Being happy which includes vintage clothes, music, costuming, yoga, graphic design, photography, history (film, fashion and general), learning stuff, dance, burlesque, staying up late, classic & silent movies, keeping up with old friends, intelligent discourse, museums.
New Wave counter-tenor singers from outer space, David Sylvian, Colleen Moore, kitties and other nice people....
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This is just a sampling:
NEW WAVE/80s & AVANT POP: Japan, David Sylvian, Duran Duran, Depeche Mode, Adam Ant, Haircut 100, New Order, Ryuichi Sakamoto, YMO, Aztec Camera, Propaganda, Thomas Dolby, Visage, Ultravox, Blancmange, Cocteau Twins, This Mortal Coil, Dead Can Dance, Eurythmics, Kate Bush, Heaven 17, Roxy Music, Art of Noise, Human League, English Beat, Bronski Beat, The Cure, Strawberry Switchblade, Tears for Fears, Yazoo
LOUNGE & EXOTICA: Xavier Cugat, The Rat Pack, Keely Smith, Martin Denny, Pink Martini
VINTAGE MUSIC: Bing Crosby, Django Reinhardt, Leroy Shields, Cab Calloway, Enrico Macias, George Guetary, Janet Klein and her Parlor Boys, Max Raabe & the Palast Orchester. I'm not really into Rockabilly even though everyone assumes that just because I like vintage stuff, that I'm a big Rockabilly chick too. Nothing against it. It just doesn't grab my fancy.
ELECTRONICA & AMBIENT: Eno, Air, Kraftwerk, Gary Numan, Underworld, Jean-Michel Jarre, Orbital, Moby, Golden Palominos, Jean-Jacques Perrry, Ladytron
CLASSICAL: Chopin
60s POP: Enoch Light, Jacques Dutronc, The Monkees, The Association
70s ROCK: Queen, Pat Benatar
CLASSIC DISNEY: The Jungle Book soundtrack, The Aristocats
SHOWTUNES: The Sound of Music soundtrack, The King and I soundtrack
OTHER: Arling & Cameron, Pizzicato Five, Coldplay, Ladytron, Seksu Roba, Beck, Bel Canto, Mint Royale, Malice Mizer (for the sheer theater of it all), anything with a sitar in it.
Classic movies, silents movies (especially constructivist! Aelita, Queen of Mars is AMAZING!), (By the way, I've seen the 5 hour original Dr. Mabuse (the Gambler-1922), but my record for longest silent film seen is seeing all 10 episodes of Les Vampires in one sitting. (I don't think I'll be doing that again.) MGM musicals, Mod flicks, Radley Meztger films, Flash Gordon (1980), The Fifth Element, L.A. Story, Amelie, Metropolis, Flaming Youth (Colleen Moore popularized the bob LONG before Louise Brooks!), Flesh and the Devil, It Happened One Night, Footlight Parade, An American in Paris, Gilda, The Girl from Rio, Funny Face, A Shot in the Dark, anything with Steve Martin in it, The Dark Crystal, Trouble in Paradise, Playtime, Rushmore, Superman (w/ Chris Reeve), Gone with the Wind, Princess Raccoon, Lover Come Back, Sex and the Single Girl, Time Bandits, Adventures of Baron Munchausen, Our Gang shorts and historical documentaries.
Gidget, I Dream of Jeannie, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, BJ and the Bear, Voyagers, UFO, The Young Ones, The Gong Show, Alive from Off Center, The Muppet Show, The Twilight Zone, The Partridge Family, Dotch Cooking Show, The $1.98 Beauty Pageant, PBS stuff, David Letterman, Star Trek TOS, Smallville and Turner Classic Movies
The Lonely Doll, Little Women, The Lover, The Moving Picture Girls at Rocky Ranch, A Modern Mephistopheles, Worlds, Wuthering Heights, Gone With the Wind, Jane Eyre, A Pictorial History of the Silent Screen, Masters of Starlight, Walking with Garbo
People in service of others, Richard Sharah, Charlotte Corday, Greta Garbo, Paul Poiret, Nazimova, Julia Margaret Cameron, David Sylvian, Freddie Mercury, Joan of Arc, Amma, Isabella Rossalini, Thomas Edison, Laurie Anderson's clone, People who are truthful about their age, Harold Lloyd, Mana, George Sand, Christopher Reeve, Gene Kelly, Audrey Hepburn (not as much for her film career as for her general grace and poise and her humanitarian work in her later years), my mom for surviving war, famine, TB and extreme poverty.