International Waters, the perfect red lipstick, cocktail cigarettes and whisky for my singing voice, irony, people who laugh at their own jokes, iambic pentameter, melodrama, pretensions, silver sequinned tuxedo jacket, the alto clef, fondant fancies and honey rum, hair dye, discotheques, explosions in glitter factories, lighthouses, home remedies, seaspray and cliffs. cynical optimism. JOY JOY JOY.
circus runaways, redhead raggle taggle gypsy boys, Russian dissident conductors.
electrotrash-punk-cabaret-rockandroll. something a bit rococo. and with a pop hook that you can't get out of your head for six weeks. FOOTSTAMPS AND HANDCLAPS. jazz hands?
HEATHERS
Golden Girls.
stories are better than literary devices, but you can't beat a good allegory
The Emcee. Tintin. Panina Manina, the ringmaster's daughter. Donny Osmond.