• lou reed
• they might be giants
• joanna newsom
• depeche mode
• pet shop boys
• bronski beat
• portishead
• brian dewan
• john cale
• kate bush
• fairuz
• tuxedomoon
• klaus nomi
• rabab
• cocteau twins
• art of noise
• fiona apple
• the monochrome set
• björk
• diamanda galas
• divine

• a book of one’s own, thomas mallon
• keith haring journals, 1977–1990
• the castle of crossed destinies, italo calvino
• the cure at troy, seamus heaney
• helltown, casey sherman
• hart crane & the homosexual text, thomas e. yingling
• the seven storey mountain, thomas merton

• queer history (with particular focus on 1940s—1980s america, AIDS, & the algerian revolution)
• the vampire chronicles
• philosophy/psychoanalysis
• simone weil
• ancient civilizations & religion
• they might be giants
• francis bacon
• herbalism/phytochemistry
• lawrence of arabia
• franklin’s lost expedition
• classic lit/poetry
• leftist politics
• antiques & vintage
• haute couture

in no particular order, and by no means a complete list:

• the vampire armand, anne rice
• gravity and grace, simone weil
• querelle, jean genet
• homos, leo bersani
• teorema, pier paolo pasolini
• molloy trilogy, samuel beckett
• fellow travelers, thomas mallon
• the story of the eye, georges bataille
• the plague, albert camus
• the sleep of the just, mouloud mammeri
• tropic of cancer, henry miller
• the satanic verses, salman rushdie
• blackouts, justin torres
• confessions of a mask, yukio mishima
• tales of burning love, louise erdrich
• conclave, robert harris
• guilty, georges bataille
• borrowed time, paul monette
• non-places, marc augé

• velvet goldmine
• profondo rosso
• possession
• blue
• teorema
• querelle
• sebastiane
• multiple maniacs
• cruising
• edipo re
• pink narcissus
• salò
• my own private idaho
• re-animator
• caravaggio
• roma
• maurice
• king cobra
• mysterious skin
• a single man
• brain damage