soup, sex, and phonology
Pedants, fagen, decadents, thought chewers, big eaters, nautch girls, Communist poetry afficionados.
A robot named
malice mizer, rufus wainwright, the smiths, bel canto, gackt, tenacious D, old-timey swing/jazz/big band/ragtime.
BRIDE WITH WHITE HAIR. One is lucky I haven't made that a sparkly marquee, such is my adoration.
The singing detective, OZ.
Larissa Lai "Salt Fish Girl"; Gwendolyn Brooks anything; Ford Maddox Ford "Parade's End"; Evelyn Waugh "Vile Bodies", "Black Mischief", "Scoop"; Gabriel Garcia Marquez "1000 years of solitude"; Isabel Allende anything; Wallace Stevens "Harmonium"; Salman Rushdie "The Moor's Last Sigh", "Shalimar the Clown", "Satanic Verses"
Brigitte Lin, Poirot, Mana. Also, Brigitte Lin, Brigitte Lin, and Brigitte Lin.