The March Violets, Einsturzende Neubauten, Depeche Mode, The Cure, The Rollins Band, The Legendary Pink Dots, Bad Religion, Ego Likeness, Robochrist, Flesh for Lulu, Chivalry Undead, Tears of Fears, Bella Morte, Lycia, Eisbrecher, E Nominee, Shriekback, and lots more that my swiss cheese of a memory is not allowing me to remember.

Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Kiki's Delivery Service, Spirited Away (So far, all Hayao Miyazaki's films), Supersize Me!, Red Eye, MirrorMask, Event Horizon, Identity, The Prestige, Silent Hill, Some Like It Hot (love Marilyn Monroe), The Others, Alien, Aliens, Alien 3 (Special Extended Edition ONLY), Sleepy Hollow, Life is Beautiful, Ghost Ship, Thirteen Ghosts, Gattaca, Terminator, Terminator II: Judgment Day, Home Fries, In the Mouth of Madness, All About Eve, Hush, Hush Sweet Charlotte (love Bette Davis), Arsenic and Old Lace, 12 Angry Men, the Pirates of the Caribbean movie series, Sixth Sense, Signs, Unbreakable, The Village, Lady in the Water (So far, all M. Night Shyamalan films), The Mothman Prophecies, Con Air, Memento, O Brother Where Art Thou?, Star Wars 3-6, Vampire Hunter D, Demon City Shinjinku, Star Trek: First Contact & Nemesis, The Matrix Trilogy, The Lion, the Witch and the Wardrobe (the old animated one), The Legend of Sleepy Hollow (the Disney one), Johnny English, Prophecy, Batman Begins, 28 Days Later, Night of the Living Dead, Land of the Dead, Pitch Black, The Chronicles of Riddick (Director's Cut), I, Robot, The Nightmare Before Christmas, Places in the Heart, Kill Bill Volumes 1&2, Four Brothers, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Wallace & Gromit: The Curse of the Were-Rabbit and others, The Birds, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Strangers on a Train, Room with a View, V for Vendetta, Shaun of the Dead, Hot Fuzz, and far too many more..., Horror with a brain, sci-fi that is story instead of special effects, intelligent yet warped comedy, comic book films that actually follow the comic books from which they were made, and movies that are simply well written and performed. It helps if Michael Biehn, Billy Zane, or Cillian Murphy play a part in it.

“Good Eats“, “Monk“, “Medium“, “Burn Notice“, “Feasting on Asphalt“, “The Closer“, “Star Trek: DS9 & Voyager“, “My Name Is Earl“, “Spongebob Squarepants“, “Iron Chef“ (“Iron Chef: America“ is entertaining periodically, mainly because Alton Brown is on it, but it just isn‘t the same. Plus, they gave Rachel Ray a win, even though she performed poorly, simply because she‘s popular. I really don‘t like Rachel Ray…), “Mythbusters“, “Threshold“, "Futurama", "The Boondocks", "Pushing Daisies", "Homicide: Life on the Streets", "iCarly", "Pysche", "The Big Bang Theory", and the guilty pleasure of “Ghost Whisperer“. That is about it for what is currently in rotation (though many are only in re-run), besides the odd documentary and informative program. There are rather a lot of sitcoms that I like to watch in re-run, most from the 50s through the 80s when they made comedy about something other than sex and bodily functions. A small portion of my favorites include “The Many Loves of Dobie Gillis”, “The Dick Van Dyke Show”, “The Mary Tyler Moore Show”, “The Facts of Life”, and “Gimme a Break”., I greatly enjoy many anime titles, but I tend to watch them on DVD rather than on TV, so I can see them uncut and (hopefully) with subtitles, instead of the not-entirely-accurate voice overs. Some of my favorite titles are Big O“, “Naruto“, “Cowboy Bebop“, “Eureka Seven“, “Full Metal Alchemist“, "Death Note", “Witch Hunter Robin“, “Battle of the Planets”, “Star Blazers”, "Death Note", and “Ghost in the Shell“., Some other random favorites include "The Young Ones", "Bottom", "Black Adder", "Doctor Who" (the original series), "Danger Mouse", "Scooby Doo" (before Scrappy Doo), "Night Gallery" "Friday the 13th: The Series" (whch had nothing to do with the movies by similar title), "Alfred Hitchcock Presents" (the old one, but the newer one had some good episodes), Roadrunner cartoons (You can learn much from the intrepid coyote.), “Thundercats“, "Invader Zim", a lot of 70s & 80s cartoons, and “Worst Case Scenario“ (which I dearly miss).

The Holy Bible, "The Flesh, the Blood, and the Fire" by SA Swiniarski, "Those Who Hunt the Night" and 'Traveling with the Dead" by Barbara Hambly, anything by Lewis Carroll, anything by William Gibson (esp. "Idoru"), The "Noble Dead" series by Barb and JC Hendee, The "Worst Case Scenario" series, "The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy" series and the "Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency" series by Douglas Adams, "Neverwhere" by Neil Gaiman, "Good Omens" by Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett, HP Lovecraft, Algernon Blackwood, EA Poe, William Shakespeare, the poetry of Shel Silverstein, Shelley, and Byron, The Bond novels by Ian Fleming, "Dark of the Moon: Poems of the Macabre", JG Ballard, "Dark Water" by Koji Suzuki, "Ulysses" by James Joyce, "The Odessy" by Homer, Bram Stoker, Webster's Dictionary, "Be Glad You're Neurotic" by Louis Edward Bisch, TS Elliot, Alfred Lord Tennyson, Keats, "Writing Down the Bones" by Natalie Goldberg, anything by Ray Bradbury from "October Country" to "Zen and the Art of Writing", "Azure Bonds" and the other Forgotten Realms novels featuring Alias, most Dragonlance and Ravenloft novels (especially "Carnival of Fear"), the Torg novels, "A Tale of Two Cities" and most other things by Charles Dickens, "Cold Hand in Mine" and most books by Robert Aickman, HG Wells, "Killer Angels" by Michael Shaara, "The Search for Significance" by Robert S. McGee, Immanuel Kant, CS Lewis, Anne Perry, Kathy Reichs, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, some Dean Koontz (by any other name, he is still the same), Block's "Learning to Lie for Fun and Profit", the works of Richard Matheson, and more books than I can possibly remember here..., Then there are comic books, which I love. My favorite comic book of all time is "Sandman" by Neil Gaiman. I love most of Gaiman's work, like the four part "The Books of Magic" and his story in "Hellblazer". I liked "X-Men", especially the "Generation X" ones. I liked a lot of the Vertigo titles. I loved the "Kid Eternity" trilogy that Duncan Fegredo illustrated (I *love* all of Fegredo's illustrations! I wish he and Gaiman had teamed up! He made me a card that is just beautiful!), but I don't like the one that was made by a different author after that. The same goes for the trilogy Gaiman wrote for "Black Orchid". The new ones from the other author were dreadful. I like dark fantasy and quality. I like Gaiman. I like Fegredo. I also like Michael Zulli a heck of a lot. (He DID team up with Gaiman.) I have a lot of comic books, and I wish I had more. I won't let myself get more until I conquer the mess in my room. But, yes, I love comic books..., I am generally in trouble for flooding the house with too many books. I am not good at giving books back, so I have to go to the book store instead of the library. The good news though is that I can get rid of the bad books and trade them in for better ones, so the used book store is my best friend.