Art Deco, hot jazz, dandyism, monocles, accessories, eccentrics, jokes about animals in bars... The Art Deco Society of California ~ my obsession? ~ my club. And here's my magazine (labor of love since 1997...): (cover by the fabulous STEPHAN)
Flappers, dandies, androgynes, artistes, Bright Young Things, socialites, socialists, comediennes, eccentrics, raconteurs, litterateurs, boulevardiers, flaneurs, ragtime millionaires, ladies who lunch...
Tiny Parham, Sam Wooding, Fletcher Henderson, Thomas Morris' Past Jazz Masters, Mr. Jelly Lord, Hot 5s+7s, Ethel Waters, Josephine Baker, Empress Bessie Smith, Chocolate Dandies, Johnny Dodds, Bagelman Sisters, Original Klezmer Jazz Band, Bonzo Dog Band, The Monochrome Set, Grandmaster Flash, Baguette Quartette... and Max Raabe!
Affairs of Anatol, Madame Satan, Pandora's Box, Blonde Venus, Shanghai Express, Deadly Snail Meets Kung Fu Killers, The Women, The Group, The Moderns, White Countess, White Mischief, Mystery Men, Wings of the Dove, Bride of the Wind, Bullets Over Broadway, Sweet and Lowdown, Idlewild, Man of the Century, Mr. Hulot's Holiday... Au Bonheur des Dames
Metalocalypse, Venture Brothers, Simpsons, Futurama, Family Guy, The PJs, Homeboys in Outer Space, Babylon 5, Buffy, Angel, Dark Angel, Xena, Poirot, Jeeves + Wooster, Blackadder...
Orlando, Vile Bodies, Private Lives, Tart Noir, the Aubrey-Maturin books which I'm trying to stretch out for a decade or so, Jonathan Ames's neo-Wodehouse-isms, Paris-in-the-20s memoirs, Zadie Smith's 'On Beauty', Edith Wharton's 'Glimpses of the Moon' and my new favorite psychedelic wiccan, Graham Joyce...