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an absolute list of books i’d like to read (so far)

many entries courtesy of goodreads’ eclectic and niche lists

Brighton Rock, Graham Greene (1938)

The End of the Affair, Graham Greene (1951)

Insects Are Just Like You and Me Except Some of Them Have Wings, Kuzhali Manickavel (2008)

Blood and Guts in High School, Kathy Acker (1984)

The Cutting Room, Louise Welsh (2002)

Snow Crash, Neal Stephenson (1992)

Hard-Boiled Wonderland and the End of the World, Haruki Murakami (1985)

My Year of Rest and Relaxation, Ottessa Moshfegh (2018)

Salt Slow, Julia Armfield (2019)

Her Body and Other Parties: Stories, Carmen Maria Machado (2017)

The Well of Loneliness, Radclyffe Hall (1928)

Black Voices from Prison, Etheridge Knight (1970)

The Complete Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi (2003)

Making Sense of the Troubles: The Story of Conflict in Northern Ireland, David McKittrick (2000)

The Book of Yokai: Mysterious Creatures of Japanese Folklore, Michael Dylan Foster (2014)

Angels in America, Tony Kushner (1993)

Book of Longing, Leonard Cohen (2006)

A Disaffection, James Kelman (1989)

The Trick is to Keep Breathing, Janice Galloway (1989)

Discipline and Punish: The Birth of the Prison, Michel Foucalt (1975)

Antkind, Charlie Kaufman (2020)

The Argonauts, Maggie Nelson (2015)

The New Me, Halle Butler (2019)

Unclean Jobs for Women and Girls, Alissa Nutting (2010)

Manifesto Cyborg, Donna J Haraway (1985)

Woman, Eating, Claire Kohda (2022)

Boy Parts, Eliza Clark (2020)

Acts of Desperation, Megan Nolan (2021)

Sapiens: A Brief History of Humankind, Yuval Noah Harari (2015)

House of Leaves, Mark Z Danielewski (2000)

Battle Royale, Koushun Takami (2003)

Howl and Other Poems, Allen Ginsberg (2001)

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an absolute list of films i’d like to watch (so far)

thanks to the Letterboxd community for always recommending the most unhinged pieces ever

Gummo, Harmony Korine (1997)

Hard Candy, David Slade (2005)

House, Nobuhiko Obayashi (1977)

Ichi the Killer, Takashi Miike (2001)

Kids, Larry Clark (1995)

Léon: The Professional, Luc Besson (1994)

Oldboy, Park Chan-wook (2003)

Once Upon a Time in America, Sergio Leone, (1984)

Fantastic Planet, René Laloux (1973)

Punch Drunk-Love, Paul Thomas Anderson (2002)

[REC], Jaume Balagueró & Paco Plaza (2007)

The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Jim Sharman (1975)

Shock Treatment, Jim Sharman (1981)

Sleepaway Camp, Robert Hiltzik (1983)

The Warriors, Walter Hill (1979)

Videodrome, David Cronenberg (1983)

Taxi Driver, Martin Scorsese (1976)

The Ninth Configuration, William Peter Blatty (1980)

Flowers for Algernon, Jeff Bleckner (2000)

Mona Lisa, Neil Jordan (1986)

The Machinist, Brad Anderson (2004)

Miller’s Crossing, Joel Coen (1990)

Apocalypse Now, Francis Ford Coppola (1979)

The Farewell, Lulu Wang (2019)

Trash Humpers, Harmony Korine (2009)

Pixote, Héctor Babenco (1980)

Julien Donkey-Boy, Harmony Korine (1999)

Last Night, Don McKellar (1998)

Duck Butter, Miguel Arteta (2018)

Stalker, Andrei Tarkovsky (1979)

The Pianist, Roman Polanski (2002)

Reservoir Dogs, Quentin Tarantino (1992)

Blue Velvet, David Lynch (1986)

At Eternity’s Gate, Julian Schnabel (2018)

Birdman, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2014)

Climax, Gaspar Noé (2018)

Shirkers, Sandi Tan (2018)

A Ghost Story, David Lowery (2017)

Carol, Todd Haynes (2015)

Lupin the Third: The Castle of Cagliostro, Hayao Miyazaki (1979)

Baby Driver, Edgar Wright (2017)

