- maraschino cherries
- hoodies with pouches
- all you can eat buffet
- happy butt dancing
- well worn stuffed animals
- pandas and koalas
- film noir
- 40's and 50's pin-up girls
- eyeliner
- bunny slippers
- parasols
- sewing
- design
- art
- psychology
- biology
- piano (I hope to learn one day)
- photography
- antiques
- thrift store shopping
- argyle knee socks
- fishnet thigh highs
- video games (I blame Eric)
- gummi worms
- milkshakes
- watching movies with a blanket
- downloading music like it's an addiction
- singing in my car and not caring how retarded I look
- going out with friends mostly to Christy's Euro Pub
- reading books
- escaping reality
- trying to draw and paint
- making tiny stuffed animals
- writing poetry, journaling, and some short stories
- swimming
- floating
- exploring
- road trips
- squishing
- squeaking
- biting
- snuggling
- playing with my cats
- cooking (but it happens rarely)
- tying bows with my string cheese
- Jersey Mikes Subs
- guacamole
- sushi
- making jewelry and other accessories
- playing dress up
- attempting to knit
- Beautiful Katamari
- vintage stuff
- retro decor
- vinyl records
zombies.
I am open to many different types of music, but here are some of my favorites...
Regina Spektor
Tori Amos
Fiona Apple
The Shins
Poe
Radiohead
Garbage
Peaches
Morningwood
My Chemical Romance
Weezer
Jimmy Eat World
Violent Femmes
Portishead
Taking Back Sunday
Death Cab for Cutie
The Boy Least Likely To
Coheed and Cambria
The Cure
AC/DC
Stabbing Westward
Joy Division
Queen
Tears for Fears
Oingo Boingo
Depeche Mode
Duran Duran
The Cars
Annie Lenox
The Faint
The Libertines
The Killers
Kenna
Head Automatica
Emery
Circa Survive
Vast
Neurotic Fish
Bjork
Tangerine Dream
Placebo
Collide
Pretty Girls Make Graves
VNV Nation
Covenant
Nine Inch Nails
Bright Eyes
Mindless Self Indulgence
Guster
Jack off Jill
Scarling
The Donnas
Rasputina
Rilo Kiley
Thursday
Cursive
Belle and Sebastian
Letters to Cleo
Sneaker Pimps
Aimee Mann
The Eyeliners
The Cars
Veruca Salt
Muse
The Smiths
Mirah
Billie Holiday
Etta James
Nina Simone
Madeline Peyroux
Patsy Cline
Frou Frou
The Dresden Dolls
Horrorpops
Harley Poe
Massive Attack
Metric
Drill
Starlight Mints
Assemblage 23
KMFDM
Dismantled
Imperative Reaction
Ladytron
Maystar
Goldfrapp
The Walkmen
Shiny Toy Guns
The Ditty Bops
Blonde Redhead
Fiest
Swayzak
Denali
Azure Ray
Blaqk Audio
Devil Doll
Camille
Snake River Conspiracy
The Soviettes
Vive La Fete
Midnight Movies
Sia
Paramore
ModWheelMood
The YeahYeahYeahs
Cleint
CSS
Apoptygma Berserk
Combichrist..
Cocteau Twins
The Birthday Massacre
Editors
Bat for Lashes
De vision
Tegan and Sarah
Trespassers William
Lush
Imogen Heap
and I add to this list from time to time.
Dead Alive (Braindead)
The Shining
Carrie
American Psycho
Company of Wolves
Evil Dead
Evil Dead II
Army of Darkness
Re-animator
Labyrinth
Dark Crystal
Legend
The NeverEnding Story
Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory
Batman Returns
Edward Scissorhands
The Crow
Dark City
a lot of stop-motion animation stuff
The Fantastic Adventures of Unico
Kiss of the Beast(Meridian)
Jan Svankmajer's Alice
Donnie Darko
Suspiria
Requiem for a Dream
Se7en
Sin City
True Romance
White Oleander
Snow Falling on Cedars
Amelie
Garden State
The Jacket
May
The Devil's Backbone
Tetsuo: The Iron Man
The Thing
Cronenberg's The Fly
Videodrome
Scanners
American Werewolf in London
Bladerunner
Texas Chainsaw Massacre the original
Hellraiser I and 2
Audition
The Virgin Suicides
Lolita
Lost in Translation
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Suddenly, Last Summer
Spendor in the Grass
Roman Holiday
Breakfast at Tiffany's
Sabrina
Vertigo
Psycho
Rocky Horror Picture Show (just for the mere fact it is ridiculous)
The Professional(Leon the Professional)
Hackers
Better Off Dead
Real Genius
Ghost World
Blue Velvet
Battle Royale
Jacob's Ladder
Cry-Baby
The Science of Sleep
The City of Lost Children
The Machinist
Night of the Living Dead
Splendor
THX 1138
Full Metal Jacket
Amadeus
Kamakazi Girls
Hillary and Jackie
My Fair Lady
Pan's Labyrinth
Lovesong for Bobby Long
V for Vendetta
Barbarella
Six-String Samurai
300
Shaun of the Dead
Secret of Nimh
How the Grinch Stole Christmas(animated)
Silent Hill
Return to Oz
Sweeney Todd
Juno
Nosferatu Phantom der Nacht (1979)
Plunkett and Macleane
and I will be adding more to this list later. Oh yes, many more.....
FAVORITE DIRECTORS:
BRIAN DE PALMA
ALFRED HITCHCOCK
TIM BURTON
DAVID CRONENBERG
GUILLERMO DEL TORO
DARIO ARGENTO
STANLEY KUBRICK
NEIL JORDAN
SOFIA COPPOLA
JEAN-PIERRE JEUNET
RIDLEY SCOTT
MICHEL GONDRY
DAVID LYNCH
Aqua Teen Hunger Force
Robot Chicken
Futurama
Family Guy
Invader Zim
Scrubs
Law and Order
NCIS
and various cartoons
Pride and Prejudice
Mansfield Park
Emma(These first three are by Jane Austen, I am a sucker for a romance not of the harlequin variety)
Like Water for Chocolate (romantic and makes you hungry)
Jane Eyre(one of my faves)
Ethan Frome (I like the twist at the end)
Great Expectations
White Oleander
Alice in Wonderland (One of my childhood favorites)
most of Stephen King
some of Clive Barker
The Jungle
Choke (the first book I read of Chuck Palahniuk, one of the most original writers I have ever read)
Survivor (also by Chuck Palahniuk)
Dangerous Angels (really cute and appeals to my childish nature, by Francesca Lia Block)
Memoirs of a Geisha (beautifully written)
Naked Lunch (about a drug addict, highly original and very strange by William S. Burroughs)
Pattern Recognition (great main character, I love the way William Gibson writes)
George Orwell's 1984
and Huxley's Brave New World
Dark City Dames
Lolita
Balzac and the Little Chinese Seamstress (about how books can change your life)
Exsquisite Corpse by Poppy Z.Brite
The Bloody Chamber by Angela Carter (twisted fairytales, very well written)
The Infernal Desire Machines of Dr. Hoffman by Angela Carter
Carrie's Story
Necklace of Kisses by Francesca Lia Block
and Wise Children by Angela Carter
The Magic Toyshop by Angela Carter
Red as Blood by Tanith Lee
This is another list I will add more as I go, but for now....
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Hello Kitty, because her cute face saves me from destruction everyday.