watching/making movies, 60s sexploitation, super-8 film, overdubbed dialogue & voice-over narration, celloing, cooking, obsessively hand-stitching things onto t-shirts, participating in assorted collaborative creative endeavors, anagrams, palindromes, alliteration, urban exploration, ectoplasm, astrology, pseudoscience, visiting weird museums, consuming alarming amounts of coffee
Lots o' folks.
wanda jackson, hank williams, patsy cline, serge gainsbourg, rasputina, guitar wolf, the sonics, screamin' jay hawkins, the cramps, thee headcoatees, rodd keith/norman burns/other song-poem people, doris day, ennio morricone, alessandro alessandroni, roy ayers, gert wilden, many many 60s/70s soundtracks (including lots of stock 'library music' and, most importantly, 'vampyros lesbos sexadelic dance party'), 60s girl groups, 70s soul, etc., etc....
the haunting (60’s one), homicidal, strait-jacket, the tingler, what ever happened to baby jane?, johnny guitar, calamity jane, bringing up baby, all about eve, pillow talk, kitten with a whip, the abominable dr. phibes, killer nun, lizard in a woman’s skin, don’t torture a duckling, shivers (aka they came from within), the gore gore girls, basket case, phenomena, geek maggot bingo, tetsuo: the iron man, carrie, may, peeping tom, repulsion, les diaboliques, rosemary’s baby, the piano teacher, the battle of algiers, a man escapes, el topo, holy mountain, the killing of sister george, irma vep, the saddest music in the world, conspirators of pleasure, faust (svankmajer’s), little otik, harold & maude, pee-wee’s big adventure, desperate living, pink flamingos, multiple maniacs, female trouble, coffy, the big doll house, switchblade sisters, death race 2000, gozu, visitor q, the happiness of the katakuris, xanadu, barbarella, how to stuff a wild bikini, lord love a duck, the telephone book, the devil in miss jones, the opening of misty beethoven, beneath the valley of the ultra-vixens, orgy of the dead, the wild wild world of jayne mansfield, let me die a woman, chained girls, the dirty girls, the alley cats, she mob, she-man, olga's house of shame, sin in the suburbs, the love merchant, the agony of love, career bed, bad girls go to hell, another day another man, my brother’s wife, indecent desires, the the ultimate degenerate, the curse of her flesh, the lusting hours, diary of a swinger, the heat of madness, teenage gang debs, spider-baby, vapors, sex garage, the craven sluck, the cattle mutilations, and probably many more...... plus, most anything from something weird video.
shirley jackson (esp. the haunting of hill house), sarah waters (esp. affinity), stiff: the curious lives of human cadavers, spook: science tackles the afterlife, bette and joan: the divine feud, marlene (the dietrich bio by her daughter), the celluloid closet, re/search #10: incredibly strange films, relationships and life cycles: modern dimensions of astrology (and most other astrological texts i can get my hands on), and, lately, i've been trying to read about dowsing...