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Leah

The vodka is good, but the meat is rotten.

About Me

What is this road here, where have I come?

My Interests

24 hour diners, late night inspiration, true crime, silent film actresses, photography, filmmaking, androgyny, murder ballads, cigarette holders, faux pretension, the ocean, autumn, tea, morning hangover playlists, makeup, fireworks, cookouts, special effects makeup, swimming all day, taking walks at night, Halloween kitsch, gothic americana, dia de los muertos, drunken singing and dancing, trick or treating, secluded back roads, Christmas lights, southern cooking, road trips, banjos n' fiddles, drinking black coffee and listening to Tom Waits, being a weird hick, sleeping in, daydreaming, hats, carneys, sinners, dark secrets, spooky places, stuff that's creepy, everything Nick Cave has ever done, random silliness, dogs, thunderstorms.

I'd like to meet:

The wrong-eyed Jesus.

Music:

16 Horsepower, A.C. Newman, Amy Winehouse, Andrew Bird, Angels of Light, Aphex Twin, Astro-Zombies, Bauhaus, Beach House, Beat Happening, Belle and Sebastian, The Birthday Party, The Black Heart Procession, Blitzkid, Bonnie "Prince" Billy, Brian Eno, The Brides, Brightblack Morning Light, Bush Tetras, Can, Cancerslug, The Coffin Nails, The Cramps, The Damned, David Bowie, Deadbolt, Demented Are Go, Devendra Banhart, Diamanda Galas, Dirty Three, Echo and the Bunnymen, Einsturzende Neubauten, ESG, The Ghastly Ones, Ghoultown, The Gossip, Grinderman, The Handsome Family, Hank Williams III, Hasil Adkins, Iggy and the Stooges, Jarboe, Jerry Lee Lewis, Jesus and Mary Chain, Johnny Cash, Johnny Thunders, Joy Division, Justice, The Kills, The Knife, Lee Hazlewood, Legendary Pink Dots, Th' Legendary Shack Shakers, Leonard Cohen, Liars, Life Without Buildings, Liquid Liquid, Lou Reed, Low, M. Ward, Magik Markers, Manic Street Preachers, Mayday, The Meteors, Michael Gira, The Modern Lovers, Modest Mouse, Mojave 3, The Mountain Goats, The National, Neko Case, Neu!, Neutral Milk Hotel, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Nim Vind, Palace Brothers, Patrick Wolf, Peaches, Peter Bjorn and John, The Pixies, The Raveonettes, Reverend Glasseye, Ride, Rock City Morgue, The Rosedales, Rowland S. Howard, Sigur Ros, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Son Volt, Southern Culture on the Skids, Spain, Strawfoot, Sufjan Stevens, Suicide, Swans, Talking Heads, Tarnation, The Tear Garden, Those Poor Bastards, Throbbing Gristle, Tom Waits, T. Rex, TV on the Radio, Uncle Tupelo, Vampire Weekend, The Velvet Underground, Ween, Wilco, Woven Hand, X, Xiu Xiu, XTC, tons of other stuff.

Movies:

A History of Violence, Alice Sweet Alice, The American Nightmare (documentary), Apocalypse Now, Baby Doll, The Birds, Blood Tea & Red String, Bringing Out the Dead, Cape Fear (original), Carnival of Souls (original), Children Shouldn't Play With Dead Things, Ciao! Manhattan, Coffee and Cigarettes, Crash (Cronenberg version), Dead and Buried, Dead & Breakfast, Dead Man, Don't Look Now, Eyes Without a Face, Faster Pussycat! Kill! Kill!, The Fog (original), Freaks, Grey Gardens, Gummo, Halloween (original of course), Harold and Maude, The Hitcher (original), Horror House on Highway 5, The House of Yes, I Heart Huckabees, In My Skin, Juno, Just Before Dawn, Last House on the Left, The Little Girl Who Lives Down the Lane, The Lost, Lost in Translation, Maniac (1980), The Manson Family, Martin, May, Morvern Callar, Night of the Hunter, Night of the Living Dead (original), The Old Dark House, Peeping Tom, The Piano Teacher, Psycho, Psychomania, Rear Window, Return of the Living Dead, River's Edge, The Royal Tenenbaums, Santa Sangre, Secretary, Session 9, Soft For Digging, Spun, Suspiria, Tarnation, The Tenant, Tenderness of the Wolves, Torso, Texas Chainsaw Massacre (original), Transamerica, Wait Until Dark, Waitress, What Ever Happened to Baby Jane?, The Wicker Man (original), Wild at Heart, Wings of Desire, Wisconsin Death Trip, and way too many horror films to even list here. My DVD collection

Television:

I prefer the public hangings they have down at the town square. I've been watching Andy Griffith lately though.

Books:

A Clockwork Orange, American Psycho, Crash, Edie: An American Biography, Ghost World, Hollywood Babylon, Immoral Tales: European Sex and Horror Films 1956-1984, Lost Souls, The Melancholy Death of Oyster Boy, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Rip It Up and Start Again: Postpunk 1978-1984, Sleazoid Express: A Mind-Twisting Tour Through the Grindhouse Cinema of Times Square, The Sluts, To Kill a Mockingbird, We Have Always Lived In The Castle, Wise Blood, Wormwood.

Heroes:

Just for one day.

My Blog

Poke the Pug

The next time you find yourself spending time with a pug, after you get over the OMGSOCUTE reaction, I want you to try something new:Poke it.Yes, poke the pug. Not just anywhere mind you. Poke it in...
Posted by Leah on Tue, 20 Mar 2007 07:46:00 PST

I am looking for these movies

This is a list of my most-wanted videos to add to my collection. If you've got them or know where to get them, let me know. I generally am only interested in buying from a company, a seller on ebay ...
Posted by Leah on Mon, 15 Jan 2007 06:37:00 PST