works that have stayed with me
not a complete catalogue of everything i've consumed, but a collection of works that shaped my taste, influenced my thinking, or left a lasting impression.
books
A Thousand Splendid Suns
Khaled Hosseini
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Douglas Adams
The Count of Monte Cristo
Alexandre Dumas
Blood Meridian
Cormac McCarthy
Lonesome Dove
Larry McMurtry
Steppenwolf
Hermann Hesse
The Stranger
Albert Camus
Siddhartha
Hermann Hesse
The Book of Disquiet
Fernando Pessoa
The Burnout Society
Byung-Chul Han
Amusing Ourselves to Death
Neil Postman
Brave New World
Aldous Huxley
films :: letterboxd
Paris, Texas
Wim Wenders
Goodfellas
Martin Scorsese
Pulp Fiction
Quentin Tarantino
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Michel Gondry
Before Trilogy
Richard Linklater
The Tree of Life
Terrence Malick
There Will Be Blood
Paul Thomas Anderson
Punch-Drunk Love
Paul Thomas Anderson
Phantom Thread
Paul Thomas Anderson
No Country for Old Men
Joel & Ethan Coen
The Assassination of Jesse James
Andrew Dominik
Whiplash
Damien Chazelle
shows
Breaking Bad
Vince Gilligan
Better Call Saul
Vince Gilligan & Peter Gould
The Sopranos
David Chase
True Detective (S1)
Nic Pizzolatto
Succession
Jesse Armstrong
It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
Rob McElhenney
BoJack Horseman
Raphael Bob-Waksberg
Arcane
Christian Linke & Alex Yee
Avatar: The Last Airbender
Michael Dante DiMartino & Bryan Konietzko
anime
Vinland Saga
Makoto Yukimura
Frieren: Beyond Journey's End
Kanehito Yamada & Tsukasa Abe
Nichijou
Keiichi Arawi
Cowboy Bebop
Shinichirō Watanabe
Neon Genesis Evangelion
Hideaki Anno
Steins; Gate
Chiyomaru Shikura et al.
Princess Mononoke
Hayao Miyazaki
A Silent Voice
Naoko Yamada
Perfect Blue
Satoshi Kon
manga
Berserk
Kentaro Miura
The Climber
Shin-ichi Sakamoto
Goodnight Punpun
Inio Asano
games :: backloggd
Outer Wilds
Mobius Digital
Disco Elysium
ZA/UM
Undertale
Toby Fox
Hollow Knight: Silksong
Team Cherry
Elden Ring
FromSoftware
Rain World
Videocult
Red Dead Redemption 2
Rockstar Games
The Last Of Us
Naughty Dog
Ghost of Tsushima
Sucker Punch
music :: last.fm
Lonerism
Tame Impala
Currents
Tame Impala
The New Abnormal
The Strokes
Salad Days
Mac DeMarco
Songs of Her's
Her's
Oncle Jazz
Men I Trust
OK Computer
Radiohead
In Rainbows
Radiohead
Congratulations
MGMT
The Dark Side of the Moon
Pink Floyd
Heaven or Las Vegas
Cocteau Twins
In the Aeroplane Over the Sea
Neutral Milk Hotel
Discovery
Daft Punk
Plastic Beach
Gorillaz
Good Kid, M.A.A.D City
Kendrick Lamar