high school band trips to disneyland, backyards, dittos jeans, pastels
the new tall elegant rich kids. beautiful creatures with unacceptable features. and her:
i've been obsessing over...fujiya miyagi, peter bjorn and john, curtis mayfield, alex smoke, lcd soundsystem (again), the clientele, ricardo villalobos, kraftwerk, tears for fears, the juan mclean, dead meadow, and this northern soul mixtape that i found in an old box that a mod boyfriend made for me ages and ages agoand these are my favorite djs: solar, sammy d, alland, nikola and anyone else associated with kontrol, tim sweeney, jeff mills, alex pasternak, yalda and cara, aidan, matthew dear, solar, solar and solar
new-noirish movies about l.a.: chinatown; short cuts; magnolia; l.a. confidential...and rushmore, which isn't about l.a. at all. actually, i despise l.a. but it's rather cinematic. oh yeah, lord of the rings times ten thousand
marquee moon
joan didion. edith wharton. guy de maupassant. daphne du maurier, dominick dunne. neil stephenson. celine, orwell, tolkein, crowley, brautigan, fitzgerald, james (henry), joyce, kesey, eugenides, shelley (mary), steinbeck, thucydides, melville, mann (thomas), grass (gunter), poe, chabon (michael) bowles (paul) durrell (lawrence) murakami. thompson (hunter s.) these are some authors i like. but my favorite book of all time is marianne faithfull's biography.
marianne faithfull. i'd like to be her, boobs, drugs, mick & keith and all. and tina turner, the ice-coolest lady-lady there ever was.and the duchess of windsor and the mitford sisters minus the naziism, and anita pallenberg and pamela des barres and emily dickenson if she got out a little more. cool courtesans and weird girls.