Machines, sex, death, Marchesa Casati, Clara Rockmore, Marjorie Cameron, Frank O. Gehry, Klaus Nomi, Lee Bontecou, The Pre Raphaelite movement, Vin Mariani, Biba, Andy Warhol, Gunther Von Hagen, Cy Twombly, absinthe, Le Musee Fragonard, Joel Peter Witkin, William Morris, George Brummel, experiments, contorting, nanotechnology, tree grafting, hypnosis, albino blackbirds, the symphony, Nick Knight, Mick Rock, graffiti, polaroid pictures, black amethyst, vortex cabinets, quantum physics, mellotrons, Leon Theremin, terpsitone, magicians, psychology, breakdancers, tremolos, lightning, victorian politics, baton twirlers, hand embroidery, oil, vinyl, Poe, photography, trapeze artistry, film making, antiques, ideology, cultural determinism vs. cultural transcendence, conscious vs. unconscious motivation.
The one who gives me a pretty rush down my spine, someone I could kill. visionaries, humanitarians and beautiful distractions...
THE MEEK, Angelo Badalamenti, Singapore Sling, Spacemen 3, Public Nuisance, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Glasvegas, Patsy Cline, Love and Rockets, Bowie, The Fall, Sonic Youth, Evie Sands, Marlena Dietrich, Joy Division, Elvis, The Standells, Question Mark and The Mysterians, Echo and The Bunnymen, Malaria, Bauhaus, Jeff Buckley, The Raveonettes, The Stranglers, Buzzcocks, The Cramps, The Velvet Underground, Bob Dylan, The Verve, Oasis, The Jesus and Mary Chain, Nick Drake, Van Morrison, Radiohead, Roxy Music, Beatles, New Order, B. & Rakim, Miss Kitten, Nirvana, Pixies, Iggy pop, The Smiths, Ramones, Rolling Stones, The White Stripes, Duran Duran, The Cure, Tricky, Led Zepplin, Patti Smith, The Stooges, Morrissey, Warlocks, Erik Satie, Nancy Sinatra, some avant-guard stuff, Paul Winfield, Bernard Hermann, Maurice Ravel, Bach, Stravinsky, Beethoven, Tchaikovsky, Mozart, Leonard Cohen,...
A Woman Is a Woman, Kennith Anger films, Woody Allan, Grey Gardens, Harrold and Maud, Last Tango in Paris, Hands on a Hardbody, El Topo, And God Created Woman, Dancing Outlaw, Damage, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Blue Velvet, Waiting For Guffman, A Clockwork Orange, Puce Moment, anything with Peter Sellers...
Baudelaire, Henry Miller, The Prophet, The Holographic Universe, W.B. Yeats, Charles Bukowski, Rochester, Voltaire, Keats, Lord Byron, Plath, Rumi, Hemingway, Pablo Neruda, Lovecraft, Tolstoy, Walter de la Mare, Burns....
Aaron Cohen and Joan Hannington.