from childhood's hour i have not been as others were; i have not seen as others saw; i could not bring my passions from a common spring. from the same source i have not taken my sorrow; i could not awaken my heart to joy at the same tone; and all i loved, i loved alone. then- in my childhood, in the dawn of a most stormy life- was drawn from every depth of good and ill the mystery which binds me still: from the torrent, or the fountain, from the red cliff of the mountain, from the sun that round me rolled in its autumn tint of gold, from the lightning in the sky as it passed me flying by, from the thunder and the storm, and the cloud that took the form (when the rest of heaven was blue) of a demon in my view..

music.. books.. darkness.. vampires.. human anathomy.. etc.. etc..

alternative rock, glam rock, gothic rock, metal, blues, jazz, darkwave.. charon, sentenced, him, entwine, for my pain, to/die/for, sham rain, sonata arctica, katatonia, within temptation, nightwish, tristania, kotipelto, therion, the gathering, soulrelic, sirenia, beseech, lacuna coil, silentium, poisonblack, paradise lost, my dying bride, pain of salvation, nightfall, anathema, zwan, 30 seconds to mars, in flames, insomnium, lacrimosa, novembre, theatre of tragedy, xandria, diary of dreams, clan of xymox, cocorosie, beth orton, black box recorder, david bowie, christian death, blutengel, u2, tricky, the cure, the darkness, wig wam, jj 72, the cult, smashing pumpkins, skunk anansie, sister machine gun, silverchair, notwist, tool, shun, ben harper, jeff buckley, nick cave, pj harvey, bjork, jay jay johanson, bush, neutral milk hotel, death cab for cutie, bloc party, pulp, manic street preachers, richard ashcroft, the verve, queen, camera obscura, portishead, massive attack, lamb, baxter, radiohead, pixies, pink floyd, deep purple, the doors, led zeppelin, nazareth, rainbow, msg, blue oyster cult, camel, eloy, uriah heep, jethro tull, chicago, dave matthews band, many more..

velvet goldmine, lost highway, fight club, a clockwork orange, gia, blue velvet, full metal jacket, lock stock and two smokin' barrels", the usual suspects, natural born killers, reservoir dogs, american history x, trainspotting, requiem for a dream, videodrome, immortel ad vitam, nightmare before christmas, corpse bride, one flew over the cuckoos nest, pulp fiction, twelve monkeys, leon, scarface, taxi driver, leaving las vegas, shelley's frankenstein, flatliners, sleepers, scent of a woman, face/off, arizona dream, snatch, shining, sliding doors, hable con ella, crash, pillow book, million dollar hotel, donnie darko, dracula 2000, queen of the damned, underworld, the man who wasn't there, trois couleurs: bleu, fargo, 21 grams, original sin, dead poets society, 13th floor, dancer in the dark, crouching tiger hidden dragon, girl interrupted, moulin rouge, the rules of attraction, etc..

is a dead vision..

frank herbert's Dune Series, Anne Rice's Vampire Chronicles, forgotten realm series, anita blake: vampire hunter series, edgar ellan poe books, etc