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My favorite things

And you shall know me by my media consumption.

Favorite films

• Rear Window (Hitchcock, 1954)
• M. Hulot's Holiday (Tati, 1954)
• Wild Strawberries (a.k.a. Smultronstället) (Bergman, 1957)
• The Spirit of the Beehive (Erice, 1973)
• The Thin Man (Van Dyke, 1934)
• Searching for Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)
• M (Lang, 1931)
• Jaws (Spielberg, 1975)

Favorite directors

• Ingmar Bergman
• Alfred Hichcock
• Anthony Mann
• David Lean

Favorite writers

• Jorge Luis Borges
• H.P. Lovecraft
• G.K. Chesterton
• P.G. Wodehouse

Favorite books

• Bobby Fischer Goes to War by David Edmonds and John Eidinow
• Civilization and Its Discontents by Sigmund Freud
• Existentialism and Human Emotions by Jean-Paul Sartre
• The Grail Bird by Tim Gallagher
• Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke
• The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes edited by Leslie S. Klinger

Favorite music

• The Pixies
• Sonic Youth
• Bill Evans
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Iris DeMent

Favorite TV shows

• Buffy the Vampire Slayer
• Doctor Who
• Twin Peaks
• The Avengers

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