VINCENT PRICE,
CINEMA (horror films, classic old movies, European cinema),
VICTORIANA, HISTORY OF FREAK SHOWS and CABINETS OF CURIOSITIES
ART and PHOTOGRAPHY (Pierre et Gilles, Diane Arbus, Gustav Doré, Jan Saudek, Tamara de Lempicka, Art Nouveau, Symbolism, Pre-raphaelites, Egon Schiele, El Greco, Tracey Moffat, Max Ernst, Frida Kahlo, Leonor Fini, Friedrich, Joel Peter Witkin, Hieronymus Bosch, Bruegel, Gustav Moreau, Burne-Jones, Waterhouse, Artemisia Gentileschi, Caravaggio, Francisco de Goya, Raffaello, Michelangelo, Alfred Kubin)
THE ROARING TWENTIES, MY FRIENDS, COMICS (anything by Alan Moore, Suehiro Maruo, Junji Ito, Gaiman's Sandman, Kieth's The Maxx, Miyazaki's Kaze no tani no Naushika), CUNEIFORM WRITING, BLACK EYESHADOW & ELECTRIC BLUE, BURLESQUE, VAUDEVILLE, BLACK LACE & SILVER, ANTIQUES,
XVIII and XIX CENTURY ENGLISH (and AMERICAN) LITERATURE,
CHOCOLATE, ICE CREAM and CANDY (also baking cakes!), TEA, TEAPOTS and TEACUPS,
the CADENCE of MUSIC (rock, punk, post-punk, dark, jazz, classical, some theremin and organ music), HISTORY OF ANCIENT MEDICINE, ANATOMICAL THEATRES, MEDICAL IMAGES, FORMALIN, DISSECTION, BLACK DEATH and PLAGUE, MUSEUMS
ANCIENT HISTORY,
STORMS, WILD WINDS, RAIN & WINTER, FABLES and POPULAR TALES, el HOMBRE del SACO, la BRUJA PIRUJA, el SACAMANTECAS,
the MIDDLE AGES (Romanesque and Gothic art, Medieval bestiaries, grimoires)
JAPANESE and LANGUAGES in general,
CHURCHES, RELICS, EX-VOTOS,
TRAVELLING, TAROT,
PRESTIDIGITATION, XIX century OCCULTISM (Helena Petrovska Blavatsky, Allan Kardec, Camille Flammarion, Arthur E. Waite),
CEMETERIES,
ANCIENT MAGIC,
HALLOWEEN MEMORABILIA,
LIBRARIES and BOOKSHOPS, STATIONERY,
the UNUSUAL, WEIRD, EERIE, SURPRISING
Writers, painters, musicians, actors and actresses, artists, magicians, photographers, dancers, mind-readers, fortune-tellers, mentalists, people with their own true voice are very welcome to write me.
I am interested in (silent, Hammer classics, cult, Japanese...) horror films; classic old movies; European cinema; rock, punk, post-punk and gothic/ dark music; literature (XVIII and XIX century English writers as Dickens, Austen, the Bronte sisters...).
True people, please, not friend collectors, cheaters, or lost souls with delusions of grandeur
Fabio McNamara,Bauhaus, Misfits, Murder City Devils, Stooges, Nina Hagen, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Inugami Circus Dan, The Cure, CCCP, System of a Down, Lost Sounds, The Vanishing, Rasputina, Einsturzende Neubauten, The Rezillos, Texas Terri, Mediaeval Baebes, Katherine Blake, Atari Teenage Riot, Faith and the Muse, Dead Boys, The Cynics, Blondie, Pantera, The Sonics, Depeche Mode, Billy Idol, Generation X, The Music Machine, The Faint, Nine Inch Nails, Alec Empire, the Electric Prunes, Stiv Bators, New York Dolls, Samhain, David Bowie, T-Rex, Sisters of Mercy, Miranda Sex Garden, Nick Cave
Parálisis Permanente, Alaska y los Pegamoides, Toilet Böys, The Cramps, Dead Can Dance, Christian Death, Killing Joke, Alaska y Dinarama, Alice in Chains, Danny Elfman, Faith No More, The Damned, Philip Glass+Kronos Quartet "Dracula", Plasmatics, Angelo Badalamenti, Paolo Conte, The Mission, Skeletal Family, Sopor Aeternus, Mars Volta, Fuzztones, The Black Halos, Social Distorsion, Lords of Altamont, New Model Army, Slowdive, Stray Cats, Hanoi Rocks, Garden of Delight
Marlene Dietrich, D-Generation, Robin Black and the IRS, The Wildhearts, Screaming Lord Sutch, J. Thunders and the Heartbreakers, Minor Threat
