Astacia Arienette

General

literature, philosophy, music, film, art, esotericism, history, politics, astrology, theatre, theology, psychology, philology, travel, pop culture, internet history, mysteries and conspiracies, typology, subcultures

Music

Major influences include Bright Eyes, Leonard Cohen, Flower Face, Nicole Dollanganger, Car Seat Headrest, Joan Baez, Lalleshwari, Scarling, Will Wood (Tapeworm Era), The Doors, Suede, Father John Misty, (very) early Lana Del Rey, Ocean LeClair, Hole, early Panic! At The Disco, The Velvet Underground, George Harrison, The Magnetic Fields, Modern Baseball, Bob Dylan, Led Zeppelin, Talking Heads, Roxy Music, Silver Jews, MARINA, (Lush era) Mitski, Yellow House, David Bowie, Sun Kil Moon, etc. Follow my Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/user/6ogxdq0xvdajssivn7c3fsr8q?si=24461e053dfe47b7

Movies

Velvet Goldmine, The Love Witch, Blue Velvet, Cabaret, sex lies and videotape, Secretary, Moulin Rouge, Crash, Kill Your Darlings, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Star 80, Fight Club, Donkey Skin, Possession, American Beauty, Mulholland Drive, The Rules of Attraction, Inherent Vice, Alphaville, The Living End, I'm Not There, Viva, Rear Window, Funeral Parade of Roses, Buffalo 66, Naked Lunch, After Hours, Bound, The Duke of Burgundy, Belle De Jour, Jezebel, Doriana Gray, Scarface, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Nymphomaniac, Boogie Nights, Drugstore Cowboy, The Doom Generation, Vertigo, Jennifer's Body, Casino, Masculin Feminin, Candy, Valley of the Dolls, The Cabinet of Dr Cagliari, The Velvet Vampire, Fire Walk with Me, Kafka, Dr Zhivago, Daisies, Profound Desires of the Gods, Jawbreaker, Heathers, Beat Girl, Vivra Sa Vie, All About Eve, Crimson Peak, Salome, Christiane F, audition, Down with Love, Chelsea Girls, Zoolander, Lorna the Exorcist, Prozac Nation, Closer, The Doors, Les Biches, House, The Lickerish Quartet, The Velvet Underground, Showgirls, Roman Holiday, The Vampire Lovers, Heretic, Of Human Bondage, Palo Alto Follow my Letterboxd: https://boxd.it/3BtfL

Television

Twin Peaks, Hannibal, A Series of Unfortunate Events, Succession, Arrested Development, Supernatural, House MD, The IT Crowd, X Files

Books

Fiction: The Picture of Dorian Gray, Bad Behaviour, The Apple in the Dark, The Atrocity Exhibition, The Dharma Bums, On the Road, Last Exit to Brooklyn, Beautiful Losers, Frankenstein, Junky, Venus in Furs, Lapvona, The Princess of 72nd Street, The Passion of New Eve, The Secret History, If We Were Villains, The Plague, The Crimes of Love, House of Leaves, Nausea, The Brothers Karamazov, Invisible Monsters, The Trial, The Road, Against Nature, Beasts, Madonna in a Fur Coat, Nights at the Circus Poetry/plays/prose: Howl, Leaves of Grass, Eros the Bittersweet, Metamorphoses, The Poetry of Leonard Cohen, The Iliad, Poems of Catullus, Salomé, If Not Winter, Ars Amatoria, The Oresteia, Caligula, Euripides' Medea, Sophocles' Theban Plays, Les Fleurs de Mal, A Streetcar Named Desire, Autobiography of Red, Poems of Nabokov, The Divine Comedy, Lord Byron's Poetry, Can't Pay? Won't Pay!, The Importance of Being Earnest, Lady Windemere's Fan Philosophers: Jacques Derrida, Jacques Lacan, Angela Davis, Audre Lorde, Epicurus, Jeremy Bentham, Simone Weil, Martin Heidegger, Carl Jung, Rosemarie Tong, Edmund Burke, Mary Wollstonecraft, Simone DeBeauvoir Biography/History/Essays: The Argonauts, Confessions of an English Opium Eater, Sister Outsider, Zami (a new spelling of my name), The Myth of Sisyphus, A History of Sin, De Profundis, Mystery and Manners

Heroes

Oscar Wilde, Leonard Cohen, Anne Carson, Angela Davis, David Lynch, Conor Oberst, Anna Biller, Simone Weil, David Bowie, Allen Ginsberg, Todd Haynes, Aimee Crocker, Mary Shelley, Mary Wollstonecraft