Das Trinken und Das Rauchen, Antique medical devices, somewhat-irratating cats, nonchalance, feeling like Marissa Berenson but looking like Linda Dano, jazzy Mc-anything, Myra Hindley, Busby Berkeley, hearts on sleeves, pirate tattoos, buckets of fake blood, spats, Blacklips Performace Cult, Leigh Bowery, excessive eyeliner, Ann-Margaret.
Sassy-quatch and Dick Powell.
Siouxsie and the Banshees, The Jam, The Stranglers, Stiffs, Inc., 3Puen, Wire, The Fall, Letigre, Dusty Springfield, The Creatures, Camper Van Beethoven, Bowie, Roxy Music, The Cure, The Smiths, Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Detroit Cobras, Lene Lovich, Pixies, Nina Simone, The Kinks, Ramones, Poisongirls, Bytches With Problems, Fad Gadget, Cherry Vanilla, The Clash,Kid Casanova.
Blade Runner, Brazil, Tommy, All About Eve, All About My Mother, 42nd Street, Xanadu, The Shining, Suspiria, Polyester, Female Trouble, Jack The Ripper, Cabinet Of Dr, Caligari, Metropolis, The Saddest Music In The World, Flashdance, anything Almadovar.
Strangers With Candy, Absolutely Fabulous, Kath & Kim, French & Saunders, Little Britain, Freaks and Geeks, Wonder Woman, The Amazing Race, Meerkat Manor.
Vile Bodies, The Loved One (Waugh), anything James Purdy, Bodies and Souls, Crash, The Grifters, The Killer Inside Me (in fact, anything Jim Thompson), Antic Hay (Huxley), I Put A Spell on You (Nina Simone's autobiography), Low Life, My Idea Of Fun, Confederacy of Dunces.
Lousie Brooks, Siouxsie, Vivienne Westwood, Amy Sedaris, Max Ernst, Candy & Jackie.