the tip of my iceberg: 1880's-1920's, abandoned buildings, absinthe, alice in wonderland, androgyny, anglophilia, arabic pop, aromatherapy, art and artifice, baudelaire, beating boys at PINBALL, beatniks, being fed indian food, being read bedtime stories, bellydancing, biba, big pink sparkle dildos, Big Sur, black and white PHOTOBOOTHS, bloomers and petticoats, board games, bohemian ideals, Bolinas, bordellos, bourbon and guinness, carousels and ferris wheels, carnivals and circus sideshows, charles dodgson, chasing butterflies off cliffs, chihuahuas, cinnamon toast, cherries, chimney sweep boys, clown paintings, clowns, coloured lights, courtesans and coquettes, creativity as a religion, CUPCAKES crumpets and crepes, cursing debutantes, dandies and bulldaggers, darkroom experimentation, decadence, densely wooded forests, derek jarman, desire, diamanda galas, dollies and puppets, dollops of devonshire cream, dollybirds, drawing and painting, eccentrics, england my lionheart, erotica and naughty collectibles, exhibitionism for the shy, fafi, fairy tales, feminists with dirty minds, fin de siecle, fingering rare books, food porn, francesca lia block's mind, getting lost in libraries, glam rock and glitter, gypsies, hallucinations, handwritten letters, haunted mansion, hearses, heavy nostalgia, hidden staircases, HIGH QUALITY SEX TOYS, impulsiveness, indulging melancholy thoughts, intensity, jazz age, kissing for hours, la cosa nostra, lace edged parasols, lambs and the wolves who lie down with them, libertinism, libraries, life-size gingerbread houses, lions, lived eccentricity, LONDON ALWAYS LONDON, looking up your skirt, love love and love, lydia lunch, macaroni and cheese, magick, making mix tapes, Mendocino, midnight moonlit meanderings, moon baths, mourning jewelry, murder ballads, my last two weeks, my nana's cannoli, mysticism, nancy boys, naps, NAUGHTY TEA PARTIES, neo-folkies, New Orleans, Niles, opulent boudoirs, oshun, overpowering hedonistic impulses, pansexuality, paris, peacocks, perverse pajama parties, Petaluma, peter greenaway's endless counting, pillow fights, pomegranates, psychedelia, pugs, quentin crisp, rain on my skin, REDHEADS, redwood trees, religiosa, rose infused cocoa, rossetti's stunners, sabbaticals, secret tree houses, sexually explicit material, shared intimacies, sicilian culture, silent film festivals, sleepy sex in the morning, soulmates, spiced ale and hard cider, stilettos, stolen kisses, storytelling around a fire, strange beauty, strawberry switchblade, structured tweed, submission and surrender, sweet transvestites, tambourines, tantra, tarot, Temperley, the essence of vanilla, the fog rolling in, the nostalgia of cloves, the road less traveled, tightly laced corsets, Topanga Canyon, toy cameras, TRANNY TACO TRUCKS, treasure hunts, tripping through the graveyard, trolling dive bars, Turkish coffee, vamps, velvet goldmine, velvet hammer burlesque, vintage crushed velvet, voluptuous women, wandering through cemetaries, watching you watching me, whimsy, wrestling, WRITING, yoga, and (apparently) making lists . . .
Derek Jarman, Oscar Wilde, myself at age 19, bohemian idealists, bon vivants, and good time gals. excellent conversationalists. teachers. sex educators and sex-positive activists. old friends. burlesque beauties. writers. people who love to play board games or have midnight picnics. boys that look like chimney sweeps . . .
antony & the johnsons, kate bush, vashti bunyan, coil, david sylvian, alessi, bat for lashes, midnight movies, karen dalton, david bowie, nick cave, birthday party, gun club, patti smith, X, nick drake, the doors, cat stevens, nikki sudden, cocorosie, siouxsie, peter murphy, bauhaus, this mortal coil, diamanda galas, lydia lunch,rozz's christian death, killing joke, nina hagen, marc almond, chameleons, jesus and mary chain, new order,
stevie nicks, tom waits, billie holiday, helen kane, hanoi rocks, pj harvey, kurt weill, marianne faithful, omd, the cure, blondie, t.rex, sweet, big star, beth orton, the cult, cheap trick, aerosmith, KISS,led zeppelin, winter flowers, fado, oum kalthoum, arabic pop music, egyptian and turkish percussion, ragtime, bessie smith, ministry, moev, modern english, spell,
strawberry switchblade, roxy music, maria callas, eric satie, edith piaf, psychedelia, english folk music, teena marie, rick james, social distortion, vice squad, executioner, husker du, part time christians, GBH, 7 year bitch, generation x, lords of the new church, todd rundgren, the clash, the damned, joan jett, jill tracy, dirges, americana and bluegrass, carny music, calliope tunes, parisian cafe songs, psychedelic-british-hippy-folk-stuff, jefferson airplane, jethro tull, and (oh yeah!), Journey!
velvet goldmine, breakfast at tiffanys, ghost world, bell book & candle, moulin rouge, nightporter, city of lost children, eternal sunshinge of the spotless mind, amelie, harold & maude, grey gardens, lost highway, female trouble, pretty in pink, secretary, aimee & jaguar, charlie and the chocolate factory, breaking glass, cabaret, rocky horror, the wizard of oz, suburbia, little darlings, freeway, liquid sky, juliet of the spirits, thoroughly modern millie, the wicker man, chitty chitty bang bang, nightmare before christmas, the fashionistas, the hunger, the company of wolves, filth and the fury, boondock saints, the holy mountain, valerie and her week of wonders, buffalo '66, sooner or later, the forbidden zone, silent films & pre-code talkies, anything by john waters, frederico fellini, derek jarman, david lynch, peter greenaway, jeanne cocteau, and tim burton. most anything starring the three johns (depp, cusack or rhys-meyers), crispin glover, willem dafoe, catherine deneuve, marlene dietrich, or drew barrymore. old shirley temple movies!
don't watch much these days:
Betty Boop: Snow White
old cartoons,love most things on PBS and the BBC, twin peaks, the office, old avengers, sex & the city, banana splits, krofft supershow, the addams family, desperate housewives, and most cooking shows (especially Nigella Cooks!) . . .
other people's diaries, alice in wonderland (lewis carroll), i-D magazine, escape from houdini mountain (pleasant gehman), chronicles of narnia (c.s. lewis), natural history of the senses (diane ackerman), secret paris of the 30's (brassai), the ethical slut, most anything by: francesca lia block, baudelaire, rimbaud, verlaine, jim morrison, sandra cisneros, oscar wilde, quentin crisp, angela carter, jeanette winterson, bell hooks, re/search publications, cultural histories and bios of various bohemian circles . . .
David Sylvian, my Nana, Lydia Lunch, Amma, Pleasant Gehman, Violet Blue, Jim Morrison, Antony Hegarty, Jillian Lauren, Arthurbugs,bell hooks, Bettina Aptheker, Jeanne Cocteau, Patti Smith, Henry Miller, Oscar Wilde, Exene Cervenka, Vivienne Westwood, Carol Queen, Keith Haring, Winnie-the-Pooh, Quentin Crisp, Diamanda Galas, the Cockettes, Nina Hartley, Nina Hagen, My Friends