I am interested in many things; bear with me: 1930s cinema costume, 1940s, 1950s sci-fi goodness, abnormal psychology, airports, ancient Egypt, androgyny, ankles, antiques, argyle, art deco, artistic forms of expression, art nouveau, bakelite, ballet, barrel keys, beach at night, big cities, black and white, body modification, boots, brass compacts, buckles, bugle beads, bullet bras, burlesque, bustles, buttons, button spats, cabaret, cameos, candied violets, carnies, Carnevale di Venezia, carryalls, car trips, catastrophes, cello, chai tea, chatelaines, chocolate chip cookie liqueur, Christian Dior's New Look, cigarette holders, cinema, classic actresses, classic Hollywood, clever fops, cocktail parties, cocktails, coffee shops, coiffure a la victime, corsetry, cosmetology, creepy/cutesy things, crinoline, curiosa, cynicism, daguerreotypes, dandies, dance, dance clubs, dance parties, dansing, diners, disasters, doll-like clothing, double-breasted garments, DragonCon, dreaming, dress coats, dystopia, early medicine, eccentricity, elegance, euphemisms, Europe, Evans company, exotic cigarettes, eyes, fascinators, failed attempts at billiards, fancy underpants, fashion, fetish, film noir, finger waves, flapper girls, flaws, forensic science, French advertisements, fully fashioned stockings, fuschia, FX makeup, gams, gangsters, garter belts, Gibson girls, girdles, glam, glass cigarette boxes, glove clasps, gloves, gore, graceful hands, Halloween, harp, hedonism, hip bones, hoop skirts, horror, innuendo, intelligence, kitsch, kittens, late 1800s-1960s fashion, lindy hop, linguistics, literature, lorgnette, love, lucite, lushing, lust, macabre, mad tea parties, makeup, martinis, masks, materialism, medical curiosities, mermaids, metal flasks, millinery of the late 1800s-1950s, minaudieres, Minsky's, mod, monocles, mother of pearl, museums, Mutter Museum, my lush buddies, my Zombie Cakes, nancy boys, necessaire, New Orleans, naivety, obscurity, offbeat humor, old MGM, old microphones/radios/projectors/typewriters/sewing machines/etc., opera glasses, Osseus Labyrint, over-sized buttons, pageboy hair, pencil skirts, peplum, perfectly pale complexions, periwinkle, petticoats, phonographs, photography, piano, piano bars, pierrot clowns, pin-curl sets, pinstipes, pin-up girls, pirates, playing dress-up, pocket watches, pointed footwear, polka-dots, proposing ridiculous theories, pulp art, purse hooks, ragtime music, raised vamp shoes, Renaissance art, rockabilly/psychobilly, romance, sailors, sake' lounges, sarcasm, satire, seamed stockings, severe eyebrows, sexuality, sideshows, silent pictures, sin, snoods, speakeasies, spit curls, spontaneity, steampunk gadgetry/fashion, steel boning, sterling silver, stripes, sushi, sweetheart jewelry, swing/jazz, synth, table lighters, talkies, technicolor musicals, Teddy boys, Teddy girls, the golden era, the roaring '20s, themed parties, tight-lacing, tilt hats, tiny bottles, traditional tattoo art, travel, t-strap shoes, umbrellas, unicycles, USO shows, vanilla vodka, vanity, vanity bags/boxes/cases/clutches/pouches/purses, vaudeville, Venetian masks/masqueraders, Victorian Era, victory rolls, vintage, vintage footwear, vintage hairsyling, vinyl, violin, waist cinchers, watch fobs, wax museums, wit, WWII era, zombies.
Gil Elvgren.
