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Music

La Folie

La Folie

Artist: The Stranglers
Genre: New Wave
Released: 1981
Description: fav tracks: how to find true love and happiness, golden brown

Volume 4

Volume 4

Artist: The Cowboys
Genre: Rock and roll, punk
Released: 2017
Description: love this band. have had the pleasure of seeing them in person many times now and each time they do not disappoint. vocalist has a similar voice to russell mael from sparks and emitt rhodes. really great blues-rock guitar playing over a generally Punk vibe

pom pom

pom pom

Artist: Ariel Pink
Genre: Psych pop
Released: 2014
Description: for fans of the cure, the mothers of invention, and todd rungren. fav tracks: dinosaur carebears, white freckles

Strawberry Switchblade

Strawberry Switchblade

Artist: Strawberry Switchblade
Genre: New wave, proto darkwave, proto twee
Released: 1985
Description: this album has been in my digital pocket since 2019, and I've enjoyed a few tracks off of it here and there, but something hit me in the last few weeks and I've been listening to it non-stop. it's sneakily genius - these gals were total beginners, but so incredibly melodic! fun fact their name comes from an unreleased orange juice lyric, and i've heard somewhere orange juice encouraged the girls to start a band in the first place. (though i can't actually find a source... who knows?) fav tracks: go away, ecstasy, deep water

Pet Town

Pet Town

Artist: Eerie Wanda
Genre: Folk pop with rockabilly influences
Released: 2019
Description: she's great! it's great! incredibly sleepy & comforting album made for long car rides home. fav tracks: moon, magnetic woman, sleepy eyes

Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind

Some Things Just Stick In Your Mind

Artist: Vashti Bunyan
Genre: Folk pop
Released: 1967
Description: one of the first singer-songwriters young madu fell head over heels for! oozing with romanticism and melancholy

Amaryllis

Amaryllis

Artist: Mary Halvorson
Genre: Jazz
Released: 2022
Description: it sounds pretty close to how the album cover looks: spring time blooming in a pool of motor oil... on the moon! love to hear the zappa influences

Diamond Jubilee

Diamond Jubilee

Artist: Cindy Lee
Genre: Rock
Released: 2024
Description: unlike much else yet somehow everything i love

Violent Closure

Violent Closure

Artist: GEL
Genre: Hardcore
Released: 2021
Description: does that cover art look familiar :D such a fun album

Suburban Lawns

Suburban Lawns

Band: Suburban Lawns
Genre: New Wave, Proto Egg Punk
Released: 1981
Description: inventive freakish music that society slept on until the formation of egg punk, when curious listeners of bands like snooper, bb eye, and prison affair sought to trace back the roots of the sounds they were hearing. and good on them! cuz i wouldn't have found this band otherwise ^_^

Boneset

Boneset

Artist: Diane Cluck
Genre: Folk
Released: 2014
Description: secretly on par if not surpassing legendary singer-songwriters like joni mitchell and judee sill. the way that both freedom and sorrow materialize in her voice and harmonize together is unmatched. i feel somehow both directly inside of and disocciated from her experiences, and it feels right! she knows how to craft and fill out a song with the sparsest tools available, even creating one predominantly acoustic acapella track for the album that manages to feel perfectly full. love you diane

Stars on E.S.P.

Stars On E.S.P.

Artist: His Name is Alive
Genre: Rock
Released: 1996
Description: i have so much respect for this band

Iowa Dream

Iowa Dream

Artist: Arthur Russell
Genre: (Compilation Album) Folk, Disco, Pop
Released: 2019, recorded in 70's/80's
Description: i wish often that he was still with us. he had an extraordinary power and it is felt in his music. i have no idea if he knew that, or even cared about things like that. i used to play this every morning i opened the coffee shop i worked at in bloomington. never got old. fun fact: he almost joined the talking heads! fav tracks: wonder boy, sharper eyes, come to life, you did it yourself, i kissed the girl from outerspace

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished

Artist: Animal Collective
Genre: Psychedelia, Electroacoustic, Experimental Rock
Released: 2000
Description: medicine for the core

Geidi Primes

Geidi Primes

Artist: Grimes
Genre: Electroacoustic, Experimental Synthpop
Released: 2010
Description: incredibly autistic album and my go-to for wanting to feel inspired before opening up a daw it was never meant to be heard by anyone nor did she think it would be so the authenticity meter is at or very near 100%. despite being probably some of the first music she ever created it captures very specific worlds within each song very well which is really impressive to me

Mummer

Mummer

Artist: XTC
Genre: Pastoral Rock
Released: 1983
Description: legendary album by a legendary band. every track on this album evokes the most specific and beautiful imagery in my brain

Silent Shout

Silent Shout

Artist: The Knife
Genre: Techno, Synthpop
Released: 2006
Description: TBD

Uncle Meat

Uncle Meat

Artist: Frank Zappa
Genre: Avant-prog
Released: 1969
Description: TBD

Thought For Food

Thought For Food

Artist: The Books
Genre: Folk, Sound Collage
Released: 2002
Description: listening to this when i was 12 by courtesy of my older brother was probably the first time i thought of the relationship btwn noise and music. it was really jarring and i didn't fully get it but i enjoyed most tracks and acknowledged how it managed to pull more emotion out of me than most other things i was listening to at the time and i think that's because when you have tracks that are vague enough in lyrical content but intense enough in chaos/sound/aesthetic it can just rip anything and everything out of you. cool stuff

The Mollusk

The Mollusk

Artist: Ween
Genre: Experimental Rock
Released: 1997
Description: TBD

Judee Sill

Judee Sill

Artist: Judee Sill
Genre: Orchestral, Folk
Released: 1971
Description: TBD

Steve McQueen

Steve McQueen

Artist: Prefab Sprout
Genre: Sophistipop
Released: 1985
Description: TBD

Film

Daisies

Daisies

Director: Věra Chytilová
Genre: Avant Garde, Slapstick Comedy, Czech New Wave
Released: 1966

