Books
Dusty, with a weakness for
Classical Greek orators (Lysias,
et al.) and tragedians (Sophocles):
Watership Down (Adams),
var. Hermann Hesse,
Alice in Wonderland (Carroll), His Dark
Materials (Pullman),
Just So Stories (Kipling), Homer,
The Secret History (Tartt),
Invisible Cities
(Calvino),
The Invention of Love (Stoppard),
Letters to a
Young Poet (Rilke),
Franny and Zooey (Salinger), var.
Edward Gorey, Sappho, A Series of Unfortunate Events (Snicket),
Anne Sexton, Sylvia Plath, Theodore Roethke,
Silk
(Baricco)
Movies
Quirky, with a weakness for various vintage and modern
horror flicks:
Gods and
Monsters, Antonia's Line, YES, Rushmore, Hedwig and the Angry Inch,
Donnie Darko, Mystery Men, Zero Effect, Cronos, The Devil's
Backbone, LotR, Reefer Madness: the Musical, Cold Comfort Farm,
Garden State, Dead Again, Royal Tenenbaums, Kenneth Branagh's
Hamlet, The Linguini Incident, The Philadelphia Story, Rope,
Ginger Snaps, Walk the Line, Usual Suspects, The Hunger, Shallow
Grave
Music
Indie, with a
weakness for old school
goth,
progressive/
new wave, and Brechtian
dark cabaret: Elliott
Smith, Iron & Wine, Mary Lou Lord, Leonard Cohen, The Smiths,
Tom Waits, The Cure, Bright Eyes, Dresden Dolls, Nine Inch Nails,
The Pixies, Richard Thompson, Regina Spektor, Siouxsie and the
Banshees, Sisters of Mercy, Tool, Elvis Costello, Jonathan Richman,
The Kinks, Radiohead, The Pogues, Violent Femmes, The Replacements,
Bauhaus, Velvet Underground, Vagabond Opera, Jill Tracy, Arcade
Fire, Belle and Sebastian, Rasputina, AFP, Gogol Bordello
Foods
Rice, something to top off said rice