Gavin, music, old houses, art in most any form, ghost stories, reading, people watching, hanging out with friends & family, perfume blogs, dive bars, the smell of old books, interior design, going to the pumpkin patch,songs with whistling in them, browsing through antique stores, religious iconography, peonies, the Hollywood Cemetery, beauty products, circus lore, pirates, going on nature walks with Gavin, fortune tellers, little old ladies with hats & gloves & rouge on, astrology, watching old movies on rainy days,rainy days in general, the smell of gardenias, singing in my car when no one is watching, outdoor markets, gypsies & tinkers, painting pictures on the wall in the backyard, gardening, going on drives, flower stands, daydreaming
Led Zeppelin, The Rolling Stones, Bobs Dylan & Marley, David Bowie,Janis Joplin, Etta James, Ella Fitzgerald, Rosemary Clooney,Billie Holiday,Marilyn Monroe,Kay Starr, Peggy Lee, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash,Dusty Springfield, Brenton Wood, Frank Sinatra,Blondie, Nouvelle Vague, Morrissey,Mazzy Star, Regina Spektor, Jeff Buckley, Guns N Roses,The Beatles, The Cure, The Beastie Boys, Elvis' Presley & Costello, The Pogues, The Pixies, Social Distortion, The Fugees, De La Soul, Jenny Lewis, Amy Winehouse, The Fratellis, Heartless Bastards...lots lots more
Amelie, The Philadelphia Story, To Kill a Mockingbird, Whatever Happened to Baby Jane?, Neverending Story, Cabaret, Freaks, The Night of the Hunter, Goodfellas, Edward Norton movies,Johnny Depp movies, The Professional, Zoolander,movies by Wes Anderson or Christopher Guest, Office Space, Elf, Big Fish, The City of Lost Children, Labyrinth, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, Goonies, Heathers, Breakfast Club,lots of classics & old musicals.
I am changing this to authors: Charles Bukowski, Herman Hesse, Jack Kerouac, Dorothy Parker, Harper Lee, Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Nick Hornby, Stephen Fry, David Sedaris, Tom Perrotta, Alex Shakar, Ray Bradbury, Neil Gaiman, James Blaylock, Tim Powers, & Philip K. Dick