Warm vintage coats that smell like cocktail parties. The secret lives of jellyfish.Igloos. Sealing wax (and the lost art of).Neruda. Birds nests. Crayons(and melting them). Developing a silent movie with Kenny. Cheesy toast. Homo-erotic films that actually deliver.Quality time with my old doggies.Haberdashery.Throwing luxurious dinner parties for my dear friends. I've given up all hope on Nick Rhodes from Duran Duran so I might take up needle point to fill the void.
Peter O'toole.Anyone who would like to join me for afternoon tea.The Scarlet Pimpernel. Polar bears.Thundercats.Edith Piaf. Croquet enthusiasts, Uno players. A falconer and a falcon. Itzpapalotl, claws retracted.
Aztec Camera,Depeche Mode,Charlatans,Echo & the Bunneymen,Duran Duran,Oasis, My Bloody Valentine,Style Council,Jesus and MAry Chain,Serge "the man" Gainsbourg,Red House Painters,Stone Roses,Snow Patrol,Aberfeldy,Stereophonics, Mogwai, Sonic Youth,The Beatles, Sigur Ros,Sundays,Buckley,Turin Brakes,Smiths, Interpol ,This Mortal Coil, Sean Lennon, Police, Pheonix, ELO,Mundy,Madonna,Rod Stewart,Carole King,Malcolm Middleton, Furs,Simon and Garfunkel,Arab Strap,Franz Ferdinand,The Cure,James Taylor,Blur,Belle & Sebastian,The Catherine Wheel,Edith Piaf and my grandfather Pedro Infante.
Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, Whitnail & I,The English Patient, Y tu Mama Tambien, Betty Blue,The Umbrellas of Cherbourgh, Goldfinger, Virgin Suicides, Lost in Translation,The Graduate, Quadrophenia, Solaris,American Beauty, Orlando,Closer,Jules and Jim, The Ruling Class, City of Lost Children, Room With a View,Kenneth Branaugh's Hamlet,Delicatessen,Leon & Buffalo 66 (isn't that Vincent Gallo something?).
Myth Busters,Rome and The Mighty Boosh!
The Life of Pi, Still Life with Woodpecker, The Griffin & Sabine Trilogy, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, The Sun Also Rises , Brideshead Revisited, Franny & Zooey,The Edible Woman,The Count of Monte Cristo,Love in the Time of Cholera,Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close, Oscar Wilde's great imaginings and anything that went from mind to paper by DH Lawrence. Last read - The Time Travelers Wife (****).
My Obuelita (granny),Ceasar Chavez, Frida Kahlo,Bill Maher, Jimmy Carter and bartenders with a heavy hand.