music (listening, playing, composing [examples on Vox]), books (reading, writing), programming, communication, violin, electric violin (4, 5, 6, 7 strings, fretted and fretless), viola, violatta, violoncello, 'cellone, contrabass, electric bass (4, 5, 6, 7 strings, fretted and fretless [you can listen if you like]), piano, bowed piano, late night walks, arithmomachia, metromachia, ouranomachia, sohbet, allotriotheism, apanthropy, hadeharia, khalwa, pathocryptia, shatahat, silence, siticines, tintinnabuli, ugaritic, hebrew, aramaic, latin, greek, etruscan, coptic, demotic, vindemiatrix, esoteric programming languages, yam-nahar, psychiatric typology, musical thanatology, nonce instruments, biosophy, blavod, weird fiction, speculative fiction, some sci-fi, some fantasy, callipygophilia, chasmophily, mythopoesis, allotriotheophoresis, experimental theology, theopoesis, cryptozoia, logodaedaly, logolepsy, astronomy, cosmology, physics, mathematics, arithmophilia, arithmology, complexity, strange attractors, melancholy, metromachia, agamy, cosmopoesis, autophasmography, dauerschlafs, dolorifuges, alloglossia, hecceity, hieromachy, arbitrealities, antiquity, lypophrenia

π, The Dark Backward, Jude, The Dark Crystal, The Addiction, Werckmeister harmóniák

House, M.D., American Gothic

(Now vaguely categorized, though still in no particular order:)

Composers: arvo pärt, palestrina, saint-saens, giuseppe tartini, luigi boccherini, grigori fedorovich l'vovsky, modest petrovich mussorgsky, chopin, halvor haug, schubert, zbigniew preisner, jocelyn pook, j.s. bach, (some) allan pettersson, karl yul'evich davidov, etc.

Performers: paul hillier, alfred brendel, sviatoslav richter, arthur rubinstein, mstislav rostropovich, hélène grimaud, julie albers.
ditto, on myspace: jennifer heilig, muriel chemin, christine wu.

bands/artists: mark wood, jonas hellborg, queen adreena, the darkest of the hillside thickets, apocalyptica, haley bonar, mark o'connor, flogging molly, division of laura lee, tom waits, the pogues, keren ann, the decemberists, the tiny, collection d'arnell~andrea, béla fleck, dead kennedys, asha mevlana, nick cave, ministry, pj, qntal, sephiroth, ulf söderberg, the dirty three, bauhaus, human form, lps, current 93, nurse with wound, coil, coph nia, lustmord, tertium non data, svasti-ayanam, howlin' wolf, son house, mushroomhead, meshuggah, muddy waters, tool, the kills, the (original) misfits, ambient temple of imagination, leonard cohen, cowboy junkies, nina nastasia, nina simone.
ditto, on myspace: Regina Spektor, Azam Ali, eric mcfadden trio, laura brino, timbre, jamie robb, bess rogers, jenny owen youngs, the robot explosion.

See also: my last.fm profile.

den sidste messias, om det tragiske, the dosadi experiment, foucault's pendulum, also sprach zarathustra, the tsalal, the book of disquiet, a educação do estóico, duino elegies, others.

pessoa, pickover, ligotti, lovecraft, robert aickman, blackwood, nietzsche, schopenhauer, hesse, bernardo soares, jorge luis borges, peter wessel zapffe, brecht, gene wolfe, rainer maria rilke, giordano bruno, crowley, swinburne, theo gustav, eco, and rather a lot of others.

For more on books and authors, see also my LibraryThing profile.

zdzislaw beksinski, munch, michelangelo, dürer, francisco josé goya y lucientes, jk potter, jean-léon gérôme, laura lee, reubens, ruysch, barlowe, dieter s. ('de es') schwertberger (mostly 90s and earlier material)