I'd like to meet:
marie laveau. chumchuggers. ghosts. inspiration. oceans. he who walks behind the rows.
Music:
neutral milk hotel, velvet underground, patti smith, leonard cohen, louis armstrong, howlin wolfe, r.l. burnside, gbv, the birthday party, nick cave and the bad seeds, bad brains, patrick emswiler, pj harvey, dolly parton, genesis p orridge/psychic t.v, magnetic fields, sonic youth, dionne warwick, john frusciante, neil young, the raincoats, my bloody valentine, blonde redhead, built to spill, low, the doors, old sea ballads, doris day, pixies, hillary charnas, l'orpheo, ween, gary numan, x, syd barrett, dusty springfield, the ethiopians, lee scratch perry, roy orbison, captain beefheart, ramones, wqun, bessie smith, discoveries made in roach motels, laurie anderson, gram parsons, marlene dietrich, kenny rogers makes me giddy, michael nyman, wham!, janis joplin, van morrison especially astral weeks, talking heads, cobra killer, silence, polvo, cole porter, the slits, the voices in my head, bells ringing in new england air, georgia trains on summer nights, gordon lightfoot, moldy peaches, slide guitars, the zombies, edith piaf, dean martin, jimi hendrix, the who, billie holiday, the rachels, turbonegro, black sabbath, chet baker, babs, jock jams, t-rex, smashing pumpkins, anne murray, caetano veloso, carpenters, marianne faithful, television, sex pistols, the cars, david bowie, nico, buddy holly, yo la tengo, vivaldi, shumann, crickets and frogs, raindrops on tin ceilings, julie cruise, big black, sacred and battered mixed tapes, loretta lynn, blind faith, devo, peter tosh, bob dylan, the sound of genuine laughter, corelli's violin sonatas, waves and gulls, old timey piano rags, brian eno, tina turner, einstein on the beach, kristin hersh, hank williams sr.
Movies:
www.witness.org, documentaries of all sorts, vintage horror, the legend of paul and paula, muriel's wedding, la dolce vita, the blue lagoon, waking life, before sunrise, silence of the lambs, most hitchcock, stuff by damon bishop, anything by kieslowski, blue velvet, short cuts, happiness, l.i.e., edward scissorhands, nashville, badlands, wings of desire, dreams, harold and maude, cosi, who's afraid of virginia woolfe, henry and june, blue angel, microcosmos, country man, shine, down by law, river's edge, the piano, priscilla queen of the desert, the shining, big bad love, black orpheus, dead man, what's eating gilbert grape?, the big lebowski, repulsion, nosferatu, the hunger, pretty baby, clifford, the incredible mr. limpett, serial mom, farewell my concubine- all of chen kaige's movies, willard, somewhere in time, don't die without telling me where you're going, lost in america, born free, ma vie en rose, anything with catherine deneuve or elizabeth taylor, annie hall, manhatten, all about my mother, talk to her, welcome to the dollhouse, rouge, gummo, virgin suicides, butch cassidy and the sundance kid, serpent and the rainbow, santa sangre, grey gardens, madame sata, night tide, hilary and jackie, rabbit proof fence, days of heaven, it happened one night, bringing up baby, city of women, 8 1/2, sid and nancy, heavenly creatures, breaking the waves, breathless, valley of the dolls, spellbound, benny and joon, splendor in the grass, kenneth anger, hedwig and the angry inch, home movie, american movie, over the edge, the lady eve, ice storm, the year my voice broke, american beauty, born into brothels, cement garden, leolo, zuma beach, tarnation, la boum, crooklyn, powaqqatsi, koyaanisqatsi, orlando
Television:
6 ft under, twin peaks, early x-files, love boat, magnum pi, prime suspect, solid gold, bob ross's joy of painting, roots, the state, three's company, nancy grace, no reservations, dexter
Books:
flannery o'connor, edith wharton, john irving, tennessee williams, ghost stories, english romantic poets, toni morrison, fairytales, myths, allen ginsberg, cookbooks, anais nin, rimbaud, james joyce, truman capote, nabokov, kenneth grahame, edgar allan poe, nan goldin, joseph campbell, love signs and other 70's astrology texts, modigliani, dali, magritte, look homeward angel, gothic novels, cormac mcarthy, katherine anne porter, edward gorey, aubrey beardsley, richard brautigan, song of songs, geek love, thomas beddoes, old chinese love poetry, grammar books from the 40's, harry crews, william blake, shakespeare, oscar wilde, neil strauss, brassai, man ray, gerhard richter, old scratch and sniff books, dominick dunne, erik drooker, horticulture and botany books, book of thoth, arthur rackham, corvi chronicle, les fleurs du mal, pablo neruda, e.j. bellocq, nathaniel hawthorne, francoise sagan, tim kreider, odilon redon, ida outhwaite, diane wakoski, carl jung, italo calvino, liza dalby, the collector