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+= book I have read before, but not this reprint/edition/translation
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Top 10 Bands/Musical Acts (in no order)
Siouxsie & The Banshees (tied for first)
Nine Inch Nails (tied for first)
Current 93
Coil
Lady Gaga
Madonna
Fleetwood Mac (+ Lindsey Buckingham/Stevie Nicks solo)
Suzanne Vega
Depeche Mode
Whitehouse
Second Tier (11-20)
Sonic Youth
Dead Can Dance
Emerson, Lake & Palmer
The Police (+ Sting solo)
Throbbing Gristle
Kate Bush
Joy Division
Ministry
Bauhaus
Consumer Electronics
Third Tier (21-30)
Nico
The Velvet Underground
Yes
Manic Street Preachers
Wire
Pink Floyd
David Bowie
Aphex Twin
The Residents
Keane
Top 10 Favorite Albums (in no order)
A Kiss in the Dreamhouse (Siouxsie & The Banshees) 1982
The Downward Spiral (Nine Inch Nails) 1994
The Marble Index (Nico) 1968
The Holy Bible (Manic Street Preachers) 1994
Imperium (Current 93) 1987
Horse Rotorvator (Coil) 1986
Dead Can Dance (Dead Can Dance) 1984
Tusk (Fleetwood Mac) 1979
A Bell Is A Cup... (Wire) 1988
Selected Ambient Works 85-92 (Aphex Twin) 1992
Top 10 Favorite Fiction Writers (in no order)
H.P. Lovecraft
J.-K. Huysmans
Stephen R. Donaldson
Dennis Cooper
Bret Easton Ellis
Carson McCullers
William S. Burroughs
J.G. Ballard
Yukio Mishima
Thomas Ligotti
Second Tier (11-20)
Grant Morrison
Thomas Pynchon
Denis Johnson
John Bellairs
Lewis Carroll
Clark Ashton Smith
Samuel R. Delany
Arthur Machen
Jean Lorrain
Cormac McCarthy
Top 10 Favorite Novels (in no order)
La-bas (J.-K. Huysmans)
Guide (Dennis Cooper)
American Psycho (Bret Eason Ellis)
Sea of Fertility (Yukio Mishima)
This Day All Gods Die (Stephen R. Donaldson)
Blood Meridian (Cormac McCarthy)
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland/Through the Looking-Glass (Lewis Carroll)
The Heart Is A Lonely Hunter (Carson McCullers)
The Place of Dead Roads (William S. Burroughs)
Dhalgren (Samuel R. Delany)
Top 10 Favorite TV Shows (in no order)
Friends
Game of Thrones
Seinfeld
Frasier
Twin Peaks
The Vicar of Dibley
True Detective (season 1 only)
Saved By The Bell (original series)
Family Matters
Blackadder
Second Tier (11-20)
How I Met Your Mother
The Wonder Years
Father Ted
Fawlty Towers
Hannibal
Monk
Mr. Bean
Zorro (1990-1993 series)
Death Note (anime)
Batman: The Animated Series
Top Ten Favorite Movies (in no order)
Reality Bites (1994)
Jackie Brown (1997)
The Royal Tenenbaums (2001)
Patriot Games (1992)
Barton Fink (1991)
Ghost World (2001)
I Shot Andy Warhol (1996)
Star Wars: Return Of The Jedi (1983)
Les Miserables (2012)
A Clockwork Orange (1971)
Top 10 Favorite Video/Computer Games (in no order)
Deus Ex (2000)
Thief Gold (1999)
System Shock 2 (1999)
Doom (1993)
Final Fantasy VI (1994)
Vampire: The Masquerade: Bloodlines (2004)
Sid Meier's Civilization VI (2016)
Elder Scrolls: Skyrim (2011)
Perfect Tides (2022) added 5-20-22
Shenmue (whole series)
Misc. Favorites
Favorite
color(s): blue, black, mauve
Favorite number(s): 28, 88 (tie)
Favorite holiday: Christmas (2nd place: Halloween)
Favorite animal: cat
Favorite bird: crow
Favorite sea creature: sharks (especially Great White Sharks and the Hammerhead
shark)
Favorite stuffed animal growing up: Shark Puppet
Favorite food: Campbell's Chicken Noodle Soup + rice
Favorite body part: the eye
Favorite card game: Hearts
Favorite board game: Clue
Favorite Clue character: Mrs. Peacock
Favorite city: Providence, Rhode Island
Favorite planet: Saturn
Favorite Zodiac sign: Gemini
Favorite subculture: Goth
Favorite artist: Andy Warhol
Favorite movie director: Quentin Tarantino, Wes Anderson (tie)
Favorite living actor: Sean Bean
Favorite living actress: Winona Ryder
Favorite comic strip(s):, Doonesbury (1st), Calvin & Hobbes (2nd)
Favorite Game of Thrones character: Qyburn
Favorite
DOOM levels: E2M4 (Deimos Lab), E3M4 (House of Pain), E3M7 (Limbo)
Favorite
sport: Basketball
Favorite basketball player: John Stockton
Favorite Beatles song(s): Nowhere Man, Paperback Writer (tie)
Favorite electronic music program: Voyetra Digital Orchestrator
Favorite architectural style: Brutalism
Favorite art movement(s): Surrealism, Symbolist, Pop
Favorite carnivorous plant: Nepenthes lowii
Favorite comic book superhero: Batman
Favorite Batman villain(s): Dr. Simon Hurt, The Scarecrow, Poison Ivy, The Mad
Hatter
Favorite comic book writer: Grant Morrison (2nd place: Alan Moore)
Favorite science fiction book series: The Gap Cycle (Stephen R.
Donaldson)
Favorite movie monster: Godzilla
Favorite Doom monster: Cacodemon
Favorite Broadway musical: Les Miserables
Favorite Shakespeare play: Macbeth
Favorite Star Wars character: Momaw Nadon
Favorite Mario Kart racer: Toad
Favorite Warhol Superstar: Edie Sedgwick
Favorite old school Hollywood star: Audrey Hepburn
Favorite Hogwarts House: Slytherin
Favorite Harry Potter character: Luna Lovegood
Favorite Ninja Turtle: Leonardo
Favorite Disney Villain: Scar (The Lion King)
Favorite horror writer: H.P. Lovecraft, Thomas Ligotti (a close second)
Favorite Cthulhu Mythos monster: Cthulhu
Favorite book(s) of the Bible: Revelations, Ecclesiastes (tie)
Favorite Egyptian deity: Bast
Favorite occultist: Kenneth Grant
Favorite Ancient culture: Ancient Egypt
Favorite Historical Time Period: The Middle Ages
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