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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

• The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams
• The Count of Monte Cristo — Alexandre Dumas
• A Thousand Splendid Suns — Khaled Hosseini
  
  
• Blood Meridian — Cormac McCarthy
• Lonesome Dove — Larry McMurtry
• Steppenwolf — Hermann Hesse
  
  
• The Stranger — Albert Camus
• Siddhartha — Hermann Hesse
• I Am That — Nisargadatta Maharaj
  
  
• Brave New World — Aldous Huxley
• Amusing Ourselves to Death — Neil Postman
• The Book of Disquiet — Fernando Pessoa

films

• Goodfellas — Martin Scorsese
• Taxi Driver — Martin Scorsese
• Pulp Fiction — Quentin Tarantino
  
  
• There Will Be Blood — Paul Thomas Anderson
• No Country for Old Men — Joel & Ethan Coen
• The Assassination of Jesse James — Andrew Dominik
  
  
• Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind — Michel Gondry
• Before Trilogy — Richard Linklater
• Dead Poets Society — Peter Weir
  
  
• Interstellar — Christopher Nolan
• Whiplash — Damien Chazelle
• Taare Zameen Par — Aamir Khan & Amole Gupte

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

• Outer Wilds — Mobius Digital
• Disco Elysium — ZA/UM
• Undertale — Toby Fox
  
  
• Hollow Knight: Silksong — Team Cherry
• Elden Ring — FromSoftware
• Ghost of Tsushima — Sucker Punch
  
  
• Red Dead Redemption 2 — Rockstar Games
• The Last of Us — Naughty Dog
• Silent Hill 2 — Team Silent

music

• Lonerism — Tame Impala
• Currents — Tame Impala
• The New Abnormal — The Strokes
  
  
• Oncle Jazz — Men I Trust
• Salad Days — Mac DeMarco
• Songs of Her's — Her's
  
  
• 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