Recently I have gone crazy for gardening in my new backyard! I love Mod Sixties, fashion, tiki, atomic and space-age style, punk and garage rock, sixties "lounge" music, Andy Warhol, mid century modern design, Grey Gardens, vintage tiki mugs, Kiki and Herb, The Losers Lounge shows, b-movies especially sixties horror films, Jackie O, collecting vintage "art" of big-eyed kids and sad-eyed animals, tasty vegan food, flea markets, diners, road-tripping, indie film houses, kitsch, googie signage, theater, cabaret, looking at art and photography, watching "Onstage" on NY1, Netflix, go-go boots, fostering rescue dogs, my husband's abstract paintings, plastic pink flamingos & kidney-shaped pools, reading in bed or in a bubble bath, collecting 50's and 60's Xmas ornaments, art deco, Eames furniture, art by Lisa Petrucci, Vicki Berndt, Isabel Samaras, Niagara, The Pop Tarts, finding vintage Lilly Pulitzer, burlesque, LuxuriaMusic.com Radio, Little Steven's Underground Garage. Fave places: L.A., Austin, Nantucket Island, New Orleans, San Francisco, Portland, Pawley's Island, SC, Seattle, Baltimore, Bali, Nevis - West Indies, trying to get back to Burning Man, Graceland, chihuahua meetups, Kiddles and Kamar dolls, the late, lamented Stinky's Peepshow in SF, Creem Magazine, 80's NY nightclubs: Danceteria & Area, vintage Coney Island, vintage doo-wop motels in Wildwood, NJ, outdoor cafes and bars where I can bring my chihuahuas, classic family-owned, independent businesses while they still exist, finding that perfect shade of lipstick, world peace.
To Meet: Andy, Edie, Jackie O, Esquivel, Dino, Elvis & Kimba the White Lion. Interested in people who celebrate both the retro and the modern, have a droll sense of humour, are open-minded, love the arts, appreciate the witty, beautiful, talented and or campy in every era, & love animals.
Velvet Underground, Blue Hawaiians, Pink Martini, Lulu, Nancy & Frank Sinatra, Iggy Pop, Julie London, Don Tiki, Amy Winehouse, Scissor Sisters, Neko Case, Martini Kings, Blondie, Los Straitjackets, Belle and Sebastian, The Sonics, White Stripes, Francois Hardy, New York Dolls, Martin Denny, Talking Heads, Lily Allen, The Cure, Smiths, Esquivel, Arthur Lyman, anything you can do a sixties go-go dance to....
Barbarella, Velvet Goldmine, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill, The Hunger, Grey Gardens, Valley of the Dolls, Beyond The Valley of the Dolls, To Sir With Love, I Love You Alice B. Toklas, Danger: Diabolik, Wild In The Streets, Pillowtalk, Harold and Maude, Viva Las Vegas, Rocky Horror Picture Show, Bell, Book and Candle, Legally Blonde, How to Marry a Millionaire, The Fountainhead, I Shot Andy Warhol, Breakfast at Tiffanys, Mildred Pierce, Imitation of Life, Blue Hawaii, Night of the Living Dead, Midnight Cowboy, Sunset Boulevard, Funny Face, Films by John Waters, Pedro Aldomovar, David Lynch, Tarantino, Rodriguez, Fellini, Capra, and Altman, zombie and vintage vampire films, sixties psychedelic films.
I usually listen to music, watch films, or read but I like Project Runway, Weeds, Mad Men, The L Word, & 60 Minutes.
Tiki Modern, Book of Tiki, Please Kill Me, On The Road, The Bell Jar, Edie, Swinging Chicks of the Sixties, Tiki Art Now Vol. 1-3, Kitsch Deluxe, I'm With The Band, DV, PAD, Once Upon a Mantelpiece, Op to Pop, books by David Sedaris, Beachbum Berry, Augusten Burroughs and Simon Doonan, books about Andy Warhol, Marie Antoinette and Jackie Kennedy, memoirs and biographies, photography books including Cowboy Kate, So 80's, Disco Years, and Slim Aaron's Once Upon a Time. Pop Culture books with lots of photos from the 1940's to 1970's.
Emilio Pucci!
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