the sea, floating, art, music, swimming, neutral buoyancy, native forests, snails eye view of the world, flowers growing, troll-people, pixie-people, mediaeval looking people, puppets, marionettes, bravado... stories story-telling ... being read to....details, flying, clouds, cinema, underwater, books books books .......palm trees, pine trees,kowhai trees, rata trees, the faraway tree, algae-slime-green,punga fern green, pounamu green,kea feather green, fiji lagoon acqua, mid water big blue, blood colour... and grannies with stories
lewis carrol, jan svankmajer, david lynch, riceboy, frida kahlo, jean pierre jeunet, tim burton, tina modotti, luc besson, c.s.lewis, natacha ivanova, anna pavlova,
....and a real piratesigur ros, explosions in the sky,riceboy, the dirty three,kooky old stuff, acoustic , cocteau twins, cesaria evora, mum "finally we are no-one", dom mino, hauschka !!!
pans labyrinth, il nuovo cinema paradiso, bladerunner, the original star wars, thx1137, betty blue, an angel at my table, zeferelli's romeo and juliet, amelie, the dreamers, never-ending story, miracolo a milano, alice by swankmajer, bedknob and broomstick,tideland,
actually i dont own a tv anymore
...some shows... but from when i was a kid
the bugaloos,
thunderbirds,
acqua marina,
monkey,
flipper,
i dream of genie,
bewitched....
(those shows have a lot to answer for....)from grown up-ish land...
the vicar of dibley,
kath and kim,
the original star trek,
let them eat cake
too many ...ok ok ..."alice in wonderland and through the looking glass"
"perfume" by patric susskind... i have about 6 copies of that book floating around the world ... i have lent it to everyone over the years and they never never never give it back
"heidi" by joanna spyri,
"the faraway tree"
"the narnia chronicles"
"peter pan"
"a secret history" by donna tartt the book that makes you wake up sweating in the night believing you have murdered someone ,
bram stokers "dracula"
the kontiki expedition... those guys really were crazy...they didnt even have g.p.s ...
big old musty watermarked falling apart orangeybrown paged tomes full of the original fairy tales before they were ...sanitised...
angela carter's "the bloody chamber"
"the hunchback of notre dame"
george orwell's "down and out in london and paris"
and zillions of other treasures that are in my bookcases in storage that i am forgetting ... sorry sorry ...(to my books of course) joe says i anthropomorphise everything.... and i find it is true...
it was always emma peel for elegance and style...
but i think that kirsten scott thomas is probably it now...
luc besson because he is a control freak who made me understand that you can shoot, direct, focuspull, dop, write the story and still make a bloody good film without letting go the reins....swankmajer for his hyper realness and hand craftiness in super surreality,
my little brothers who never stop making me laugh
...
jane campion,
and frida kahlo forever