03 / Lists

Things that
stay with me.

A personal taxonomy of the things I replay, reread, collect and argue about.

NOW / Current rotation

Three things occupying the machinery right now.

Last updated

WATCHING— LISTENING— READING—

01 / Films I return to

Around 200 films a year. These ten are a reasonable starting point.

011984

Paris, Texas

Loneliness, distance and redemption.

021975

Barry Lyndon

Beautiful images. Terrible decisions.

032019

Too Old to Die Young

Neon, dread and violence slowed down until it becomes almost hypnotic.

041999

The Straight Story

Kindness without sentimentality.

052007

The Assassination of Jesse James by the Coward Robert Ford

Melancholy in widescreen.

061927

Metropolis

Machines, crowds and a future that never stopped looking modern.

071984

Los santos inocentes

Cruel, humane and almost unbearably Spanish.

081975

Дерсу Узала

Friendship, wilderness and the sadness of a world changing.

091982

The Thing

Paranoia, isolation and practical effects that still look wrong in exactly the right way.

102002

Irréversible

Form as assault. Time running backwards does not make anything better.

Cinema laws

Pulp Fiction›~~Forrest Gump~~

Dune›~~Star Wars~~

Some comparisons do not require a committee.

Comfort HORROR

Not a guilty pleasure. Comfort media. Draw your own conclusions.

02 / 33⅓ RPM

Always something playing

Apparently happiness has weaker replay value.

Songs that explain me better than this website

Memory, people and emotional damage, filed under audio.

14 TRACKS / SCROLL

01
A Day In The Life — Remastered 2009The Beatles
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02
Ashes to Ashes — 2017 RemasterDavid Bowie
Bowie at the exact intersection of beautiful and strange.
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03
(Sittin’ On) the Dock of the Bay — MonoOtis Redding
My father. Since I was a kid. Still number one.
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04
Norwegian Wood (This Bird Has Flown) — Remastered 2009The Beatles
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05
Untitled — 2012 RemasterInterpol
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06
Last ExitPearl Jam
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07
Beetlebum — 2012 RemasterBlur
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08
Under the BridgeRed Hot Chili Peppers
I am sixteen again in about twelve seconds.
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09
House of the Rising SunThe Animals
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10
Riders on the StormThe Doors
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11
Cortez the Killer — 2016 RemasterNeil Young, Crazy Horse
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12
Paranoid AndroidRadiohead
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13
Dirt — 2005 RemasterThe Stooges
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14
La Copa De EuropaLos Planetas
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TRY YOUR LUCK

Pull one item at random from the evidence above.

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NAMES ON REPEAT

David BowieRadioheadMassive AttackInterpolSonic YouthQueens of the Stone AgeLos PlanetasOtis ReddingNeil YoungAphex TwinThe Chemical BrothersUNKLEThom YorkePinkPantheressDyE

03 / Video games

Seven games that wasted an unreasonable amount of my life.

No ranking. Just games that belong here.

1993FPS

Doom

where it started

19914X

Civilization

one more turn

1997JRPG

Final Fantasy VII

still hurts

1992RTS

Dune II

the blueprint

2022ACTION RPG

Elden Ring

beautiful suffering

1990ADVENTURE

Monkey Island

insult swordfighting

2005ACTION / HORROR

Resident Evil 4

somehow still perfect

COIN-OP YEARS

Before “one more turn”, there was “one more coin”.

1985Ghosts ’n GoblinsPLAY ↗ 1985Commando 1984Kung-Fu Master 1980Pac-ManPLAY ↗

Pocket money had a very clear business model.

ALSO Game & WatchPC gamingprobably too many hours lost to “one more turn”

04 / The shelves

I collect books — thousands of them. Give me categories, variants and a finite checklist and I can probably collect almost anything. Shelves are merely an implementation detail.

Readingこころ

Natsume Sōseki

STAYED Der Steppenwolf

Hermann Hesse

Of Human Bondage

W. Somerset Maugham

The Atrocity Exhibition

J. G. Ballard

L’Étranger

Albert Camus

Dracula

Bram Stoker

Eye in the Sky

Philip K. Dick

Solaris

Stanisław Lem

NEXT / EVENTUALLYProject Hail Mary

Still waiting patiently in the enormous queue.

Thousands of books. The reading list is shorter than the collection. It would have to be.

05 / Things I apparently collect

Give me variants and a finite checklist and things can get out of hand quickly.

1000s

Books

The original problem. Also the largest by volume.

TCG

Pokémon

Japanese promos, artists, oddities and the constant suspicion that one more card will complete something.

LCD

Game & Watch

A very efficient way to turn childhood memory into shelf space.

06 / Unreasonably specific opinions

Not a manifesto. Just several hills with my flag already planted.

B-52'sThe early records: yes. “Love Shack”: absolutely not.

Arctic MonkeysMostly “505”. I am comfortable with this.

Science fictionDune > Star Wars.

90s R&BAaliyah can stay. Most of the decade can leave.

NewslettersHumanity already has enough.

Things thatstay with me.