# ⭐ FAVORITES & RECOMMENDATIONS List of my favorite things or things I frequently recommend ## Life Changing / Buy for Life * **Nocs Monocular** - game changing portable for bird watching on the go * **ORTLIEB Pannier Bag** - I daily bike commute in the rain; these are rock solid * **Cafflano Klassic** - I’m a coffee snob and pack this when I travel grinder / pour setup; just need hot water and beans * **Chemex** - I make coffee many ways but I love my chemex for pour overs — design perfection ## Top 10 Essential Albums/Records 🎧 * **The The - Soul Mining** - hits me hard every time * **Remain In Light - Talking Heads** - talking heads nuff said * **The Unicorns - Who Will Cut Our Hair When We're Gone** - mediations on death * **MF Doom - MM..Food** - the rappers rapper; just ungodly talented; I could spend a life time trying to dissect his talent * **They Might Be Giants - Flood** - my father/family place this all the time; my father could do a whole life lessons talk to students on it (and did) * **Paul Simon - Graceland** - great album, complex back story * **Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea** - my youths * **Giorgio Moroder - From Here To Eternity** * **Haruomi Hosono - Hosono House** ## Top 10 Films 🍿 * The Thing (1982) * Night of the Hunter (1955) * Ikiru (1952) * Berry Gordy's The Last Dragon (1985) * Night of the Living Dead (1968) * Clue (1985) * They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969) * Ox Box Incident (1943) * Sherlock Jr (1924) * Fantastic Mr. Fox (2009) Everybody has that one movie you can watch a thousand times and never get tired of. ## Streaming services * **Criterion** - essential for movie lovers * **Kanopy** - free service via some public libraries; excellent selection of films from multiple streaming services * **Dropout** - American comedy streaming channel from folks of CollegeHumor, original joyous ethically source comedy content * **Midnight Pulp** - odd, weirdo movies and psychotronic trash ## Top 10 People I want to invite to dinner party: * Vincent Price * Albert Camus * Alan Watts * Charlie Munger * Bruce Lee * Buster Keaton * Thich Nhat Hanh * Mister Rodgers * Dolly Parton * Ida Lupino ## Top Ten Comedians * Mitch Hedburg * Patton Oswalt * Bo Burnham * John Mulaney * Reggie Watts * Tim Robinson ## Top Ten Bands/Musicians * Talking Heads * George Clinton and the Parliament Funkadelic * David Bowie * Chromeo ## Board games * Bandino * ## Video games * Splatoon series * Balatro ## Top Ten Books ## Top Ten Comics * Hellboy (or anything from greater Mike Mignola universe) * Saga * Anything from Jason * Watchmen * Scott Pilgrim vs The World * Y: the Last Man ## Top Ten TV Shows * Ricky and Morty * Venture Brothers * Star Trek: The Next Generation * Community * Over the Garden Wall * Regular Show * IT Crowd / Black Books * Schitt's Creek * Letterkenny / Shoresy * 30 Rock ## Top Ten Anime * Cowboy Bebop * FLCL * The Big O * Baccano! * Samurai Champloo ## Favorite Things * **Ice Cream** - Rocky Road * **Cookie** - Gingerbread * **Cocktail** - Lion's Tail * **Liquor** - Blanton's Bourbon neat * **Candy** - Nerd's Gummy Clusters * **Fruit** - Banana/Pawpaw * Color - ? * Snack - * **Fast food** -Taco Bell * **Cuisine** - Indian * **Holiday** - Halloween * Movie - The Thing * Movie Genre - Horror ## Movie Genres🍿 * Nihilistic movies * Quirky/Cult movies from the 80s * Giallos - Italian 70s horror