holding court. feasting. secret lovers. garden labyrinths. knighting people. beheadings. burning heretics. exiling miscreants. "punishing" ruffians. torturing the treasonous. palaces. castles. manors. croquet with duchesses. conservatories. feeding doves. minuets. minstrels. bards. my chancellor. my private jester. brawny stableboys. my mares and steeds. the moat. petting my animals. considering my subjects. being entertained. luxury and useless things. storytellers. silks. turkish delights. jewels. crowns. ladies in waiting fastened in their chastity belts. chivalry and curtseys. turning mortal men into stone.
Music
tuxedomoon. chameleons. isolee. sleep. colleen. p.i.l. audience. erik satie. brigitte fontaine et areski. swans. morrissey. autechre. can. cabaret voltaire. vss. bach. duster. neu. angels of light. django reinhardt. amber asylum. will oldham. absolute body control. rites of spring. pre-glam bolan. devendra. d.a.f. tangerine dream. king crimson.
Movies
pier paolo pasolini. neil jordan. satyajit ray. federico fellini. roberto rossellini. almodovar. ingmar bergman. vittorio de sica. john cassavettes. dario argento. jan svankmajer. jacques demy. brothers quay. francois truffaut. peter jackson. luchino visconti. jean pierre jeunet. david lynch. john boorman. jean luc godard.
Television
shelley duvall's "faerie tale theatre" was the best thing on television. my favorite episodes were "the nightingale" starring mick jagger, and "pinocchio," starring paul reubens. klaus kinski's "beast" was on the level of epic rivaling bela lugosi. but who can forget billy crystal and fred willard in "the three little pigs?" dammit, all 26 episodes are brilliant. shelley duvall is a doe eyed genius. only she could accurately select the witches of my nightmares to be portrayed by joan collins and anjelica huston. she should have married and had a million creative babies with jim henson. which reminds me:
jim henson's storyteller series was the second best thing on television. "the stone soup" episode being my favorite, and one that cg and i often reference in social situations.
Books
chaucer. james joyce. tolkien. goethe. lewis carroll. ts eliot. charlotte and emily bronte. virginia woolf. emily dickinson. italo calvino. edgar alan poe. james baldwin. jane austen. john gower. giovanni boccaccio. shakespeare. oscar wilde. flannery o'connor. niccolo machiavelli. em forster. tennyson.
Dude we need to hit Disney Land and more importantly The Edison! I am trying to figure out a scheme to get us down there very soon! Oh and we have to play Backgammon! miss you guys too! xoxo
Im spring cleaning and then making hats! hehe. What are you two up to tonight? Theres a cool show at the Wiltern and a gallery show Im thinking of going out to if I can talk myself into it. x:e
dude, I have been going through all these great recipes and wishing that either you and Michael lived up here or that Chris and I lived down there so we could have fun and classy dinner parties together! Your birthday is coming up, do you guys have anything fun planned?
