Late 1920s- early 1940s; the style, couture and culture.
Burlesque, cabaret, vaudeville, performance art, trash can punch, costuming, faux hair and eyelashes, big stompy boots, corsets, stockings, garters, heels, theatre, elocution, polka dots, rich colours, black and white contrasts. Foreign cultures and languages, massage therapy/holistic health, late night coffee, staying the night with friends, anything minty, forensics, history, biographies and switching ladders.
I consider myself a creative type and I like to paint, make collages (decoupage), photography and some writing. Dada, Surrealism, and Avant-Garde art draws me in.
Travel~ "Travel is fatal to prejudice, bigotry, and narrow-mindedness, and many of our people need it sorely on these accounts. Broad, wholesome, charitable views of men and things cannot be acquired by vegetating in one little corner of the earth all one's lifetime." ~Twain
I'd like to meet:
Someone who is (brutally) honest, intelligent, witty, creative, has a sense of humour, ambition, and an open mind.
If you're many or all of these, please apply.
Music:
The Cure, Skinny Puppy, Cabaret Voltaire, Depeche Mode, Tear Garden, The Knife, Bjork, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Royksopp, Goldfrapp, Cat Power, Devotchka, VHS or Beta, Talking Heads, Nick Cave, Siouxsie, Dresden Dolls, Sxip Shirey, The Smiths, Morrissey, OhGr, cEvin Key, Lily Allen, The Bravery, Einstuerzende Neubauten, Revolting Cocks, Misha, Ministry, NEIL DIAMOND, Pinback, PJ Harvey, Prince, Bauhaus, Petah Murphy, Tones on Tail, Mike Patton, Tomahawk, Peter Bjorn & John, New Order, Joy Division, Sex Gang Children, Feist, The Cramps, David Bowie, Interpol, Psychedelic Furs, Radiohead, Bird and the Bee, Blondie, Esthero, Flaming Lips, Air, The London Suede, Brazillian Girls, Gorillaz, Lucero, Bang Bang Bang, The Killers, The Shins, Kings of Leon, Ryan (not Bryan!) Adams, Bright Eyes, Ed Harcourt, Franz Ferdinand, The Faint, Black Tape For A Blue Girl, BiGod20, Covenant, Attrition, DAF, GS!BYE, Black Heart Procession, A Perfect Circle, The Darkness, The Fixx, Kate Bush, Scissor Sisters, Soft Pink Truth, Erasure, Fiona Apple, Rufus Wainwright, Jacurutu:3, Chesterfield Kings, Dishwater Blonde, Matgo Primo, Phil Pollard's Band of Humans, Broadcast, Madeline Peyroux, Bootsy Collins, Sara Schwabe Yankee Jass, Christabel and the Jons, Natti Lovejoys, obscure Scandinavian bands, Cole Porter, Billie Holiday, Frank Sinatra, Tommy Dorsey, Etta James, Mae West, Lena Horne, Ethel Merman, Marlene Dietrich, Ella Fitzgerald, Andrews Sisters, Ertha Kitt, Glenn Miller, Louis Armstrong, Cab Calloway, etc.
Movies:
Modern~ Little Miss Sunshine, Kinky Boots, Phantom of the Opera (new), French Kiss, Rocky Horror, Secretary, Dancer In The Dark (saddest movie ever), Hedwig, M, DeLovely, Fantoma: Forbidden Zone, Science of Sleep, Paris Je T'aime, Office Space, After the Wedding, Coffee & Cigarettes, Girl Interrupted, Titus, Shaolin Soccer, Big Fish, Run Lola Run, Blue Velvet, Waking Life, Sixteen Candles, Pretty in Pink, Breakfast Club, Dream for an Insomniac, St. Yves, Eternal Sunshine, Serendipity, Fight Club, Love Actually, Lost in Translation, Audition, Anniversary Party, Life As A House, Triplets of Belleville, Pretty Woman, etc.Classic~ Anything with Louise Brooks (Pandora's Box, The Show Off, Canary Murder Case, Beggars of Life, etc), Cabaret, Maltese Falcon, The Red Shoes, Peeping Tom, Bells Are Ringing, Singing in the Rain, Meet Me In St. Louis, American in Paris, The Music Man, His Girl Friday, Gold Diggers 1935, Funny Face, Vertigo, Philadelphia Story, Rear Window, My Fair Lady, Night Must Fall, Tea and Sympathy, Butterfield 8, Hello Dolly, Glenn Miller Story, Jesus Christ Superstar, Madame Butterfly, Page from a Virgin's Diary, Charades, any black and white, silent, surreal, classic, musical, or old film.
Television:
I just got a tv for the first time in over ten years and I've yet to plug it in. However, I have seen a few series that I fell in love with: House, Six Feet Under, Flight of the Conchords, Sex and the City and Doctor Who. src="http://www.unclenicks.net/bilderberg/www.bilderberg.org
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Books:
Fleurs de Mal by Charles Baudelaire, Tommy's Tale by Alan Cumming, anything by Louise Brooks or Francesca Lia Block, Joseph Heller's Catch 22,and a few girl books. I'm a biography dork too.
Heroes:
I don't believe in heroes. Everyone's here for a reason, many just don't bother to look beyond the obvious or recognise their own purposes.