The abominable Dr. Phibes, Kaidan, The Phantom of the Opera (with LON CHANEY), Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, What ever happened to Baby Jane? (dear BETTE DAVIS), Suspiria, Phenomena, The science of sleep, Cries and whispers, American beauty
Das experiment, Edward Scissorhands, The Fall of the House of Usher (my beloved VINCENT PRICE), ¿Quién puede matar a un niño?, The virgin spring, Le notti di Cabiria, La pianiste, Portrait of hell, Robert Wise's The Haunting, Dracula (Bela Lugosi, Christopher Lee, Gary Oldman...), Carrie
Labyrinth, Shanks, Tetsuo, Mulholland Drive, The Addiction, Lost in Translation, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Sleepy Hollow, L'amore, Dogville, Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (with F. March), Remando al viento (Rowing in the wind), Mary Reilly, Mononoke Hime, El laberinto del fauno, Spirited Away, Hairspray (JOHN WATERS), Aguirre der Zorn Gottes, Arrebato (I. ZULUETA), LucÃa y el Sexo, Vacas (J.MEDEM), Eraserhead (Why do you scare me, David?), Viridiana, El ángel exterminador (BUÑUEL, un maestro), La maschera del demonio, Non si sevizia un paperino, AKIRA KUROSAWA, YASUJIRU OZU, MIZOGUCHI's Uwasa no onna (Vida de Oharu), Shadow of the vampire
Faust, Candyman, The Night Breed, Hellraiser, Evil Dead (I, II & III), Glen or Glenda, Les quatre cents coups, ¿Qué he hecho yo para merecer esto?, Pepi, Luci y Bom y otras chicas del montón, Los otros, Cabaret, Christiane F.- Wir Kinder vom Bahnhof Zoo, A clockwork orange, Cabaret, Tampopo, Memories of murder, Danza macabra, M - Eine Stadt sucht einen Mörder, H2Odio, Pasolini's Decameron, SILENT FILMS, Fritz Lang, Mario Monicelli, Fellini, Georges Méliès, the charms of Bette Davis, Joan Crawford, Cary Grant, Robert Mitchum, Anna Magnani, Toshiro Mifune, Louise Brooks, Liv Ullman, Isabelle Huppert
Actually, I don't see much tv... I like English comedies, Little Britain, League of Gentlemen, The Young Ones, Peep Show, Black Adder, Darth Marenghi's Darkplace, The I.T. Crowd and stuff like Twin Peaks, Six Feet Under, Afterlife, The Adams, The Munsters, Death Note, Dexter...
The book-hunter in me: Henry and June (Anais Nin), Wuthering Heights (E. Bronte), La taberna (H. de Balzac, I can't remember its title in French!), The Thackeray T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases, Ghost Stories (M. R. James and also H. James), The Age of Innocence (E. Wharton), Tales of Mystery and Imagination (E. A. Poe), Asleep (Banana Yoshimoto), Amphigorey (E. Gorey), Hans Christian Andersen's fairy tales, The Dark Angel (M. A. Pierce), YAMA NO OTO (Yasunari Kawabata), The Golem (G. Meyrink), Ensaio sobre a cegueira (José Saramago), Ambrose Bierce's Tutti i racconti dell'orrore, Kae o le due rivali (Sawako Ariyoshi), Lois the Witch (E. Gaskell), Sylvias's lovers, The old curiosity shop, Las ratas (Miguel Delibes), The tenant of Wildfell Hall, El museo hermético: Alquimia y mìstica (Taschen), Cousas (Castelao), Jane Eyre, Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrel (S. Clarke), Il corpo nel Medieoevo (J. LeGoff), The talented Mr. Ripley, The portrait of Dorian Gray, El túnel (Ernesto Sabato); Cuentos de amor, de locura y de muerte (Horacio Quiroga), The Diary of Anais Nin, L'ucello che girava le viti del mondo (H. Murakami), Norwegian Wood (H. Murakami)
Phibes, Oogie Boogie, Houdini, Lon Chaney, Siouxsie