magic, mischief, mannequins, markets, mac blue eye liner, sleeping, dreaming, daydreaming, writing, film-making, film-watching, pre-raphaelites, phantasmagoria, flapper girls, parisian carousels, venetian masks, transvestites, fairy-tales, mythology, surrealism, outsider art, the eyes of brigitte helm, tea parties, cooking, polaroids
fellow magiciennes, pupeteers, circus freaks, trannies in tutus, the late ivor cutler, cinephiles, larry david, jesters, jokers
tom waits, kate bush, bob dylan, nina simone, ella fitzgerald, cocteau twins, talking heads, toots & the maytals, joanna newsom, magazine, django reinhardt, television, velvet underground, nico, ink spots, animal collective, coco rosie, billie holliday, the slits, my bloody valentine, bjork, frank sinatra, throwing muses, francoise hardy, siouxsie and the banshees, robots in disguise, louis armstrong, electrelane, woody guthrie, devendra banhart
celine & julie go boating, john cassavetes, maya deren, alain resnais, jean-luc godard, federico fellini, jan svankmajer, quay brothers, wong kar-wai, wim wenders, paul morrissey & warhol, bill viola, stan brakhage, john waters, vera chytilova, peter greenaway, terrence malick, chris marker, hou hsiao hsien, luis bunuel, atom egoyan, stanley kubrick, richard linklater, man ray, hans richter, orson welles, nicolas roeg, david gordon greene, david lynch, alfred hitchcock, harold and maude, maysles brothers, billy wilder, woody allen, alejandro gonzalez innaritu, emir kustarica, walerian borowyczk
twin peaks, curb your enthusiasm
vladimir nabokov, jd salinger, amos vogel film as a subversive art, george orwell 1984, albert camus outsider, emily bronte, f scott fitzgerald, oscar wilde, to kill a mockingbird, ivor cutler meal one, carl gustav jung, baudelaire, naomi klein, noam chomsky, rilke's letter to a young poet, charles bukowski
atticus finch, of course john cassavetes, larry david, mahatma gandhi, gloria morin, celine and julie, maya deren, gena rowlands, maude