magic, fashion (with a small 'f'), S.N.A.F.U., fish, early US punk, artifice, perversion, subcultures, magpies, Victoriana, YBAs, vulgarity, stencil art, religious dogma, leopard print, men in makeup, mystery, tattoos, churches, trailer trash, collage, being in love, fetish clothing, painful relationships, the occult, young boys, glitter, horror, flowers, cats, Pre-Raphaelites, constellations, graffiti, the smell of old books, phantasmagoria, high heels, vulnerability, toys, decoupage, antiques, Dada, 'cheesecake' models, unicorns.
I'd like to meet:
Someone who can genetically-engineer me a unicorn.
Music:
abba, alisha's attic, anthony and the johnsons, applicants, arcade fire, belle and sebastian, the buzzcocks, carina round, cat power, courtney love, the cure, cursor miner, darling violetta, david bowie, depeche mode, the distillers, dresden dolls, evan dando, faith no more, fischerspooner, gary numan, go sailor, hole, the icarus line, iggy pop, iron maiden, jack off jill, jackson browne, jim moray, john b, joy division, judas priest, junkplanet, kanye west, kid carpet, the leisure society, levi weaver, lords of acid, lou reed, lynard skynard, marilyn manson, misfits, misty roses, napoleon IIIrd, the new year, the new york dolls, nick cave, nico, nine inch nails, the open mouths, pagan wanderer lu, patrick wolf, placebo, the prodigy, the ramones, rob zombie, roxy music, rufus wainwright, smashing pumpkins, snake river conspiracy, the streets, tiger army, two lone swordsmen, the velvet underground, veruca salt, whitesnake, xiu xiu.
Movies:
i spit on your grave, velvet goldmine, true romance, fight club, buffalo 66, 28 days later, some like it hot, lost highway, wild at heart, caligula, sleepy hollow, the housesitter, sid and nancy, corpse bride, natural born killers, vital, signal, love and sex, after hours, willard, house of 1000 corpses, the devil's rejects, secretary, edward scissorhands, spun, ed wood, pulp fiction, bordello of blood, thirteen, land of the dead, walk the line, bringing out the dead, cabin fever, the nightmare before christmas, the seven year itch, susperia, bambi, blue velvet, a clockwork orange, spiral, anchorman, nosferatu, ichi the killer, lost in translation, the rocky horror show, party monster.
Television:
spaced, hollyoaks, ray mears extreme survival, the young ones, black books, shameless, anything with david attenborough.
Books:
'the bloody chamber', angela carter; 'the dice man', luke rhinehart; 'diary of an emotional idiot', maggie estep; 'drawing blood' and 'exquisite corpse', poppy z brite; 'the crow road', iain banks; 'junky', william burroughs; 'strangeland', tracey emin; 'a clockwork orange', anthony burgess; 'smoke and mirrors', and the sandman books, neil gaiman; 'the roaches have no king', daniel evan wiess; 'three men in a boat', jerome k jerome; 'choke', 'haunted' and 'invisible monsters', chuck palaniuk; 'my brother's gun', ray loriga; 'please kille me', legs mcneil and gillian mccain; 'brighton rock', 'our man in havanna', and 'the man within', grahame green; 'from a to b and back again', andy warhol; 'the glass menagerie', 'the rose tattoo', and 'a streetcar named desire', tennesse williams; and 'wuthering heights', emily bronte.
Artists
david shrigley, marcel duchamp, miss van, hieronymous bosch, gilbert and george, andrew james jones, edward burne-jones, botticelli, gerald scarfe, kid acne, edward weston, tracey emin, manet, greuze, lydia lunch, paul delvaux, man ray, banksy, gustave moreau, simeon solomon, bruno tosi, pierre et giles.
Style Icons
courtney love, james st james and michael alig, dita von teese, paris hilton, kat slater.
Nature
cats, magpies, grass, tortoises, forget-me-nots, pigeons, blood red roses.
How would you like to die?
"with the hectic, unhealthy beauty of a consumptive". i want to die of a wasting disease, looking fragile and lovely and wearing an antique lace slip, in a carved mahogany four-poster bed. i will sip rose-hip tea out of cracked, precious cups, and cough gently into a silk handkerchief.
Heroes:
bianca beauchamp, gerald scarfe, bettie page, tracey emin, blanche dubois, charles saatchi, masuimi max, david attenborough, courtney love, tallulah bankhead, and jennifer hills from 'i spit on your grave'.
