grey areas, hotels, afros, cult flicks and trash pics (I ♥ Something Wierd and grindhouse joints), cg renders of the universe, cornbread, ramen, candy theft, rocks, bones and minerals (uvarovite anyone?), anais nin, sex hair, THE SIMS, books of all sorts (sucker for photography books), "alternitive" erotica and happy naked girls, "low brow" art, old school sailor jerry-esc tattoos, artist repaints (such as theponyproject.com), kitsch, unusual jewelery, old scare films, miniatures, burlesque, vaudeville, and carnivals, curiosities, taxidermy, old school scenesters like the Warhol Allstars, watching folks scratch (note: records not asses), hip mommas and painted ladies, accents (british, irish, scottish), middle of the night excursions, prefab and industrial homes, New Orleans architecture, secret languages, putting things together, the world of Chynna Clugston-Major, the view askew-niverse, Sick Onion, crazy things of the japanese sort (like Baby Star Ramen Snack!), photography and lomography, makeup (not just pretty faces, burns and torn flesh will do nicely too), youth/drug/world and pop culture, religion and mythology, CGI, the paranormal, craftyness, the living dead, action figures, graphito, ye old glamour (the LONG way to pretty. worth every minute), Toronto and Baton Rougue (my homes away from home), the whole Absinthe drinking process, Halloween, ripping pages out of magazines for my giant homemade makeup reference book, the 5.50 dvd bin at Walmart, going to Thang Long and the vietnamese market next door for Pocky and Pretz, the photos @ the American Apparel site, mixtapes from Andrew, movies by these few good folk: B. Bertolucci, JL Godard, K. Smith, M. Night, J. Hughs, Russ M., Sofia C., Wes Anderson and my favorite wondertwin directors: Robert and Quentin
I'd like to meet:
Zombies. The worst thing is you'll never know how serious I am.
I'd like YOU to meet the Weekend Update Nanny; Barbara Birmingham.
Music:
Alphabetical Order! ac/dc, air, alice cooper, alien ant farm, amel larrieux, annie lennox, apples in stereo, aqua, bad religion, bauhaus, beth orton, bouncey (beyonce), bill withers, bjork, black sabbath, black rebel motorcycle club, blondie, bluebird, blur, bow wow wow, buffalo tom, cat power, ceasar's palace, chewbacca, chris isaak, cody chenutt, coldplay, common, connie francis, cree summer, crowded house, curtis mayfield, danger mouse, dan the automator, david bowie, deadbolt, death cab for cutie, de la soul, detroit cobras, distroy all monsters, dressy bessy, dr. octagon, eartha kitt, earth wind and fire, echo and the bunnymen, everclear, faster pussycat, fiona apple, foo fighters, frank zappa, frou frou, garbage, gin blossoms, gnarls barkley, goldfinger, gorillaz, grace slick, green day, gwen stefani, handsome boy modeling school, head automatica, heart, helen kane, her space holliday, hole, horrorpops, jane's addiction, janis joplin, jigga, jimi hendrix, jolie holland, joni mitchell, kanye west, kelis, KO-S, KRS-1, lauryn hill, led zepplin, lenny kravitz, less than jake, lightning seeds, lil wayne, lords of the underground, madonna, mama's and the pappa's, mars volta, marvin gaye, massive attack, mazzy star, melissa auf der maur, meiko kaji, memphis minnie, MIA, mike doughty, mindless self indulgence (debra's fault), morrissey, mudhoney, nancy sinatra, nelly potato (furtado), NERD, newyorkdolls, nico, nikka costa, no doubt, oasis, open hand, peaches, phantom planet, pink, pink floyd, portishead, postal service, pretty girls make graves, prodigy, queen, queens of the stone age, radiohead, reverie sound revue, RHCP, richard cheese, ricky lee jones, rival schools, rocket from the crypt, screaming jay hawkins, shipping news, simply red, slunt, smashing pumpkins, smoking popes, snake river cospiracy, sneaker pimps, social d, solid state revival, sonic youth, souxie soux and the banshees, stiff little fingers, stone temple pilots, sum 41, sunny day real estate, tegan and sara, t-rex, t.A.t.U, tenacious D, THC, the back horn, the boo radleys, the cardigans, the church, the cramps, the cranberries, the cure, the darkness, the donnas, the doors, the eyeliners, the fugees, the go-go's, the gossip, the mooney suzuki, the offspring, the pillows, the pogues, the ramones, the ravonettes, the reverend, the roots, the smiths, the strokes, the who, tiger army, tito and tarantula, tricky, tupac, utata hikaru, van morrison, velvet underground, veruca salt, weezer, white/rob zombie, zero 7, zwan, wilco, YYY's, ... Ok I'll stop there. You get the point. Can you tell I like music yet?
