spirit photography, silent film, Coney Island, Hans Bellmer, vaudeville, Bellocq, 60's pop music (Brill building!), Depression-era cinema, carnival lore, Lady Hawarden, Francesca Woodman, movie palaces, fantasy architecture, WFMU, Max Fleischer cartoons, weird Ohio, RKO horror flicks, Elizabeth Taylor's eyebrows, old Miami, Arthur Rackham, Jackie Curtis' fashion sense, photo hoaxes
Mary Shelley, Montgomery Clift, Brian Jones, Philly Boy Roy
Screamin' Jay Hawkins, H-Bomb Ferguson, Morphine, Tom Waits, Velvet Underground, Django Reinhardt, Louis Armstrong, Dusty Springfield, The Shangri La's, Little Willie John, Prince, Chuck E Weiss, Big Star, Kate Bush, John Hammond, Angelo Badalamenti, This Mortal Coil, Nick Drake, Sonic Youth, The Swans, Nick Cave, T Rex, The Cramps, The Black Keys, The Fiery Furnaces, 13th Floor Elevators, Silver Apples, Danger Mouse, the Ronettes, Ween, Sun Ra, the Handshake Squad, Helen Kane, Josephine Baker, Eartha Kitt, David Bowie, Asha Bhosle
Golddiggers of 1933, The Company of Wolves, Forbidden Zone, The Man Who Laughs, Night of the Hunter, Lolita (Kubrick!), Harold & Maude, The Elephant Man, the Wicker Man (robin hardy!), Barfly
Twilight Zone, Twin Peaks, Carnivale, Deadwood, Bewitched.... Netflix is the current opiate of choice
Fishboy, Slaughterhouse Five, les Liasons Dangereuses, Faithfull, Shock Value, The Devil in the White City, Little Me
John Eberson, Tom Waits, Guy Maddin, Mark Sandman, Vali Myers, Lillian Gish, Busby Berkely, Leiber & Stoller, Shadow Morton, Bunny Yaeger, Louis Armstrong, Billy Name