cuteness, cats, music, wine, whiskey, ginger ale, books, cooking, baking and cookbooks, movies, sewing, crochet, stitchery, painting, printmaking, typography, graphic design, letterpress printing, thrift shops, old advertising, old books, old magazines, candy, colors, reflections, shapes, shadows, smoke.
fuzzy kittens and badass motherfuckers.
im: dustedgrrlmy websites: http://www.ilovetheatmosphere.com
http://www.timeforlight.com
http://saltuetoindierockers.blogspot.com
50 Foot Wave, Afghan Whigs, the Amps, Babes In Toyland, Bardo Pond, the Beatles, Belly, Be Your Own Pet, the Birthday Party, the Blake Babies, Blonde Redhead, David Bowie, the Breeders, the Buzzcocks, Can, Cat Power, Leonard Cohen, Come, Cop Shoot Cop, Devo, Dinosour Jr, Dirty Three, Nick Drake, the Fastbacks, the Flaming Lips, Fugazi, the Gits, Godspeed You! Black Emperor, PJ Harvey, Kristin Hersh, Hole, John Spencer Blues Explosion, the Living Jarboe, Mark Lanegan, Larson, Led Zeppelin, Live Skull, Low, the Melvins, Mr. Bungle (etc), Nancy & Lee, Neutral Milk Hotel, NIRVANA, Pavement, Liz Phair, the Pixies, Iggy Pop, R.E.M., the Raincoats, Lou Reed, Screaming Trees, Sebadoh, Shellac, (early) Smashing Pumpkins, Patti Smith, Smog, Sonic Youth, Stereolab, the Stooges, Throwing Muses, the U Men, the Velvet Underground, Violent Femmes, the Walkabouts, the Wipers, X, Yo La Tengo, Neil Young, Thalia Zedek
etc!
the Royal Tennenbaums, Rosemary's Baby, Breakfast At Tiffany's, the Shining, Natural Born Killers, and Happiness, Amelie, Pink Flamingos, Donnie Darko, Me You and Everyone We Know, Magnolia, the House of Yes, Beetlejuice, Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory, Blue Velvet, Silence of the Lambs, Psycho, Jackie Brown, Fargo, Airplane!, Planet of the Apes, Charade, Funny Face, Niagra, the Sound of Music, The Doctor , and 1991: The Year Punk Broke !
I don't watch it, seriously. A little late-night and a little Antiques Roadshow is about all I can handle.
FICTION: alltime favorites: the Bell Jar by Sylvia Plath and the Handmaid's Tale by Margeret Atwood. Plus: novels and short stories by Colette, the Glass stories by JD Salinger, trashy thrillers by Louisa May Alcott, the Little House books by Laura Ignalls Wilder, Anis Nin, a bit of this, a bit of that.
NON-FICTION: evolution, anthropology, women, survival, history, food, cooking, natural health, neurology, typography, graphic design, printmaking and painting.
Kill yr idols!