Movies:
200 cigarettes, almost famous, amelie, american graffiti, ancorman, baby doll, battle royale, beyond the valley of the dolls, blue lagoon, boogie nights, breathless, carrie, clerks, chasing amy, chopping mall, coffee and cigarettes, coffy, constantine (geeks, settle. I know.), creepshow, crooklyn, cry baby, day the earth stood still, dazed and confused, DEATH PROOF, devils rejects, doom generation, dream for an insomniac, dusk til dawn, empire records, et Dieu... cra la femme (and God created woman), even cowgirls get the blues, eve's bayou, eyes wide shut, fantastic planet, faster pussycat, feast of all saints, fear and lothing, foxfire, garden state, gen-x cops, ghost world, ginger snaps, girl interupted, hackers, hairspray, havoc, hedwig and the angry inch, henry and june, high fidelity, home fries, house of 1000 corpses, interview with the vampire, jackie brown, josie and the pussycats, juon, kama sutra: a tale of love, kill bill, lady snowblood, le coeur au poing (streetheart), legend, league of extraordinary gentlemen, less than zero, lolita, lost in translation, love song for bobby long, mad love, mallrats, marie antoinette (1938, 2006), may, mean girls, mississippi masala, mohave moon, monster house, napoleon dynamite, natural born killers, niagra niagra, nightmare on elm street I, III, and IV, paper moon, party monster, pretty baby, prophecy, pulp fiction, return to horror high, rock-n-roll high school, the royal tenenbaums, rosemary's baby, rushmore, saved, shawn of the dead, signs, sin city, sleepaway camp, slums of beverlyhills, spirited away, spun, stealing beauty, streetcar named desire, suicide club, super troopers, tank girl, the adventures of sebastion cole, the professional, the toy, thirteen, trainspotting, tomie, up in smoke, valley of the dolls, vampire's kiss, venus in furs, virgin suicides, vivre sa vie: film en douze tableaux (my life to live), voulez-vous danser avec moi (come dance with me), waxworks, waxworks II, welcome to the dollhouse, what ever happened to baby jane, where the buffalo roam, witches of eastwick, wishful thinking, y tu mama tambien
Television:
Yes, It's possible to love tv and still be intellegent. Give me a fucking break: Documentaries, Meerkat Manor, misc. Canadian & British TV, Zed, Degrassi, Hardware, Are You Being Served, Hockey Night on CBC, Regency House and other shows in that vein, MASH, Big Love, Weeds, Popular, Bullshit, Work Out, Carnivale, the L Word, Dead Like Me, Eureka, Dexter, Venture Brothers, Boondocks, Simpsons, FLCL, Bleach, Chappelle's Show, Strangers with Candy, Arrested Development, King of the Hill, Insomniac, ANTM, Madtv/SNL, Girlfriends/Sex In The City, Passions/Days, that 70's show, Scrubs, the Office, My Name is Earl, No Reservations, Good Eats, MythBusters, Unwrapped, Ghost Hunters, Most Haunted, Reno911, Sarah Silverman Program, misc. Childrens programming like Arthur, Peep and the Big Wide World, Zoom, and just about anything on G4, VH1 and Sci-fi.
Books:
PICTURE BOOKS: 20 Years of Style: The World According to Paper, The Valley, Four Inches, Naked Happy Girls, Fruits, Motel Fetish, Bad Girls Hotel, Fafi - Girls Rock, Sante De Orazio - a private view, Black Ladies, Leticia (Casta), any of the Kevin Aucoin, Helmut Newton, Ellen Von Unwerth, or Bettina Rhims books, Sabrina Ward Harrison - Spilling Open, Naomi Campbell - Naomi, the SuicideGirls, Happy Naked Girls, XXX : 30 Porn-Star Portraits (No really! It's amazing to see them completely fresh faced and natural.), Fine Beauty: Beauty Basics and Beyond for African American Women, is it safe to say ANY book of photography?, COMICS AND TRADE PAPERBACK: Blue Monday, Scooter Girl - Chynna Clugston - Major, Hopeless Savages - Jen Van Meter & various, Gen 13, Kabuki, MAGAZINES: Jane, Nylon, Bust, Elle, Lucky, Spin, Blender, One World, Trace, Violet, Makeup Artist, Fangoria, Giant Robot, Juxtapose, CHILDRENS: Please Baby Please, Alice in Wonderland, Piggy in the Puddle, No Flying in the House, A Wrinkle in Time, To Kill a Mockingbird, Ramona, Blubber, OTHERS: Naked (David Sedaris), Alien Agenda, Bare, Buzzed: from Alcohol to Ectasy, Choke, Darhma Bums, Fear and Loathing, Geek Love, Incarnations of Immortality series, Maus, Reading Lolita in Tehran, Striptease: Gaslight to Spotlight, the Virgin Suicides, The Zombie Survival Guide : Complete Protection from the Living Dead, Hippie, Storyville, New Orleans : Being an Authentic, Illustrated Account of the Nortorious Red Light District, Creole: The History and Legacy of Louisiana's Free People of Color, Flapper : A Madcap Story of Sex, Style, Celebrity, the Women Who Made America Modern
Heroes:
Jackie O and Margot Tenenbaum (Can you figure out why? I'll give you a hint. Crouching lady, hidden smokestack.), Mae West, the kids up at three in the morning tagging or making stickers, Mayor Quimby's girlfriend, Brian Fellows, people who kiss me for no reason, BiBi McGill, and thick thighs.
