*painting* tattooing* beautiful & interesting art + history* the strange & the exotique* the mysterious & unexplainable* the number 9 * the sea* the baroque(esp. caravaggio!!)* orthodox icons* byzantine art* mosaics* islamic achitecture & calligraphy* hagia sophia* greek churches* frescos* gold leaf* livani* rosewater* peacocks* curiosities* superstition* nazar boncuk* bergamot tea* halvah* turkish coffee every morning* fortune telling from coffee cups.. a la turque* dans oryantal* zills, bells and things that jingle* expensive perfume* odd numbers* getting drunk on wine* swearing like a dirty sea captain* pink elephants* costume jewlery* ooh lala* vaudeville* foreign currency & stamps* postcards* shoes* gloves* hats* victorian & edwardian fashion* rembrandt* botecelli* romanticism* being absent minded* texture* striped things* silence* noise* indian firecracker art* museums* vintage spring operated coinbanks* wind-up toys* shadowboxes* spiders* moths* cigar boxes* locks and skeleton keys* velvety things* books* antiques & stupid little things that clutter up every inch of space that i really don't need but i just can't live without* black & white photography* girls of the ziegfeld follies* brassaï* pierre et gilles* erté* art nouveau* vintage french posters* pulp art* foreign films* victorian art* little tin boxes* film noir* vanilla* pinball* rollercoasters* collecting silly trinkets from everywhere i go* my record collection consisting of vinyl and old 78 celluloids from the 30's and 40's* spark robots & tin toys* tikis* roadtrips* losing track of time.... ...and of course ze Baron von MeowMeow...he will sleep anywhere and despises the sound of harmonicas......
mozart (::der holle rache kocht:: gives me chills the most) *the cramps* tom waits* nick cave* boxcar saints* vermillion lies* jason webley* humanwine* the peculiar pretzelmen* circus contraption* django reinhardt* jill tracy* miss derringer* beirut* elmore james* muddy waters* billie holiday* etta james* howlin wolf* bessie smith* john lee hooker* lou reed* bowie* t.rex* iggy pop* a particular vicious rumor* cab calloway* duke ellington* count basie* c.perkins* the garnet hearts* los straightjackets* the hypnomen* gore gore girls * the mummies* the gories* the dirtbombs* hank williams* patsy cline* buck owens* w. jennings* m. haggard* fu man chu* nebula.......
*raising arizona* killing zoe* amadeus* delicatessan* amelie* city of lost children* henry & june* the darjeeling limited* bottle rocket* the life aquatic* the royal tenenbaums (...well, anything wes anderson)*tod browning's freaks* lady sings the blues* one flew over the cuckoos nest* peter sellers movies* steve mcqueen movies* dead man* il postino* big fish* mary shelley's frankenstein* the ususal suspects* four rooms* suicide kings* u-turn* o brother where art thou* secondhand lions* brazil*...
*anais nin* henry miller* kurt vonnegut* jelaluddin rumi* the book of one thousand nights and a night* oscar wilde* c.dickens* la dame aux camelias* the count of monte cristo* narcissus and goldman~ hermann hesse* dostoevsky* c. baudelaire* voltaire* pablo neruda* hemingway* death in venice~thomas mann* ginsberg* kerouac* the medusa frequency* xenophone* voluptuous panic~ weimar berlin* anything full of satire*...and much much more...
Scheherazade