i already kinda introduced myself in the home page so for now here's a list of my favorite things. none of these are in any particular order. recommendations are welcome :)

films
  • Persona, Ingmar Bergman
  • Before Sunrise, Richard Linklater
  • Before Sunset, Richard Linklater
  • The Man Who Sleeps, Bernard Queysanne
  • A Summer's Tale, Eric Rohmer
  • The 400 Blows, Francois Truffaut
  • Stolen Kisses, Francois Truffaut
  • The Silence of the Lambs, Jonathan Demme
  • Leon Morin, Priest, Jean-Pierre Melville
  • Donnie Darko, Richard Kelly
  • Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola
  • Trainspotting, Danny Boyle
  • Blade Runner, Ridley Scott
  • Alien, Ridley Scott
  • The End of Evangelion, Hideaki Anno, Kazuya Tsurumaki
  • sex, lies, and videotape, Steven Soderbergh
  • Psycho, Alfred Hitchcock
  • The Matrix, Lana Wachowski, Lilly Wachowski
  • Pierrot le Fou, Jean-Luc Godard
  • La Chinoise, Jean-Luc Godard
  • The Ascent, Larisa Shepitko
  • The Cranes Are Flying, Mikhail Kalatazov
  • May, Lucky McKee
  • American Psycho, Mary Harron
  • Inland Empire, David Lynch
  • The Departure, Jerzy Skolimowski
  • The Devil, Probably, Robert Bresson
  • Suspiria, Dario Argento
  • The Parallax View, Alan J. Pakula
  • Thesis, Alejandro Amenabar
  • The Piano Teacher, Michael Haneke
  • Clerks, Kevin Smith
  • Scream, Wes Craven
  • The Battle of Algiers, Gillo Pontecorvo
  • The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers
  • After Hours, Martin Scorsese
  • The Thing, John Carpenter
  • Daisies, Vera Chytilova
  • Ghost in the Shell, Mamoru Oshii
    • albums
  • Confusion is Sex, Sonic Youth
  • Bad Moon Rising, Sonic Youth
  • Evol, Sonic Youth
  • Sister, Sonic Youth
  • Daydream Nation, Sonic Youth
  • Goo, Sonic Youth
  • Fake Train, Unwound
  • New Plastic Ideas, Unwound
  • Repetition, Unwound
  • Leaves Turn Inside You, Unwound
  • Isn't Anything, My Bloody Valentine
  • Loveless, My Bloody Valentine
  • Kibakuzai, Bleach
  • S/T EP, Scratch Acid (yeah this is technically an ep fuck you)
  • Spiderland, Slint
  • Songs About Fucking, Big Black
  • Atomizer, Big Black
  • At Action Park, Shellac
  • Slanted and Enchanted, Pavement
  • Deceit, THIS HEAT
  • Made Available: John Peel Sessions, THIS HEAT
  • Filth, Swans
  • Schlagenheim, black midi
  • Unknown Pleasures, Joy Division
  • Closer, Joy Division
  • 1982-1983, Victrola
  • Homogenic, Bjork
  • The Doors, The Doors
  • Entertainment!, Gang of Four
  • Going Places, Yellow Swans
  • Second Edition, Public Image Ltd.
    • books
  • A Breath of Life, Clarice Lispector
  • Near to the Wild Heart, Clarice Lispector
  • The Passion According to G.H., Clarice Lispctor
  • As I Lay Dying, William Faulkner
  • Tropic of Cancer, Henry Miller
  • Frankenstein, Mary Shelley
  • The Crying of Lot 49, Thomas Pynchon
  • Nausea, Jean-Paul Sartre
  • Mrs. Dalloway, Virginia Woolf
  • The Catcher in the Rye, J.D. Salinger
  • Franny and Zooey, J.D. Salinger
  • Malina, Ingebourg Bachmann
  • Stoner, John Williams
  • Crime and Punishment, Fyodor Dostoevsky
  • Against the Grain, J.K. Huysmans
  • A Moveable Feast, Ernest Hemingway