skeleton keys, masks, masquerades, chandaliers, secret gardens, talking in accents, shadowboxes, peter pan, the bermuda triangle, lace, velvet, brocade, psyche and eros, naps, eyes, eyebrows, bioluminescence, flowers, the romanovs, travel, the circus, gnomes, schnauzers, vikings, letter-writing, list-making, music, movies, books, people.
dead relatives, napoleon, oscar wilde, carlos d, gael garcia bernal
condensed and alphabetized for your convenience:
adam and the ants, air, ambulance ltd, apocalyptica, beirut, the bird & the bee, the birthday massacre, black rebel motorcycle club, blur, boy kill boy, butch walker, charlotte gainsbourg, dandy warhols, david bowie, david vandervelde, delays, depeche mode, diamond nights, eagles of death metal, editors, electric 6, elefant, family force 5, futureheads, gogol bordello, grant-lee phillips, group x, hard fi, hellogoodbye, him, ima robot, interpol, jeff buckley, jet, joan jett, john frusciante, kaiser chiefs, kasabian, keane, killers, king tuff, kings of leon, lily allen, living things, louis xiv, manu chao, massive attack, mew, muse, my morning jacket, ok go, ours, pete yorn, queens of the stone age, raconteurs, radiohead, randall shreve, rasmus, red hot chili peppers, robbie williams, rooney, rufus wainwright, ryan adams, scissor sisters, shins, sounds, spoon, starsailor, stereophonics, strokes, sugarcult, supergrass, tally hall, tegan and sara, tenacious d, travis, white stripes, zutons
i seriously tried to narrow this down. i'm sorry that it's so ridiculously long...
300, a clockwork orange, about adam, age of innocence, almost famous, amelie, american beauty, american werewolf in paris, amores perros, auntie mame, babel, bad education, bend it like beckham, black dahlia, blade, body work, breakfast at tiffany's, breakfast club, bridget jones diary, bright young things, chumscrubber, citizen kane, clueless, crash, the crimson pirate, the crow, cruel intentions, cry baby, dangerous liasons, domino, donnie darko, dressed to kill, edward scissorhands, elizabeth, elizabethtown, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, everything is illuminated, eXistenZ, the family stone, farinelli: il castrato, the fifth element, fight club, finding neverland, gangs of new york, gladiator, hackers, halflight, hard candy, harry potter, he loves me... he loves me not, hitchhiker's guide to the galaxy, hook, the importance of being earnest, interview with the vampire, jane eyre, jawbreaker, just one of the guys, kill bill, kiss kiss bang bang, a knight's tale, labyrinth, last of the mohicans, legend, les miserables, little children, lord of the rings, love actually, the man in the iron mask, mansfield park, marie antionette, match point, mean girls, memoirs of a geisha, men in tights, midsummer night's dream, mirrormask, mists of avalon, motorcycle diaries, moulin rouge, my best friend's wedding, nero, never been kissed, the neverending story, the nightmare before christmas, the ninth gate, pan's labyrinth, party monster, the phantom of the opera, the pianist, pillow talk, pirates of the caribbean, pride and prejudice, the princess bride, priscilla queen of the desert, pumpkin, queen of the damned, quills, rebel without a cause, rocky horror picture show, roman holiday, romeo + juliet, the royal tenenbaums, rules of attraction, running with scissors, sabrina, the saint, saved!, science of sleep, sense and sensibility, shaun of the dead, signs, sixteen candles, slackers, slc punks, sleepy hollow, snatch, the sound of music, spirited away, st. ives, street of crocodiles, strictly ballroom, tank girl, that thing you do, tommy, trainspotting, underworld, van helsing, vanilla sky, velvet goldmine, a very long engagement, the village, the virgin suicides, westside story, wet hot american summer, whatever it takes, what dreams may come, where the heart is, wicker park, willow, y tu mama tambien
the riches, scrubs, sex and the city, carnivale, subterranean, wildboyz, house, gilmore girls, project runway, passport to europe, flcl, clone high, book of daniel, cowboy bebop, the tudors, the brini maswellshow, family guy, rome, masterpiece theater and bbc movies/miniseries (wives & daughters, dr. zhivago, tess of the d'ubervilles, david copperfield, pride and prejudice)
magazines: flaunt, swindle, look, spin, lemon, nylon, bon
novels, etc: white teeth, surivor, diary, fight club, beowulf, everything is illuminated, wuthering heights, girl, til we have faces, i like you: hospitality under the influence, pride and prejudice, franny and zooey, age of innocence, the awakening, to kill a mockingbird, jane eyre, great expectations, madame bovary, a passage to india, the romantics, 1984, midsummer night's dream, neverwhere, priestess of avalon, importance of being earnest, harry potter...
a man (eugene hutz)
a woman (domino harvey)
and a transvestite (brini maxwell)