Interests
currently:
laughing at but unironically enjoying the trend towards rave revival.
being busy with 10 things at once, stressin' out, being sleep deprived, and sitting down with trashy poppy z brite novels to decompress.
always: flappers.
VAMPIRES!!!
also: fetish parties.
good DESIGN. MID-CENTURY MODERN FURNITURE. the manufactured object.
living in/travelling to paris, london, miami, new york. speaking french. trying to remember spanish and speaking it to strangers when drunk.
sweden & scandinavia in general...
art history
architecture history
urban design and planning
urban sociology
various style movements involving two or more of the following:
males as dandies, ambiguous notions of sexuality, loud music and all-night dances
especially but not limited to
fin-de-siecle/decadent europe (esp. france), 60s mod, 70s glam, club kids, and the mid-90s rave scene (good times!)
if you fail to recognize the common threads among them we can't be friends.
all kinds of art: wanky super-conceptual contemporary stuff
ART NOUVEAU
ancient greek sculpture
dutch baroque painting
the history painting wing of the louvre
victorian architecture (esp. romanesque revival)
international style architecture...
sugar-free energy drinks and SPARKS
'outsider music' (the shaggs, jandek, langley schools project, kids of widney high etc.).
ANYTHING HACIENDA or FACTORY RECORDS!
the new york YANKEES.
jewelry-making.
scheming, planning, always scheming. *destroy destroy destroy*
Music
(deep breath) i listen to/think about/give my opinion on music professionally, so...
THE SHORT ANSWER: i get down equally to BRITPOP - GLAM ROCK - OLD punk rock - acid house/electro-house/mnml techno - old goth shit - GOOD HIP HOP - mash-ups - new wave - no wave - dark wave... and other illlll ish.
very few people understand this! don't even bother trying to pigeonhole my tastes. closing your ears based on subcultural limits is for the insecure. what i like doesn't dictate how i look AND VICE VERSA. deal!
my all time favorites for varying reasons include david bowie, t-rex (and tyrannosaurus rex), new york dolls/johnny thunders/heartbreakers, DEAD BOYS, big star, elliott smith, the ramones, the buzzcocks, the damned, the rolling stones, the church!!, joy division/NEW ORDER, erasure, the pet shop boys, the stone roses, the happy mondays, the field mice, the smiths, pulp, blur, jesus & mary chain - ok basically most brit rock bands 1980-mid90s i <3 britpop, THIS MORTAL COIL, velvet underground, the waterboys, wolfsheim, wire, and the beatles' 'abbey road.' i also like GRAM PARSONS and the gun club a whole lot. and all the native tongues-DAISY age-early 90s-etc type hip hop groups... yeah...
AS FOR THE REST:
*anything and everything on these labels: 4AD, bomp, FACTORY/les disques du crepuscule, sarah, creation, vice, mute,rough trade, warp, KOMPAKT, gomma, intl DJ gigolos, ed banger
*old dirty 60s/70s shit, psych rock, garage
*trashy glam and glitter shit
*old punk and post-punk
*darker new-wave-era stuff, synth-pop, darkwave, EBM
*old skool rave jams, electro-house bangers, mnml techno, funky house, soulful drum n bass/jungle, any ill ish with bass bass bass
*BAGGY FOREVER!!! hah and related electronic-tinged rock
*british rock and indie of various eras, whatever they did it better
*60s SOUL: STAX stax stax!! NORTHERN, tamla motown...
*old ska/rocksteady/reggae
*good hip hop
*some classic country
