Shoes as shiny as beetles backs, cuddling, swimming in the sea in the bb, Chueca, abandoned hospitals and psychiatric facilities, Venezia, tormenting Italians in Italian, corsets and crinolines, crab fishing in Whitby, The knights Templar, Lighthouses and their keepers, Spiders, train rides, Root beer floats, Polar bears, laughing till I almost have an accident on the parquet, Honeysuckle, Benvenuto Cellini, polytheism, the desert, designing and making clothes, tea, The accordion, Costuming, masquerades, Wharram Percy, Saint Sebastian, animal welfare, knitting, séances, Robin Hood's Bay, Hinduism - Ganesha, Laksmi, Durga, Kali.... Gin, Egon Scheile, rainy days, asking questions, rock climbing, Dora Carrington, Lytton Strachey, witchcraft, antique medical equipment, York, sensual gents, sensual ladies, backgammon, Solitude, vampires, Vikings, snoozing in the afternoon, woodlands, bicycles, kissing, dressing up, millinery, Hong Kong, Ashtanga Yoga, Highwaymen, decadence and decadents, Recycling old jewelry, Moto GP, Eugene Hutz: The man, The music, The mustache; Grey Gardens, tender fauns, rampant satyrs, driving with my love, Trapeze and aerial arts, past lives, ghosts, cloud spotting, The Pendle Witches, Daniel, themed picnics and film nights in bed, Victorian underworld, road trips across the States, Route 66, wonton noodle soup, bacchanalia in bathtubs, photograph albums, Yorkshire - my home, cycling under the influence, Murano glass, sea-horses, my family and my brilliant nephew, such good conversation that we lose track of time and waiters have to kick us out of restaurants, gypsy punk debauchery, dreaming of running away with the circus, love, life, living, You.
Strapping Vikings, polyglots, trapeze artists, other costume designers, ladies and gents of a seemingly chaste demeanour disguising all manner of iniquities, Rufus Wainwright.
Ah yes, let's see, everything I enjoy tormenting the neighbors with: dEUS, Magnus, Imogen Heap, Rufus Wainwright, The Police, The Raconteurs, The Waterboys, Matisyahu, Joni Mitchell, Soulwax, Georgie Fame and The Blue Flames, Vive la Fete, Joan as Policewoman, Nick Cave and the Bad seeds, Kingmaker, Deathcab for cutie, The Smiths, Morrisey, The Postal Service, Husker Du, Blondie, The Duke Spirit, Jeff Buckley, Jane's Addiction, Perfect Circle, Elliot Smith, Delibes, Johnny Cash, The Senseless Things, Mega City 4, Zita Swoon, Frou Frou, Tonino Carotone, Evil Superstars, Kate Bush, Magnus, Eastern Conference Champions, The Pixies, Billy Holiday, 99 Posse, Antony and The Johnsons, Gotye, Pavement, Jovanotti, Marilyn Manson, Jelly Roll Morton, Josh Pyke, Belly, Tiromancino, Augie March, Noir Desir, Carmen Consoli, Paco de Lucia, Mudhoney, Gotan Project, The Breeders, Bright Eyes, My Bloody Valentine, John Mayer, 10,000 Maniacs, Natalie Merchant, Scott Matthew, Gogol Bordello, Throwing Muses, Nick Drake, Tool, A Perfect Circle, Belle and Sebastian, PJ Harvey, Augie March, Francesco De Gregori, Interpol, Smokey Robinson, The Shins, Dead Can Dance, Diana Ross and The Supremes, Phoenix, Los Tribalistas, The Cure, Martha Wainwright, Björk, Erik Satie, Neil Finn, Yann Tierson, Manu Chao, NIN, Yo La Tengo, Amy Winehouse, Eagles of Death Metal, Feist, Broken Social Scene, Giuliano Palma and The Bluebeats, Jonatha Brooke
Gogol Bordello "American Wedding"
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Drowning by numbers, Betty Blue, Local Hero, Lucia y el sexo, every film made by Pedro Almodovar, Jaws, Wings of Desire, Carrington, Garden State, From Hell, Withnail and I, Trois Coleurs, Y Tu Mama tambien, Run Lola Run, Leon, Rosencrantz and Guildenstern are dead, Le Fate Ignorante, The Princess and The Warrior, La Ardilla roja, every film made by Wong Kar Wai ever, Nikita, Anywhere the Wind Blows, Amelie, Death in Venice, The Cremaster Cycle, Close my eyes, Le Grand Bleu, Science of Sleep, Plunkett and Maclean, Blood tea and Red string, Bladerunner, Malena, The Lion, Grey Gardens, The Witch and The Wardrobe (animated version), Pointbreak, Amadeus, Tom & Viv, El Laberinto del Fauno, The Hours, Black Cat White Cat, Underground, Tristan & Isolde, Maurice, Brimstone & Treacle, Don't look now, The Dreamers, Pretty in Pink, Dangerous Liaisons, Clerks, Eternal Sunshine of a Spotless mind, A Room with a View, Wings of a Dove, Inconscientes, Farinelli, Nosferatu, The Brotherhood of the wolf, Breakfast at Tiffany's, The Fifth Element, Highlander, La femme Nikita, Parenthood, Splash, Caché, Vincent & Theo, Shortbus, The Painted Veil.......
No, no idiot's lantern in my house, thank you.
Anaïs Nin, Simon Armitage, John Fowles, Thomas Hardy, El Alquemista - Paulo Coelho, Wuthering heights - Emily Bronte, The Vampire chronicles by Anne Rice - particularly The Vampire Armand, A Cry to Heaven, The Bell Jar, Ariel - Sylvia Plath, The Master and Margarita - Mikhail Bulgakov, Tiziano Terzani, Perfume- Patrick Suskind, Haruki Murakami, Il Paese della Meraviglia - Giuseppe Culicchia, Le Città Invisibili - Italo calvino, Sarah Waters, Iris Murdoch, Virginia Woolfe, Atonement - Ian Mckewen, JD Salinger, Angela Carter, Jane Austin, Truman Capote, Marguerite Yourcenar, Alina Reyes, Sarah Dunant, Leo Tolstoy, Regeneration - Pat Barker, His Dark Materials - Philip Pullman, The Russian Debutante's Handbook - Gary Shteyngart, La Bella Figura - Beppe Severgnini, The Unbearable Lightness of Being - Milan Kundera, The Book of Life - J. Krishnamurti, The Cloud-spotter's Guide - Gavin Pretor-Pinney, My Life - Benvenuto Cellini, The Alienist - Caleb Carr, Everything is Illuminated - Jonathan Safran Foer, Viking - Tim Severin, Boudica - Manda Scott, The Lion, The Witch & The Wardrobe - C.S.Lewis, Red Dust - Ma Jian, Carrington: A Life - Gretchen Holbrook Gerzina, Oscar & Lucinda - Peter Carey, The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy, Enchanted April - Elizabeth Von Arnim, Ripening Seed - Collette, Jonathan Livingstone Seagull - Richard Bach, The Little Prince - Antoine De Saint- Exupery, Lady Chatterley's Lover - D.H Lawrence, Seta - Alessandro Barricco, Hideous Kinky - Esther Freud, Beloved - Toni Morrison, Oranges are not the only fruit, Written on the body - Jeanette Winterson, Wind in the Willows - Kenneth Graham, Harry Potter!!
Anaïs Nin, Tom Barman, Valentino Rossi, Bernard Black