rotten (retired) teenage girl brain

FILM

Heavenly Creatures dir. Peter Jackson - referenced in Spine Oil ("do you want to see the heavenly creatures?"), Carousel MV (heavenly creatures tramp stamp) and Cinder Block (the title, "white tights around a cinder block"), called it one of her "all-time favourite movies"

The Blair Witch Project dir. Daniel Myrick, Eduardo Sánchez - visual inspo on Bovine Excision MV; on the aesthetics for Bloodless: "the bovine excision metaphor/cryptid mythology in general was a springboard for the horror thing and also we watched blair witch lol"; “We had just watched Blair Witch, and we were talking about this idea of oscillating between being the monster, the killer, the villain, and the final girl, which is something that I’d been thinking about in writing a lot, with this idea that the less you give of yourself, the more you can become,”

The VVitch dir. Robert Eggers- "[If you could adapt 'Bloodless' into the score for a film, what kind of movie, short film, series would it accompany?] A combination of that show *'Search Party' and the movie 'The Witch' with Anya Taylor-Joy. [....] Oh my god, yeah. One of my favourite movies." // (x)

Into the Wild dir. Sean Penn - inspiration for Spine Oil

TV

Twin Peaks (? find source)

Yellowjackets - x, x, x

Search Party*

LITERATURE

Raymond Carver - referenced in Bovine Excision ("diet dr pepper, raymond carver"); said her favourite story of his is either I Could See the Smallest Things or Cathedral (alternate pdf)

Judith Butler - “They have this great piece about how the self can’t exist apart from its social conditioning. It’s just a conglomerate of everything you’ve ever learned and everything anyone’s ever said to you and all of your experiences. So that was really comforting, honestly."

Into the Wild by John Krakauer - inspiration for Spine Oil

"audre lorde toni morrison eve babitz margaret atwood joyce carol oates bell hooks raymond carver billy collins" x x

Anne Sexton x, x

ART

Francis Bacon - answer to question "do you have a favorite painter or painting, or one that you think suits your music?"

Edgar Degas - Bovine Excision, "twirling like a Degas dancer"; "That feels like 'Bloodless' to me—the Degas dancers."

Alice Prin/Kiki de Montparnasse - muse (Man Ray), referenced in Spine Oil "stuff a salmon in a silohouette," x ; NYTimes: "Kiki was painted by Soutine, Modigliani, Foujita and Kisling and most famously photographed by Man Ray, whose lover she was for eight stormy years."

The Hands Resist Him, Bill Stoneham - referenced in Dare, "two shades of good paint all spread thin by the vision, blended so the hands reisist him, keeping his dare away" (see samia's Genius annotation, reddit ama)

MUSIC

Father John Misty- subject of The Night Josh Tillman Heard My Song, mentioned to be samia's biggest musical influence numerous times ("my biggest songwriting influence is probably father john misty")

The Weepies - covered Gotta Have You, named them as inspirations numerous times, x

Leonard Cohen - his lyrics (Suzanne, Hallelujah) interpolated into Cinder Block ("you want to travel blind and you trust me 'cause I've touched your perfect body with my mind") ("this is my Hallelujah")

Fiona Apple - x, called When the Pawn… her perfect 10 album: "it's peak lyricism but it's never at the cost of clarity or her reason for singing […] it's like, fucking genius […] The song 'I Know' is the greatest song ever written. The whole time, she's talking about something that's left unsaid, and then the very last line, she doesn't say it. [...] She builds structure around herself and her voice instead of trying to fit her voice into a preexisting structure. So, she's inspired me to try to do that."

"morphine, fiona apple, lucinda williams, bjork"