creating art in as many mediums as possible, travel into the undiscovered, catching films and shows, avant garde dance and odd theater including circus and vaudeville, leafing through record, book, and antique shops, flying kites and playing croquet, picnics with gramophones on boats
collaborators for art, writers, conversationalists, unusual personaes
gothabilly, gothic, 30's-40's swing, big band, ragtime, early blues (especially artists recorded by alan lomax), early/experimental jazz, violin dirge, idm, ska, punk, indie, twee pop, shoegazer, ebm, europop, post-punk nowave, darkwave, ethereal, 60's soul, creole piano blues, 20's-40's italian & french, industrial, experimental, electronic, psychobilly, britpop, moperock, 60's happy pop, sadcore
surreal, stop-motion, live animation, film noir, cult, foreign, historical fiction, independent, comedies, dramas, underground, classic, silent, experimental, sound film
snl, ab fab, twin peaks, the office (UK), sex in the city, kids in the hall, square pegs, monty python, B&W cartoons, inside the actors studio, queer as folk, the l word, freaks & geeks, carnivale, heroes, six feet under, the sopranos, my so called life, a contemplative nun, dexter, vintage black and white commercials/instructional videos
1500-1800's: illustrated children's, tramps of society, autobiographical, odd inventions, poetry books. femme fatales, circus freaks, roald dahl, c.s. lewis, angela carter, hilda doolittle, baudelaire, byron, djuna barnes, sylvia plath, margaret atwood, art/photo books, emma donoghue, tom robbins, francesca lia block, early dynasty chinese literature, ancient egyptian texts, palmistry and phrenology, sartre, kafka, simone de beauvoir, e.e. cummings, dorothy allison, sarah waters, joyce carol oates, jeanette winterson, virginia woolf, dostoyevsky, de prima, proust, alice walker, gaultier, anaiis nin, phillip k. dick