Monty Python, British Humour, Ribena, Afternoon Tea, Tea Parties, Traditional Pubs, Blackadder, Eddie Izzard, Little Britain, V&A, Armenian-Russian Folklore and Tradition, Babuschka, Gipsy Culture, Tarot, Animals, our cat Morticia, Marine Biology, making snow-angels in fresh snow, Winter, Snow Globes, painting, collages, drawing, sewing, knitting, crochet, embroidery, restaurate old furniture, collecting antiques (favorite piece: a little candy dish from 1770), Flea Markets, Lucha Libre, Men in Masks, MY HUSBANDS BEARD, cooking, baking, experimenting with yummy food that looks gross for halloween, Halloween, taking snapshots, The Munsters, Meditation, Chanting (buddhism), Dadaism, Dada Baroness Elsa von Freytag Loringhoven, Surrealism, Hieronymus Bosch, Francesco Clemente, Cabaret Voltaire Zürich, Edvard Munch, Salvador Dali, Toulouse-Lautrec, Fashion Caricature (rokoko/barock), Fashion History, Eugenio Recuenco, collecting handbags, Hats, Michael Sowa, Jean-Jacques Sempé, Yoshitomo Nara, Thomas Ott, Pipilotti Rist, Die Mumins, Strychnin Gallery Berlin, Elizabeth McGrath, Angie Mason, Kathie Olivas, Joe Sorren, Marion Peck, Lisa Petrucci, Camille Rose Garcia, EDWARD GOREY, Mark Ryden, Elsa Schiaparrelli, Anna Piaggi, Vivienne Westwood, Antonio Marras, Walter van Beirendonck, Philip Tracey, Galliano, Alexander McQueen, Commes des Garçons ........
Rob Zombie, The Cure, Nick Cave, PJ Harvey, Tom Waits, Element of Crime, Armenian/Russian Folk, Oriental Music, selected D&B Tracks, The Pogues, The Smiths, Morrissey, Tindersticks, Antony and the Johnsons, Johnny Cash (his songs accompanied me through my childhood, my father was a huge fan) Massive Attack, Sigur Ros, Dead can dance, Rosa Crux, Fantomas, Madrugada, Sieben, Nigel Kennedy, Sergej Rachmaninov, Komitas, Armen Ra, Rimski-Korsakov, Einstürzende Neubauten, Diary of Dreams, Sopor Aeternus, ASP, Deine Lakaien, RAMMSTEIN (etwas Kultur muss sein...), Motörhead, The Ghastly Ones, Halloween themed Music, Spooky Surf, Max Raabe, Monty Python-Sings, Moonspell, Die Form, Alec Empire, Dimmu Borgir....just to name a few...
Japanese Anime, Princess Mononoke, Howl’s moving Castle, Chihiros Reise ins Zauberland, My Neighbor Totoro, Tim Burton’s Nightmare before Christmas, Beetlejuice, Mars Attacks!, Edward Scissorhands, Sleepy Hollow, Big Fish, Corpse Bride...Willow, Dark Crystal, Lost Boys, A Dirty Shame, Hairspray, Coffee and Cigarettes, The Gruesome Twosome, Arsenic and old Lace, The Fearless Vampire Killers (Polanski) , The Hound of the Baskerville (1959 with my favorite Sherlock Holmes charakter Peter Cushing) Murder by Death, The Blob, Addams Family, Abbott and Costello meet Frankenstein, The Bride of Frankenstein (1935 with Boris Karloff), Bram Stoker’s Dracula (Francis Ford Coppola), Dr. Jekyll and Mr. Hyde (1931 by the armenian Rouben Mamoulian), Curdled, Army of darkness, Chucky, II,III,Bride and Baby, Halloween, The Curse of the Jade Skorpion, Agatha Christie, Gerry Andersons UFO Series, Monty Python’s The Life of Brian, The Holy Grail and the complete Flying Circus Series, Zoolander, Mystery Men, Groundhog Day, Scrooged, Kung Pow, Disney...........
Gebrüder Grimm – Grimms Märchen. Jean-Jaques Sempé and Patrick Süsskind – Die Geschichte des Herrn Sommer. Franz Kafka (his complete work). Fjodor Dostojewski – Der Idiot. J.W. Goethe – Die Leiden des jungen Werthers, Poems, Faust. Hermann Hesse – Steppenwolf. Francis Bacon – Essays. G.E. Lessing – Nathan der Weise. E.T.A. Hoffmann – Die Elixiere des Teufels. Paul Scherbart und Frank Wedekind – morbide Gedichte. Christian Morgenstern - Gedichte. Edgar Allen Poe – Short Stories and Poems. Will Self – My Idea of Having Fun. Douglas Adams – The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy. Robert Schneider – Schlafes Bruder. Terry Pratchett – The complete Discworld Stories. Neil Gaiman and T. Pratchett – Good Omens. Lewis Caroll – Alice’s Adventures in Wonderland, Trough the Looking Glass. Nick Hornby – High fidelity, Essays, A Long Way Down. Jim Crace – The Devil’s Larder. M.R. James. Wladimir Kaminer – Helden des Alltags. Heinz Strunk – Fleisch ist mein Gemüse. Sven Regener – Herr Lehmann. Ingrid Noll – Die Häupter meiner Lieben. Fashion History books, Fashion Design, Art, Gris Grimly, Roman Dirge, Edward Gorey, Armenian/Russian Fairy Tales......this is only the tip of the iceberg.
My Father