Alice (1988)

Alice

Director: Jan Švankmajer
Genre: Fantasy
Released: 1988

Alice in Wonderland

Director: Yefrem Pruzhanskyi
Genre: Animation, Fantasy
Released: 1981

Forbidden Zone

Forbidden Zone

Director: Richard Elfman
Genre: Musical Fantasy
Released: 1980

TV & Anime

30 Rock

30 Rock

Creator: Tina Fey
Genre: Comedy
Released: 2006

Fleabag

Fleabag

Creator: Phoebe Waller-Bridge
Genre: Comedy, Drama
Released: 2016

Madoka Magica

Madoka Magica

Creator: Magica Quartet, Gen Urobuchi
Genre: Magical Girl, Dark Fantasy, Psychological Horror
Released: 2011

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Neon Genesis Evangelion

Creator: Hideaki Anno
Genre: Mecha, Psychological Drama
Released: 1995

Higurashi: When They Cry

Higurashi: When They Cry

Creator: Ryukishi07
Genre: Horror, Mystery
Released: 2006

Bakemonogatari Series

Bakemonogatari Series

Creator: Nisio Isin
Genre: Fantasy, Supernatural, Psychological Drama
Released: 2009
Description: if you put a gun to my head and said "WHAT IS THE GREATEST ANIME OF ALL TIME" i would probably start crying for one and THEN i would pick this over neon genesis evangelion. it has everything i could ever want in it including a metric fuckton of extremely likeable characters with genuinely interesting arcs and never-ending existential dialogues that mostly end on a comedic note. also plays with extremes of japanese mythology and anime tropes simultaneously; this anime is like a weird frankenstein of the two as a result. and it's long as hell, AND it's easy to watch. it's good TV and good art rather than sacrificing one for the other and basically i like that a lot

Katanagatari

Katanagatari

Creator: Nisio Isin
Genre: Adventure, Historical Fantasy
Released: 2010

Code Geass

Code Geass

Creator: Ichirō Ōkouchi
Genre: Mecha, Military Drama
Released: 2006
Description: rewatched recently and season 1 is some of the most Goated anime i have ever seen. season 2 takes a weird path and feels more formulaic overall but it is definitely not bad. just kinda feels like a different writer with a fundamentally different approach took over or something

Gurren Lagann

Gurren Lagann

Creator: Kazuki Nakashima
Genre: Mecha, Adventure
Released: 2007

Books & Manga

Machinal

Emanon

Author: Shinji Kajio, art by Kenji Tsuruta
Genre: Science fiction, Seinen
Released: 2006

Machinal

Solanin

Author: Inio Asano
Genre: Coming of age, Seinen
Released: 2006

Machinal

My Lesbian Experience With Loneliness

Author: Kabi Nagata
Genre: Autobiography, Coming of age, Josei
Released: 2016

Machinal

Yokohama Kaidashi Kikou

Author: Hitoshi Ashinano
Genre: Science fiction, seinen, iyashikei
Released: 1994

Near to the Wild Heart

Near to the Wild Heart

Author: Clarice Lispector
Genre: Fiction
Released: 1943

Machinal

Machinal

Author: Sophie Treadwell
Genre: Play, Drama
Released: 1928

Poems New and Collected

Author: Wistawa Szymborska
Genre: Poetry
Released: 1998
Description: i had "Life While You Wait" taped to my bedroom wall for over a year so that's a good sign

The Book of Form and Emptiness

Author: Ruth Ozeki
Genre: Fiction, Magical Realism
Released: 2021
Description: i really adore the way this book plays with form and also the way that the author just added slavoj zizek as a character for some reason

Orlando

Orlando

Author: Virginia Woolf
Genre: Fiction
Released: 1928

Too Loud a Solitude

Too Loud a Solitude

Author: Bohumil Hrabal
Genre: Fiction
Released: 1976

Lolita

Lolita

Author: Vladimir Nabokov
Genre: Fiction
Released: 1955

Hot Milk

Hot Milk

Author: Deborah Levy
Genre: Fiction
Released: 2016
Description: i love the plot with the protagonist's mother but i totally sludged through the rest of the protagonist's relationship arcs. some saucy scenes in here though as well as some memorable lines

Coventry

Coventry

Author: Rachel Cusk
Genre: Essay Collection
Released: 2019

Video Games

Disillusion ST

Disillusion ST

Developer: Rick Tempest
Genre: Horror
Released: 2017
Description: Basically i love mel with all of my heart

Undertale

Undertale

Developer: Toby Fox
Genre: RPG
Released: 2015

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Milk inside a bag of milk inside a bag of milk

Developer: Nikita Kryukov
Genre: Visual Novel
Released: 2020

Yume Nikki

Yume Nikki

Developer: Kikiyama
Genre: Adventure
Released: 2004

Non-fiction

The Question Concerning Technology

The Question Concerning Technology

Author: Martin Heidegger
Genre: Philosophy
Released: 1954

One-Dimensional Man

Author: Herbert Marcuse
Genre: Philosophy
Released: 1964

Postmodernism, or, the Cultural Logic of Late Capitalism

Author: Frederic Jameson
Genre: Art history, cultural theory
Released: 1991

Looking Back: Memoirs

Author: Lou Andreas-Salome
Genre: Memoir
Released: 1951

Being You: A New Science of Consciousness

Author: Anil Seth
Genre: Cognitive Science
Released: 2021

How Music Works

Author: David Byrne
Genre: Memoir
Released: 2012



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