Likes & Favorites
Artwork by Kristamas Klousch
Film Directors: Ingmar Bergman, Andrei Tarkovsky, David Lynch, Lars von Trier, Gaspar Noé, Jean-Luc Godard, Takashi Miike, Woody Allen, Michel Gondry, Wong Kar Wai, Guillermo del Toro, Chan-wook Park, Darren Aronofsky, Carl Theodor Dreyer
Movies: Antichrist, Black Snake Moan, Black Swan, Blue Valentine, Deadgirl, Enter the Void, Eraserhead, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Inland Empire, Innocence, Juliet of the Spirits, La Dolce Vita, Last Year at Marienbad, Let the Right One In, Martyrs, Pandora's Box, Requiem for a Dream, Repulsion, Solaris (1972), Strange Circus, Sunshine, The Innocents, The Squid and the Whale, The Tree of Life, Shunji Iwai's Vampire, Vivre Sa Vie, When We Leave, Wings of Desire
Visual Artists: Kristamas Klousch, Nita Collins, Tatiana Susla, Katja Faith, Natalie Shau, Anja Millen, Nicoletta Ceccoli, Gottfried Helnwein, Jenn Violetta, Nomi Chi, Darla Teagarden, Chad Michael Ward, Vania Zouravliov, Takato Yamamoto, Ray Caesar, Brian M. Viveros, Joel-Peter Witkin, Dino Valls, Joanna Chrobak, Isabelle Royet-Journoud, Sam Weber, Joao Ruas, Caryn Drexl, Akif Hakan Celebi
Music Acts: Rasputina, The Dresden Dolls/Amanda Palmer, Switchblade Symphony, Siouxsie and the Banshees/The Creatures, The Birthday Massacre, Nine Inch Nails, Jack Off Jill/Scarling, The Cure, Cocteau Twins, Collide, Kidneythieves, Tapping the Vein, Sopor Aeternus & The Ensemble of Shadows, Joy Division, Nick Cave, HUMANWINE, Ruby Throat, Soap&Skin, Regina Spektor, Fever Ray, Placebo, Depeche Mode, Imogen Heap, Jarboe, Florence + the Machine, Lia Ices, Portishead, Massive Attack, IAMX, Austra, Tori Amos, Black Tape for a Blue Girl
Historical Personalities: Silvia Plath, Oscar Wilde, Marie Antoinette, Joan of Arc, Elizabeth I, Marchesa Luisa Casati, Louise Brooks, Elizabeth Short (the "Black Dahlia"), Emily Dickinson, Howard Hughes, Orson Welles, Marilyn Monroe, Jack the Ripper, Carl von Cosel
Historical Periods: The Ancient World (Greece, Rome, Egypt, etc.), Elizabethan, Louis XVI/Marie Antoinette, Regency/Georgian, Victorian, Edwardian, 1920s, '30s, '40s, '50s, early to mid-'60s, & "THE FUTURE"
Authors (Dead): Virginia Woolf, F. Scott Fitzgerald, William Faulkner, Joseph Conrad, Charlotte Brontë, Franz Kafka, Albert Camus, Edith Wharton, George Orwell, H. G. Wells, Vladimir Nabokov, Anaïs Nin, Edgar Allan Poe, H. P. Lovecraft, D. H. Lawrence, Ralph Waldo Emerson, Edgar Allan Poe
Authors (Living): Joyce Carol Oates, Jonathan Safran Foer, Haruki Murakami, Cormac McCarthy, A. M. Homes, Katherine Dunn, Neil Gaiman, Laurie Halse Anderson, Mark Z. Danielewski, China Miéville
"She was breathing deeply, she forgot the cold, the weight of beings, the insane or static life, the long anguish of living or dying. After so many years running from fear, fleeing crazily, uselessly, she was finally coming to a halt. At the same time she seemed to be recovering her roots, and the sap rose anew in her body, which was no longer trembling. Pressing her whole belly against the parapet, leaning toward the wheeling sky, she was only waiting for her pounding heart to settle down, and for the silence to form in her. The last constellations of stars fell in bunches a little lower on the horizon of the desert, and stood motionless. Then, with an unbearable sweetness, the waters of the night began to fill her, submerging the cold, rising gradually to the center of her being, and overflowing wave upon wave to her moaning mouth. A moment later, the whole sky stretched out above her as she lay with her back against the cold earth."
- Albert Camus