a perfect storm of sugar & caffeine.
comic books. old slasher flicks and movies about the devil. the giant wooden slide at smith playground. spooky cellos. the carousel at franklin square. the cy twombly and duchamp rooms at the pma. the ocean in winter. the Benna Cap at Benna's Cafe. photography. helix aspera. poetry. Dr. Hauschka. Mr. Softee. yoga. corsets. Gilda Radner. used bookstore smell. black licorice. Baryshnikov. Trixie Belden. people dressed as characters, like McGruff the Crime Dog.
joan jett & dolly parton. preferably at the same time.
the vaguely literate, dreamy, broken, or any combination thereof: bowie, blondie, the beautiful south, leonard cohen, the dresden dolls, shane mcgowan, marianne faithfull, various kristin hersh incarnations, various kim deal incarnations, lisa germano, joan jett, morphine, bob mould, rem, radiohead, rasputina, roxy music, the kinks, the magnetic fields, the smiths, sigur ros, nick cave, aimee mann, tom waits. my bon jovi love is without irony.
Alphaville, Annie Hall, Auntie Mame, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Better Off Dead, Carrie, Donnie Darko, Elizabeth, Ginger Snaps, anything by Hal Hartley, everything by Whit Stillman. Hallowe'en, Heathers, the Hunger, Meet Me in St. Louis, Metropolitan, Pecker, The Philadelphia Story, Psycho Beach Party, Rear Window, Rosemary's Baby, This is Spinal Tap. and almost anything involving zombies. end a movie title with 'of the (living) dead' and I'm in.
Battlestar Galactica. The Muppet Show. Little Einsteins. Weeds.
Beckett. Joyce. Kelly Link. Sarah Vowell. Susan Howe. Cole Swensen. The Book of Laughter and Forgetting. bk of (h)rs. Cat's Eye. LOCAS. Pride and Prejudice. Wittgenstein's Mistress. American Psycho. Jane Eyre. The Adventures of Kavalier and Clay. Our Mutual Friend. temporary tattoos. Birds of Prey (Gail Simone onward). World War Z: An Oral History of the Zombie War.