Sleep, beer, books, guitars, politics, and art. Things (or people) that are broken. Things that I can break, things that I can fix. Hiding. Trains, tellings stories, and making a mess. Good coffee, strange movies, weird dreams, pretty girls, places I've never been, people I've never met. Running away from my mistakes. Diversionary tactics. Not telling everything I know, acting, causing a scene, and leaving things behind.
I'd like to meet:
"I wash my hands of those who imagine chattering to be knowledge, silence to be ignorance, and affectation to be art."
--Kahlil Gibran
People with cool scars, people that drink too much, people with short tempers, and someone to disappear with.
Music:
The Cure,
Jeff Buckley,
David Bowie,
Saul Williams,
Common Sense,
Black Sabbath,
Rocco Deluca,
Ben Harper,
Tegan & Sara,
Frou Frou/Imogen Heap,
Otis Redding,
Motley Crue,
Anathema,
Reverend Horton Heat, Tiger Army,
PJ Harvey,
Joni Mitchell,
Misfits,
Tom Waits,
Leonard Cohen,
The Roots,
Danny Elfman,
Craig Armstrong,
Thin Lizzy,
Godspeed You Black Emperor,
Sting/The Police,
Mazzy Star,
Pedro the Lion,
The Rolling Stones,
Led Zeppelin,
Emmylou Harris,
The Last Dance,
Bella Morte,
Zoar,
A Murder Of Angels,
Joy Division,
Siouxsie and the Banshees,
Nick Cave and The Bad Seeds,
The Birthday Party,
Angie Stone,
Katatonia,
HIM,
My Dying Bride,
Fields of the Nephilim,
Clan of Xymox,
Dead Can Dance,
Fantomas (or any Mike Patton project),
Head Automatica (because Dan the Automator is awesome),
Erykah Badu,
Acid Bath,
Hum,
Bill Withers,
Aretha Franklin,
The Church,
Gladys Knight,
Carmen McRae,
Billie Holiday,
Nat King Cole,
Bjork,
Jimi Hendrix,
Damien Rice,
Pearl Jam,
Neil Young,
Gillian Welch,
Gary Allan,
Alison Krauss,
Lucinda Williams,
Beth Orton,
Claire Voyant,
Seraphim Shock,
Lacrimas Profundere,
A.F.I.,
Diary Of Dreams,
Chris Isaak,
Low,
Bright Eyes,
Last Days Of April,
Rilo Kiley,
The Distillers,
Sleater-Kinney,
Joseph Arthur,
Electric Wizard,
Floetry,
Suzanne Vega,
Citizen Cope
Neko Case
Alison Krauss,
The Foo Fighters,
Golden Palominos ...
Movies:
Labyrinth,
Velvet Goldmine,
Suspiria,
Heavenly Creatures,
The Ghost and Mrs. Muir
Arsenic and Old Lace
Clerks,
Eternal Sunshine Of the Spotless Mind,
Roman Polanski's Repulsion,
The Shipping News,
The Man Who Fell To Earth,
Gone With The Wind,
Breakfast at Tiffany's,
Pretty In Pink,
Stay,
Sixteen Candles,
The Breakfast Club,
Casablanca,
Somewhere in Time,
But I'm A Cheerleader,
Legend Of Hell House,
Nightmare on Elm Street series, (except for the second one,)
Interview With A Vampire,
Return Of The Living Dead,
Titus,
The Dark Crystal,
Legend,
The Usual Suspects,
A Very Long Engagement,
Great Expectations,
Arthur,
Rocky Horror Picture Show,
Big Fish,
Sleepy Hollow,
Beetlejuice,
Series 7: The Contenders,
8MM,
Chicago,
The Others,
Plague of the Zombies,
Taste The Blood of Dracula,
The Satanic Rites of Dracula,
Horror of Dracula,
Bill Cosby: Himself,
Dario Argento's The Church,
Donnie Darko,
Heathers,
The Hunger,
Sleepy Hollow,
Waking Life,
Igby Goes Down,
Wait Until Dark,
St. Elmo's Fire,
Jawbreaker,
Mean Girls,
Funny Face,
Rosemary's Baby,
Requiem For A Dream,
Saved,
Sin City,
Boys Don't Cry,
Short Night Of Glass Dolls,
Buffalo 66,
Walk The Line
The Sleepaway Camp trilogy,
Closer
Silent Hill
Strait-Jacket
The Legend Of Hell House
Pulp Fiction,
Garden State,
The Corpse Bride,
True Romance...
Television:
My So-Called Life,
Twin Peaks,
Dark Shadows, IFC,
and the History Channel.
Shows about dead bodies, and how they got that way.
I'm also completely infatuated with The L Word.
Books:
Running With Scissors, by Augusten Burroughs.
The Time Traveler's Wife, by Audrey Niffenegger
The Outlander series, by Diana Gabaldon
Where The Wild Things Are,by Maurice Sendak.
Goodnight, Nobody, by Michael Knight,
I Am No One You Know, by Joyce Carol Oates
Richard Matheson's I Am Legend and Somewhere in Time,
Sherryl Jordan's The Juniper Game,
Daphne Du Maurier's Rebecca,
Neil Gaiman's Good Omens, Anansi Boys, American Gods, and Neverwhere
William Gibson's Idoru, and Pattern Recognition
Tanith Lee's Tales From The Flat Earth, and Lousia the Poisoner,
Whitley Striber's The Hunger,
Sylvia Plath's The Bell Jar
The poetry of Saul Williams, Pablo Neruda, Sylvia Plath, and Edna St. Vincent Millay,
The Collected Autobiographies of Maya Angelou
L'Amber by Tanith Lee
Fatal Women by Tanith Lee, writing as Esther Garber
Haunted and Diary by Chuck Palahniuk
Anita Diamant's The Red Tent,
Susan Vreeland's The Passion of Artemisia,
Penelope Farmer's Charlotte Sometimes
Evasion, anonymously written and distributed by CrimethInc.
Stephen King's Needful Things, and the Bachman books,
Stephen Chbosky's Perks of Being A Wallflower,
Harper Lee's To Kill A Mockingbird,
Jeffrey Eugenides' The Virgin Suicides, and Middlesex,
Margaret Mitchell's Gone With The Wind,
Saul Williams' She, and ,said the shotgun to the head,
Aleister Crowley's Diary Of A Drug Fiend,
Nicole Blackman's Blood Sugar,
Ayn Rand's Anthem,
Gregory Maguire's Wicked, Son of a Witch and Confessions of an Ugly Stepsister,
the Sandman graphic novels (and their spinoffs), a handful of Vertigo titles, and a thousand more that I can't think of now...
Heroes:
Artemisia Gentileschi and Mary Magdalene.
