I adore things that look as though Valentine's Day threw up on them. I also adore my kitten. All other objects and people are subject to individual inspection before approval.
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the smell of fireworks, lilacs, gardenias, off-white roses, words and images that make me nauseous, the Bloomsbury Group, serving tea, daily showering, rolling my eyes, bobby pins, cleaning my bathroom, turning the heat up way too high, starfruit, collaging, sunglasses 24/7, spelling, grammar, being tricky, avoiding my phone, awkward people, cardamom, chipped nail polish, mystery bruises, interdigitary locking, holding still, isolation tanks, lipstick, filth, Dogme 95, writing on myself, potato guns, smoothies, fruit loops, pink milk, hazelnut chocolate, ankles, ribcages, almond milk, hiding in the stairwell of Smart Park and setting of my car alarm when people walk by, writing letters, not wearing a bra, wigs, false eyelashes, getting up early, going on walks between 3 AM and 7 AM, tiny desserts, hot sauce, impractically small items, conspiracy theories, secrets, wrinkling my nose, poetry, comics, pilot pens, ballroom gowns, typewriters, puffed sleeves, personalized chapstick shapes, the 45th parallel, running down hills, rolling down hills, staying in touch, Vice Do's and Don'ts, telling stories, forehead kisses, weird plasticky bubbles that stain fabric when they pop and are almost impossible to blow out of the tiny straws provided, stinky cheese, eavesdropping, people-watching, mad-dogging, dancing like a jazzercising rockstar, cilantro, stickers, glitter, fake blood, real blood, talking about bodily functions, kittens, slender fingers, pretending that feet don't exist, big hair, bubblegum, clawfoot bathtubs, ..-stalking, biting, ribbons, spools, my burgundy carpeting, karaoke, making matchbox altars, sneezin' real cute, riding the bus, thick socks, costume parties, being enthusiastic, the idea of the beat movement, cupcakes with easily removable frosting, breakfast foods, the Golden Touch Family Restaurant, boysenberries, squishing things, peeling things, killing moths
These are a few of my favorite things.
The people who stalk me secretly.
I love cute girl bands, Calvin Johnson & K Records, women with smoky voices, 80's dance music, and Stephin Merritt.
Here is a more exhaustive list of my favorites:
The Esplanades, Pony Up!, The Blow, Anna Oxygen, All Girl Summer Fun Band, Calvin Johnson, Beat Happening, Dub Narcotic Sound System, Josh Rouse, The Essex Green, The Brunettes, Bird and Bee, Laura Gibson, Jeff Hanson, The Fruit Bats, The Postmarks, Tender Forever, Mirah, Jen Trynin, Monkeystrikes, The Velvet Underground, Lou Reed, Iggy Pop, David Bowie, Neil Young, Crosby, Stills, Nash and Young, Simon and Garfunkel, Paul Simon, The Pretenders, Portishead, Massive Attack, Air, The Books, Merzbow, Stephin Merritt, Future Bible Heroes, Magnetic Fields, The 6ths, The Gothic Archies, Joy Division, New Order, Manic Street Preachers, Le Tigre, The Faint, Fiona Apple, Shirley Bassey, Prince, The Beta Band, Casiotone for the Painfully Alone, Ella Fitzgerald, Billie Holliday, Marilyn Monroe, The Kinks, The Unicorns, Islands, Tom Waits, Souxsie and the Banshees, Pavement, The Silver Jews, Moldy Peaches, Adam Green, Kimya Dawson, Regina Spektor, The Pillows, Nico, The Microphones, Elton John, Billy Joel, Harry Nilsson, The Flaming Lips, Cex, Built to Spill, Blonde Redhead, Beulah, Azure Ray, Animal Collective, The Brian Jonestown Massacre, James Kochalka Superstar, The Bats, Darren Hanlon, Clem Snide, Santa Dog, Snow and Voices, The Tear Garden, John Howard, Sylvie Lewis, Luna, Cisco Houston, Bears
Slim Susie, Fall Boy, Joshua, Victor/Victoria, Mr. Brooks, 2046, Seventh Seal, Breathless, Lola und Billidikid, Angels in America, Annie Hall, Everybody Says I love You, Pulp Fiction, Amelie, Blade Runner, Waiting for Guffman, Sympathy for Lady Vengeance, He loves me he loves me not, Suicide Club, Lolita (obviously the 1962 Kubrick version), Rear Window, Naked Lunch, Lost Highway, Meaning of Life, Battle Royale, The Celebration, Together, Songs from the Second Floor, Cries and Whispers, Persona
Basically anything by Ingmar Bergman, Jean-Pierre Jeunet, or Wong Kar Wai.
CURRENT SHOWS: Lost, The Office, Nip/Tuck, horrible reality shows about nannies, Heroes
OLDER SHOWS: Young Ones, Twin Peaks, Kids in the Hall, Pasadena, Pee-wee's Playhouse, Sifl and Olly, Daria
REAL BOOKS: My Dear Uncle Oswald, The Sheltering Sky, Lolita, Roald Dahl's Omnibus (short stories), High Fidelity, Naked Lunch, Naked, Me Talk Pretty One Day, Holy Skirts, Mrs. Dalloway, Sometimes a Great Notion, The Road Less Traveled, I am Secretly an Important Man, Sombrero Fallout, the Princess Bride, White Oleander, The Chocolate War, Ulysses, Ridley Walker, White Teeth, Violet and Claire, Brave New World, City, All the Pretty Horses
COMICS: Transmetropolitan, Hopeless Savages, NYX, X-men, Optic Nerve, Art Babe, Like a Velvet Glove Cast in Iron, Palestine, Stuck Rubber Baby, Be a Man, Elfland Diaries
Lisa Crystal Carver
Richey James Edwards
Baroness von Freytag Loringhoven