The Revenant, Alejandro González Iñárritu (2015)

She’s Gotta Have It, Spike Lee (1986)

I Don’t Feel at Home in This World Anymore, Macon Blair (2017)

It Comes at Night, Trey Edward Shults (2017)

Buster’s Mal Heart, Sarah Adina Smith (2016)

Cam, Daniel Goldhaber (2018)

Struggle: The Life and Lost Art of Szukalski, Irek Dobrowolski (2018)

I Think We’re Alone Now, Reed Morano (2018)

Skins, Eduardo Casanova (2017)

The Fundamentals of Caring, Rob Burnett (2016)

About Time, Richard Curtis (2013)

The Bad Batch, Ana Lily Amirpour (2016)

The Highwaymen, John Lee Hancock (2019)

Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri, Martin McDonagh (2017)

Natural Born Killers, Oliver Stone (1994)

XX, Karyn Kusama & Jovanka Vuckovic & Roxanne Benjamin & St. Vincent (2017)

Cargo, Ben Howling & Yolanda Ramke (2017)

Residue, Alex Garcia Lopez (2015)

Joan Didion: The Center Will Not Hold, Griffin Dunne (2017)

Joshua: Teenager vs. Superpower, Joe Piscatella (2017)

Chasing Trane, John Scheinfeld (2016)

Tallulah, Siân Heder (2016)

Expedition Happiness, Felix Starck & Selima Taibi (2017)

Bottom of the World, Richard Sears (2017)

Super Dark Times, Kevin Phillips (2017)

Notes on Blindness, Pete Middleton & James Spinney (2016)

Newness, Drake Doremus (2017)

ReMastered: The Two Killings of Sam Cooke, Kelly Duane de la Vega (2019)

Paddleton, Alexandre Lehmann (2019)

Juanita, Clark Johnson (2019)

Temple, Michael Barrett (2017)

Maya Angelou: And Still I Rise, Bob Hercules & Rita Coburn Whack (2016)

P, Paul Spurrier (2005)

I Am Happiness on Earth, Julián Hernández (2014)

Carrie Pilby, Susan Johnson (2016)

Belief: The Possession of Janet Moses, David Stubbs (2015)

I Called Him Morgan, Kasper Collin (2016)

A Family Affair, Tom Fassaert (2015)

Q, Sanjeev Gupta (2017)

Boyhood, Richard Linklater (2014)

Thelma & Louise, Ridley Scott (1991)

Brick, Rian Johnson (2005)

The Royal Tenenbaums, Wes Anderson (2001)

Moonlight, Barry Jenkins (2016)

Mulholland Drive, David Lynch (2001)

Solaris, Andrei Tarkovsky (1972)

Lake Mungo, Joel Anderson (2008)

War of the Worlds, Steven Spielberg (2005)

Tetsuo: The Iron Man, Shinya Tsukamoto (1989)

Mady, Panos Cosmatos (2018)

Raw, Julia Ducournau (2016)

The Neon Demon, Nicolas Winding Refn (2016)

The Love Witch, Anna Biller (2016)

Tusk, Kevin Smith (2014)

Black Swan, Darren Aronofsky (2010)

A Serbian Film, Srđan Spasojević (2010)

Antichrist, Lars von Trier (2009)

Paprika, Satoshi Kon (2006)

Audition, Takashi Miike (1999)

Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Terry Gilliam (1998)

Perfect Blue, Satoshi Kon (1997)

Suspiria, Dario Argento (1977)

Salò, or the 120 Days of Sodom, Pier Paolo Pasolini (1975)

Irreversible, Gaspar Noé (2002)

Teeth, Mitchell Lichtenstein (2007)

Guinea Pig 2: Flower of Flesh and Blood, Hideshi Hino (1985)

I Stand Alone, Gaspar Noé (1998)

Begotten, E. Elias Merhige (1989)

Dekalog, Krzysztof Kieślowski (1989)

Dancer in the Dark, Lars von Trier (2000)

Shoplifters, Hirokazu Kore-eda (2018)

Honey Boy, Alma Har’el (2019)

The Inner Scar, Philippe Garrel (1972)

The Handmaiden, Park Chan-wook (2016)

Funny Games, Michael Haneke (1997)

$9.99, Tatia Rosenthal (2008)

