Georgia

I'd like to meet:

Robert Mitchum, Orson Welles, Dick Cavet, Lon Chaney, Dorothy Parker, Robert Benchley, H. Spencer Ashbee, Rimbaud, Baudelaire, The Nicholas Brothers, Roman Emperor Claudius, Aleister Crowley, Naomi Tani...and my great grandmother.

Music:

Leonard Cohen, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Nina Simone, Marianne Faithful, The Birthday Party, Raging Slab, Howard Fishman, Hank Williams (Sr.), Kurt Weill's "The Threepenny Opera", Mozart's "Requiem" and "Don Giovanni", Mascagni's "Cavalleria Rusticana", Hank3, Iggy Pop, Wayne Hancock, Ennio Moriconne....

Movies:

The Penalty, Regeneration, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Man Who Laughs (and other German expressionist silent films, Othello (Orson Welles), Once Upon a Time in the West, Lion in Winter, Sam Peckinpah westerns (The Wild Bunch!!!), most Lewis Milestone films, Pre-Code womans weepers (Baby Face, Red Dust, RedHeaded Woman, Lily Thomas, et al), Grade A and B Noir: Detour, Nightmare Alley, The Glass Key, Murder My Sweet, Naked City and OUT OF THE PAST!! ("Build my Gallows high, baby...")Also anything with Ida Lupino... "Deep Valley," "Roadhouse (no not the hysterical Patrick Swayze film)," and "The Hard Way"

Television:

I Claudius, BBC/PBS Dracula w/ Louis Jordan, Twin Peaks, Moral Orel, Soap, Fawlty Towers, Batman, Green Hornet

Books:

Vanity Fair, Thackerey; The Three Musketeers and The Count of Monte Cristo, Dumas; Moll Flanders; The Story of the Eye, Bataille; currently reading: My Secret Life.

Heroes:

Louise Brooks, Rimbaud, and Julie Newmar as Catwoman

Santa Esmeralda - Don't Let Me Be Misunderstood
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=WrOfBRblGec

I'm lovin on the backup dancers...

Still trying to get it down....