Amanda
My blogs
| Industry | Chemicals |
|---|---|
| Occupation | Imaginary Friend |
| Location | Antarctica |
| Introduction | ...is really a spider. |
| Interests | abandoned buildings, anachronism, androgyny, animals, anthropomorphism, art, astronomy, automata, avant garde, badness, bones, books, boots, carnivals, cartoons, cats, cemeteries, children's books, clockwork toys, comics, cosmology, costumes, critters, daguerreotypes, dark fantasy, dark romanticism, death rock, decadence, dive bars, dolls, drawing, dreams, dressing up, existentialism, experimental films, factories, fairytales, fantasy, fashion, film noir, fin de siècle, folk art, folklore, forests, gardens, ghost stories, ghosts, good bad movies, good music, goth, grotesque, guilty pleasures, hats, haunted houses, haute couture, hope, horror, industrial, japan, magic, magical realism, magicians, making stuff, marionettes, mexico, mice, miniatures, misanthropy, monsters, mystery, mythology, mythopoeic, natural history, nightlife, nonsense, painting, paradox, philosophy, photography, poetry, post punk, praha, primitives, punk, reading, revenge, robots, rock & roll, rodents, russia, scarecrows, science fiction, sculpting, soul, southern gothic, steampunk, stop-motion animation, stuff, surrealism, tattoos, the american south, the blues, toys, trains, travel, trolls, underground, uniforms, varmints, victoriana, villains, vintage, vivariums, voodoo, witches, writing, zombies, ♥ |
| Favorite movies | Whew... I'm a film junkie. Here goes: Stylish weirdness Jodorowsky (utterly weird but visually amazing), Jeunet & Caro, Tsukamoto, Takashi Miike (not a big fan of the ultraviolence, but omg I love his style), Kusturica, Kurosawa, Eisenstein, David Lynch (some I love, some is just meh), Tim Burton, Wim Wenders, the good ol' Frenchy newwave, Garden State, Buffalo 66, Angela Carter's The Magic Toyshop, The Company of Wolves, Stop-motion, Jiri Trnka, Svankmajer, the Quay Bros, Ladislaw Starewicz, Labyrinth, The Dark Crystal, Italian horror, zombies!, PREDATOR, non-crap avant garde/experimental, spaghetti westerns, good film noir, classics, Gilda, The Ghost and Mrs. Muir, Laura, Dagon, Julie Taymor's Titus, Forbidden Zone!, Star Wars, badass scifi/dystopian/cyberpunk/post-apocalyptica, Studio Ghibli, anything Rankin/Bass, The Hobbit, The Last Unicorn, Mad Monster Party, Watership Down, Starchaser: The Legend of Orin, Fire and Ice, Unico, Conan, Red Sonja, Beastmaster, Nightbreed |
| Favorite music | postpunk, newwave, ethereal, old-skool alternative, gothic, death rock (not the same as death metal! really!) , neofolk/altfolk, industrial, indie, altcountry, etc |
| Favorite books | Kids books, lots and lots of kids books and YA fiction, especially vintage titles. Russell Hoban rocks my socks...hmm... The Runaway Bunny, Wind in the Willows, glossy fashion mags, anything with pretty pictures, classics, poetry, speculative, "weird fiction", dark/urban fantasy, magical realism, fairytales... I read like a fiend. Some favorite authors: CHINA MIEVILLE, Angela Carter, Francesca Lia Block, Terry Pratchett, Charles de Lint, Neil Gaiman, H. P. Lovecraft, CLIVE BARKER, Tanith Lee, Lord Dunsany, Theophile Gautier... Favorite comics include Hellblazer, Preacher, Sandman, most anything on Vertigo, really... and several oddball indie titles, like MeatCake. |