- conducting photoshoots - taking pix, styling, editing, etc.
- dressing up
- partying! indulging in indulgence ~ intoxicants!
- searching out objects or souls of great beauty
- shopping! shopping! buy! buy!
- reading. a lot. A LOT.
- making art, painting people's eyes, stitching up clothes
- taking naps
- eating the best fooooood + the yummiest desserts
- going to see foreign films
- driving around town + traveling
- long conversations, teatime!
- writing letters and making cards and sending my love
- a wide assortment of interesting peeps
- some beautiful girls to romp with, whether out shopping or giggling inside soft sheets!
- models for my clothes + designs + paintings
- people to impart to me new ways of looking at life and telling me interesting vast arrays of subjects i don't already know.
- i long for the old days when a salon gathering would be held at somebody's posh apartment --- a medley of glittering brains and shimmering dresses and sparkling champagne!
- guests to have over for a dinner party, to help me work my skills at being a party hostess.
i seek inspiration and others who have a total zest for life --- to enhance my existence and make life worth living.
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the hafler trio, einsturzende neubauten, merzbow, sigur ros, sutcliffe jugend, godspeed you black emperor, autechre, nurse with wound, negativland, dopplereffekt, nine inch nails, converter, ant-zen, sol invictus
anything by takashi miike (gozu, ichi the killer, audition), in the mood for love, the girl on the bridge, delicatessen, city of lost children, wings of desire, a clockwork orange, mulholland drive, happy together, fallen angels, santa sangre, salo, seven, moulin rouge, 28 days later, requiem for a dream, funny games, the piano teacher, gattaca, pola x, bladerunner, the pianist, girl with a pearl earring, memento, ghost in the shell, layer cake, true romance, sin city, donnie darko, lock stock and two smoking barrels, roman holiday, naked
xfiles, house MD, simpsons, frasier, hbo! --- sopranos, deadwood, curb your enthusiasm, entourage, jeeves and wooster
vladimir nabokov, aldous huxley, doestoevsky, saki, marquis de sade, alain robbe-grillet, les liasions dangereuses, edgar allan poe, hubert selby jr., jorge luis borges, J.G. ballard, creator, ian mcewan & my trusty W magazine
- yum : dita von teese, ariane dandois, marchesa casati, donatella versace, carole lombard, jean harlow, marquise de pompadour, amanda lepore, madame du barry, marianne de charpillion
- mmmen : christopher walken, blixa bargeld, rem koolhaas, mike patton, topher grace, diego luna, wentworth miller, james mcavoy, peter sarsgaard, hugh laurie, bill pullman, cillian murphy, edward norton, balthazar getty, steve buscemi, ralph fiennes
- the arts : edward burne-jones, jerome/joelpeter witkin, kienholz, tamara de lempicka, audrey kawasaki, lori earley, rebecca campbell, yoshitaka amano, will cotton, nobuyoshi araki, cecily brown, jenny saville
- garments : hussein chalayan, les hommes, viktor+rolf, antonio berardi, raf simons, alessandro dell'acqua, tom ford, undercover, versace, cloak, number (n)ine, if six was nine, share spirit, dsquared, ioannis guia, junya watanabe, day birger et mikkelsen
- last but not least :
all my friends!