Masks, Mask-making, Wladyslaw Theodor Benda, Decadent/Symbolist art and literature (favourite artists include: Felicien Rops, Alastair, Franz von Stuck, Erte, Gerda Wegener, George Barbier, Franz von Bayros, Aubrey Beardsley, Henry Fuseli, Gustave Moreau, Norman Lindsay, Rosaleen Norton, Austin Osman Spare, Vali Myers, Gustav Klimt), Costume design, Masquerades, Historical Costume, Film Costume (favourite designers:Colleen Atwood, Sandy Powell, Alexandra Byrne, Curiosities, Fetish/gothic art and fashion, Venice, Pre-Raphaelites, Memento mori, Penny Dreadfuls, Theatre, Marchesa Casati, Comtesse Castiglione, Anita Berber, Aleister Crowley, The German(Weimar) Cabaret, Dark Cabaret, Gothic literature, Erotica, Vintage photos, Courtesans, Opera , Visual Kei, Gothic/Tribal Bellydancing, Fin de Siecle era, The Belle Epoque, Corsetry and tight-lacing, Vintage photographs, Automata, Phantasmagoria, Magic Lanterns, The Baroque era, The Restoration, Victorian post-mortem photographs, Body art, Absinthe, Portrait miniatures, Toy Theatres www.facingtheworld.net.
I'd like to meet:
Artists, Decadents & Interesting Minds.*Please note: my friends list below is mixture of people whom I either know personally, have collaborated with, feel a creative affiliation with, would like to work with in the future or who inspire me! I enjoy promoting other artists/creative individuals work so people on this list will change overtime so that I can share all the work that I admire!!
Music:
Azam Ali, Albinoni, Andreas Scholl, Bach, Bauhaus, The Cure, The Cult, Collide, Corelli, The Cramps, Dead Can Dance, Djivan Gasparyan, Dresden Dolls, Handel, John Dowland, Joy Division, Jean-Baptiste Lully, Klaus Nomi, Lisa Gerrard, Masters of Persian Music, Marilyn Manson, Monteverdi, Michael Maniaci, Morrissey, Niyaz, Philippe Jaroussky, Pulp, Paul O'Dette, Puccini, Pergolesi, Pachelbel, Purcell, Rameau, Suede, Sex Pistols, Solace, The Smiths, StellaMara, Unter Null, Vivaldi, Vas, Wagner, Zeromancer
Movies:
La Reine Margot, The Libertine, Company of Wolves, Dangerous Liaisons, The Wicker Man (original version!), The Crow, Excalibur, Farinelli Il Castrato, Sweeney Todd, Edward Scissorhands, Picnic at Hanging Rock, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Tales of Hoffmann, Death in Venice, The Draughtsman's Contract, Ravenous, The Cook the Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Photographing Fairies, Pan's Labyrinth, Hedwig & the Angry Inch, The Hour of the Pig, Frida, Ridicule, Le Roi Danse, La Belle et la Bete, The Red Shoes, The City of Lost Children, Sleepy Hollow, Hotel Splendide, Lair of the White Worm, Tous Les Matins, Nosferatu (both versions), The Haunting (original version!), Theatre of Blood, Night of the Demon, Hammer Horror films, Classic old black and white monster movies, any films by Roger Corman.
Television:
Very, very selective!
Sherlock Holmes (with Jeremy Brett), The Storyteller/Greek Myths (Jim Henson), The League of Gentlemen, Blackadder, Rome, Clarissa, The Six Wives of Henry VIII, Knowing me, Knowing You/I'm Alan Partridge, Father Ted, The Woman in Black, Elizabeth I, Charles II , Buffy, Torchwood, Schalcken the Painter, Ghost Stories for Christmas(Christopher Lee), The Signalman, Whistle and I'll Come To You, ... I'm sure I'll think of some more later :)
Books:
Any writings by: Angela Carter, H.P. Lovecraft, Clark Ashton Smith, Lord Dunsany, J.K. Huysmans, Edgar Allan Poe, Baudelaire, A.C. Swinburne, Gabriele D'Annunzio, Flaubert, De Sade, Grimm fairy tales, Jeanette Winterson. Perfume, Patrick Suskind; Pleasures of the Flesh, Laurence Haloche; Gormenghast, Mervyn Peake; Geek Love Katherine Dunn; The King in Yellow, Robert Chambers; In the Company of the Courtesan, Sarah Dunant; Tipping the Velvet, Affinity, The Fingersmith, Sarah Waters; Infinite Variety, Scot Ryersson & Michael Yaccarino; Dreamers of Decadence, Philippe Jullian; The Crimson Petal and the White, Michael Faber; Venus In Furs, Leopold von Sacher-Masoch; As Meat Loves Salt, Maria McCann; Tales of Hoffman, E.T.A Hoffman; Carnevale, M.R.Lovric; The Birth of Venus, Sarah Dunant; Sleep Pale Sister, Joanne Harris; His Dark Materials, Philip Pullman; The Electric Michelangelo, Sarah Hall; A Traveller in Time, Alison Uttley; Forever Amber, Kathleen Winsor.. And too many more!