In no particular order whatsoever: Beborn Beton, Covenant, The Faint, Iris, The Birthday Massacre, Apoptygma Berzerk, Assemblage 23, Broken Spindles, The Cruxshadows, A Perfect Circle, Depeche Mode, The Cure, Portishead, Placebo, De/Vision, Tool, Fischerspooner, Ladytron, Nine Inch Nails, Mindless Self Indulgence, Flesh Field, Funker Vogt, Wolfsheim, Hot Hot Heat, Kidney Thieves, Neuroticfish, Nebula-H, Radiohead, Ours, Rasputina, The Creatures, Bauhaus, Oingo Boingo, Duran Duran, Pelican, Seabound, The Smashing Pumpkins, V.A.S.T., Velvet Acid Christ, Wumpscut, VNV Nation, The Rapture, Gravity Kills, Mogwai, Tears For Fears, The Shins, My Bloody Valentine, Jeff Buckley, Miwagemini, Siouxsie and the Banshees, Snake River Conspiracy, Death Cab For Cutie, Goldfinger, Sneaker Pimps, The Knife, Joy Division, Garbage, Weezer, Bright Eyes, Saves The Day, Aimee Mann, The Andrews Sisters, The Beatles, Kenna, Rob Zombie (for the sole purpose of Halloween party theme music) , Bright Eyes, Paz Lenchantin, Blue Man Group (come on, they make their own instruments!) , Reel Big Fish, Peter Murphy, Brian Eno, Voltaire, Rayon, Horrorpops, Tiger Army, VHS or Beta, Client, Patsy Cline, Cranes, Collide, Franz Ferdinand, The Smiths, Oasis, Lacuna Coil, Buddy Holly, Jerry Lee Lewis, Ra Ra Riot, The Anniversary, Violent Femmes, The Vandals, Sex Pistols, Stray Cats, The Pixies, Shiny Toy Guns, Colony 5, The Knife, The Last Dance, David Bowie, The Bravery, Panic! At The Disco, Mono, Cat Power, Robots in Disguise, Dawn of Ashes, And You Will Know Us By The Trail Of Dead, Muse, Break of Reality, Edith Piaf, Mum, I Am The World Trade Center, Front 242, She Wants Revenge, Fictional, Monster Movie, Jill Tracy, The Church, Feist, Glenn Miller and His Orchestra, David Rose and His Orchestra, Rosemary Clooney, Cole Porter, Judy Garland, The Breeders, Mesh, The Juliana Theory, The White Stripes, Jonezetta, Massive Attack, The Postal Service, Freezepop, Front Line Assembly, Ratatat, Rocking Horse Winner, Baxter, Dresden Dolls, Combichrist, The Sounds, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Explosions in the Sky, Sigur Ros, Slowdive, The Killers, Moving Units, The Fever, Elefant, Bloc Party, IAMX, Goldfrapp, Alice in Videoland, Blaqk Audio, and an unhealthy abundance of '80s pop.
Donnie Darko, Interview With The Vampire, Mulholland Dr., Fight Club, Magnolia, American Psycho, Buffalo 66, Vanilla Sky, Edward Scissorhands, Harold and Maude, Requiem For A Dream, The Game, Run Lola Run, SLC Punk, The Breakfast Club, Memento, Reservoir Dogs, Pulp Fiction, American History X, Garden State, Big Fish, True Romance, Se7en, Primal Fear, American Beauty, High Fidelity, One Hour Photo, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, The Nightmare Before Christmas, James and the Giant Peach, Signs, Casablanca, The Shawshank Redemption, Some Like It Hot, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Punch-Drunk Love, The Crow, Good Fellas, The Hours, Don't Go Near The Water, Once Upon a Time in Mexico, Kill Bill Volumes 1 and 2, Chasing Amy, Gone With The Wind, 25th Hour, The Man in the Iron Mask, Sid and Nancy, The Shining, The Stand, Beetlejuice, Hush Hush Sweet Charlotte, Bowling for Columbine, Cover Girl, The Blue Dahlia, Pin Up Girl, Gilda, Double Indemnity, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Truman Show, White Christmas, Amelie, Dr. Strangelove, The Ring, Saving Private Ryan, The Village, Silence of the Lambs, Hannibal, Red Dragon, Clerks, The Machinist, Good Will Hunting, Cruel Intentions, A Clockwork Orange, The Life of David Gale, Fahrenheit 9/11, The Great Gatsby, Thoroughly Modern Millie, These Glamour Girls, Ferris Bueller's Day Off, A Hard Day's Night, The Butterfly Effect, Romeo and Juliet, Hero, The Boondock Saints, Equilibrium, No Country For Old Men, His Girl Friday, The Last Samurai, Gangs of New York, Phantom, Victor Victoria, The Great Ziegfeld, Ziegfeld Girl, Ziegfeld Follies, At First Sight, Sleepy Hollow, Blow, Lady of Burlesque, The Wedding Singer, Return To Oz, 28 Days Later, 28 Weeks Later, My Fair Lady, Rear Window, Vertigo, The Birds, Psycho, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Dial M For Murder, North by Northwest, Stage Fright, Down to Earth (the Rita Hayworth one), Ocean's 11, The Stepford Wives, Leon The Professional, Ed Wood, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Sin City, Fido, Black Snake Moan, Kinsey, Closer, The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari, The Patsy, House of 1000 Corpses, The Devil's Rejects, Charlie and the Chocolate Factory, The 7-Year Itch, Tim Burton's Corpse Bride, Crash, Memoirs of a Geisha, Silent Hill, V For Vendetta, 300, Marie Antoinette, Grindhouse, Sweeney Todd: The Demon Barber of Fleet Street, Cloverfield, Night of the Living Dead- along with most any cheesy or classic horror film.
