abandoned buildings, autumn, big beautiful sideburns, black & pink, cemeteries, cheese, coffee, crispin glover, crooked teeth, dancing, day of the dead, dolls, drawing, dreads, dreaming, drinking, ebay, eyeliner, funerary art, ghosts, halloween, harvest art, hauntings, little dogs, museums, music, old architecture, painting, parks, peoplewatching, pink poodles, potato products, rats, reading, roadtrips, scooters, sculpting, shows, sleeping, spending, stitches, stuffed dogs, tattoos, taxidermy, tiki, trash retro cinema, traveling, anything from the sixties...
I'd like to meet:
a return to innocence. i thought the key to achieving this was to listen exclusively to songs by The Zombies... but there really is no turning back.
Music:
and one, the animals, apoptygma berzerk, nic armstrong & the theives, bella morte, black rebel motorcycle club, the blue van, the bolshoi, brian jonestown massacre, caesars, calla, carcrash international, the chamber strings, the chameleons, clan of xymox, the clientele, cocteau twins, cooper temple clause, covenant, the cure, das ich, death in june, delays, delerium, de/vision, doves, erasure, eyeless in gaza, franz ferdinand, astrud gilberto, iris, matthew jay, kasabian, ladytron, the legends, low flying owls, mando diao, melotron, the monkees, montrum sepsis, moon lay hidden beneath a cloud, muse, neuroactive, pop levi, portishead, the raveonettes, the seeds, the shackeltons, the sights, singapore sling, siouxsie & the banshees, sisters of mercy, skinny puppy, skydivers, soft complex, the sonics, (sounds of) kaleidoscope, stereolab, stromkern, switchblade symphony, tahiti 80, vnv nation, walkmen, the warlocks, wolfsheim, :wumpscut:, xmal deutschland, the zombies.
Movies:
alice, anatomy, baba yaga (kiss me kill me), beyond the valley of the dolls, big trouble in little china, black sabbath, bone collector, the burbs, carnival of souls, the changeling, charlie & the chocolate factory, corpse bride, das cabinet, dig!, frailty, ghostbusters, the name of the rose, ravenous, ringu, signs, sixth sense, sleepy hollow, spiderbaby, stigmata, stir of echoes, thirteenth warrior, tomb of ligeia, vampyros lesbos, venus in furs, the village, willard...
i pretty much prefer to stick to horror movies from the 60s and earlier. the graphic violence on screen these days just makes me depressed... give me a haunted castle and the thrill of a sudden stab of violin strings over evisceration any day.
Television:
do you live in the DC area, and have cox cable service? then turn to channels 10 & 12 occasionally at nite, and see what you get.... if you don't catch the horror shows, keep trying!
Books:
mystery/horror novels, circa 1960s or earlier. anything later than that is far too vulgar for me. i also collect regional ghost story books... new england has some marvelous ones!
Heroes:
www.torlundvall.com
...and click this picture to check out this fella's clever wooden art pieces. neat neat neat!
