Favourite Visual Artist
Friedrich, Kittelsen, Alan Lee, Delville, Moreau, Doré, Bilibin, Moran, Böcklin, Bernini, Beardsley, Turner, ...
Favourite Movies
Too many. Gothic, fantasy, horrors, war&military, kung-fu, wuxia, psychedelic, historical dramas (esp. East Asian ones)... The list would be too long.
Favourite TV Shows
Lexx, Star Trek: TNG, Firefly, Yes, (Prime) Minister, Poirot, Robin of Sherwood, 'Allo, 'Allo!, Black Books, Doctor Who, Bi xue jian 2007, The Four, Da Qin Zhi Dao, and so on...
Favourite 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...
Favourite Books
Way too many to even attempt compiling a list.
Favourite 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, ... ..
Favourite 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, ...