Stream of consciousness time...movies (watching and analyizing), music, brewing tea, cooking with plant life, growing plants, playing with cats, reading anything, wandering at night, dancing, watching the rain, doing bizarre things with clothing, talking for hours, trying new foods, religion, philosophy, history, anthropology, wine, the meaning of language, art, any liquer flavored with anise, baking, mourning imagery, ocassional thrill seeking, and building my library
Anyone who can make my mind sing, or who could teach me how to dance...I mean really dance. I'm about as coordinated as a tipsy toddler, but i can dream...right?
*Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds*Voltaire*The Dresden Dolls*Joy Division*Interpol*Einsturzende Neubauten*Morrissey*The Faint*Bauhaus*The Cure*Black Tape for a Blue Girl*Diamanda Galas*Rasputina*J. S. Bach*Death Cab for Cutie*The Decembrists*Nine Inch Nails*Johnny Cash*Grinderman (I know, technically Nick Cave, but ya'll can bite me)*The Damned*The Birthday Party*Siouxsie and the Banshees
A little (or a lotta) old German cinema, large quantities of silent film, (I know what you're thinking..."But silent film is hokey!", and I say, watch "The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari", or "The Passion of Joan of Arc" be awed and be silenced. The same goes for any Fritz Lang), and whatever else strikes my fancy. Burton is good for eye candy. Lars von Trier is a genius and I love his work. See also Fellini, Murnau, Dreyer, and Dario Argento. Theda Bara is my hero and Rudolph Valentino is my favorite postumous crush. Oh, and anything MST3K ever did fills me with child-like glee.
I never watch...no this is not a challenge. DVDs of "Invader Zim" do not count as TV...because I say they don't. When I acquire Seasons 1 and 2 of the Addams family, the same will apply.
Poe, Falkner, some Hugo, Jane Austen, history and anthropology...the darker and more tied into culture, religion and superstition the better, Kafka, Dostoyevsky, Camus, medieval romances (in the Aurthurian sense), George Elliot, Greek drama, Lovecraft, ocassional stabs at Burroughs, "The Divine Comedy" once a year, "Polyglot and Spleen", "Johnny the Homicidal Maniac", Victorian religious treatises, Gogol, David McCullough, Tolstoy, when I feel like being forcefed a moral, "Alice in Wonderland", and interesting cookbooks.
Did I mention Theda Bara? Or Myla Normi? Does Morticia Addams count, being that she's fictional? What does it say that my heroes are all strong women in black?