hanging with good friends/great memories and laughter with friends, 40s and 50's hairstyles/fashion, traditional tattoos and the people who own/love them, vintage sewing patterns, cheese pin upsphotography, mary blair artwork, pit bulls, irish people/bars, dancing, new wave/80s/modern rock/brit pop, writing, old musicals, road trips, classic/ black and white movies, beach parties, cooking, theater, GOREY ART, b-movies, acting, love, vintage pin up girls, anything art deco, vintage glam, black and white film stars,guinness, las vegas, elvis and 'scilla, the rat pack, biographies, the atomic era, st patrick's day, paranormal, tarot cards, classic cars and hot rods, vintage jazz, comics/ graphic novels, baking, black cats/kittens, makeup/red lipstick, jude law, going broke on ebay, chatting .., REAL TALK, high end cosmetics, writing in my live journal, going to shows, meeting new people, collecting vintage kitchenware, hawaiiana, burlesque shows, anything campy or kitschy, musicals, iconic religious art, shopping, little debbie brownies, corsets, spoontonic's cucumber martinis, retro pop culture, nostalgia, the artist Shag, lounges, HORROR MOVIES!, cult classics, psychology, baseball, astrology, art, electronica mash ups, sex, religion, death from sandman, inside jokes, old SNL, the beach, vintage furniture and clothing, first wave ska, thrift stores, photography, talking on the phone, lingerie, vespas, vinyl (records not pants), 80s cartoons, new people/new places, sushi, gothic cathedrals, commerical jingles, japan town, the giants, anything from mcdonald land, animation, rockabilly music/culture, EDDY MURPHY & RICK JAMES PARTY ALL THE TIME!, psychobilly music, classic country, cuban heeled stockings, head vases, retro/vintage disneyland, karaoke at time out with some of my best friends who dont mind if i make an ass out of myself...
anyone who is plucky, fun, witty and can make me laugh. anyone in san francisco.also... serial killers- yeah i thought that richard ramirez was hot-- WHO DIDNT?! thats how that bastard got so many victims. yeah, he was a looker...i woulda met him back in the day. i say this and i dont even like most latin men. anyone who says "you so crazy i think i wanna have your baby" and means it, traditonal tattoo collectors, skinheads (true skins, ive already met enough of the posers), creative director of the my buddy/kid sister and head on commercials, uncle bad touch, rick james--circa "party all the time", someone who can explain the swahili bits in both "all night long" by lionel riche and "in you eyes" by peter gabriel (i really want to know what that shit means), the poindexter from dream date, dorothy parker,
anyone who is named or liked the "gidget" movies, people who like or own pit bulls, anyone who has been on a talk show, anyone actually named heathcliff or mongo, someone with multiple personalities, charles nelson reilly, people who dress up as characters from mcdonald land for halloween, the idiot who created the "dental dam", anyone straight outta compton, james st. james, david la chapelle, someone who lives in an igloo, any person who wants to be asian but isnt, gypsies, coco chanel, schitzophrenics, sylvia brown, robert smith, mrs garret from facts of life, every last gay man in the castro, guys who jerk it to anime, anyone who still sports a jerri curl, breakdancers, legit greaser/billies, amanda lepore, girls who arent catty, guys who still wear hammer pants, elvis impersonators, that guy paul from the diamond center who may or may not be dead, people who still wear fanny packs, anyone who masterbates to car wrecks or burn victims, stupid japenese broads who get whiskers implanted in their cheeks to look like hello kitty, anyone who would really throw mama from the train, the creator of the oregon trail (game not dirt path), shirley q liquor, someone who knows how to sew well, especially Betsey Johnson. anyone who isnt a poser. oh, and Bea Arthur.oh shit, who am i kiddin? i want to meet the whole cast of Golden Girls.
