designing clothes, selling clothes, buying clothes, my job, wine+friends+conversation, franks, late nite wikipedia surfing, accidental anosmia, self-imposed amnesia, star gazing, weather so cold it anesthetizes the soul, analog everything, anything arabesque, macabre or slightly morbid in aesthetic, daydreaming, fits of giggles, people who bring on fits of giggles, practical jokes, absurdity, friends who randomly call/message/text and say "hey, i was thinking about you", remembering smells, remembering smiles, soundbites and quotes, witticisms, kindred spirits and genuine weirdos, lo-tech, lost causes, bete noir, 60's European pop culture, big cities, moments of epiphany, jazz age, the darkness beneath the surface, lapses/warps in consciousness, art history, the paranormal and ghost stories, psychology, geneology
the person in the black car. the man who sold the world. a woman in trouble. the lone gunman. the one that got away. the chance of a lifetime. the laughing gnome. the salt of the earth. a cad with a heart of gold. the capo di tutti capi. someone like the moon...
also, gangsters from the jazz age, cowboys from the old west, and bank robbers from the great depression
i wish that "feel the rain on your skin" song would go away forever ever ever...
Casino Royale, CQ, Amadeus, Caravaggio, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Blue Velvet, 13 Tzameti, Willie Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, The Virgin Suicides, Dead of Night, Women on the Verge of a Nervous Breakdown, Elizabeth, Shoot the Piano Player, the Dark Crystal, The Man Who Fell to Earth, Metropolis, Trainspotting, Desperately Seeking Susan, The Great Gatsby, Pretty in Pink, Labyrinth, Edward Scissorhands, Freaks, The Public Enemy, Orchestra Wives, The Time Bandits, most kubrick, lots of Lynch, silent films and noir (even though its beyond cliche now), Gone With the Wind (cliche but required)and of course.... INLAND EMPIRE .. .. "
falling asleep to twin peaks. sewing to perry mason. reminiscing to liquid television. relaxing to twilight zone. laughing my tocks off to flight of the conchords.
The Great Gatsby, the great gatsby, the great gatsby, anything fitzgerald, edie- an american girl, art history books, salinger, poe, the bell jar, little women, bobbed hair and bathtub gin, lulu goes to hollywood, david sedaris, wikepedia, biographies, my sketchbook, my horoscope journal, the onion
currently: lotsa lotsa spreadsheets and techpacks
saint jude... patron saint of the lost cause