January 2012
What are your favourite books?
It is unfortunate, but I do not read nearly as much as I used to, and I rarely read something more than once. Below is a small list of the books I have read again and again and again.
- Dracula, by Bram Stoker
- Rebecca, by Daphne du Maurier
- Heidi, by Johanna Spyri
- Harriet the Spy, Louise Fitzhugh
- The Blue Sword, by Robin McKinley
- The Chronicles of Narnia, by C.S. Lewis
- Time Life Enchanted Word Series
- D’Aulaires Book of Greek Myths
- Pet Sematary, by Stephen King
- The Zombies that Ate Pittsburgh, by Paul R. Gagne
- Crash Helmet, by Harry Allard
- Tipping the Velvet, by Sarah Waters
- Books of Blood, Clive Barker
what are some other moon-inspired fragrances you have tried?
The only scents that come to mind immediately are Strange Invisible Perfumes Moon Garden, Hanae Mori Magical Moon, TokyoMilk Honey and the Moon, Pilar and Lucy Tiptoeing Through Chambers of the Moon and a few of Black Phoenix Alchemy Lab’s lunar oils (if you can find an older formulation of BPAL’s Schwarzermond - a limited edition - I highly suggest that you do so!)
What are some of your favorite songs?
Oh my. So many! Off the top of my head…
Wordy:
- Every song on the Hedwig and the Angry Inch Soundtrack,
- Red Right Ankle by the Decemberists
- Poughkeepsie by Over the Rhine
- Wild Eyes by Marie Sioux
- Sweet Old World by Lucinda Williams
- Uniform Grey by Sarah Harmer
- Southern CA Wants to Be Western NY by Dar Williams
- Cross Bones Style by Cat Power
- Rain by Patty Griffin
- Where’d You Hide the Body by James McMurtry
- Maybe Sparrow, Neko Case
- Howl, Florence + The Machine
- Dark Turn of Mind, Gillian Welch
- Wolf Like Me, Vera Lynn (cover)
- Black Sunday Afternoon, Anna Ternheim
- Sinai, Ghost Bees
- Every Path, Alela Diane
Wordless:
- The Winter Of 1539-1540, Goldmund
- Darkwood , David Darling
- Faun, Olafur Arnalds
- It’s all forgotten now, The Caretaker
- We Move Lightly, Dustin O’Halloran
- Organum, Max Richter
- Unabi, Christen Lien
- Foreshadowed, Harold Budd and Brian Eno
- Bram Stoker’s Dracula: Mina / Elizabeth, Wojciech Kilar
- St. Petersburg, Bersarin Quartett
- O ma zalosci, Jacaszek
- Threshold, Adam Hurst
- Marcher A L’Envers Et Detourner Le Regard. Sur Le Rebord , RQTN
- Gnossienne No. 1, Goldmund & Rafael Anton Irisarri
Favorite authors?
Gosh! Too many to count, but those in my top ten include Algernon Blackwood, Sheridan L Fanu, M.R. James, Edith Wharton, HP Lovecraft (who I think is actually kind of terrible but I quite love him anyway), Wilkie Collins, Shirley Jackson, Sarah Waters, Clive Barker…and Stephen King.
