painting,

animation,

sewing,

tea parties,

dancing,

crows,

fancy homemade outfits,

antiquated vocabulary,

swimming in the river,

moonlit flute playing,

ringlets,

extravagant cakes,

accordion playing monkeys,

art

Mark Growden

Alice by Jan Svankmajer

Animation of Ladislaw Starewicz

The Fearless Vampire Killers

Tuvalu

Wallace and Gromet

Blue Velvet

Twin Peaks

City of Lost Children

The Muppet Movie

Danger: Diabolik

Harold and Maude

Chitty Chitty Bang Bang

Night of the Hunter

The Loved One

The Cabinet of Dr. Caligari

Dr. Strangelove

The Trip

The Hunger

The Unholy Three

Metropolis

Cremaster Cycle

Microcosmos

Angels and Insects

The Piano

Our Hospitality

Careful

The Saddest Music in the World

Howl's Moving Castle

Spirited Away

The Singing Creek Where the Willows Grow,

Wind in the Willows,

The Bloody Chamber,

Edward Lear's poetry,

Eugene Field's poetry,

Edward Gorey's Amphigories,

Edgar Allan Poe,

Women Who Run With The Wolves,

Joseph Campbell's "The Masks of God" (all 4),

Roget's Thesaurus,

The Lord of the Rings,

The Adventures of Tony Millionaire's Sock Monkey,

Raggedy Ann,

Miss Hickory,

Meat Cake,

Gothic and Lolita Magazine

Thomas Ligotti