Top Four: Songs, Movies, Books, and Shows
Songs
- If I Go, I'm Goin, Gregory Alan Isakov— this is in one of my favorite shows and it is an immediate cry song
- Will Anybody Ever Love Me?, Sufjan Stevens
- Bridge Over Troubled Water, Simon and Garfunkle
- party 4 u, Charli xcx— the greatest song ever.
Movies
- Nosferatu— stunning, incredible. made me feel excited to watch new movies
- Hunger Games: Catching Fire— genuinely one of my favorite and most memorable theater trips of all time
- Legally Blonde— this was the first grown up movie my mom let me watch
- Booksmart
Books
- A Little Life, Hanya Yanagahari— sorry not sorry, this book means so much to me
- Trauma and Recovery, Judith L. Herman— my Bible during my thesis! THE book on trauma
- Giovanni's Room, James Baldwin
- A Psalm for the Wild Built, Becky Chambers— take a break!!
Shows
- The Haunting of Hill House— tears.
- The Last of Us (Season 1 only)
- Community
- Pretty Little Liars (needed to be said)
All of my all timers (in no particular order)
Songs
- 93 Million Miles, Jason Mraz— my song to remember my childhood
- Annie's Song, John Denver— my dads song
- Bloom, The Paper Kites
- 11 Blocks, WRABEL— listened to this 300 million times in Paris, 2018
- Joyride, Adam Melchor
- lovers' carvings, Bibio
- On the Train Ride Home, The Paper Kites
- Moonshadow, Yusuf/Cat Stevens
- Slip Away, Perfume Genius— from Booksmart, of course
- Smoke Signals, Phoebe Bridgers
- Ridin' Solo, Jason Derulo— puttin on my shades
- About You, The 1975— listened to this 300 million times in Copenhagen, 2022
- The View Between Villages, Noah Kahan
- Cool About It, boygenius
- My Love Mine All Mine, Mitski— listened to this 300 million times in Carlisle, 2023
- That Was the Worst Christmas Ever!, Sufjan Stevens
- Thoroughfare, Ethel Cain
- Anthems For A Seventeen Year-Old Girl (yeule cover)— from I Saw the TV Glow, and it has been on repeat for me since. It dragged me into a new phase of music listening.
Movies
- It's A Wonderful Life— for auld lang syne
- The Sound of Music
- Dead Poets Society— one of the first movies I just LOVED
- Pride and Prejudice (2005)
- Mean Girls
- Easy A— first movie I ever bought on iTunes
- The Perks of Being a Wallflower
- Cha Cha Real Smooth
- Aftersun— I feel so seen
- Sing Sing
- Bottoms
- The Holdovers
- Of an Age- this is a stunning movie with incredible actors. I think about it all the time
- Spider-Man— Across the Spiderverse: best soundtrack, reminded me my love for animation
- Finding Nemo- my original love for animation because damn that animated water looked incredible
Books
- Young Mungo, Douglas Stuart
- The Hunger Games, Suzanne Collins, all three— this is what got me into reading
- The Picture of Dorian Gray, Oscar Wilde
- The Secret History, Donna Tartt— her audiobook narration!! Lifechanging read
- The Lord of the Rings, Tolkein— just a sprawling masterpiece
- The Haunting of Hill House, Shirley Jackson
- In the Dream House, Carmen Maria Machado- a perfect memoir that made me want to write my own one day (maybe)
- Intuitive Eating, Evelyn Tribole— my Bible on treating myself well
Shows
- The Good Place
- Dance Academy- this is a 2000s Australian tween show, and I've seen it maybe 15 times? I can't explain it's importance to me. An early introduction to grief, queerness, and passion
- Severance— one of my favorite new shows
- Gilmore Girls
- How I Met Your Mother— I can't even tell you how many times I have watched
- Phineas and Ferb— these songs go so hard
- New Girls
- Midnight Mass
- Tear Along the Dotted Line— insanely good italian adult animation show. I watched it for a class and then again three times.
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