Reading, illustrating, photography, cozying up by a fire with my goblins and having hot chocolate, my workroom, my friends, designing, filmmaking.
People I already know because I never see them. When I do see them they seem very foreign to me and I constantly need to remeet them...making it useless to meet anyone new, unless you, Dear Stranger, feel you have the patience to be repeatedly reknown.
Rufus Wainwright, Emiliana Torinni, Kate Bush, Tori Amos, David Bowie, Led Zepplin, medieval folk, Mozart...to name the staples... .. ....
Franko Zepherelli's Romeo and Juliet, Coppola's Dracula, Goonies, Jan Svankmajer, Adventures of Baron Munchaussen, Jiri Trnka, Jiri Barta, Pan's Labyrinth, As Good As It Gets, Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, Disney's Sleeping Beauty, Watership Down, Strings, Ghoulies, Lost Boys, House 1 and 2, Hitchcock, old vampire films, Blood Tea and Red String, Quay Brothers, Mirror Mask, Brothers Grimm, Road to LaMancha, Mary Poppins, Love Actually, Corpse Bride...well, anything Burton really, 1960's horror films. ..
Meh.
They send me to temptation at financial inconvenience, sending me to confessional with prune-digesting regularity, sending also my accountant into constant bewildered wrath. Those responsible are: Geoffrey Chaucer, Arthur Rackham, Grimm Brothers, Hanns Christian Anderson, Brian Froud, Beowulf, Ed Gorey, Rudyard Kipling, Michael Bywater, Gilgamesh, Michael Hague, Joseph Campbell, Charles Dickens, David Wiesner, Frank L. Baum, Roahl Dahl, Bronte Sisters, Mick Jackson, James Joyce (Dubliners), Graham Greene, Mikhail Bulgakov, Velveteen Rabbit, Frances Hodgson Burnett, J.M. Barry, to name some.Currently Reading: Here Be Monsters, by Alan Snow. ..
My folks, Brandon, the Three, and Mr. Darcy.