alliteration & other tricks,
arthur rackham, being sparkly without glitter,
circus freaks,
collar bones, collecting stuff until smothered,
conspicuous consumption, corsets & ribcage dislocation,
crinolines, crows of sorrow,
dame darcy,
dr. jonathan crane, espresso-drinking poets, happy people with cigarettes, lands of confusion,
lomography, man-killing mermaids, mohawks & their owners,
mucha, nabokov's writing especially ada,
nan goldin, non-coffeeselling book stores, partyhats on beluga whales, people screaming in japanese, percy shelley & byron, pirates & scientists,
polaroids, powdered wigs on men, random alien apparitions, seaweed& its various uses,
southern gothic literature,
splitting infinitives,
the lost boys,
the smell of despair,
things that are broken, velocity & warp speed,
watching the stars, weltschmertz & ennui, whales with glasses