Photography (love the smell of the chemicles and telling a story), Sculpture, Painting, Digital Art. Sewing... dress making, corsetry, art-quilt. Music - nothing like seeing a band live. Shoes.... love wearing beatiful shoes (problem is does a girl EVER have enough??!), shopping for, the history of.... (apparently there is a little shoe museum in the south of france i've been meaning to look up for years). Am presently pineing from not having a cat in my life.... and those that you bump into in the street.... I swear they can smell the desperation for kitty cuddles.
People who are comfortable in their own skin.An estate agent who knows how long it takes to walk a 2km. An estate agent who doesn't try to get you to rent a flat because of it's 'great parking space'....blah blah blah..... only to ask - so do you have a car? no.
Morrissey, The Smiths, The Cure, Suede, Garbage, Interpole, Covenant, The Dresdon Dolls, David Bowie, Tori Amos, Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Heather Nova, Ashton Nyte and the Accussed, Gary Numan, Johnny Cash, Arcade Fire, The Kills, Babyshambles, The Ravonettes, Placebo, The Editors, Depeche Mode, Garbage, Goldfrappe, The white stripes, Jim Neversink, Queen Adreena, Ramstein, Clap your hands and say yeah!, Joydivision, The Noisettes, PJ Harvey, Placebo, She wants revenge, The Raconteurs, The tears, The Strokes, Yeah yeah yeah's, Belle and Sebastion, The Diesel Whores, Frou Frou, I love you but i've chosen darkness, The puppini sisters, REM, The velvet underground, Wilco, Audrey, The Killers, Tom Waits, Bright Eyes, Blanche, Amy Winehouse, Frank Sinatra, Ella Fitzgerald, The Shins, Ladytron and the Supremes..... ha ha now if that aint eclectic i don't know what is!
Finding Neverland, Edward Scissor Hands, Nightmare before Christmas, Chicken Run, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, Amelie, Scoobey Doo, Evil Dead, ...all Aardman (if you're a fan look out for Pib & Pob, "that's going to need a plaster!") Pirates of the Caribbean, Quills, Wild at Heart, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Sleepy Hollow. Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Lost Highway, Blue Velvet, Inland Empire
Buffy the Vampire Slayer! The Young Ones. Desperate housewives. The Wombles (yep... it's a nostalgic thing.... and i'm talking about when they still had their little black beady eyes and stop animation), Twin Peaks, League of Gentlemen, Green Wing, La Linea
Neil Gaiman - Neverwhere, Coraline, Violent Cases. Roman Dirge - All of his graphic novels, I especially like Lenore. Harry Potter. Daniel Wallace - Big Fish. Piece by piece (Tori Amos) Memoirs of a Geisha. The state of the union. Wuthering Heights.
My mum, "take the time to stop and smell the roses".