new & improved! in alphabetical order, for your referencing pleasure!: 23, a.e. housman, abandoned photos, abelard, achilles, adult swim, agrigento, ancient rome, anime, anything archaic, arachnophobic, archaic dipthongs, astrolabes, bamboo forests, bill viola, black figure pottery, books, boots, brasai, brothers quay, buffy, bulgakov, burlesque, the capetians, cat worship, catullus, chateau pommard, christopher walken, codicology, collage, crispin glover, dancing, david lynch, death of agamemnon, dioramas, dirty three, dorian gray, ebm, epistulary love, france, franz kline, garage sales, geeks, gimmicks, gin, gunther grass, hagiography, hip bones, horace, hubris, huysmanns, iconography, inclinations, industrial, insomnia, jeanette winterson, jeff buckley, jim dine, joseph cornell, julius caesar, klezmers, kraftwerk, kronos quartet, ladytron, latin, lemurs, linguistics, lip biting, macs, mann, marionettes, masoch, master and margarita, medieval history, the true merovingians (kiss my ass, dan brown), messy hair, miasma, mithraism, morocco, moroder, mysticum, nabokov, new wave, nick cave, no, noise, not peter lombard, octavio paz, odd nerdrum, ondaatje, owls, paleography, pax augustana, perversities, pirates, pontius pilate, private dancer, propaganda, proust, puppets, ralph fiennes, red, rive gauche, robots, roland howard, rural malaise, russia, the satyricon, schiele, shonuff, shoulders, sifl and olly, six feet under, sloths, space junk, squirrels, stonewall jackson, strange bits, strange boys, stubborness, supersternal notch, superstition, susan rothenberg, swill, synthesizers, talking to seamus, tall texans, the birthday party, the getty, the invisibles, the rapture (as in: "shake, what is that helmet for?" -- "oh, this? this is for the rapture."), the vestals, theramins, tom waits, top shelf, tshirts, twin peaks, umlauts, wagner, wasabi, weltschmerz, woland, yes, zizek.
there a few characters, including: peter abelard, nick cave, jack shaftoe, bill hicks, eleanor of acquitaine, beryl smalley, the borgias for drinks, egon schiele, mick jagger & david bowie on the set of dancing in the streets, ralph fiennes, catullus, julius caesar, & just for kicks: a drunk alcibiades.
other than that: any one who would not be offended listening to be ramble about the historical value of catholicism or seeing how overwhelmed i become when thinking about roman culture. in fact, some one who would offer point or counter point to such discussion. oh, and those who like doing such things while drinking a wide variety of red wines, mostly from france or spain.
or simply, a certain man named seamus to whom i just so happen to be MARRIED.
iman, i can only imagine how relieved you are. monica belucci, too. to the thin, white duke & mr. cassell: don't be too heartbroken, i am madly in love.
nick cave, p.j. harvey, tom waits, johnny cash, david bowie, serge gainsbourg, the birthday party, the dirty three, bauhaus, new order, joy division, love & rockets, lene lovitch, poulenc, wagner, beethoven, the walker brothers, mick harvey, roland howard, giorgio moroder, the shadow government, will oldham, palace music, polvo, plexi, bardo bond, elbow, cursive, codeine, depeche mode, christian death (r. williams era only, thank you), 45 grave, portishead, modest mouse, wilco, the arcade fire, radiohead, skinny puppy, autolux, kasabian - i suppose you could say brit disco punk, in general - robyn hitchcock & the egyptians, black sabbath, the rolling stones, the warlocks, public enemy, the notorious b.i.g., nwa, dialated peoples, immortal technique, u.n.k.l.e., wire, b52s, early xtc, the dukes of the stratospheare, queens of the stone age, satyricon, sigh, ac/dc, zz top, turbonegro, the drive by truckers, old-old-school hip hop, neko case, the new pornographers, cat power when she is covering others' songs, the toy dolls, ultravox, kraftwerk, the police, whatever seamus happens to be singing about the house, blonde redhead, tortoise, godspeedyoublackemperor & other epic sounding things, medieval beer songs (e.g. carmina burana), alaska!, the vanishing, the blonde alibi, angel eyes, mojave 3, girls vs. boys, adam ant, the guilty pleasure of ebm, the talking heads, u2, bjork, nirvana, radars to the sky, sleepmask, les enfants terribles, john spencer blues explosion, delta blues, jazz, billie holiday, ella fitzgerald, gitane music, frank sinatra, crooners, & so much more!
the good the bad and the ugly, the proposition, lonesome dove, titus, casino, greenaway, anything with daniel auteuil or vincent cassell, beckett on film, heathers, elizabeth, sunshine, la fille sur la pont, battle royale, institute benjamenta, trouble every day, l'appartement, liaison d'amour, guy maddin, l'homme du train, la veuve de st. pierre - so, yes, films by patrice leconte - fassbinder!, miike, minghela, etc.
abfab, cheaters, athf, monsters, night gallery, pbs, assisted living dracula, LOST
there are simply too many books to list, here. i devour words. one day i will make love in a library. a few books, from the top of my head: la-bas, master and margarita, nine stories, anything nabokovian, brothers karamozov, achilles, the lover, english patient, l'immoraliste, anything homeric, horatian odes, catullan carmina, the unbearable lightness of being, proust, maria rainer rilke, murakami, ishiguro, pontius pilate fan fiction, mallarme, e.pound, portrait of dorian gray, neal stephenson, jitterbug perfume.