"Love is a fire. But whether it is going to warm your hearth or burn down your house, you can never tell" -- Joan Crawford
"When you are going through hell, keep going" -- W. Churchill
"I feel sorry for people who don't drink. When they wake up in the morning, that's as good as they're going to feel all day" --Frank Sinatra
"Life is just a party, and parties weren't meant to last" --Prince
80s/new wave/modern rock, brit pop, goth, industrial, indie, synth pop, pop, electronica, psychobilly, rockabilly, ska-first and second wave/rock steady, etc.
some of which include:
morrissey, johnny cash, sinatra, the misfits, dead kennedys, madness, the specials, the pogues, selecter, skatalites, charlie feathers, roy orbison, james brown, wanda jackson, batmobile, esquivel!, ike and tina turner,
oi polloi, bad manners, old school dropkick murphies, EDDY MURPHY'S MY GIRL WANTS TO PARTY ALL THE TIME!, dean martin, hank williams sr., marty robbins,desmond dekker, jerry lee lewis (saw him live!!!), the polecats, elvis, ministry, willie nelson, patsy cline, dead can dance, the creatures, nekromantix, nick cave and the bad seeds, suede, sex pistols, the creatures, the cars, the police, the tubes, the 5,6,7,8's, kmfdm, my life with thrill kill kult, stray cats, buddy holly, the specials, tiger army, loretta lynn, the cramps, b-52's, dolly parton, the church, jesus and mary chain, the pixies, the magnetic fields, the buzzcocks, pulp, duran duran, echo and the bunnymen, happy mondays, talking heads, blonde red head, the clash, the smiths, billie holiday,chet baker, souxsie, the cure, depeche mode, new york dolls, lou reed, iggy pop/iggy and the stooges, velvet underground, radiohead, david bowie, joy division, mr. bungle, the jam, devo, new order, belle and sebastian, ramones, aphex twin, air, lightening seeds ...the list goes on....i also have a weakness for really shitty bands like the spice girls and menudo. yeah. i know. i hear u laughing. but i do. i also love wham. its all part of the kitsch factor. im a closet bubble gum pop addict.
and of course, the incredible kenny rogers.
goodfellas, la vie en rose, tamala2010: a punk cat in space, paris is burning, waitress, bad education (la mala education), beer league, goodfellas, wedding crashers, the audition, trainspotting, requiem for a dream, batteries not included (you're not bobby!), whatever happened to baby jane, to wong foo: thanks for everything-- julie newmar, peggy sue got married, close encounters of the third kind, shop girl, the saddest music in the world, breakfast at tiffany's, mildred peirce, the shining, how to marry a milloinare, casino, summer of sam, a bronx tale, gone with the wind, mommy dearest, any movie with jude law naked in it, steel magnolias, blow, amelie, he loves me he loves me not, my wife is an actress, hairspray, virgin suicides, lolita, clockwork orange, WILDE, all of the harry potters, labyrinth, hedwig & the angry inch, muppets take manhattan, spirited away, john leguizamo's the freak, the exorcist, carrie, rosemary's baby, any of the amityville movies, SLEEP AWAY CAMP!!!!!!!!
THE BEST SHOW EVER--THE SOUP/TALK SOUP, top motherfuckingchef, rob and big, LA ink, intervention, project runway, twilight zone, america's next top model, wonder years, will and grace, big love, maury (seriously, who is the baby's daddy?), unsolved mysteries, documentaries/biographies, the sopranos, little britain, almost anything on the food network, roseanne, strangers with candy, any insanely entertaining voyueristic reality show, ab fab, in living color, family guy.
me and a guy named elvis, american psycho, the bell jar, lolita, wiseguy, rockabye, love is a mix tape, the tao of willie (nelson), daddy was the black dahila killer, on the road/big sur (kerouac), hypocrite in a white poufy dress, the oasis, anything written/drawn by edward gorey (gashlycrumb tinies),when rabbit howls, little girl fly away, mommie dearest, any true crime book, sandman graphic novel series, biographies, requiem for a dream, the jungle, fast food nation, peter pan, erotica by anais nin...so many more
People That Inspire Me:
*Casey and Daryl from Time Out
*Gena
*Teresa
*Betsey Johnson
*The guy who invented the Gravitron
*Liquid Pulp Photography
*John Leguizamo
*Down home country folk
*Dorothy Parker
*Kevin Aucoin
*David La Chapelle
*My grandmother
*Bukowski
*Jimmy
*My godfather
*Mary Blair
*Willie Nelson
*Edith Piaf
*Diane Arbus
*Cassandra Cass
*My true friends who have shown me tremendous support when i needed it the most. I love you all terribly.