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 (1934)
Searching for Bobby Fischer (Zaillian, 1993)

Favorite music albums

Tchaikovsky: The Nutcracker
Saxaphone Colossus, Sonny Rollins (1956)
Kind of Blue, Miles Davis (1959)
A Love Supreme, John Coltrane (1964)
Horses, Patti Smith (1975)
Doolittle, The Pixies (1989)
Dear Catastrophe Waitress, Belle & Sabastian (2003)
Get Behind Me Satan, The White Stripes (2005)

Favorite TV shows

Buffy the Vampire Slayer
Doctor Who
Haibane Renmei
NieA under 7
Twin Peaks

Favorite authors

Jonathan Carroll (Land of Laughs)
Susanna Clarke (Jonathan Strange & Mr. Norrell)
Neil Gaiman (Coraline, Sandman, etc.)
Gregory Maguire (Wicked: The Life and Times of the Wicked Witch of the West)
Alexander Mccall Smith (The Sunday Philosophy Club)
China Mieville (Looking for Jake)
Alan Moore (Watchmen)
William Browning Spencer (The Ocean and All Its Devices)
Donna Tartt (The Secret History)

© Paul Gorman.