✩‧₊ Stuff I like ₊‧✩
People who make stuff
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