Stuff I Like

Stuff I Like is very important to me! By Stuff I mostly mean media. I also like a great deal of non-media things, but I’ll list those elsewhere. It sounds maybe redundant to say that Stuff I Like is important to me, but I mean a little more than “this stuff is enjoyable to me.” Consuming and discussing Stuff with friends is a big part of how I connect. So basically this is a giant list of stuff that I Like (usually Love) that I would be thrilled to talk with you about basically anytime.

My rule of thumb for this is that I better have engaged with this thing for more than four hours. Movies need to be rewatchable, YouTube videos need to be really rewatchable, and short stories need to be revisited, but books might only get a single read-through.

This is a massive WIP right now, so I recognize that it appears slightly deranged and is basically what came to mind during a particularly weird ten minutes.

Movies

• Swiss Army Man
  • Yes I like this more than Everything Everywhere
• Mad Max, Fury Road
• Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse
• One Cut of the Dead
  • Go in completely blind and don’t you dare quit on it because it’s “challenging”
• To All the Boys I’ve Loved Before

Music

The Hipster Stuff

• LCD Soundsystem
• Yeah Yeah Yeahs

The Comedy Mashups As Art

• Slamilton
• Neil Cicierega
  • Crocodile Chop

The Borderline Unlistenable

• Hyperchromatica

The Spotify Wrapped

• Hiromi

Books

Fiction

• Permutation City - Greg Egan
  • Really just 100% of Greg Egan
• Michael Chabon

Nonfiction

• Command and Control
  • A pretty good argument for some sort of Many Worlds anthropic argument being the only way we’ve survived the invention of nuclear weapons

Shorter Writing

• These Precious Days - Ann Patchett
• E Unibus Pluram

YouTube

• A Song About Apples
• Red Letter Media
  • I don’t think they’re what they once were, but their panning of Boyhood has endeared them to me for a decade at this point
• 3Blue1Brown
  • As much for its content as for a vision of the future that I aspire to. There are not enough people out there that recognize that it is worthwhile to spend a hundred hours on a twenty minute explainer if it reaches millions of people.
• Tim Rogers (Action Button)
  • Video essays ostensibly (ok, and actually) about video games that end up analyzing the human condition in actually moving ways. I have teared up during a review of (which one??)
  • Start with (which one??)
  • This one is not beautiful but makes me cackle every time I watch (football!)

Blogs

People

• Jon Bois

Video Games

• Frog Fractions
  • Just a perfect sendup of elementary school edutainment games among other references.
  • I need to explicitly reiterate that I have spent more than four hours playing this game, and if you haven’t, you haven’t experienced what it means to recapture your youth