the design of things, listening to and making music, ashtanga yoga, dolls that frighten, finding 78s for my victrola, Japanese vegan cooking, records and books, books and records, re-decorating, bizarre technological advances, things that are falling apart, photography, making foolish life choices, staring at the sky, black and white movies, eating with friends, old photos, making things pretty. In my own twisted way.
Muses, workaholics, ponder-ers, sweetie-pies. People I can play silly rhyme games with while having an absurd but intelligent conversation and eating extremely tasty food. Someone who can introduce me to Blixa Bargeld. And make it so we're married. And/ or, can re-incarnate M Duchamp or Lee Miller, and make us married too. Might as well throw in A Craven and M Dietrich while you're at it...
There's a lot. Let's just say Coil to Nick Cave to Nick Drake, Carter Family, Stone Roses, Stockhausen, Arab on Radar, Kronos Quartet, The Cure (Disintegration & prior), Ink Spots, Sufjan Stevens, Nina Simone, early Sabbath, Get Hustle, Jesus & Mary Chain, Swans, Legendary Pink Dots, Bowie, Pinback, The Locust, cocorosie, Unwound, Annie Anxiety in the Crass days, vintage Hawiian music on 78s (so spooky!), Echo & the Bunnymen, to SF locals Madelia, D.O.D, The Vanishing, Film School and The Mall.
(LA observation: 'industry' people in hear seem to refer to directors/ actors/ musicians/ famous people in general by their first names, which is both confusing and somehow entertaining. although said people prolly think me an unhip film snob for referring to directors by their last names... oh, and the exception to this is Marilyn Manson. people just call him Manson. 'Cos it's more fun to say, I'm guessing.) Loooooove Georges Méliès (when I can find his stuff) and Robert Wiene. Miyazaki. Jodorowsky, of course... certain of Ken Russell... Kubrik. Brothers Quay. Polanski, Maddin, Twin Peaks, Triplets of Belleville, Wenders, etc.
why, when there's netflix??
I'm a lit kid. Briefly: fiction, non-fiction. (that really sums it up actually...)
But if you must: art books, autobiographies, history of things, archaeology, insect monographs, comix, SF. Some favorites: J. Joyce, Leonora Carrington, Cocteau, Rushdie (earlier the better), Alexandra David-Neel, PK Dick, Pierre Mabille, Dorothea Tanning, etc. x 100 million. Zillion. At the moment I'm reading super-geeky books on the scientific breakdown of various materials and how they can be manipulated.
Leonora Carrington, Joseph Cornell, Marcel Duchamp, Pierre Mabille, Patricia Urquiola, Lee Miller, James Joyce, Dunne and Raby, Maya Deren, Tristan Tzara, This Heat, Arthur Craven, Salman Rushdie, Cronenberg, David Bohm, Remedios Varo, Fellini, Marcel Wanders, Max Ernst, Cocteau, Dorothea Tanning, Philip K Dick, Ingo Maurer, Roland Barthes, Alejandro Jodorowsky, Coil, Haruki Murakami, Dora Maar... etc