IN NO PARTICULAR ORDER: Music (see below), Film (see below), Literature (see below), Vespertilionidae, The History of Fashion and Jewelry, Couture Culture, Neckties, Cigarettes (see also: cases and holders), Women who "cary themselves well", Men who don't, Naughty Salt, "The Smart Set", Art History, Periods of Design, Psychology, Cocktails, Decoration and Adornment, The Ocean, Yesterday, Clutches, Muffs and Stoles, Split Infinitives, Societies, Men who wear tuxedos, Women who wear tuxedos, Tuxedos, People who say "Dinner-Wear" instead of "Tuxedo", France, The Obscure, Antique Syringes, Antiques, Diamonds and other Precious Stones, Jewelry (all kinds), Shopping (Hunting), Horse Racing, Dinner Parties, Making Invitations, Planning Ensembles, Trains (on dresses), Trains (choo-choo), Traveling North, Quips, Famous Collections, Collecting, Old Paper-Goods, Catalogs, Found-Photography, Lithographs, Etchings, Aquatints, Sherlockiana, Victoriana, Edwardiana, Penguins, Mongooses, Big-Game Cats, Small Cats, Duesenbergs, Museums, Art Nouveau, Art Deco, Anything Custom-Made, Anything "Bespoke", Cemeteries, Giving Tours, 24-Hour Eateries, Tea at 4.00pm, Compartments, Flatware, Stemware, Gasogenes, Cufflinks, First Editions, Harpsichords, Violins, Oysters, Lobsters, Telephones, Lobster-Telephones, and Floor-Plans.
People that would like to meet me. Sycophantic sluts. Collectors. Diana Vreeland. People with interests. Boulevardiers without a boulevard. Race Horses. Jockeys. People who name-drop famous dead people (i.e. "...so I was lunching with Diana, you know, Diana Vreeland...").
George Handel, Counter-Tenors, Late Bach, Mozart, Early Beethoven, Charles Gounod, Pablo de Sarasate, Nicolo Paganini, Chopin, Liszt, Most Opera, Operetta, and Traditional Musicals, Gilbert & Sullivan, George & Ira Gershwin, Irving Berlin, Cole Porter, Noel Coward, Early Blues & Jazz (Pre 1960), Dixieland, Bluegrass, Early Country, Early Rock & Roll, Rockabilly, Argentine Tango, Cab Calloway, Duke Ellington, Fletcher Henderson, Bix Beiderbecke, Edith Piaf, Maurice Chevalier, Al Jolson, Harry Richman, Django Reinhardt, Stephane Grappelli, Bobby Short, Judy Garland, Liberace, Eartha Kitt, Yma Sumac, Judy Collins, Mora's Modern Rhythmists, Janet Klein, Diana Krall, The Asylum Street Spankers, The Tiger Lillies, The Cramps, Green Day, Tiger Army, Amy Winehouse, Older Weezer, Oingo Boingo, Depeche Mode, Echo and The Bunnymen, Cher, The Smiths/Morrissey, Panic at the Disco, Rufus Wainwright, The Decemberists, and assorted soundtracks.
Philedelphia Story, She Done Him Wrong, I'm No Angel, Sunset Boulevard, The Women, My Man Godfrey, Now Voyager, The Importance of Being Ernest (1952), Moulin Rouge (1952), Animal Crackers, Horse Feathers, Murder By Death, Start the Revolution Without Me, Everyone Says "I Love You," Sweet and Low Down, The Scarlet Pimpernel (1982), Howard's End, Maurice, The Golden Bowl (Anything by Merchant [RIP] & Ivory), Topsy Turvy, Dangerous Liasons, Being Julia, Gosford Park, Chicago, The Bright Young Things, Gigi, Funny Face, Wilde, Head in the Clouds, Death in Venice, The Aviator, The Wings of the Dove, Brokeback Mountain, Capote, An Ideal Husband, The Spy Who Loved Me, Tango Bar, Grey Gardens, All About Eve, Le Temps Retrouve, Swann in Love, The Age of Innocence, La Vie En Rose.
TCM, The BBC, HGTV, The Food Network, Bravo.
The Picture of Dorian Gray (Entire Wilde Canon), Brideshead Revisited, Vile Bodies, The Wings of the Dove, The Unstrung Harp (Entire Gorey Canon), The Merchant of Venice, The Hound of the Baskervilles (Entire Doyle-Holmes Canon), Portraits and Observations: The Essays of Truman Capote, Elegant Wits and Grand Horizontals, Robert de Montesquiou une Prince, The Age of Innocence, Swann's Way, Duveen: A Life in Art, The Rape of the Masters, DV, Bending the Willow, Luxe: How Luxury Lost its Luster. (Mostly non-fiction.)
Oscar Wilde, Lord Joseph Duveen, Le Comte Robert de Montesquiou-Fezensac, Jeremy Brett, Edward Gorey, Isaac Mizrahi, Elsa Schiaparelli, Ralph Lauren, Adolphe Menjou, Diana Vreeland, Peggy Guggenheim, Cher (Yeah, deal with it), Lewis Black, Kathy Griffin, and Groucho Marx.