beaded curtains, fake flowers, icing, tinsel, streamers, Easter grass, jeweled fruit, lace, tassels, fringe, pom poms, wrapping paper, wallpaper, doilies, glitter, plastic utensils, drinking straws, feather boas, dollhouse furniture, plastic beads, dishes, and candy
Jean Cocteau, and anyone who might be interested in starting a chandelier collection
Mary Wells, Smokey Robinson, Stereo Total, Magnetic Fields/Future Bible Heroes, Depeche Mode, Unrest, The Marine Girls, Francoise Hardy, Heavenly, The Clientele, The Clinic, Orange Juice, Architecture in Helsinki, Pizzicato Five, The Carpenters, Broadcast, The Ink Spots, OMD, Harry Nilsson, June Christy, Eartha Kitt, Devendra Banhart, Jonathan Richman & The Modern Lovers, The Unicorns, Suicide, The Aislers Set, Camera Obscura, The Denver Gentlemen, Of Montreal, The Moog Cookbook, Destroyer, The Beatles' Magical Mystery Tour, Charles Aznavour, Wolf Parade, Syd Barrett, T.Rex, Holly Golightly, The Essex Green, Donovan, Fleetwood Mac in the 60s & 70s, The Fiery Furnaces, The Dreamland Faces, My Morning Jacket, The Microphones, The Smiths, Joy Division/New Order, The Cranes, Jacques Brel, The Marshmellow Coast, The Zombies, Add (N) to X, Kitty Lester, Barbara Lewis, The Flamingos, Mu, Komeda, Death by Chocolate, Dinah Washington, The Mad Lads, Duplex, The Moldy Peaches, Soft Cell, Lesley Gore, The Shangri-las, Peggy Lee, The Teardrop Explodes (in the late 70's), Johnny Paycheck's murder ballads, The Pretty Things, The Skatalites, The Chi-Lites (so amazing, i can't believe it), The Feminine Complex, The Brittle Stars, Rene & Wendy, Arling & Cameron, Tom Lehrer (even though he wasn't always politically correct), Carla Thomas, The Vera Violets, This Mortal Coil, The Tindersticks, Ted Hawkins (solo recordings), St. Christopher, The Sparks, The Slumber Party, The Slits, His Name Is Alive, Mercedes Simone, The Radio Dept., Os Mutantes, The Left Banke, The Flamingoes, Hot Chip, ESG, The Platters, Love Is All, Azalia Snail, Nancy Sinatra (with and without Lee Hazelwood), The Sundays, The Orchids, Serge Gainsbourg, Dalida in the 60's
Kings & Queen, Nobody Knows, Bad Education, Repulsion (by Roman Polanski), Chronicle of a Summer (by Jean Rouch & Edgar Morin), Water Drops on Burning Rocks (Francois Ozon), After Life (Kore-eda), Persona (Ingmar Bergman), Orpheus (Jean Cocteau), Blood of a Poet, Beauty and the Beast (Cocteau), Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Umbrellas of Cherbourg, The Passion of Joan of Arc, The Apartment, Auntie Mame, His Girl Friday, It Happened One Night, My Man Godfrey, Gaslight, Friday Night (Claire Denis), Irma Vep (Olivier Assayas), Vivre sa vie, I'm Not Scared, most Almodovar films and films by Wong Kar-Wai and Francois Ozon and Dorothy Arzner and Michael Haneke and Krzysztof Kieslowski and Agnes Varda and Godard; Juliet of the Spirits (Fellini)
Susan Sontag's "Notes on 'Camp'" from Against Interpretation; Turgenev's Fathers and Sons; books I've read (for fun) since I moved to Germany: Rosemary's Baby by Ira Levin, (reread) Fathers and Songs by Ivan Turgenev, The Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde, The Talented Mr. Ripley by Patricia Highsmith, Life is Elsewhere by Milan Kundera, Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham, Point Counterpoint by Aldous Huxley, The Resurrection by Leo Tolstoy, Dubliners by James Joyce, The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky (currently reading it...after remembering how the mouse character in the animated movie An American Tale said it was his favorite book, and discovered that it was one of the cat's favorite books too...it's good to follow through on childhood goals, I think).
Walter B., Roland B., Marc B., Imogene B., Rebecca B.