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+(Off the top of my head, in no particular order): mountains, chaos theory, Jung, cycling, MMOs, dream interpretation, human rights, parapsychology, IT Hardware and building computers, politics, hyperreal cultural analysis, technology, life after death, ancient civilizations, Second Life, drama, ufos, angels, parrots, the celts, mythology, fantasy, sci-fi, religion, Poetry, Outdoor Rock Climbing, Tai Chi, Literature and Fiction, the Wilderness Society, Visual Arts, metaphysics, Supernatural Investigations-

+Inception, Let The Right One In (original version), District 9, The Man From Earth, Withnail and I, The 300, Donnie Darko, Fight Club, American Beauty, Game of Thrones, Boardwalk Empire, Breaking Bad, Trek, Looking 4 Richard, Seinfeld, V for Vendetta, Buffy, Beauty and the Beast, Little Britain, Shane, Akira, Constanstine, Devil's Advocate, new Dr Who, Dawn of the Dead, Bowling 4 Columbine, True Blood, Rome...

+White Stripes, early Metallica, System of a Down, Rufus Wainwright, KSE, Interpol, Mazzy Star, Goldfrapp, Tool, Gomez, Fairport, Mediaeval Baebes, Mozart, Liszt, 70s/80s British Punk, Otep, The Donnas, Amy Winehouse, Cure/Sisters/Mission, The Cult, Scissor Sisters, Eddie Vedder, various bits of rap/Hiphop, Nigel Kennedy...an all that-

+Poetry - 'Paradise Lost' by Milton (Book 1 and 4), early Ted Hughes ('Hawk in the Rain'), Sylvia Plath, Leonard Cohen, T S Eliot, the poems of the late Tang dynasty..., the USA Imagist poets - pretty much all of it, Emily Dickinson (oh yes, indeed), Dylan Thomas, Yeats ('Things Fall Apart' is the lyric for the End of the World), Spenser, anything from the Metaphysical poets of the Shakespearian era... 'Strange Meeting' by Wilfred Owen is the single scariest poem I know of ...and William Blake -- he is teh awsomenezzBooks -- 'Vanity Fair' is my #1 of all time... Dickens - the Master; 'Wuthering Heights',; the epic Welsh Celtic 'Mabinogion' rates highly; too many others to talk about but these would be some: Kerouac; D H Lawrence; Kundera; Orwell; Borges; Achebe; the Brothers Grimm; Oscar Wilde; Henry James; Carey; Hardy; Conrad - 'Heart of Darkness' goes all the way as a literary feat. Fantasy/Sci-fi/Gothic - Michael Moorcock, Frank Miller comics, Jack Vance, William Gibson, Iain M Bainks, Poe, L of the Rings, the 'Dune' series and the GothMaster himself: H P Lovecraft.