♣ i collect:
film, music, literature, andy warhol, complementary pens (they always write better, no?), movie soundtracks, cute japanese stuff, jazz, dried flowers (easy to take care of...), anything grapefruit or lime flavor, music on vinyl, hot tea, jesus candles and good-smelling candles, yellow things, sweaters, and blankets.
♣i like:
independent film, foreign flim, good music, london, clothes, things on sale, ikea, an excellent vocabulary, science, [adult swim], bicycles, bollywood, bonfires, christmas lights as year-round decor (boo seasonal decoration!), thrift stores, taking pictures of myself making faces when i'm bored, the occaisional rainstorm (especially at night), sleep!, coffee, limeade, grapefruit, key lime pie, cherry cheesecake, and my baby bee Pierspuff!
michel gondry.
wes anderson AND bill murray.
rick smith & karl hyde of underworld.
fox mulder & dana scully.
and others including, but not limited to: Beck Hansen, Ralph Fiennes, Quentin Tarantino, Toby Stephens, Derek Jacobi, Damien Lewis, David Suchet, Helen Mirren, Johnathan Glazer, Paul Giamatti, Tom Hanks, Gael Garcia Bernal, Hugh Laurie, Jim Carrey, David Carradine, David Duchovny, Gillian Anderson, Anthony Hopkins, Audrey Tautou, Lili Tomlin, Anthony Rapp, Tim Curry, Nichole Kidman, Roberto Benigni, Ewan McGregor, Ben Kingsley, Dustin Hoffman, Jude Law, Jason Schwartzman, Natalie Portman, Hugo Weaving, Peter O'Toole, Conan O'Brien, Adrien Brody, Jack Nicholson, Gwyneth Paltrow, Anjelica Huston, Cate Blanchette, Gene Hackman, Liam Neeson, Willem Dafoe, Phillip Seymore Hoffman, Elijah Wood, Scarlette Johansen, and so so so many others.
A FEW IN NO ORDER OTHER THAN ALPHABETICAL: A Tribe Called Quest, Air, Alexkid, Andrew Bird, Apparat, Aqualung, The Arcade Fire, Audio Bullys, The Avalanches, Beastie Boys, The Beatles, Beck, Ben Folds Five, The Beta Band, Bjork, Blockhead, Blonde Redhead, Blur, Boards of Canada, Bonobo, Bright Eyes, Burial, Cake, Calvin Harris, Caribou, Charlotte Gainsbourgh, Chemical Brothers, Clap Your Hands Say Yeah, Coldplay, Cut Chemist, Daft Punk, Dangerdoom, David Bowie, David Gray, The Decembrists, The DFA, Dick Annegarn, Diplo, DJ Shadow, Django Rienherdt, Duke Ellington, Elbow, Ella Fitzgerald, Enigma, The Faint, Fatboy Slim, Feist, Flight o the Conchords, Four Tet, Frank Sinatra, Franz Ferdinand, Fred Astaire, Frou Frou, Garbage, Gnarls Barkley, Gorillaz, Groove Armada, Henry Mancini, Her Space Holiday, Hot Chip, Hybrid, Imogen Heap, Inouk, Iron & Wine, Jack Johnson, Jamiroquai, Jenny Lewis and the Watson Twins, John Coltrane, John Lennon, José Gonzales, Julie London, Kid Loco, King Biscuit Time, Koop, Ladytron, LCD Soundsystem, Le Tigre, Lemon Jelly, Leningrad, Lullaby for the Working Class, Massive Attack, Mia Doi Todd, Modest Mouse, Mr. Squirrel, Mum, Neva Dinova, Nico, Nicola Conte, Noel Gallagher, Okkervil River, Peace Orchestra, Pink Floyd, The Postal Service, The Prodigy, Propellerheads, Psapp, Quarashi, Radiohead, Rilo Kiley, Rjd2, Royksopp, Seal, The Shins, Sia, Sigur Ros, Simon & Garfunkel, Skalpel, Snow Patrol, Stereolab, Sufjan Stevens, Supergrass, Talvin Singh, Tegan & Sara, Thievery Corperation, Thom Yorke, Tilly and the Wall, Tosca, U.N.K.L.E., Underworld, The Velvet Underground, Vince Giordano (and the Night Hawks), West Indian Girl, Wilco, The Willowz, Yann Tiersen, Zero 7.......bitches.
Breaking and Entering, Stay, Birth, I Shot Andy Warhol, Garden State, Rent, Memoirs of a Geisha, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, Idiocracy, Rocky Horror, Ghost World, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Life is Beautiful, Amelie, Benny & Joon, Moulin Rouge, Trainspotting, Breakfast Club, Almost Famous, American Splendor, i ♥ huckabees, The Sea Within, The Pianist, Clockwork Orange, One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest, anything by Hayao Miyazaki/Studio Ghibli (My Neighbor Totoro, Spirited Away, Naussica, Princess Mononoke, etc), V for Vendetta, The Royal Tenenbaums, The Squid and the Whale, Everything is Illuminated, The Life Aquatic, Schindler's List, The English Patient, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, Capote, The Science of Sleep, Lost in Translation, Snatch, Kill Bill (vol.1 and vol.2), Closer, Serendipity, Pan's Labyrinth, The Number 23, Rattatouille, Transformers, Rushmore, Shoot 'Em Up!, Pretty Woman, The Dark Crystal, Sunshine, Sweeney Todd, The Darjeeling Limited...and others.
The X-Files. Late Night with Conan. Planet Earth. NOVA. Reno 911. Arrested Development. House. Lost. Prime Suspect. Poirot. Wooster & Jeeves. Inspector Linley. Black Adder. And prettymuch everything on
The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Yellow, The Catcher in the Rye, The Philosophy of Andy Warhol, How I Became Stupid, The Unbearable Lightness of Being, Survivor, Lullaby, Diary, Grapefruit, The Vampire Lestat, Warhol, The Hannibal Lecter series, Fahrenheit 451, 1984, Brave New World, Lord of the Flies, Anthem, Ender's Game, Wicked, Waiting for Godot, The Metamorphasis, The Handmaid's Tale...blah blah blah.