dirty martinis, abstract impressionism, beards and body hair, drawing, blaming New Jersey, the preRaphaelites, art nouveau, illustration, comic books, kissing, being confused, fashion, Tony Leung, staring down someone and sashaying, hot bmx bikers, pirates, French films, Moroccan food, lumberjacks, bullshit management, Queen Elizabeth I, costumes, Eiko Ishioka, Viggo Mortensen, Cy Twombly, sentences with parenthetical statements, shiny objects, my G5, the missionary position, mania, Italians, English grammar, Brian Froud and his white man afro, Dries Van Noten, large gaudy mirrors, cello music, printmaking, Tudor England, Galliano (the man not the drink), mermaids, Sonia Rykiel, mechanical pencils, pittbulls and labradors, sushi and sake, bustles and corsetry, Chloe, Marc Jacobs, Dad's Garage, and chamomile tea with haiku
I'd like to meet:
people who take time to be themselves; people who can spell correctly and do not under any circumstances enjoy the perpetuation of the butchery of the English language; people who write love letters; people with reasons for doing the things they do; people who like to get drinks; also Catherine Deneuve and Lord Robert Dudley, Earl of Leicester (he had a beard).
Countess Olenska: Are you very much in love with May?
Newland Archer: As much as a man can be.
Countess Olenska: Is there a limit?
Music:
Thievery Corporation, Air, Plaid, Blonde Redhead, The Flaming Lips, Johnny Cash, PJ Harvey, Handsome Boy Modeling School, Pulp, The Strokes, David Bowie, Bjork, Postal Service, The Velvet Underground, Nico, Jackson 5, The Kinks, Connie Francis singing Siboney, Simon and Garfunkel, Beethoven, Edward Elgar's Cello Concerto in E Minor, Jacqueline DuPre, Smetana's The Moldau
Movies:
Indochine, Elizabeth, Wayne's World, Overboard, In the Mood for Love, 2046, The Royal Tenenbaums, Amelie, Harry Potter, Lord of the Rings, Hero, Legends of the Fall, Carlito's Way, True Romance, Anchorman, Welcome to the Dollhouse, Willow, The Last Unicorn, Immortal Beloved, Hilary and Jackie, The Count of Monte Cristo, Bram Stoker's Dracula, Sin City, Interview with the Vampire, Quills, Sunshine, Monty Python and the Holy Grail, Pride and Prejudice, The Buccaneers (those BBC gems), Sense and Sensibility, Mansfield Park
Television:
Rome!!! Carnivale, Big Love, Lost, Arrested Development, That 70's Show reruns, Kids in the Hall, Tom Goes to the Mayor, Tim and Eric ASGJ!
Books:
Rosalind Miles: I, Elizabeth
Patricia Hampl: Blue Arabesque
Anna Gavalda: Hunting and Gathering, I Wish Someone Were Waiting For Me Somewhere
Augusten Burroughs: Running with Scissors
Graham Greene: The Power and the Glory
Dave Eggers: A Heartbreaking Work of Staggering Genius, You Shall Know Our Velocity, How We Are Hungry
E.M. Forster: A Room with a View
Janet Fitch: White Oleander
Homer: The Illiad
Peter S. Beagle: The Last Unicorn
T.H. White: The Once and Future King
Philippa Gregory: The Other Boleyn Girl
Jeffrey Eugenides: Middlesex
William Golding: Lord of the Flies
The masterfully depressive H.C. Andersen's Fairy Tales
Jane Austen
Edith Wharton (even when she's long-winded): The Buccaneers, The Age of Innocence
Henry James: Portrait of a Lady
books illustrated by Michael Green or K Y Kraft
Plus Hamlet, Tolkien, and such.
the poetry of Adrienne Rich, Edna St. Vincent Millay, Shelly (that's Percy, Mary's husband), Lord Tennyson (and his ladies in their midnight bowers)
Heroes:
Elizabeth I, Triumph the Insult Comic Dog
