| General | PUNK/GARAGE ROCK, Demolition Derby (my dream job), Quantum physics, i love the Boondocks (most intelligent and funny thing I've seen in a long, long time), collecting antique photographs (turn of the century post-mortem photos are my favorite), reading (favorite authors include: Arthur Rimbaud, Dennis Cooper, Lydia Lunch, Kurt Vonnegut, Richard Brautigan, Camille Paglia, Thomas Harris, Stanley Burns, etc. . .),art in any format(favorites: Mark Rothko, Sally Mann, Waterhouse, H.R. Giger, Joel-Peter Witkin as well as his son Kersen Witkin who is a fabulous painter, my cousin Sarah Petruziello's exquisite artwork www.sarahpetruziello.com, Alessandro Pautasso's amazing artwork http://www.nosurprises.it, Gunter Von Hagen's Body Worlds, Tim Burton, Richard Kern, Diane Arbus, etc.) Pinhead (and Cenobites in general), Adult Swim on Cartoon Network, Richard Kelly (who is a genius). . .
| | Music | New obsession: getting back to my punk/garage rock roots!!Antiseen, the Cramps, Hasil Adkins, the Weirdos, the Bastards, Unsane and many many more. i also love Beirut, Sia, rediscovering Rage Against the Machine b/c i am so hassled by THE MAN, Kaiser Chiefs, Mark Kozelek, HoneyHoney, Aqualung, Wendy McNeill (accordian-playing goddess), anything Pharrell Williams touches, especially his band N.E.R.D., Gnarls Barkley (heavy shit my peeps), City and Colour - especially the cover of Madonna's "Love Don't Live Here", MAN MAN - finally, someone is singing what is in my head!! David Sylvian (blast from the gothic past). Also can't stop listening to "All I Need" by Radiohead & Ane Brun's "Temporary Dive". The White Stripes, The Black Keys, Thom Yorke, Midlake (as far as I'm concerned they are the new Fleetwood Mac musically - not lyrically)and THE HIVES FUCKING RULE THE EARTH! tick tick. . BOOM! Sigur Ros (if you haven't listened to them do it NOW). Sol Seppy (magnificent, beautiful and has worked with Mark Linkous), Bat for Lashes(thanks Sarah!), Timbaland featuring THE HIVES "Throw it on Me", a beautiful young lady from France called Camille, Queens of the Stone Age - Josh Homme is a true punk-rock pop-rock bubblegum babycake. The Bastard Fairies, White Stripes, White Stripes, White Stripes, White Stripes, just turned on to a group from Italy called Ashram (amazing),Amy Winehouse, Sparklehorse, Daniel Johnston, Van Hunt, Tom Waits, Brian Wilson, The Cramps, Buzzcocks, Band of Horses, The Stooges, Imogen Heap, Frou Frou, Naomi, Wire (Pink Flag rocking most definitely more than any other), Eagles of Death Metal (babycake Josh again), Ane Brun, Gillian Welch, Snoop, Cee-lo Green, Radiohead, Andy Yorke, Anna Ternheim, Kid Beyond, Joseph Arthur, The Sweet, Gorillaz, Pussy Galore, Missy Elliott, Elliott Smith, Scratch Acid, MC5, Angel, Maxwell, White Stripes, Prodigy, Blossom Dearie, Doris Day, Kate Bush, Nick Drake, The Partridge Family, Big Black, the Cowsills, Bad Brains, H.R., Lisa Gerard, Crime and the City Solution, Norah Jones, Ben Harper, White Stripes, Mary Margaret O'Hara, The Waterboys and Mike Scott, White Stripes, Madonna, R.L. Burnside, Robert Belfour, Johnny Cash, Hank Williams, Junior Kimbrough, Martin Denny, P.J. Harvey, White Stripes, The Beastie Boys, Pavement, The Cocteau Twins, Died Pretty, White Stripes, Spain, Pere Ubu, T-Rex and Marc Bolan (he is a god), Portishead, Dolly Parton, Loretta Lynn, The Sundays, Danger Doom, Chet Baker, Tegan & Sarah, Girls vs. Boys, Motorhead, KISS, Danny Elfman (soundtracks), General Levy, NWA, Bjork, Public Enemy, David Bowie, Glen Cambell, The Arcade Fire, Badfinger, Tammy Wynette, Satan & Adam. . .and a the list goes on. . . did i mention The White Stripes?
| | Movies | Last Tango in Paris, Sweeney Todd (absolute Burton brilliance!),Borat, Invisible, Donnie Darko (changed my life forever), Hard Candy (one of the best movies I have EVER seen), The Bubble, any Fellini, any Ingmar Bergman (The Seventh Seal being a favorite), any Robert Altman (especially Nashville), most Wim Winders, Louis Malle - especially his film Damage, Trouble Every Day, any Tim Burton - but especially The Nightmare Before Xmas, Wings of Desire, Gaslight, The Ring, Apocalypse Now, Band of Brothers, The Night Porter (Charlotte Rampling's best), Betty Blue, Frailty (quirky horror film), Harold and Maude, Silence of the Lambs, A Hole in My Heart (highly recommended for those bored with pedestrian cinema), Hannibal, Raising Arizona, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Red Dragon, Don't Tell (Italian film with one of the best quotes ever), Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, The Dreamers, The Devil and Daniel Johnston, A Real Young Girl, Baise Moi, Saw (absolute must see), Romance, Citizen Cane (Rosebud - who could she be?), Memento (watch at least 6 times before you will understand), The Sea Inside, Foxes, The Door in the Floor, Saved, Romance, The Wall, The Exorcist, Winter Light, Through a Glass Darkly, The Young Lions, Wuthering Heights (Ralph Fiennes version), Malena, Thesis, Sex and Lucia, Titus (one of Anthony Hopkins' best performances), Thirteen, Three Kings, Bent, Spun, Punch Drunk Love (Adam Sandler can actually act, and very well at that),pretty much any Monty Python - but especially The Life of Brian, The Cell (magnificent cinematography and lovely Vincent D'Onofrio), The Thin Red Line, Fast Times at Ridgemont High, All the Real Girls, Solaris (original Russian version), The Others, Tommy Boy, Frida, Behind the Green Door, Spider. . .and this list goes on as well.
| | Television | Adult Swim - THE BOONDOCKS (a must, must see), addicted to documentaries, History Channel always on, love me some Spongebob, Aqua Teen Hunger Force, Family Guy, Squidbillies, 12 oz. Mouse, Home Movies, The Simpsons (since 1987, booyakasha | | Books | Arthur Rimbaud, Patti Smith's "Babel", any Carl Jung, Milan Kundera's "Unbearable Lightness of Being", Georges Bataille's "Story of The Eye" (this is a MUST read), Marquis De Sade, Poe, Yeats, D.H. Lawrence, Michael Ondaatje's "The English Patient", Tim Burton, James Joyce (the ones I can understand),Raymond Carver, C.S. Lewis, e.e. cummings, Camille Paglia, Kafka, Camus, Josephine Hart's "Damage", Joseph Conrad, Clive Barker, Edward Gorey, Richard Brautigan ("In Watermelon Sugar" being my favorite), Viktor Frankl, etc. . .
| | Heroes | Carl Jung, Nancy Friday, Kurt Vonnegut, Sacha Baron Cohen, Daniel Johnston, my cousin Sarah Petruziello, Gunter Von Hagens, Richard Kelly, Tim Burton, Joel-Peter Witkin, Mark Rothko, my dog Oliver who can not see or hear anymore and sits in a crate in a shelter because I can not keep him . . .
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