List-making and note-taking and thus stationery; books which feel so significant you underline sentences in them; writing things I feel okay with; songs which make you shiver and songs which make you spark; a plentiful vocabulary; fashion but not fashionistas; creative, passionate, inspiring people; eye contact; trashy, disgusting celebrity gossip I know I shouldn't care about; good food in abundance; sleeping really well and dreaming better; touching; burning oils all the time; contemplating the apocalypse; perfectly blue skies and hot climates and the sun on your skin; massages; wildflowers; cheesecake saves the day; champagne because it makes the nicest type of drunk; bathtime; oversized, ornate keys; 1950s-style kitchen appliances; costume jewellery and overflowing jewellery boxes and dressing-up boxes; lunch alfresco; bodies of water; holistic and spiritual healing; the Orisinal games; cooking, baking and making tapas/antipasto; buying things on the internet and then getting them in the mail so it feels like your birthday every week; endeavouring to live more organically; making A-Zs with Hollee; secret gardens.
Interesting creatures.
Bjork, Tori Amos, Massive Attack, Tricky, the Beatles, Pink Floyd, Mos Def, The Roots, Moby, PJ Harvey, 2 Many DJs, Aretha Franklin, Al Green, Bill Withers, The Bangles, Blondie, Bedouin Soundclash, the Beastie Boys, Bob Dylan, Bob Marley, Fleetwood Mac, Cat Power, the Chemical Brothers, The Cranberries, The Eels, The Cure, De La Soul, DJ Shadow, Fiona Apple, the Fugees, Groove Armada, older No Doubt, Ian Brown, Incubus, Janis Joplin, Jimi Hendrix, Jurassic 5, Madonna, Mr Scruff, Peaches, Portishead, the Prodigy, the Red Hot Chili Peppers, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, REM, the Rolling Stones, Royksopp, Sigur Ros, Sneaker Pimps, the Police, the Stranglers, Tracy Chapman, UNKLE, The Steve Miller Band, James Lavelle.
Labyrinth, Lolita, True Romance, Pulp Fiction, Breakfast At Tiffany's, Requiem For A Dream, The Virgin Suicides, Baz Luhrmann's Romeo + Juliet, The Good Girl, Fight Club, Edward Scissorhands, Dog Day Afternoon, Blow, the original Willy Wonka + the Chocolate Factory, Almost Famous, Death Becomes Her, most of Sophia Coppola's catalogue, The Little Mermaid, Heathers, Basquiat, Amelie, Pan's Labyrinth, Rosemary's Baby.
Sylvia Plath. J.D Salinger. Adrienne Rich. Anais Nin. Francesca Lia Block. Kurt Vonnegut. Charles Bukowski. Jack Kerouac. Colette. Paulo Coelho. Spiritual things: Eckhart Tolle. Doreen Virtue. Louise Hay. Joshua Stone. I also like "true crime" stories too but that's a secret.
My dad has always been my hero. And anybody who changes my life for the better.