Swimming through life timelessly and unappointedly where the colors are jewel-toned and muted, animals walk on hind legs and speak with eloquence, and Lady Guinevere never has to make a choice between King Arthur and Sir Lancelot. Raising dusk bats on my patio. Archery. Egyptology. Etymology. The Singin' Saw. Duality. Painting. Dolls. My felines. Paradoxical reasoning. Spiritual charletan performance art. The lovely fluid vines & entwining floradora of Art Nouveau balanced with the edgey complexity of linear shapes & Egyptomaniacal Cyborgs of the Art Deco movement. Victorian, Edwardian, and Jazz Age Art, Music, Literature, & apparel. Vintage Japanese textiles & lanterns. Music. Old-time Radio shows. Heart-shaped cakes. Being in the ocean. Mythology the world wide over. Burlesque shows. Amberlit Cabarets. Seances. Cobalt blue glass. Accidental art. Pen pals. Bone xylophones. Vintage mechanical contraptions for transportation. Carriage drawn horses. Victorian houses with ghostly tenants, creeky floorboards, and the percussion of pots and pans through their leaky rooftops on rainy days. Tarot. Auto-mechanical harpsichordists. Honeybee husbandry. Carnivorous Plants. Pirates deflowering anemones. Bermuda love triangle courtships. Deciphered inevitabilities. the Surreal and Absurd. Synchronicity. Dreams past their embryonic state. Wine. Tea parties. Sweet violets. Flipbooks. Glamorous Old Theatres. Whithering belles with mouths like machettes. Absurdists & Situationists. Spitting acid into the volcano. Lemonaide Stands. Elaborate death to provide a vibrant living. Candy. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Others like me who'll light me up like an x-ray and consider a Swanson's Hungry Man dinner for two through computer wires to be exotic, and who'll never let the hushpuppies kick over the moondreamer Violette once she's been brained by canned tamales by the universal order of armageddonous satchel knob oracle tick-tocks in silken robes, plummeting through the tumbling mountain of the great white bear among Golden Dawn seance devotees knitting kleenex box cozys in their unlit closets. I'm sure there's much more to it than all this, but you can find that out away from the depths of cyber hell. However, I also have great respect for people who make inventive/creative use of their social time. But no riff raff, please. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Pretty diverse tastes.....a little of this, a little of that, but most often old-timey: Nonrepetetive assembly lines, Hissing wax cylinder recordings, Tin Pan Alley tunes, 20's-30's Jazz,Blues,& Torch Singers, Weimar Berlin Caberet, Jug bands, 40's-50's Island Music, 60's Soul & rock, Garage Rock, Punk & Psychedellia, 70's Glam, Brit Pop, 80's Synth as long as it isn't too hokey, Rockabilly/Psychobilly and Cowpunk, Cowboy songs & Bluegrass, Olive Oyl's operatic squeaks & trills, Children's records, Flamenco & Tango music, Viennese waltzes, Gypsy song, French chanson & Ye-Ye, Carousel capricios, Old Hindi & other foreign music, artists inspired by these different genres, vintage auto-mecanical instruments & coin-operated harpsichordists, Tomys mixes. ............................................................ ..............................For instance: Jacques Brel, Yma Sumac, Whistler & His Jug Band, Jelly Roll Morton, Cab Calloway, Paul Tremaine, Fats Waller, Billy Murray, Erik Satie, Edward M. Favor, Scott Joplin, Bert Williams, Bob Roberts, Arthur Collins, Byron G. Harlan, Helen Kane, Annette Hanshaw, Sophie Tucker, Josephine Baker, Hildegard Knef, Lucienne Boyer, Fanny Bryce, Lucille Bogan, Blanche Calloway & Her Joy Boys, Marion Harris, Memphis Minnie, Ida Cox, Fred Astaire, Al Jolson, Cole Porter, Chet Baker, Noel Coward, Kurt Weill, Carlos Gardel, Carmen Amaya, Paul Whiteman Orchestra, The Hilton Sisters, Marlene Dietrich, Eartha Kitt, Edith Piaf, Billy Holiday, Mamie Smith, Bessie Smith, Nina Simone, Dame Edna, Spike Jones & His City Slickers, Jimmie Rodgers, The Carter Family, Cash, Hank Williams, Ralph Stanley, Patsy Cline, Dolly Parton, Lee Hazelwood & Nancy Sinatra, Blind Willie McTell, Son House, Skip James, Leadbelly, Screamin' Jay Hawkins, Leonard Cohen, Serge Gainsbourg, Brigitte Bardot, The Kinks, The Zombies, The Who, The Beatles, Winchester