The curious, if sensitive, art of meshing vintage with mod. Klaus Nomi. DuWop, Chanel, Dior, Benefit and Stila. Paper Magazine. Foxy, pale red-heads. Victorian era. Late 60s Haight-Ashbury. Bebe Buell and other groupie tales (Pam Des Barres, etc.-total guilty pleasure) Noah Baumbach. Why I love the way skunks smell? Sitars. Hookahs. Bohemia. Fresh linens. Hydrangeas. Sweet Pea. Snowglobes. Peter Murphy. Leopold & Loeb. Rock Paper Scissors. Good people doing bad things. Violin playing (& players). Marc Bolan and T. Rex. Feral House Publishers. Sifl and Olly. Abbie and Anita Hoffman (RIP). Cooking with fresh herbs and oils. Cryptozoology, Lithuania, Estonia, Latvia and Sicily
Marion Cotillard Serge Gainsbourg and Jane Birkin=Stone FoxesTHERE IS NO SECRET HANDSHAKE. THERE IS AN IQ PREREQUISITE, BUT THERE IS NO SECRET HANDSHAKE........Eddie Izzard, Marquis de Sade, Young Ones cast circa 83' and Vincent D'Onofrio, Sarah Vowell, Paul Giamatti, Dr. Dre, Marc Jacobs, Neil Jordan and Jay Z-Jigga nicholas ghesquiere ... Who I Would Not Like to Meet : Pillow Cases-you know who you are
Yeasayer, The Tough Alliance, shocking pinks, Jens Lekman, St. Vincent, beirut, Muscles, Emily Haines, Edith Piaf I COULD NEVER LOVE ANOTHER THE WAY I LOVE YOU PETER MURPHY Mastodon, john carpenter film soundtracks, eater, four tops, otis redding, solomon burke, THE KNIFE, battles, ti, J.Timberlake, Grinderman, beyonce, DESTROYER, beach house, SUNSET RUBDOWN, grizzly bear, Heaven 17, electronic, siouxsie, Man Man, Bat for Lashes, nelly furtado, bauhaus, black heart procession, jay z, os mutantes, jacques dutronc, elvis costello, "whiter shade of pale", M.I.A., the jam, the clash, pretty much most music 77'-87', thompson twins, cure, english beat, nouvelle vague, serge gainsbourg, abba, afghan whigs, a-ha, ac/dc, animal collective, arcade fire, annuals, art brut, marianne faithful, beegees, beach boys, big country, dylan, seger, books, boss hog, cabaret voltaire, caribou, "if you leave me now" by Chicago, comets on fire, devendra, dungen, elliott smith, the fall, KATE BUSH, herbert, gary numan, the left banke, modern lovers, liars, lou reed, junior boys, leonard cohen, suicide, love is all, m.ward, magnetic fields, slint, muse, pulp, nick cave, nick drake, phoenix, polly jean harvey, prince, public image ltd, queen, ratatat, roots, roxy music, eno and ferry, architecture in helsinki, Gang Gang Dance, shakespeare's sister, sisters of mercy, smiths, sonic youth, unwound, leonard cohen, vashti bunyan, sparklehorse, sufjan, t.rex, talib, tapes n' tapes, tom waits, tvotr, walkmen, wilderness, wire, X, the slits, lcd soundsystem, the creatures, caetano veloso, hall and oates, bizet, berlioz, mahler, the ronettes, martha reeves & the vandellas, kelly clarkson, stevie wonder, okkervil river, medium medium, wings, stina nordenstam, young marble giants
Peter Sellers & Britt Eckland To list the movies I am into..would be an incredibly painstaking, arduous task. Can I just list the directors I like? Why am I asking you, computer? Ok-the Spanish : del Toro, Inarritu, Almodovar, Cuaron; Tykwer, von Trier, Egoyan, van Sant, Lynch, Gaspar Noe, Eli Roth, Alejandre Aja, Neil Marshall, Noah Baumbach, the Coens, the obvious (Kubrick, Malick, Salles, Hackford, Jewison, Coppola(s), Jonze, Scorsese, Cronenberg, Miyazaki, Hughes), Todd Haynes, Alexander Payne, Todd Field, Michael Winterbottom, Hallstrom, Anderson, Linklater, Herzog, Frances Lawrence, Danny Boyle, David Fincher, Howard Deutch, Jonathan Glazer, Jane Campion, Jeunet, Greg McLean, Werner Herzog, Godard, Argento, Jackson Oh yeah-and "Honky Grandma Be Trippin'" & "Who Dat Ninja" ANYTHING WITH BEN FOSTER WHO IS TOTALLY THE NEXT PENN OR BRANDO
faerie tale theater, black frasier, peep show, 30 rock, Office(s), my name is earl, chef, miami vice, coupling (BBC only), young ones, bottom, kung fu, french & saunders, ab fab, blackadder, fawlty towers, daily show/colbert report, sex & the city, buffy, simpsons (seasons 6 thru 11-old ones before "the change" weird me out), twilight zone, spaced, weeds, dexter, nip/tuck
"an american tragedy," "as i lay dying" (utter perfection), "in and down," brothers karamazov, richard matheson, sagan, rushdie, pynchon, shirley jackson, lahiri, apocalypse culture, jonathan lethem (gun with occasional music), chomsky, scott smith, pagan kennedy, poppy brite, sarah vowell, gaiman, klosterman, kafka, dalai lama, murakami, bukowski, auster, tom wolfe, neil strauss bios, groupie tales (Des Barres and Buell), wb yeats, tom perotta, crowley, gregory david roberts, feral house, algernon blackwood, aleister crowley, henry james, dylan thomas
jayZ, queen elizabeth I, hedi slimane, mahler, john galliano, kubrick, danny elfman, peter o'toole