dynamine

bentoism, cooking, reading, blythe!, music, film noir, dancing, disneyland, red lipstick, sushi, lowbrow art, shoes with buckles, photography, wandering, learning, bill hicks, shokugan/gashapon, creepy dolls, 1940's-'50's mexican folk art, orchids, found objects, decay, polaroids, too much eye make-up, vintage chinoiserie, mark ryden, religious iconography (sans religion, please), silent film, being a jerk, alice in wonderland, stripey socks, vintage cheesecake (1920's-50's), instant gratification, polka dots and stripes, having more (and better) records than you, vintage taxidermy & entymology, dia de los muertos calacas & calaveras, flappers, vamps & unconventional beauties.

i spend my days with the coolest kid on the planet, my 4 year old crazypants. i spend my nights serving cocktails to various and sundry hipsters, "cool kids", and some genuinely decent folk who can hold their liquor.

cocteau twins * joy division * johnny cash * kate bush * dead can dance * edith piaf * death in june * lee & nancy * etta james * magnetic fields * thee headcoats/headcoatees * siouxsie * the dresden dolls * mc5 * throwing muses/kristin hersh * lush * turbonegro * nick cave/the birthday party/grinderman * django reinhardt * naked raygun * fugazi * serge gainsbourg * fuzzbox * einsturzende neubauten * big black/all things albini * p.j. harvey * wanda jackson * dolly parton * holly golightly * thin lizzy * echo & the bunnymen * helen kane * nina hagen * lydia lunch * X * soft cell * ride * the bees * the kinks * the editors * gogol bordello * beirut * strawberry switchblade * my bloody valentine *

4ad * shoegaze * new wave * apocalyptic folk * obscure compilations of 1920's-1940's popular music * neo-folk * fuzzed up psych. stuff * garage rock * pre-WWII chinese jazz/torch songs * 1960's french pop/ye-ye * wall of sound girl groups * twee pop * 1960's asian bubblegum pop* freakbeat from around the world *

directors: akira kurosawa, tim burton, mike leigh, kevin smith, kitano takeshi, zombie folks--romero, argento and fulci--oh my!, fritz lang, wong kar-wei, h.g. lewis, luc besson, jean-pierre jeunet, guillermo del toro, miike takashi.

actors: louise brooks, robert mitchum, tadanobu asano, clark gable, bruce campbell, clara bow, peter lorre, elizabeth taylor, johnny depp, vivien leigh, chow yun fat, john cusack, sir ian mckellan, tony leung.

genres: film noir, universal monster movies, pixar flicks, ultra-cheesy horror, sappy romantic comedies, 1940's-'50's japanese samurai flicks, french new wave cinema, hong kong action.

movies: star wars trilogy, control, ghost world, mad monster party?, eternal sunshine of the spotless mind, cool hand luke, amelie, my neighbour totoro, withnail & i, army of darkness, alice in wonderland, blade runner, reservoir dogs, fear & loathing in las vegas, evil dead, m, city of lost children, night of the hunter, bubba ho-tep, akira, battle royale, the muppet movies, boondock saints, buckaroo banzai, clerks, titus, escape from new york, orlando, straight to hell, moulin rouge, psycho, shaun of the dead, freaks, frida, seven samurai, audition, survive style +5.

confederacy of dunces, nausea, the hitchhikers guide, huge photography books i can't afford, golden age hollywood bios, please kill me, our band could be your life, trouser press record guide, high fidelity, hunter s. thompson, lewis carroll, philip k. dick, chuck palahniuk, charles bukowski, dorothy parker, sylvia plath, neil gaiman, nick hornby, john fante, shel silverstein, those damn potter books! irvine welsh, warren ellis, thomas harris, douglas adams, edward gorey...

comics: the watchmen, hellboy, preacher, sandman, umbrella academy, lenore, etc...

button making, ridiculously basic & beginner sewing, rudimentary bookmaking, painting, aurally fixated/musically oriented things...

bones, doctor who, torchwood, life on mars/ashes to ashes, spaced, stargate SG1, farscape, firefly, coupling, six feet under, carnivale, dead like me, angel/BTVS, ATHF, the muppet show, metalocalypse, dark shadows, the addams family, jekyll, no reservations, life, deadwood, sons of anarchy...