Cooking. Working on my novel. Birds. Cats. Well-made clothes. Big art books with beautiful pictures. Writing good stories. The '70s. Live rock shows, glam rockers. Boys who look like girls and girls who look like boys. Melodramatic music and film. Boots, hats, fake fur, ties. Reading is sexy. Writing is sexier. Dancing around my apartment and singing when I'm alone.
Writers, glamsters, rockers, heart-on-sleeve wearers, artists.
Slade, Mott the Hoople, Neil Diamond, Antony & the Johnsons, Louis XIV, Echo and the Bunnymen, Jesus and Mary Chain, Glass Candy, Peter Murphy, Bauhaus, Bowie, Sex Pistols, The Who, The Clash, Royal Trux, New York Dolls, Cramps, Motorhead, Iggy and Stooges, Love & Rockets, The Sweet, MC5, The Runaways, Thin Lizzy, Girlschool, Kings of Leon, The Smiths, Al Green, AC/DC, Nina Simone, Dusty Springfield, T-Rex, X, The Beautiful South, ELO, Roxy Music, Nick Cave, Black Sabbath, The Brought Low, Led Zeppelin, Rolling Stones, PJ Harvey, BRMC, etc. ,etc.
The Fugitve Kind, Orlando, Midnight Cowboy, Lolita, Carrie, The Piano, Amateur, Night of the Hunter, Secretary, Dazed and Confused, Trust, Shampoo, Holy Smoke, Velvet Goldmine, American Movie, Babydoll, The Graduate, Manhattan, Caddyshack, Five Easy Pieces, so many more...
Marquee Moon.
Virgina Woolf. Tennessee Williams, Iris Murdoch, e.e.cummings. Angela Carter: Nights at the Circus, and The Bloody Chamber. Women in Love. A Good Man is Hard to Find. Burning in Water Drowning in Flame.
The Greatest American Hero. Louise Bourgois, Leonora Carrington, Angus Young, James Baldwin, Warren Beatty, Columbo, Marc Bolan, my mom