Burlesque dancing, knife sharpening, abandoned theaters, rowdy, sold-out crowds, glitter, beads, sequins, lace-up boots, old clothing speckled with oil paint, fingers flying over the surfaces of instruments, hard-backs full of penciled-in notes and dog ears, black and white comicbooks, graceful paw-prints on my furniture...
burlesque dancers, comicbook characters, animated creatures, hand-made dolls, artists, musicians, writers, film-makers, freaks...
Music that is old and scratchy, dark and smoky, strange and quirky, dreamy and decadent, bulky and bewitching, raunchy, ethereal, multifoiled, obscure... Old school jazz, swing, big band, boogie woogie, chansons, cabaret, torch songs, movie soundtracks from the 1930s and 40s, rockabilly, psychobilly, French composers, Russian composers, English composers, soothing avantguard, glitchy electronics, railroad songs, old school delta blues, dixieland, hillbilly folk...