Favorite visual artist C. D. Friedrich, Theodor Kittelsen, Alan Lee, Jean Delville, Gustave Moreau, Gustave Doré, Ivan Bilibin, Thomas Moran, Arnold Böcklin, Bernini, Edmund Dulac, Aubrey Beardsley, J.M.W. Turner, ... Favorite movies Too many. Gothic, fantasy, horrors, war&military, kung-fu, wuxia, psychedelic, historical dramas (esp. East Asian ones)... The list would be too long. Favorite TV shows Lexx, Star Trek: The Next Generation, Stargate SG-1, Firefly, Yes, (Prime) Minister, Poirot, Robin of Sherwood, 'Allo, 'Allo!, Black Books, Big Bang Theory, Sword Stained With Royal Blood 2007, The Four, Return of the Undercover, Qin Empire, and so on... Favorite bands / musical artists Tang Dynasty, Yat-Kha, Deine Lakaien, Sopor Aeternus, Lully, Dead Can Dance, Death in June, Nick Cave, Su Yang, Hanggai, Tengger Cavalry, Depeche Mode, Hilmar Örn Hilmarsson, Jocelyn Pook, Kimmo Pohjonen, Chinese operas (esp. Jingju and Qinqiang), ... Favorite books Way too many to even attempt compiling a list. Favorite writers Poe, Tolkien, Aloysius Bertrand, Lovecraft, Wilde, Huysmans, Le Fanu, SAKI, Bierce, Gu Long, Du Fu, Li Bo, Brothers Grimm, Andersen, Gaiman, Holdstock, Richard Weiner, Ladislav Klíma, E.T.A Hoffmann, ... .. Favorite games Planescape: Torment, Quest for Glory I-V, Fallout 1&2, Baldur's Gate, Prince of Qin, Neverhood Tools of the Trade pencils, inks, watercolour... and my hands Other Interests Art, music, films, books, absinthe, stories and storytelling, dreams, trees, birds, my dogs, all things Chinese, histories and mythologies, ...