futile intellectualism, painting on newspaper, theory, obscure japanese literature, deconstruction, manipulation, blackmail, jewel thievery, moral ambiguity, defamiliarization, defense mechanisms, Deleuzian incomprehensibility, artifice, being rather selfish, strangers, transport, irony, post-irony, meta-irony, semicolons, ambivalence, substance, style, wit, glitter, decadence, surreality, narcissism, situationism, dislocation, depravity, installation art, ruthlessness, the unconcious as language, vanity, train stations, film, writing, nostalgia, the carnivalesque, bourgeois hysteria, [sub]urban malaise, "pansy british music," films about assasins, critical theory, media studies, cultural studies, new media, digital culture, bad television programming, proustian moments, empty parking lots, cinematic exits, things that are meta, crawfish terror, film theory, walter benjamin, making things [happen], perverting narrativity, mock sensationalism, saying 'cathexis', close readings, barthesian drifting, unmasking sardonic unmaskings, expensive skin-care products, graceful sublimation, life as a teen television drama
Ambassadors from planet Bad-Ass disguised as mere mortals. Spies and assassins and yakuza lackeys. Librarians. Someone who wants to teach me Kendo. People who play scrabble for the words and not the points.
Absolutely, under no circumstances, should you ever message me if you think the rules of spelling and grammar that govern real life do not apply to the internet. I make exceptions for split infinitives.
And I do not want to hear/see your aggressively mediocore musical group. "I don't really like live music. You know, bands. "
David Bowie, The Velvet Underground, Iggy Pop, Television, Bjork, Radiohead, The Blood Brothers, Blur, Suede, Pulp, Massive Attack, The Vogue, Underworld (emerson era), Gackt, Very Bad Pop Music Indeed, mash-ups, Stereo Total, Brian Eno, Lou Reed, Leonard Cohen, Wilco, Morrissey, The Smiths, Roxy Music, Gillian Welch, Cocteau Twins, Pretty Girls Make Graves, Kill Sadie, Old 97s, Portishead, Serge Gainsbourg, Air, Blond Redhead, Cadallaca, The Spells, Nico, Manic Street Preachers, Radio is Happy Noises, The Red Light Sting, T. Rex, Ted Leo & the Pharmacists, soul-destroying Japanese pop music
Safe, Velvet Goldmine, Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust, Dreams, Chunking Express, Ashes of Time, Days of Being Wild, Adolescence Utena, Masculin-Feminin, Mauvais Sang, Red/White/Blue, Ran, Last Life in the Universe
Buffy the Vampire Slayer, Nobuta Wo Produce, Hana Yori Dango, various BBC miniseries about spies
Marcel Proust, Vladimir Nabakov, Haruki Murakami, Ryu Murakami, Bret Easton Ellis, Gustav Flaubert, Andre Gide, Greil Marcus, W. H. Auden, Martin Amis, Jim Carroll, Gerald Malanga, William S. Burroughs, Rick Moody, Evelyn Waugh, Noel Coward
David Bowie, Marcel Proust, Evelyn Waugh, Henry Jenkins, Tim Burners-Lee, Todd Haynes, Wong Kar-Wai, Jarvis Cocker, Arthur Rimbaud, Walter Benjamin, Gilles Deleuze, Joseph Litvak