reading books, writing, collecting weird things, being a goofball, the overlay of old and new, the play of hopes against the inexplicable, enigmatic yearnings of the soul, musing and mulling, ancient rome, the byzantine empire, medieval art/architecture, elizabethan england, the victorian era, romanticism, surrealism, the history of electricity, the modernization of subjectivity, urbanism, spirit photography, goat cheese, cute baby animals, heart-shaped post-it notes, t-shirts with vulgar sayings, brunch with friends, learning from mistakes, pretending i am a lion and sometimes a shark, clandestine burger joints, antique shops, animal skulls, drinking sherry
plaid ninjas
schubert impromtus, nick cave, the birthday party, the bellmer dolls, the vanity set, marissa nadler, dirty three, cocorosie, metallic falcons, indian jewelry, devendra banhart, diane cluck, pj harvey, 13th floor elevators, the lovin spoonful, prodigy, gang gang dance, hildegard of bingen, amon tobin, M.I.A., massive attack, portishead, morcheeba, mazzy star, troy banarzi, philip glass, the last days of disco sdtk., nine inch nails, the ryan adams heartbreaker album, leona naess, the pierces, cameron hull, gram parsons, elvis, robert johnson, mississippi john hurt, dolly parton, justin timberlake, the pussycat dolls, the cure, hindemith's "the four temperaments", john adams, the carmina burana, palestrina, brahms, beethoven, handel, bach, CDs that my friends burn for me, saint thomas church music
a room with a view, howard's end, notorious, rear window, sense and sensibility, pride and prejuidce (the colin firth version), doctor zhivago, the big sleep, arsenic and old lace, adventures of baron munchausen, cold comfort farm, the little princess, the english patient, cabinet of dr. caligari, the tenant, onegin, photographing fairies, the phantom of the operator, party girl, devil wears prada, elizabeth, elizabeth: the golden age, the story of adele h., camille claudel, a soldier's daughter never cries, the europeans, savages, quartet, shakespeare wallah, brideshead revisited, the heiress, the sweetest thing, valerie and her week of wonders, existenz, spider, anne of green gables
nature shows, one tree hill, gossip girl, project runway, my fair brady
henry james, the bronte sisters, huysmans, thomas hardy, mary shelley, e.m. forster, tennyson, e.t.a. hoffman, isidore lucien ducasse aka comte de lautreamont, bataille, baudelaire, rimbaud, raymond chandler, robert graves, nabokov, evelyn waugh, umberto eco, michael ondaatje, angela carter, jonathan crary, wolfgang schivelbusch, caroline walker bynum, walter benjamin, michel foucault, sigmund freud, shakespeare's sonnet 116, all the anne of green gables books, butler's lives of the saints, a field guide to demons, the hermetic museum: alchemy and mysticism, undercover surrealism, seurat: the drawings, design and the elastic mind, surrealist love poems, cabinet magazine, the new york review of books
to name a few - my mom and pop, henry james, isabella stewart gardner, emily bronte, dorothy miller, abraham lincoln