art nouveau, boots, chambord, constantly craftsterbating, dancing, dirty martinis, disco, DJ'ing, editing film, electric fans, film appreciation, fine wine, 4am pre-hangover breakfasts, graphic design, guilty pleasure television, hoodies, paintings parties, photography, pretty dresses, tea, pulling all-nighters and regretting it dearly in the morning, thunderstorms, wigs, spontanuity...
She used to dig holes to China.
"I miss the mixtape era. I put blood sweat and tears into those things... Mix CD doesn't quite roll off the tongue as well." -- Me in conversation w/ Oscar
Peter Bjorn & John, SCANNerS, Silversun Pickups, Sophie Ellis Bextor, Of Montreal, The Knife, Ratatat, Shiny Toy Guns, Ladytron, Siouxsie and The Banshees, The Gossip, Thelma Houston, Scissor Sisters, ABBA, Morrissey, Asobi Seksu, Brian Eno, Pulp, Madonna, Metric, Nouvelle Vague, David Bowie, OMD, Depeche Mode, Erasure, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Goldfrapp, Peter Schilling, The Dresden Dolls, Belle and Sebastian, She Wants Revenge, Ultravox, Disco, Soul and pretty sounding things with cellos and violins.
Secretary, Valley Girl, Eraserhead, Man Bites Dog, Withnail and I, Notorious!, Amelie, Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, Evita, Hedwig and The Angry Inch, Evil Dead, Evil Dead II, Army of Darkness, Cheezy horror movies, Most 1920s silent films...
The Office (US & UK version), 24, Iron Chef, Family Guy, 30-Minute Nightmares Meals with Rachael Ray, Ham on the Street, The Food Network in general, HGTV, Nip/Tuck, Kept, Surreal Life, Dr. 90210, The Soup, Conan, Fabulous Life of..., America's Next Top Model, Vh1, E!, Style Network, Look for Less, Gilmore Girls, Clean House... the usual rubbish.
The Artist's Wife, Infinite Variety, Ernest Hemingway, F. Scott Fitzgerald, D.H. Lawrence, Voltaire, Tracy Chavilier, A Moveable Feast, The Sun Also Rises, The Romance of Tristan & Iseult, The Lady & The Unicorn, The Last Unicorn, Candide, Voltaire, Tender is the Night, Sweet Valley Twins, Fashion Mags, Gossip Mags, Quotations, Quotes, Wit & Humor, Art Books, scrap books, Various texts of reference, pop-ups, journals, sketch pads, graph paper, tracing paper, college-ruled loose-leaf, scrapbooks, small books, paperbacks... I never finish reading hardcovers for some reason... Not so much manuals as how-to's, fiction, biographies...
Tallulah Bankhead, Charlotte Rampling, Alma Mahler, Marchese Louise Casati, Tamara de Lempika, Patsy & Eddie!