The Twilight Zone (original, of course), good stand-up comedy, Conan O'Brien, Seinfeld, Sealab 2021, Home Movies, Cold Case Files, I Love Lucy, Golden Girls, The Wonder Years, horribly outdated '80s/'90s sitcoms, Sex and the City, Project Runway, America's Next Top Model, Scrubs, The History Channel, and anything gruesome enough on Discovery Health.
Catch-22, 1984, Invisible Monsters, Diary, Choke, Haunted, Survivor, Lullaby, Animal Farm, Burmese Days, The Catcher in the Rye, The Vampire Chronicles, Grimm's Fairy Tales, Boy, A Farewell to Arms, The Best Worst and Most Unusual, Amphigorey, Amphigorey Too, Amphigorey Also, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Alice's Adventures In Wonderland, Through The Looking-Glass, American Gods, Lolita, The Bell Jar, Mother Night, Timequake, Breakfast of Champions, Cat's Cradle, The Saddest Place On Earth, Gris Grimly's Wicked Nursery Rhymes, Burlesque and the Art of the Teese/Fetish and the Art of the Teese, Tales of the Sisters Kane, The Magic Bottle, The Three Incestuous Sisters, Those Glorious Glamour Years, Anne Rice's Sleeping Beauty tales (Yes! Literary porn!!), Vintage Wedding, Ladies' Compacts of the Nineteenth and Twentieth Centuries, Tragic Kingdom: The Art of Camille Rose Garcia, Chinstraps Nose-Moulds & Corsets: A Shopper's Guide to Feminine Beauty 1800s-1930s.
Will Cotton, Mark Ryden, H.R. Giger, Salvador Dali', Harry Clarke, Vincent van Gogh, Edward Gorey, Alex Grey, Cam DeLeon, Christopher Shy, Gunther von Hagen, M.C. Escher, Ryan Obermeyer, Sandro Botticelli, Hieronymus Bosch, Norman Rockwell, Edvard Munch, Olivia DeBerardinis, Roy Lichtenstein, Brom, Michael Paulus, Philip Treacy, Vivienne Westwood, Gil Elvgren, Michael Hussar, Camille Rose Garcia, Rafael DeSoto, Brian Froud, Kat Von D, Ray Caesar, Gris Grimly, Christy Kane, Walt Disney, Alfred Hitchcock, Bettie Page, Judy Garland, Clara Bow, David Firth, Dr. Seuss, Gypsy Rose Lee, Lili St. Cyr, Mae West, Norma Jean Baker, Dita Von Teese, Roald Dahl, Sally Rand, Tim Burton, Hedy Lamarr, Rudolph Valentino, Gloria Swanson, Edith Head, Adrian, Katharine Hepburn, Twiggy Lawson, Louise Brooks, Mr. Pearl, Marlene Dietrich, Rita Hayworth, Veronica Lake, Josephine Baker, Vincent Price, Rod Serling, Billy Minsky, Hugh Hefner, Rankin and Bass, Danny Kaye, Max Fleischer, Christian Dior.