✩‧₊ Stuff I like ₊‧✩

People who make stuff

Most of all,

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

Books

Top: The Unbearable Lightness of Being

Lesser favorites:

  • Parable of the Sower / Parable of the Talents (and, like, most of Octavia Butler’s works)
  • American Gods / most books by Neil Gaiman
  • HPMOR
  • Project Hail Mary

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

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

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

Music

Current obsessions:

  • Passin’ Me By (The Pharcyde)
  • Khaen Banjo (Pat’s Soundhouse)
  • Hey (Pixies)
  • 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

Old favorite songs:

  • Cantaloop (Flip Fantasia)
  • 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)
  • Ten Things (Paul Baribeau)

Movies / tv

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

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

Podcasts

  • LeVar Burton Reads
  • Deconstructing Yourself
  • 80k After Hours
  • How I Learned to Love Shrimp
  • Making Sense with Sam Harris
  • The Bayesian Conspiracy

Physical

  • Fire spinning, contact staff
  • Lindy Hop
  • Mosh pits
  • Water!! Cold plunges! Lakes!

Misc

  • Dressing up in clown drag
  • Hot rat summer (ᓚᘏᕐᐷ NOT the nerds)
  • Secretly drawing people I love
  • Reading the same thing as my friends
  • Singing songs at rallies
  • Tea
  • The smell of lavender
  • Organizing events
  • Reading physical books on walks
  • Carnations and wildflowers
  • Festivals (burner-grnre, not coachella)
  • DIY scenes of uhh most things… music, art, zines, etc
  • Grouphouses