✩‧₊ Stuff I like ₊‧✩

Most of all,

• Henrik Karlsson
• CJ the X

I also enjoy Hank and John Green, all the main rationalist guys, the substack meditation people, and raw & feral.

Top: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lesser favorites:

• Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents (and, like, most of Octavia Butler’s work)
• American Gods / most books by Neil Gaiman
• HPMOR
• Fifteen Dogs

I find it hard to say that I have favorite non-fiction books, since I tend to be much more critical with them. But, I’ve recently enjoyed:

• Waking Up (Sam Harris)
• Braiding Sweetgrass (Robin Wall Kimmerer)
• Resisting Garbage (Lily Baum Pollans)

And my thinking has been changed by the sequences & all the basic EA books.

Current loves:

• Hey (Pixies)
• Star Game (by @)
• Tangled in Ropes (Holy Locust)

Past obsessions:

Folkpunk: Almost every song in the discographies of June Henry, Jordan Kernan (hard to find, but its here and here and here), and Iris Bilinsky.

Other: Dana and Alden, Mother Mother, Radiohead, Rainbow Kitten Surprise, hey, nothing, Ricky Mitch & The Coal Miners

Some past favorites:

• Locket (by Crumb)
• Passin’ Me By (The Pharcyde)
• Color in Your Cheeks (The Mountain Goats)
• Spaced Out (Pretty Jane and the Magazines)
• 93 'til Infinity (Souls of Mischief)
• Ms. Jackson (Outkast)
• Starman (David Bowie)
• Dance in Room Song (Sipper)
• Follow the Sound (The Backseat Lovers)

• Fire spinning. Whooooshh!
• Fusion dancing! Bouncy lindy hoppin!
• Mosh pits
• Water!! Cold plunges! Lakes!
• FIGHTING MY FRIENDS!! IDC HOW STRONG YOU ARE, PLEASE CHALLENGE ME TO SOCK WRESTLE!!

• Dressing up in clown drag
• Hot rat summer (ᓚᘏᕐᐷ NOT the nerds)
• Drawing people I love
• Reading the same thing as my friends
• Singing songs at rallies
• Too-expensive teas and chocolates
• The smell of lavender
• Organizing events
• Reading books while walking
• Carnations and wildflowers
• Festivals (of the burner-genre)
• Aaaallll the DIY scenes!

• Matilda
• Perfect Days
• Nausicaa
• Ponyo
• Dr. Who, the 9th through the 11th doctor
• A buncha stuff on Dropout

(I don’t watch much, so this is mostly residual from my childhood)

Top tier:

• LeVar Burton Reads
• Deconstructing Yourself
• The Anthropocene Reviewed

I also sometimes listen to

• 80k After Hours
• How I Learned to Love Shrimp
• Making Sense with Sam Harris
• LessWrong (30+ Karma) don’t judge me