Biomechanical Misanthrope: John Sloane

General

Ancient history - the history of feudalism in the East, collecting DVDs and CDs, experimental fiction, gangster/yakuza/crime cinema, the works of Goichi Suda (particularly The Silver Case, Killer7 and No More Heroes), Metal Gear Solid, Silent Hill, Resident Evil, Alan Wake, Yakuza/Like a Dragon, F.E.A.R., Kane & Lynch, Half-Life, SOULSBORNE (my favourites being Sekrio and the original Dark Souls), ASOIAF, arthropods, manga by Tsutomu Nihei and Naoki Urasawa.

Music

Adrianne Lenker, Weyes Blood, Björk, Cocteau Twins, Emerson Lake & Palmer, Crosby Stills Nash & Young, Neil Young's independent work, Phil Ochs, Gram Parsons, The Band (as in Rick Danko's The Band), The Doors, King Crimson, Billy Joel, Pete Seeger, Warren Zevon, Lizzy Mercier Descloux, Primus, Butthole Surfers, Ween, Slint, Veruca Salt, Hole, Babes In Toyland, Tripping Daisy, Acid Bath, Electric Wizard, Lil Ugly Mane, Death Grips, Conway the Machine.

Movies

By director: Takeshi Kitano (Sonatine and Boiling Point), Johnnie To Kei-Fung, Michael Mann, Nicolas Winding Refn, John Carpenter (Prince of Darkness and Escape from New York), William Friedkin, Sogo Ishii, Takashi Ishii (Gonin and Black Angel 2), Hong Sang-soo, Kiyoshi Kurosawa (Cure), Akira Kurosawa, Brian De Palma, Abel Ferrara, Martin Scorsese (The Irishman), David Lynch (Inland Empire), Takashi Miike, Ryan Trecartin, Philippe Grandrieux, Todd Solondz, Nobuhiko Obayashi, Sion Sono, David Cronenberg, Ingmar Bergman, James Benning, Stan Brakhage, John Waters, Richard Linklater, Satoshi Kon, Andrei Tarkovsky, Shinya Tsukamoto (Tetsuo: the Iron Man), Kim Jee-woon, Rainer Werner Fassbinder (Berlin Alexanderplatz being my favourite of his even though it's a miniseries), Apachitpong Weerasethakul, various others.

Television

Not especially into television, but I have enjoyed Breaking Bad and Better Call Saul, The Sopranos (seasons 4-6 are practically flawless), The Wire, Six Feet Under, The Shield, Mindhunter, the anime adaptations of Monster and JoJo's Bizarre Adventure, Deadwood, Twin Peaks (The Return in particular is excellent), and Mad Men.

Books

George R. R. Martin's A Song of Ice and Fire (A Feast for Crows being my favourite in the series), Steven Erikson's Malazan Book of the Fallen, Tolkien's Middle-Earth series (haven't read the Silmarillion yet), Finnegans Wake, Romance of the Three Kingdoms, The Mabignogion, The Epic of Gilgamesh, Moderan, anything by Philip K. Dick and Stanisław Lem, Dune, Butcher's Crossing and Stoner, Don Quixote, Moby-Dick, The Brothers Karamazov, Berserk, 20th Century Boys and Billy Bat, JoJo's Bizarre Adventure (Steel Ball Run and JoJolion are the best), Shōgun, Berlin Alexanderplatz, Naked Lunch, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, various others.

Heroes

Lapulapu.