Coffee, tape, loud music, park benches, men with beautiful arms, stop-motion animation, tea, vodka, theatre, acting (my greatest love), rain, running water, dancing, getting lost, silent films, photography, New York City, broken glass, skin, shoulder blades, red wine, road trips ANYWHERE, travel, crying my eyes out for no reason, trains, adventures, scarves, arm bands and cuffs, puzzle rings, rocks, geology, gemology, the ocean, mountains, little hole-in-the-wall clubs, dark coffee shops, cloves, vices that I don't wanna give up, strangers who talk to me on trains...
I'll know it when I find it.
The Cure, Sisters of Mercy, Placebo, Depeche Mode, Celldweller, Bauhaus, Voltaire, The Cruxshadows, The Ramons, The Sex Pistols, The Pixies, Portishead, Charlie Parker, anything jazz, almost anything clasical except Wagner it's just too Wagnerian, Pearl Jam, Black Tape for a Blue Girl, Velvet Underground, Maroon 5, Miranda Sex Garden, Stabbing Westward, Concrete Blonde, Bella Morte, Carfax Abby, The Clash, Souxie, Aphex Twin, Type O Negative, old Smashing Pumpkins, NIN, Joni Mitchell, London After Midnight, David Bowie (most of the old Glitter Glam icons actually), Attrition, Moby, Dresden Dolls, Still Life Decay, Blondie, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Ego Likeness, Dido, Blue October, Imogine Heep, ...
Casablanca, Princess Bride, Dogma, Empire Records, Edward Scissorhands, Big Fish, Ed Wood, Freaks, High Fidelity, Blade Runner (my all time favorite movie), Trainspotting, Beetlejuice, Breakfast Club, Out of the Past, Vertigo, All About Eve, Love Actually (because I'm a huge sap), Legend, Blue Angel, Breakfast at Tiffany's, Some Like it Hot, SLC Punk, Indiana Jones (all three), Breathless, Labyrinth, Home at the End of the World, Dark City, Dr. Zhvago, Night of the Hunter, Dirty Dancing, Better Off Dead, Say Anything, Grosse Pointe Blank, Flawless, To Wong Fu Thanks for Everything Julie Newmar, Ferris Bueler's Day Off, City of Lost Children, Charade, Stage Beauty, Nightmare Before Christmas, Spirited Away, Fight Club, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Last of the Mohicans, Benny and Joon, The Devil Wears Prada, Oceans 11, Willow, Hackers, Mystery Alaska, Court Jester, Boondock Saints, Night of the Living Dead, any really bad Italian gore movies with weird colors and no plot, Philadelphia Story, Life Less Ordinary, Red, White, Blue, Amelie, Saved!, Snatch, Brazil, Return to Oz (one of my all time favorites)...and so many more.
Alias, Carnivale, Sex and the City, Six Feet Under, Dexter, Gray's Anatomy, House, Bones, Supernatural, Heros, the old Batman cartoon, and lots of stuff (like Felicty) that I won't admit to here...
Franny and Zooey, Catcher in the Rye, Seymour: An Introduction and Raise High the Roofbeams Carpenters, I Capture the Castle, Lolita, Anna Karenina, 1984, High Fidelity, Harry Potter (all of them), Narnia (all of them), Anything by Tom Stoppard, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Importance of Being Earnest, Peter and Wendy, Alice in Wonderland, The Great Gatsby (anything by Fitzgerald really), Atonement, Hitchhiker's Guide, the "His Dark Materials" series, The Little Prince, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Alienist, The Republic, Savage Beauty, The Sound and the Fury, As I Lay Dying, A Good Man is Hard to Find, The Jungle Books, The Great Shark Hunt, a lot of non-fiction, about a million plays and almost anything I can get my hands on. I'm the child of two writers and I'm an escapist at heart... books are like breathing.
Uta Hagen, Sarah Bernhardt, Eleanor of Aquitane, and my mother.