- Egon Schiele's sketches
- David & Lisa (a pearl of a girl!)
- Marguerite de Valois' wine dress
- this plum clafoutis recipe
- Betty Blue
- iconic La Boum dance scene
- Pale Fire by Vladimir Nabokov
- Baby by Donnie & Joe Emerson
- Tomorrow's Gone by Charlie Megira
- Hot Burrito #1 by The Flying Burrito Brothers (i'm your toy, i'm your old boy / but i want nobody but you to love me)
- Almodóvar red
- the spell, amas veritas
- photographs taken by Brassaï
- Abelard & Heloise
- Frederico García Lorca poems
- the best sex scene ever on cinema, Le mepris (donc, tu m'aimes totalement? oui, je t'aime totalement, tendrement, tragiquement)
- In the Mood for Love by Wong Kar Wai
- To Be in Love by Gwendolyn Brooks (you are the beautiful half / of a golden hurt)
- Bonjour Tristesse by Françoise Sagan
- Blues Walk album by Lou Donaldson
- Anne Sexton poems
- Saori Yuki's 13 Jours en France
- chiffon
- empty street dancing to La vie en Rose in Modigliani
- The Flight, a poem by Sara Teasdale
- picnics
- love letters from Henry to Anaïs and vice versa
- Helga's monologues and poems about Arnold
- Bless the Telephone by Labi Siffre is what in love sounds like
- my favourite love affair (Frida Kahlo and Diego Rivera, Brigitte Bardot and Serge Gainsbourg)
- the circus scene in Big Fish
- Brooke Shields on Endless Love, The Blue Lagoon and Pretty Baby
- The Archipelago of Kisses by Jeffrey McDaniels
- Clark Gable in It Happened One Night
- subtle tension between Helene Hanff and Frank Doel's correspondence
- west coast jazz
- Matisse's nudes
- sexual astrology
- The Taxi Driver theme = Slow Love by Vladimir Cosma
- And the Moon and the Stars and the World by Charles Bukowski = I Wonder How Many People in This City by Leonard Cohen
- the best version of I Got It Bad in my opinion
- In the Realm of the Senses (1976)
- terms of endearment: my darling, my pet, my little sparrow, my baby, ma chérie, moonchild, silly little tangerine
- a serenade, or two
- ¡Guapa! by Rouje
- cherry-cola romantics
- Birthday Letters by Ted Hughes
- Primary Time by Bas Jan Ader, 1974
- Elsa la Rose, a short film by Agnès Varda
- You Have Loved Enough by Leonard Cohen
- Have You Ever Really Loved a Woman? is the only song you should make love to on Valentine's night
- the fragrance Female Christ by 19-69 smells like sex in a church basement
- Voilà by Françoise Hardy for that valentine yearning
- finishing an entire bottle of post flirtation wine alone to A Star is Born then The Talented Mr. Ripley then Malena with blurry vision and tired eyes
may 1 2020 ∞
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