A Girl Walks Home Alone at Night, Ana Lily Amirpour (2014)

In The Mood for Love, Wong Kar-wai (2000)

Stranger Than Paradise, Jim Jarmusch (1984)

Quadrophenia, Franc Roddam (1979)

Blow-Up, Michaelangelo Antonioni (1966)

Do the Right Thing, Spike Lee (1989)

Christiane F., Uli Edel (1981)

Grey Gardens, Albert Maysles & David Maysles & Muffie Meyer & Ellen Hovde (1975)

The Tribe, Myroslav Slaboshpytskyi (2014)

Uncut Gems, Josh Safdie & Benny Safdie (2019)

Persona, Ingmar Bergman (1966)

Wild Strawberries, Ingmar Bergman (1957)

The Silence, Ingmar Bergman (1963)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire, Céline Sciamma (2019)

The Lighthouse, Robert Eggers (2019)

Promising Young Woman, Emerald Fennell (2020)

The Human Condition III: A Soldier’s Prayer, Masaki Kobayashi (1961)

As I Was Moving Ahead Occasionally I Saw Brief Glimpses of Beauty, Jonas Mekas (2000)

X, Ti West (2022)

Everything Everywhere All at Once, Daniel Scheinert & Daniel Kwan (2022)

The Unbearable Weight of Massive Talent, Tom Gormican (2022)

The Conversation, Francis Ford Coppola (1974)

Sufjan Stevens: Carrie & Lowell Live, Aaron Craig & Alex Craig (2017)

La Haine, Mathieu Kassovitz (1995)

My Life as a Zucchini, Claude Barras (2016)

The Wolf House, Cristóbal León & Joaquín Cociña (2018)

Come and See, Elem Klimov (1985)

Noisy Requiem, Yoshihiko Matsui (1988)

Eyes Without a Face, Georges Franju (1960)

Angel’s Egg, Mamoru Oshii (1985)

Dogville, Lars von Trier (2003)

Pink Flamingos, John Waters (1972)

Are you lost in the world like me?, Steve Cutts (2016)

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a rough list of favourite films i’ve watched (so far)

with thanks to strangers from the internet and my dad’s wicked collection

more detailed posts to come (when i get around to it)

generally rated from favourites onwards

Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Michel Gondry (2004)

You Were Never Really Here, Lynne Ramsay (2017)

Metropolis, Rintaro (2001)

Over the Garden Wall, Nate Cash (2014)

Sound of Metal, Darius Marder (2019)

Paris Is Burning, Jennie Livingston (1990)

Jackass Forever, Jeff Tremaine (2022)

House of Gucci, Ridley Scott (2021)

10 Things I Hate About You, Gil Junger (1999)

Fantastic Mr. Fox, Wes Anderson (2009)

Homecoming: A Film by Beyoncé, Beyoncé & Ed Burke (2019)

West Side Story, Robert Wise & Jerome Robbins (1961)

The Devil and Daniel Johnston, Jeff Feuerzeig (2005)

Romeo + Juliet, Baz Luhrmann (1996)

Once, John Carney (2007)

Grave of the Fireflies, Isao Takahata (1988)

Laputa: Castle in the Sky, Hayao Miyazaki (1986)

Kiki’s Delivery Service, Hayao Miyazaki (1989)

Nausicaä of the Valley of the Wind, Hayao Miyazaki (1984)

Howl’s Moving Castle, Hayao Miyazaki (2004)

Princess Mononoke, Hayao Miyazaki (1997)

Spirited Away, Hayao Miyazaki (2001)

Little Shop of Horrors, Frank Oz (1986)

The Last Unicorn, Jules Bass & Arthur Rankin Jr. (1982)

Neon Genesis Evangelion: The End of Evangelion, Hideaki Anno & Kazuya Tsurumaki (1997)

The Blair Witch Project, Daniel Myrick & Eduardo Sánchez (1999)

Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo (1988)

Scott Pilgrim vs. the World, Edgar Wright (2010)

Licorice Pizza, Paul Thomas Anderson (2021)

The Batman, Matt Reeves (2022)

Ikiru, Akira Kurosawa (1952)

I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Charlie Kaufman (2020)

Belladonna of Sadness, Eiichi Yamamoto (1973)

I, Tonya, Craig Gillespie (2017)

