Collecting the next generation of pop surrealist artists; Austin (I miss it so much); Paper Moon Graphics; neon; Home decor porn (that is, not porn AS home decor but home decor AS porn .. I fantasize about my eventual sunny California house); crazy shoes; embroidery; keeping the baby from destroying himself, taking pictures in cool hotels; traveling; wearing, buying and maintaining fabulous getups; sleeping for long periods of time; collecting interesting people; really juicy books I can't put down (mostly biographies these days); extended periods of time in the bathtub; minature things; giant things; talking people's ears off; great movies; really shitty movies only I like; burlesque (but only in history and during personal practical application); little people; swashbucklers; fairy tales; old school hotel bars; Coney Island; circuses (but only in movies & literature); modern art or photography that makes you queasy; roccoco decorating schemes; Leigh Bowery; personal libraries; art, music and fashion in that period just before the French Revolution; courtesans of the ages; those touched by the hand of insanity; dissolute WASPS and much, much more.
My maker, but not for a long, long time....
Bowie, Roxy, T. Rex, all glam, Duran Duran, Adam & the Ants, Echo and the Bunnymen, Tom Waits, Johnny Cash, Velvet Underground, Blondie, the Cars, Cousteau, Jeff Buckley, Crooked Fingers, Devlins, Donovan, Grace Jones, Franz Ferdinand, Imperial Teen, Kylie (it's true!), Longwave, Luna, Dandy Warhols, Old 97s, Led Zeppelin, Nick Cave, Stones, Superdrag, Suede, Stellastarr, the Shods, the Stills, the Killers, the Sounds, The The. The best music, however, is Kingsley's little laugh.
Wizard of Oz, Gone With the Wind, Betty Blue, the Hunger, La Dolce Vita, Blade Runner, Brazil, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Can't Stop the Music (has to be seen to be believed!), Xanadu, Cabaret, Company of Wolves, Santa Sangre, Grey Gardens, Aria, Pretty Baby, Sid & Nancy, The Philadelphia Story, What A Way to Go, The Lover, The Party, Some Like it Hot, La Belle et La Bete, Christiane F., Almost Famous, Barbarella, Kama Sutra, anything from the golden age of Hollywood or with really good costumes.
Just about anything on HBO (Entourage, Sopranos, etc), No Reservations and the glory of Netflix.
 Geek Love and other books about the circus and/or freaks, 100 Years of Solitude, House of the Spirits, Bukowski, Edie, I'm With the Band and other canons of groupie lit, Great Gatsby, Catcher in the Rye (duh), Jane Eyre, Madame Bovary (oh girls what shopping and coveting the wrong men will cost ya!), Naked, 9 1/2 Weeks, I Was A White Slave in Harlem, Bukowski, Angela Carter, Dorothy Parker, John Irving, bios of dissolute movie and rock stars (Klaus Kinski: Uncut!!!) and much, much more.
Andy Warhol, Madame de Pompadour, Dali, Kinski, Cary Grant, Peggy Googlyheim.