The glamourous and the macabre, Kenneth Anger, 18th Century France, Weimar Berlin, the Victorian era, Making my own clothes, making purses and accessories for other people, New York (feels like home...), Torreros, the Golden age of Hollywood, Eric Von Stroheim, silent films accompanied by live piano, sailors in uniform, Elizabeth Taylor, Ray Ceasar, Vivienne Westwood, Betsey Johnson, wax museums, Vintage Haute Couture, the 70's early 80's Punk scene, Pierre et Gilles's photography, puppets, Blythe dolls, chocolate, cats, goats and chihuahuas, Marie-Antoinette, the French Revolution, corsets, glitter, satin and lace, collecting 50's aprons, petticoats and weird little antique objects, amusement parks, visiting monkeys at the zoo, Gustave Dore, Charles Perrault, Aubrey Beardlsey, Barbara Stanwyck, Louise Brooks, Marlene Dietrich, museums, cooking for my man, cooking for my friends, harassing my friends, checking Hollywood gossip websites, the real nasty bitchy ones, why waste your time...
I'd like to meet:
Martians, Satan, Erich von Stroheim, Richard Burton, the absolutely brilliant Kenneth Anger and the mesmerizing Gary Cooper... Check out the trailer for my boyfriend's feature film "The Descendant", I was the production designer on it:
Music:
Johnny Thunders, Death in Vegas,David Kristian, Billy Childish, The Stylistics, Wanda jackson, 70's disco, The Dead Boys, Radiohead, The Sonics, Blondie, The Dictators, Peggy Lee, Peaches, Elvis Presley, The Voluptuous Horror of Karen Black, Angelo Badalamenti, The New York Dolls,Iggy Pop with or without The Stooges, Air, Rational Youth, B52's, Vive la Fête, Neko Case, The Plasmatics, The Cramps, The Sadies, Tommy James & the Shondells, The Ramones, Johnny Cash, Julie London, Rosemary Clooney, The Raveonettes, Scissor Sisters, Camille Saint-Saëns, Arvo Part, Curtis Mayfield, Roxy Music, Princess Superstar, and many more. And I have to admit, I loooooove the Queen Bitch, Madonna...
Movies:
Perfume, Story of a Murderer, Sunset Boulevard, East of Eden, The Servant, The Libertine, Devil's Backbone, Tenderness of the Wolves, Quai Notre-Dame, Galia, Daughters of Darkness, Jan Svankmajer's Alice,Gosford Park, The Innocents, Phantom of the Paradise, Vertigo, The Player, La Reine Margot, The Amityville Horror, The Omen I and II, À cause, À cause d'une Femme, Let's Scare Jessica to Death, Les Demoiselles du Bois de Boulogne,Un Chien Andalou, The Tenant, In Cold Blood, Repulsion, At Midnight I'll Take your Soul,Love From Mother Only, Dans ma peau, American Psycho, The Sentinel, Phantom of the Opera (Lon Chaney), Double Idemnity, La bouche de Jean-Pierre, Haxan, virtually anything by Kenneth Anger who I totally worship, anything by Jean Cocteau, anything written by David Mamet, anything by Todd Solondz, anything by John Waters, anything by Christopher Guest and almost anything by Dario Argento even if 76% of it is crap, Black Christmas, The Wicker Man, Rosemary's Baby, Apocalypse Now, Beat Girl, Beyond the Valley of the Dolls, Secret Ceremony, Top Hat, Barkleys of Broadway, Le Cercle Rouge, Les Yeux sans visage, Goodfellas, Valerie and her Week of Wonders, Intolerance, Pandora's Box
Television:
I am Ricky Gervais and Sasha Baron Cohen obsessed!!!
Books:
Marlene Dietrich by Maria Riva, any Henry Miller, Tales of Transgression and I Am no One You Know by Joyce Carol Oates, Voluptuous Panic:The Erotic World of Weimar Berlin by Mel Gordon, the Out of This World Encyclopedia, Anais Nin's journal, the Black Dahlia by James Ellroy, The Art of Eric Stanton For the Man who Knows His Place, The Black Dahlia Avenger by Steve Hodel, any Trinny & Susannah books, Easy Riders and Raging Bulls, Hollywood Babylon I and II by Kenneth Anger, Victorian medical books
Heroes:
Anybody that knows what they want to do with their life and then have the courage to make it happen without using and crushing everyone on their path.
