filmmaking, travelling, art, adventure, history, myths, star gazing, ship wrecks, swashbuckling, skullduggery, pillaging, plundering, booty, haunted houses, used books, fabulous footwear, fishnets, fine booze, good company
pirates, pickpockets, chimney-sweeps, dandies, rogues, rebels, raconteurs, romantics, daydreamers, explorers, alchemists, gypsies, rabble-rousers, love-makers, hip-shakers, ne'er-do-wells, femmes fatales, scoundrels, visionaries, vagabonds, highwaymen, gentlemenalso...Richard Dawkins , Johnny Depp , & Eddie Izzard (the funniest man on earth!) - but it's not likely that I'll find any of these men on Myspace, so... even if you're not a brilliant biologist, a handsome matinee idol, or a sexy British comedian, you're still very welcome on this page (provided that you're basically a congenial sort of person, genuine, and/or relatively sane ;)
old faves: Billie Holiday,
David Bowie, PJ Harvey, Björk, Leonard Cohen, Nick Drake, Iggy & The Stooges, PiL, The Pogues, The Smiths, The Cure, The Buzzcocks, The Cramps, The Kinks, The Jam, The Stones (early stuff), Velvet Underground, Nico, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Echo & the Bunnymen, Adam & the Ants, Joy Division, New Order, Roxy Music, T Rex, Massive Attack, Portishead, Radiohead, Pulp, Blur, Suede, Dandy Warhols, Tiger Lillies, Cocteau Twins, The Pixies, My Bloody Valentine, Clinic Prince, Beck, NIN, Blondie, Kristin Hersh, Lush, Bauhaus, Belle & Sebastian, Kraftwerk, Aphex Twin, Air, Madredeus, Dylan, Them, Nuggets comp, Jeff Buckley, Tom Waits, Marianne Faithfull, Edith Piaf, Chavela Vargas, Etta James, Skip James, Josephine Baker, Bessie Smith, Patti Smith, Lucienne Boyer, Kurt Weill, Dietrich, Serge Gainsbourg, Scott Walker, Patsy Cline, Johnny Cash, Roy Orbison, Woody Guthrie, Neil Young, Hank Williams, Otis Redding, Dusty Springfield, Peggy Lee, Nina Simone, Maria Callas, Amália Rodrigues, Lila Downs La Niña de los Peines /Pavón, Satie, Debussy, Shostakovich
new(er) faves:
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club, The Arcade Fire, Sons and Daughters, Rufus Wainwright, Franz Ferdinand, Ladytron, Goldfrapp, The White Stripes, Mother & the Addicts, The Morning After Girls, Peaches, Sigur Rós, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, The Kills, The Lovemakers, The Delays, Scissor Sisters, Persephone's Bees, Gorillaz, Interpol, LCD Soundsystem, The Black Angels, The Streets, The Raveonettes
J'adore le cinéma!
A Clockwork Orange, Trainspotting, Amadeus, Dangerous Liasons, Satyricon, Belle de Jour, Henry and June, Gosford Park, Wings of the Dove, Gangs of New York, The Nightmare Before X-Mas, Metropolis (silent film), Vertigo, Orlando, Velvet Goldmine, La Reine Margot, Ma Vie en Rose, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, The Princess and the Warrior, A Streetcar Named Desire, Man with the Movie Camera, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Lost In Translation, Amélie, The City of Lost Children, Delicatessen, Harold & Maude Morvern Callar, Disco Pigs, Ghost World, Wonder Boys, The Commitments, Labyrinth, Heathers, Dead Man, Frida, Basquiat, I Heart Huckabees, The Royal Tenenbaums, Léon / The Professional, The Night Porter, Peeping Tom, Repulsion, Bleu, Croupier, Titus, Donnie Darko, Apocalypse Now, Hearts of Darkness, Doctor Zhivago, Lawrence of Arabia, addicted to Jane Austen chick-flicks, and pretty much anything starring Johnny Depp, surrealism & silent films & anything directed by: Scorsese, Fellini, Kubrick, Buñuel, Visconti, Fritz Lang, Pedro Almodovar, Elia Kazan, Tim Burton, Terry Gilliam, Ken Loach, David Lynch, and The Brothers Quay
currently:
Rome, Weeds, Carnivale, Real Time with Bill Maher, The L Word, Deadwood
old faves:
Buffy, Twin Peaks, Monty Python, The Young Ones, Queer As Folk
novels: Wuthering Heights, Les Liaisons Dangereuses, The Story of O, The Master and Margarita, The Great Gatsby, The Passion by Jeanette Winterson) Alice's Adventures in Wonderland, Le Rouge et le Noir, Oliver Twist, Beautiful Losers authors: Oscar Wilde, Tennessee Williams, Edgar Allan Poe, Dylan Thomas, Thomas Paine, Baudelaire, Coleridge, DH Lawrence, Dickens, Dickinson, Faulkner, Virginia Woolf, William Blake
Oscar Wilde, Frida Kahlo, Mata Hari, Joseph Campbell, Robert Burns, Bertrand Russell, Richard Dawkins