my favorite things
Updated on 27 Dec 2025. Hooray for star rankings!
Items that I rank <4 stars not included.
music
artists
★★★★★ · The 1975
★★★★★ · bbno$
★★★★★ · Bleachers
★★★★★ · Daft Punk
★★★★☆ · Avicii
★★★★☆ · Billy Joel
★★★★☆ · Charli xcx
★★★★☆ · Djo
★★★★☆ · Kubbi
★★★★☆ · Paul Simon
★★★★☆ · Pitbull
albums
★★★★★ · Being Funny In A Foreign Language - The 1975
★★★★★ · Random Access Memories - Daft Punk
★★★★★ · Graceland - Paul Simon
★★★★☆ · BRAT - Charli xcx
★★★★☆ · bag or die - bbno$
★★★★☆ · Immunity - Clairo
★★★★☆ · The Crux - Djo
songs
★★★★★ · Happiness - The 1975
★★★★★ · The Sound - The 1975
★★★★★ · Basic Being Basic - Djo
★★★★★ · I Wanna Get Better - Bleachers
★★★★★ · Claire Del Lune - Claude Debussy, The Philadelphia Orchestra
★★★★★ · Where The Streets Have No Name - U2
★★★★★ · Graceland - Paul Simon
★★★★☆ · Genghis Khan - Miike Snow
★★★★☆ · edamame - bbno$, Rich Brian
★★★★☆ · Waiting For Love - Avicii
★★★★☆ · Love Me To Heaven - Jonas Brothers
★★★★☆ · tv off - Kendrick Lamar, Lefty Gunplay
★★★★☆ · Mean girls - Charli xcx
★★★★☆ · Potion - Djo
★★★★☆ · Contact - Daft Punk
★★★★☆ · Touch - Daft Punk, Paul Williams
★★★★☆ · Cherry - Harry Styles
movies
★★★★★ · Good Will Hunting (1997)
★★★★★ · Rush Hour (1998)
★★★★★ · Ocean's Eleven (2001)
★★★★☆ · Casino Royale (2006)
★★★★☆ · Inception (2010)
★★★★☆ · Interstellar (2014)
★★★★☆ · Penguins Of Madagascar (2014)
★★★★☆ · Despicable Me 3 (2017)
★★★★☆ · Little Women (2019)
★★★★☆ · Parasite (2019)
★★★★☆ · No Time To Die (2021)
★★★★☆ · The Holdovers (2023)
★★★★☆ · Wake Up Dead Man (2025)
books
★★★★★ · The Stand (expanded edition) - Stephen King
★★★★★ · The Martian - Andy Weir
★★★★★ · The Fault in Our Stars - John Green
★★★★★ · Remembrance of Earth's Past (trilogy) - Cixin Liu
★★★★☆ · Project Hail Mary - Andy Weir
★★★★☆ · Tomorrow and Tomorrow and Tomorrow - Gabrielle Zevin
★★★★☆ · The Great Gatsby - J.D. Salinger
★★★★☆ · Failure Is Not An Option - Eugene Kranz
★★★★☆ · The Long Walk - Stephen King
★★★★☆ · The Running Man - Stephen King
★★★★☆ · Ready Player One - Ernest Cline
★★★★☆ · Liar's Poker - Michael Lewis
★★★★☆ · What If? - Randall Munroe
★★★★☆ · How To Win Friends And Influence People - Dale Carnegie
★★★★☆ · The Apollo Murders - Chris Hadfield
games
board games
★★★★★ · Chess
★★★★★ · Catan
★★★★★ · Ticket To Ride: Europe
★★★★☆ · Azul
★★★★☆ · Pandemic
★★★★☆ · Ticket To Ride
★★★★☆ · Avalon
★★★★☆ · Root
★★★★☆ · Splendor
★★★★☆ · Villagers
video games
★★★★★ · Minecraft
★★★★★ · Tetris
★★★★★ · A Dark Room
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 playing the best hand I can with the cards I've been dealt. —Unknown
Tomorrow, and tomorrow, and tomorrow,
Creeps in this petty pace from day to day,
To the last syllable of recorded time;
And all our yesterdays have lighted fools
The way to dusty death. Out, out, brief candle!
Life's but a walking shadow, a poor player,
That struts and frets his hour upon the stage,
And then is heard no more. It is a tale
Told by an idiot, full of sound and fury,
Signifying nothing. —Macbeth
You must take your opponent into a deep dark forest where 2 + 2 = 5, and the path leading out is only wide enough for one. —Mikhail Tal