Reeling and Writhing, of course, to begin with, and then the different branches of arithmetic -- Ambition, Distraction, Uglification, and Derision.
Alice in Wonderland
Antiques - Esp. 1920's boudoir lamps, and Victorian fainting couches, and smelly old books, but definitely not old cribs. Creepy
Arrrrrt; Rackham, Waterhouse, Leighton, Erte, Klimt, Harry Clarke, Kay Nielsen, Kalmakoff, Louis Icart
Art Deco
Asian Horror
Baking cupcakes
Bats
Bergman, Max Von Sydow, and Liv Ullmann
Black cats
Burns and Allen
Busby Berkley Musicals
Carousels
Champagne
Chanson and Ye-Ye
Cheap thrift stores
Cherry blossoms
Children's books
Cobble-stone streets (in heels)
Cooking vegan feasts
Czechoslovakian sex trees
Damask
Dressing up - and playing dress-up
Edith Head and Adrian gowns
Existentialism
Fairy tales
Fred and Ginger
French and Czech New Wave
Gaudi
Geisha
Glamour
Green tea
Hurrell
Laughing till I cry
Lighthouses
Lillypads
That little nook...
Marilyn Monroe
Movies (making and watching)
Mythical creatures - faeries, elves, nymphs, sirens, mermaids...
Nautical crap
Old book smell
Red Lipstick
Romantic Poets - Shelley, Keats, Yeats, Tennyson, Byron
Sea monsters, and other creatures
Silliness
Spats
the Strange and esoteric
Top hats and tails
Vintage fashion
Wandering
Whimsy
the Zsa Zsa Zsu
Music:
Plus: The Clash, Serge Gainsbourg, Interpol, X...
Movies:
Godard and Bergman mostly, plus all things whimsical and 1930's screwball comedies (especially if they have Cary Grant Kate Hepburn in them)
Alice's Adventure's in Wonderland (1972)
Alice in Wonderland
Alphaville (Godard)
Amelie - Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amélie Poulain
Arsenic and Old Lace
Audition (Takashi Miike)
Auntie Mame (1958)
The Awful Truth
Battle Royale
Beauty and the Beast - La belle et la bête (Cocteau)
Black Sunday - La maschera del demonio (Mario Bava)
Blade Runner
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Brick
Bringing Up Baby
Carefree
Casablanca
Casanova (Fellini)
Cinderella: Rodgers & Hammerstein's
Citizen Kane
The City of Lost Children - La cité des enfants perdus
A Clockwork Orange
Cry-Baby
Dagon
Daisies - "Sedmikrasky"
Dinner at Eight
Don't Bother to Knock
Double Indemnity
Dr. Strangelove
Dracula (1931)
Ed Wood
Edward Scissorhands
Emmet Otter's Jug Band Christmas (Jim Henson)
Eraserhead
The Evil Dead
The Exorcist
Fanny and Alexander (Bergman)
Freaks
From Here to Eternity
Funny Face
The Gay Divorcee
Gentlemen Prefer Blondes
Gilda
Grease
The Great Race
Guys and Dolls
Halloween
Harold and Maude
His Girl Friday
Holiday Inn
Hour of the Wolf - "Vargtimmen" (Bergman)
How to Marry a Millionaire
I Confess (Hitchcock)
I Married a Witch
It's a Wonderful Life
Labyrinth
The Lady from Shanghai
Libeled Lady
The Little Mermaid
Lolita (Kubrick)
The Lost Boys
Mary Poppins
Metropolis
The Misfits
Monkey Business (1952)
My Fair Lady
My Favorite Wife
My Life to Live - "Vivre sa vie: Film en douze tableaux" (Godard)
My Man Godfrey
My Own Private Idaho
Naked Lunch
Niagara
The Nightmare Before Christmas
North by Northwest
Notorious (Hitchcock)
On the Waterfront
Pandora's Box (1929)
Persona (Bergman)
Peter Pan (1953)
The Phantom of the Opera (1925)
Phantom of the Paradise
The Philadelphia Story
Pierrot Le Fou
the Pippi Longstocking movies
The Postman Always Rings Twice
The Producers (1968)
Psycho (1960)
Rear Window
Return to OZ
Rosemary's Baby
The Saddest Music in the World
Say Anything
Scream
The Secret Life of Walter Mitty
The Seventh Seal - "Det Sjunde inseglet" (Bergman)
Shall We Dance
The Shining
Sleeping Beauty
Sleepy Hollow
Smiles of a Summer Night - "Sommarnattens leende" (Bergman)
Some Like It Hot
Spirited Away
Stand by Me
Suspiria (Dario Argento)
Swing Time
Theodora Goes Wild
The Thin Man
The Third Man
Through a Glass Darkly - "SÃ¥som i en spegel" (Bergman)
To Catch a Thief
To Have and Have Not
Top Hat
Touch of Evil
True Romance
Valerie and Her Week of Wonders - "Valerie a týden divu"
Weekend
Wild at Heart
Willy Wonka & the Chocolate Factory (1971)
A Woman Is a Woman - "Une Femme est Une Femme" (Godard)
What's New Pussycat?
Young Frankenstein
Etc...
Television:
Faerie Tale Theatre, Little Britain, the Daily show, Shin Chan, the Addams Family, The Munsters, Bewitched, I Dream of Jeannie, Planet Earth
Books:
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Through the Looking Glass, Gracie; a Love Story by George Burns, Poe, Shelley, Keats, Tennyson, Byron, Yeats, Lovecraft, Wicked, Memoirs of a Geisha, The Holographic Universe, the Meloncholy Death of Oyster Boy..., Tracy and Hepburn (an Intimate Memoir), The Prophet, dream dictionaries, language dictionaries, old Hollywood bios.
Heroes:
Liv Ullmann, Anna Karina, Rosalind Russell, Gracie Allen, Carole Lombard, Bibi Andersson, Ginger Rogers, Katherine Hepburn, Myrna Loy, Barbara Stanwyck, Grace Kelly, Marilyn Monroe, Shelley Duvall, Peter Sellers, Greta Garbo...