Cathedral, Strawberry Alarmclock, The Seeds, The Leaves, The Stones, Love, Ennio Morricone, Marty Wilde & the Wildcats, Roy Orbison, Link Wray & His Ray Men, The Cramps, Gun Club, The Sonics, The Monks, The Gories, The Stranglers, Shocking Blue, Krass, The Birthday Party, Nick Cave & the Bad Seeds, Lou Reed & The Velvet Underground, Iggy & the Stooges, New York Dolls, Bowie, Eno, Richard Hell & the Voidoids, Roxy Music, T-Rex, John's Children, Ramones, The Talking Heads, Adam & the Ants, Siouxsie, Devo, Tuxedomoon, Joy Division, Camouflage, Berlin, Marc Almond, Missing Persons, The B-52's, B-Movie, Visage, Julie Brown, Tones On Tail, Love & Rockets, Bauhaus, Gary Numan & Tubeway Army, Goldfrappe, Pulp, Suede, Geeta Dutt, Vijaya Anand, Rasputina, Glass Candy & the Shattered Theatre, The Make-Up, GoGoGo Airheart, Peaches, The Gossip, The Fall, Phillip Glass, Black Heart Procession, Yma Sumac, Os Mutantes, Elysian Flields, Magnetic Fields, Future Bible Heroes, Patria Jacobs, Pogues, Miranda July, April March, Tin Hat Trio, Mark Growden, Tom Waits, The Tiger Lillies, Julian Tulip's Licorice, Mr.Uncertain, The Ditty Bops, The Centimeters, The Cali Navels, Creekbird, Portraits of Past, The Phantom Limbs, Gogol Bordello, DEVOTCHKA.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ .. width="425" height="350" .. The Cramps with Ultra-Twist ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
THE FLICKERS: Faust, Daddy Long Legs, Tess of the Storm Country, Orphans of the Storm, His Majesty the Scarecrow of Oz, Blood & Sand, Metropolis, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Salome:Lost In Soddom, Gold Rush, Nosferatu, Les Vampires, Judex, Diary of a Lost Girl, Haxan, The Cat & the Canary......ALSO ENJOY SEEING: Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolfe?, Barry Lindon, Carnival of Souls (original one), The Bride With White Hair, The Great Gabbo, Children of Paradise, Return To Oz, Fellini Satyricon, Fred & Ginger films, The Thin Man series, Animatrix, Blade Runner, What Is It?, Eyes Without A Face, Harold & Maude, All Guy Maddin films, Whatever Happened To Baby Jane?, The House of Usher, Dead Man, Desperate Living, Cry Baby, Cemetary Man, Quay Brothers animation, The Eternal, Nadja, The Loved One, The Loveless, Faster Pussycat Kill Kill Kill, The Cook The Thief His Wife & Her Lover, Prospero's Books, Ma Vie En Rose, Breathless, Belle Du Jour,Dracula, Suspiria, Mata Hari, The Great Ziegfeld, Liquid Sky, Chained For Life, Arsenic & Old Lace, Heathers, Sleepy Hallow, James & the Giant Peach, Amelie, Delicatessen, A Very Long Engagement, Trainspotting, Secretary, Punch Drunk Love, Blackbeard the Pirate, The Rich & the Strange, I Shot Andy Warhol, Popeye, Gummo, The Company of Wolves, Picnic At Hanging Rock.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
None of that. I'm really not too thrilled by my generation. But a few exceptions are Young Ones, Absolutely Fabulous, Aeon Flux, Pete & Pete, Black Adder, Pretty Things, Twilight Zone, The Munsters, The Addams Family, & Monty Python...Plus 30's-40's cartoons. ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~ ~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oscar Wilde, Lord Byron, John Keats, The Shelleys, Georges Bataille, H.P. Lovecraft, Neil Gaiman, Mary Howitt, Edward Gorey books, The Narnia Chronicles, Frank Baum's Oz series, Fitzgerald, Jean Cocteau, Guy de Maupassant, The Wild Party, Arabian Nights, House of Leaves, Skinny Legs And All, Jitterbug Perfume, Jimmy Corrigan: Smartest Boy In the World, Antique medical books which no longer apply, Beat writers, Eastern philosophy, Greek philosophy, Egyptian Papyrus, Mythology, Fairy Lore, Art books.~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~~
Oscar Wilde, Jacques Brel, Lord Byron, Marcel Duchamp, Edward Gorey, Aubrey Beardsley, Gustav Klimt, Heironymous Bosch, Yoshitaka Amano, Cole Porter, Jimmie Rodgers, Stephin Merrit, Moire Erte, Charlie Chaplin, Cheng & Eng, Vincent Price, Peter Lorre, David Bowie, & Rudy Valentino.HEROINES: Scheherezade, Marie Laveau, Josephine Baker, Lady Godiva, Angela Davis, Persephone, Marion Davies, Pippi Longstocking, Daisey & Violet Hilton, Sophie Tucker, Helen Kane, Sarasvati, Sekhet. Cory-Marie & all the rest of my beautiful and inspirational friends.