Film and everything that goes along with it, animals, zombies, medical curiosities, deformities, antique dentistry, prosthetic limbs, leg braces, insane asylums, bottled specimens, museums, seances, sea creatures, all cephalopods, tentacles, crippled Victorian children, cemeteries, secret passages, shipwrecks, hauntings, folklore, abandoned Victorian houses (preferably with secret rooms), striped stockings, glass domes, parlours, meat cleavers, freaks, sideshows, wax anatomy, old anatomy drawings, birds, old film camera's & projectors, stereoviewers, Alice in Wonderland, the Masons, WWII, history of diseases, cannabalism, exorcisms, vampires, werewolves, the Salem witch trials, vintage photo's, post-mortems, religious cults, funerary, the smell of old books, European social politics circa eons ago, empty movie theaters, drive-in movies (are they all gone?), heavy rain, menacing overcast skies, loud thunder, traveling, obsessive spelling, words, reading, wishful thinking, super 8, vintage toys, the 1930's-1950's, absurdist humor, sarcasm, dry wit, flea markets, Vespa's, classic Mini's, boys with shaved heads, pondering the vastness of the universe, art (Ryden, Garcia, Audrey Kawasaki, Trevor Brown, Helnwein, Ray Caesar, Colette Calascione, Renee, the self-deprecating but always brilliant Bone), birthday cake, and Splenda commercials
I'd like to meet:
WHEN I'M DEAD: my ancestors so I can question them as to why they felt the need to pass on these genetic landmines to me, Lizzie Borden, Elizabeth Bathory, Edgar Allan Poe, Tokyo Rose, MacArthur & Patton, Howard Carter, Grimm Brothers, Victorian era circus freaks, participants in Victorian era seances, original werewolf & vampire hunters, Henry the VIII's six wives - especially Anne Boleyn, nuns from the 14th century, artists & poets from the 18th century, grave robbers from any century (pre 20th), passengers on the Titanic (yes, they are all now dead). WHILE I'M ALIVE: Dario Argento, Floria Sigismondi, obsessive MST3K fans, people who love film and aren't assholes about it, anyone who can make me laugh, smart people who enjoy intelligent conversation, someone who has the skills to keep my weird and interesting plants alive.
Music:
New Order, The Cure, Skinny Puppy, Rob Zombie, Bauhaus, Joy Division, Kate Bush, Dead Kennedy's, The Exploited, Discharge, Depeche Mode, Sisters of Mercy, David Bowie, Nick Cave, Jesus & Mary Chain, Tones on Tail, Yann Tiersen, The Pixies, The Cramps, Rockabilly, Oi!, NIN, most anything from the 80's and anything punk. Old school thrash & metal.
Movies:
Dead Alive, Texas Chainsaw Massacre, Opera, Suspiria, all Dario Argento & Peter Jackson for god's sake, ANYTHING Jeunet, Guillermo Del Toro, Fulci, Timmy B., Mr. Romero, The Brothers Quay, Christopher Guest, Wes Anderson, Fincher, Quadrophenia, Pretty in Pink, Trainspotting, obscure foreign film I have to search out (it's more rewarding to watch if you have to chase it down...even if it ends up sucking), documentaries that don't have to force their point and don't create soundtracks with Casio pre-recorded music beats, Return of the Living Dead, Zombie, Predator, Alien(s), Indiana Jones, Tale of Two Sisters, Battle Royale, Xanadu, City of Lost Children, Amelie, Delicatessen, Seven, Waiting for Guffman, Jason & the Argonauts, Romper Stomper, Donnie Darko, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Hunger, Rushmore, Hedwig, The Changeling, Evil Dead, Hellraiser, The Wicker Man, Elephant Man, Devil's Backbone, OldBoy, Audition, Memento, Eternal Sunshine..., Paradise Lost, this list will never end I love movies too much and if it has immense amounts of disgusting gore and wild dismembering action I'm sure I love it and if it has a zombie in it I know I love it.
Television:
MST3K (Best. Show. Ever. Period.), Arrested Development, Cold Case Files, First 48, Reno 911!, Cops, 24, Millennium, Wonderfalls, The Office (both), Criminal Intent, Family Guy, Project Runway, Curb Your Enthusiasm, X-Files, and of course, I Love Lucy. I love watching baseball, hockey, and soccer...prefer them in person, but never have the time it seems.
Books:
I have too many favorite authors & books, I'll list a few: Geek Love, Wicked, Stiff, Mindhunter, Lemony Snicket series, A Massive Swelling, A Morning's Work, Encyclopaedia Anatomica, Specimen Tank, Devil in Massachusetts, travel books (anywhere but here people), anything by Edward Gorey & Roald Dahl, Banana Yoshimoto, Pagan Kennedy, books on WWII, religion, history, archaeology or sea creatures
Heroes:
My parents, people who spend their time & money helping/rescuing animals, people who help change the world in small ways who don't seek recognition or praise...they just do it because they can, Thelma Schoonmaker, any women who succeed in film