It’s Such a Beautiful Day, Don Hertzfeldt (2012)

Kill Bill: Vol 1, Quentin Tarantino (2003)

Kill Bill: Vol 2, Quentin Tarantino (2004)

Inglourious Basterds, Quentin Tarantino (2009)

What Happened, Miss Simone?, Liz Garbus (2015)

The Diary of a Teenage Girl, Marielle Heller (2015)

Monster, Patty Jenkins (2003)

Charlie Countryman, Fredrik Bond (2013)

Whiplash, Damien Chazelle (2014)

The Triplets of Belleville, Sylvain Chomet (2003)

Requiem for a Dream, Darren Aronofsky (2000)

Pulp Fiction, Quentin Tarantino (1994)

Pink Floyd: The Wall, Alan Parker (1982)

The Nightmare Before Christmas, Henry Selick (1993)

The Dark Crystal, Frank Oz & Jim Henson (1982)

Spider-Man: Into the Spider-Verse, Rodney Rothman & Peter Ramsey & Bob Persichetti (2018)

Parasite, Bong Joon-ho (2019)

Jackass 4.5, Jeff Tremaine (2022)

The Prestige, Christopher Nolan (2006)

There Will Be Blood, Paul Thomas Anderson (2007)

Nightmare Alley, Guillermo del Toro (2021)

Knives Out, Rian Johnson (2019)

It Follows, David Robert Mitchell (2014)

The Great Gatsby, Baz Luhrmann (2013)

Ghost Stories, Andy Nyman & Jeremy Dyson (2017)

Sucker Punch, Zack Snyder (2011)

The Devil All the Time, Antonio Campos (2020)

Prisoners, Denis Villeneuve (2013)

Goodnight Mommy, Severin Fiala & Veronika Franz (2014)

The Poughkeepsie Tapes, John Erick Dowdle (2007)

Shoah, Claude Lanzmann (1985)

Ravenous, Robin Aubert (2017)

The Last Duel, Ridley Scott (2021)

Dave Made a Maze, Bill Watterson (2017)

If Anything Happens I Love You, Will McCormack & Michael Govier (2020)

Jojo Rabbit, Taiki Waititi (2019)

Memories of Murder, Bong Joon-ho (2003)

Midsommar, Ari Aster (2019)

Marriage Story, Noah Baumbach (2019)

The Fly, David Cronenberg (1986)

Anomalisa, Charlie Kaufman & Duke Johnson (2015)

Hereditary, Ari Aster (2018)

Creep, Patrick Brice (2014)

Se7en, David Fincher (1995)

Pan’s Labyrinth, Guillermo del Toro (2006)

Isle of Dogs, Wes Anderson (2018)

A Close Shave, Nick Park (1995)

[morganarchived]

a rough list of favourite books i’ve read (so far)

many entries courtesy of university and books i inherited

more detailed posts to come (when i get around to it)

generally rated from favourites onwards

Look At Me, Jennifer Egan (2001)

Beijing Coma, Ma Jian (2008)

You Too Can Have A Body Like Mine, Alexandra Kleeman (2015)

I’m Thinking of Ending Things, Iain Reid (2016)

Milkman, Anna Burns (2018)

Normal People, Sally Rooney (2018)

How Late It Was, How Late, James Kelman (1994)

Maus, Art Spiegelman (1980)

Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes (1959)

The Handmaid’s Tale, Margaret Atwood (1985)

The Graveyard Book, Neil Gaiman (2008)

The Perks of Being a Wallflower, Stephen Chbosky (1999)

The Ocean at the End of the Lane, Neil Gaiman (2013)

The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy, Douglas Adams (1979)

Sour Heart, Jenny Zhang (2017)

The Testament of Gideon Mack, James Robertson (2006)

The Acid House, Irvine Welsh (1994)

Queen Mab, Percy Bysshe Shelley (1813)

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night Time, Mark Haddon (2003)

Wonder, R.J. Palacio (2012)

Maggot Moon, Sally Gardner (2012)

A Hunger Artist, Franz Kafka (1922)

Kaaterskill Falls, Allegra Goodman (1998)

Brief Interviews with Hideous Men, David Foster Wallace (1999)

Hunger: A Memoir of (My) Body, Roxane Gay (2017)

Aliens and Anorexia, Chris Kraus (2000)