bentoism, cooking, reading, music, film noir, dancing, disneyland, red lipstick, sushi, lowbrow art, shoes with buckles, photography, wandering, learning, bill hicks, shokugan/gashapon, creepy dolls, 1940's-'50's mexican folk art, orchids, found objects, decay, polaroids, too much eye make-up, vintage chinoiserie, mark ryden, religious iconography (sans religion, please), silent film, being a jerk, alice in wonderland, vintage cheesecake (1920's-50's), instant gratification, polka dots and stripes, having more (and better) records than you, vintage taxidermy & entymology, katamari damacy, dia de los muertos calacas & calaveras, pokemon diamond, flappers, vamps & unconventional beauties.
making my son laugh his loud, gloriously goofy laugh.
cesare, when he wakes.
other non-conventional parents who aren't wackos.
less talkin', more dancin'.
The knife inside of me
It turns just like a key
horen:
francoise hardy * cocteau twins * joy division * johnny cash * kate bush * dead can dance * edith piaf * NoN/boyd rice * death in june * lee & nancy * sleeper * magnetic fields * thee headcoats/headcoatees * siouxsie * the dresden dolls * mc5 * throwing muses/kristin hersh * lush * turbonegro * nick cave/the birthday party * cher * django reinhardt * naked raygun * fugazi * serge gainsbourg * fuzzbox * einsturzende neubauten * big black/all things albini * p.j. harvey * wanda jackson * dolly parton * holly golightly * thin lizzy * diamond dave-era van halen * echo & the bunnymen * helen kane * nina hagen * malaria * lydia lunch * X * soft cell * belle & sebastian * ride * the bees * the kinks * the editors * strawberry switchblade * my bloody valentine *
4ad * shoegaze * new wave * apocalyptic folk * obscure compilations of 1920's-1940's popular music * neo-folk * fuzzed up psych. stuff * garage rock * pre-WWII chinese jazz/torch songs * 1960's french pop/ye-ye * wall of sound girl groups * twee pop * 1960's asian bubblegum pop* freakbeat from around the world *
directors: akira kurosawa, tim burton, mike leigh, kevin smith, kitano takeshi, zombie folks--romero, argento and fulci--oh my!, fritz lang, wong kar-wei, h.g. lewis, luc besson, jean-pierre jeunet, miike takashi.
actors: louise brooks, robert mitchum, tadanobu asano, clark gable, bruce campbell, clara bow, peter lorre, elizabeth taylor, johnny depp, vivien leigh, chow yun fat, john cusack, sir ian mckellan, tony leung.
genres: film noir, universal monster movies, pixar flicks, ultra-cheesy horror, sappy romantic comedies, 1940's-'50's japanese samurai flicks, french new wave cinema, hong kong action.
movies: star wars trilogy, ghost world, mad monster party?, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, amelie, my neighbour totoro, withnail & i, army of darkness, alice in wonderland, blade runner, reservoir dogs, fear & loathing in las vegas, evil dead, m, city of lost children, night of the hunter, bubba ho-tep, akira, battle royale, the muppet movies, boondock saints, buckaroo banzai, clerks, titus, escape from new york, orlando, straight to hell, moulin rouge, psycho, shaun of the dead, freaks, frida, seven samurai, audition, survive style +5.
i really enjoy cinema. hell, i really enjoy crap filler films, as well...netflix loves me.
bones, doctor who, torchwood, life on mars, spaced, stargate SG1, farscape, CSI, sesame street, firefly, coupling, heroes, six feet under, carnivale, dead like me, sex & the city, angel/BTVS, ATHF, the muppet show, futurama, metalocalypse, dark shadows, addams family, ANTM, BBUK, jekyll.
confederacy of dunces, nausea, the hitchhikers guide, huge photography books i can't afford, golden age hollywood bios, please kill me, our band could be your life, trouser press record guide, high fidelity, hunter s. thompson, lewis carroll, philip k. dick, chuck palahniuk, charles bukowski, dorothy parker, sylvia plath, neil gaiman, nick hornby, john fante, shel silverstein, those damn potter books! irvine welsh, thomas harris, douglas adams, edward gorey....
henry chinaski, zelda sayre fitzgerald, edward gorey, groucho marx, frida kahlo, dorothy parker and louise brooks.
unconventional people who refuse to live for anyone else.