I'd like to meet:
hmm...foppish dandies, vampy vaudevillians
fringe artists, righteous broads who love animals,
drag queens, rogues, benign otherworldy beings,
fey, disenchanted idealists like me, with a sense of their own
ridiculousness, and of course, Ralph Fiennes, as Heathcliff here:
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And Andy Dick...
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Music:
Cole Porter, Kurt Weill, Kander & Ebb, Elvis,
David Bowie, The Smiths, Nancy Sinatra, show tunes,
Peaches, B52s, Antonio Carlos Jobim, Gretchen Hofner,
Genetica, Blondie, cheesy lounge music, Peggy Lee,
The Dead Milkmen, Danny Elfman, ELO, Judy Garland,
Hank Williams, Sr, creepy carnival sideshow music,
Rodgers & Hammerstein, Al Green, Adam & the Ants,
Christmas carols, especially ‘God Rest Ye Merry
Gentlemen’ because it sounds so creepy and makes me
think of Scrooge, Frank Loesser, NIN, Johnny Cash,
Speedball Baby, Buddy Holly, Consolidated,
Brendan Duffin’s Bisexual Adventure, Tchaikovsky,
Sex Pistols, Peggy Lee, Louis Prima, The Cure.
From New Orleans- Harry Connick, Jr., Quintron & Miss
Pussycat, Liquidrone, The Troublemakers, Glorybee,
Sophisticats.(I really miss The Matador, The Mermaid,
and seeing Pleasure Club!) Oh, and I love that mariachi
music they play at Superior Grill on St. Charles Ave!
It sounds SO good after some poky margaritas! And I'm
Looking forward to the Tenderhearts and the Cesarians,
when I get back to London!
Movies:
who cares but I love Stanley Kubrick, musicals--Guys and Dolls,
Cabaret, Showboat, Wizard of Oz, Mame, Camelot, Anything Goes--
whatevah!! Fellini films, The Seventh Seal, Rosemary’s Baby,
The Others, American Movie, Ed Wood classics, Pee Wee’s Big
Adventure, Almodovar, The Seventh Seal, Static, The Wicker Man,
The Exorcist, American History X, Slingblade, A Simple Plan, Ikiru,
Memento. I love David Mamet--particularly The Winslow Boy and
the Spanish Prisoner, Hammer horror films, How to Get Ahead in
Advertising, Spinal Tap, Bride of Frankenstein, Paper Moon,
Gone With the Wind, On the Waterfront, Steetcar,Waiting for Guffman,
Ralph Fiennes in Onegin, Oscar & Lucinda,
and Schindler’s List, and I love King Creole!
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Television:
Scare Tactics, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Sopranos,
Big Love, The Daily Show, Colbert Report, Reno 911,
Most Haunted, Real Time, The Honeymooners, Sightings,
South Park, I Love Lucy, A & E miniseries,
Pee Wee's Playhouse, Night Gallery, XFiles,
A guilty pleasure? Holiday animated specials like
'It's the Great Pumpkin, Charlie Brown' and 'Rudolph'.
I hate 'Frosty' though.
Books:
The Woman in White, Confederacy of Dunces,
Wuthering Heights, Vanity Fair, Jane Eyre,
anything by Thomas Hardy, Jane Austen, Charles
Dickens, or Sarah Waters, Alice in Wonderland,
The Gashlycrumb Tinies, The Secret History,
Grimm's Fairy Tales, the Hobbit & the LOTR
triology are a few of my favorites...