superstitions, alchemy, precognitive dreams, coincidence, déjà vu, telekinesis, flaneur, penmanship, kitsch, nostalgia, taxidermy, haunted long beach, winchester mystery house, making chili in pumpkins, swan lake, being a swan, being swan-like, dioramas, palmistry, hands holding candelabras, powdered wigs, corsages, silhouettes, fake accents, foreign languages, chandeliers, Late Baroque, Rococo, Victorian Era, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, punch bowls, carrots in the shape of flowers, terrariums, conservatories, mystical entertaining, gypsies, secret societies, tony duquette, dressing like a peacock or my austrian panel curtains...
waltzes, edith piaf, accordion, django reinhardt, pipe organ, 70's/80's metal & deathrock, the runaways, gunde, bollywood, animal collective, blonde redhead, cupid car club, EVP's, Sounds of the Paranormal
synchronized dancing, Anything by: Jean Cocteau, Kenneth Anger, Guy Maddin, Herzog, Polanski, Godard, Matthias Müller, Jacgues Tati. The Umbrellas of Cherborg, The Thin Man, The Beavor Trilogy. Tarkovsky - The Mirror, Agnes Varda - Cloe from 5-7, Bergman - Through a Glass Darkly, Fellini - Juliet of the Spirits.
Oscar Wilde: The Picture of Dorian Gray, De Profundis, Emily Post Etiquette 1922, Walter Benjamin: The Arcades Project, Deleuze, Buck-Morss: The Dialects of Seeing, Perfume, Master and Margerita, The Artificial Kingdom, Mr. Wilson's Cabinet of Wonder, Roland Barthes: A Lover's Discourse, La Camara Lucida, James Merrill