my favs

Updated on 29 Jul 2025.

music

I would describe my music taste as varied.

artists

My 10 current favorite artists:

• Bleachers
• Charli xcx
• Sabrina Carpenter
• Elton John
• bbno$
• Djo
• Noah Kahan
• Daft Punk
• Paul Simon
• Avicii

songs

My 10 current favorite songs:

• I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers
• Genghis Khan - Miike Snow
• Gasoline - HAIM
• Taste - Sabrina Carpenter
• Basic Being Basic - Djo
• Mean girls - Charli xcx
• Notorious Thugs (2014 Remaster) - The Notorious B.I.G.
• Light On - Maggie Rogers
• edamame - bbno$ and Rich Brian

movies

Organized by year:

• Back To The Future (1985)
• Good Will Hunting (1997)
• Rush Hour (1998)
• Ocean's Eleven (2001)
• Legally Blonde (2001)
• The Importance Of Being Earnest (2002)
• Mean Girls (2004)
• Casino Royale (2006)
• Iron Man (2008)
• Inception (2010)
• Interstellar (2014)
• Penguins Of Madagascar (2014)
• No Time To Die (2021)
• The Holdovers (2023)

books

authors

• andy weir:
  1. the martian
  2. project hail mary
  3. artemis
• cixin liu:
  1. the three-body problem
  2. the dark forest
  3. death's end
• marie lu:
  1. legend
  2. prodigy
  3. champion
• john green:
  1. the fault in our stars
  2. turtles all the way down
  3. looking for alaska
• stephen king:
  1. the stand
  2. the long walk
  3. the running man
  4. the institute
  5. never flinch
• randall munroe:
  1. what if?
  2. thing explainer

other books

• tomorrow and tomorrow and tomorrow - gabrielle zevin
• the great gatsby - j.d. salinger
• ready player one - ernest cline
• how to win friends and influence people - dale carnegie
• failure is not an option - gene kranz
• the apollo murders - chris hadfield

games

board games

• chess
• catan
• azul
• pandemic
• ticket to ride
• ticket to ride: europe
• avalon
• root
• splendor
• villagers
• wingspan

video games

• minecraft
• tetris (jstris or tetr.io)
• a dark room (I hold the current WR)

quotes

A human being should be able to change a diaper, plan an invasion, butcher a hog, conn a ship, design a building, write a sonnet, balance accounts, build a wall, set a bone, comfort the dying, take orders, give orders, cooperate, act alone, solve equations, analyze a new problem, pitch manure, program a computer, cook a tasty meal, fight efficiently, die gallantly. Specialization is for insects. —Robert A. Heinlein

Compound interest is the eighth wonder of the world. He who understands it, earns it ... he who doesn't ... pays it. —Einstein

Comparison is the thief of joy. —Theodore Roosevelt

I'm just playing the best hand I can with the cards I've been dealt. —Unknown