My Favorite Things
Last updated on July 26, 2026.
“These are a few of my favorite things”:
- 🎤 Music that I've made
- 🎶 Music to listen to
- 📚 Books
- 📺 Films
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🎧 Podcasts
- (listed alphabetically)
- ⛽️ Buddha at the Gas Pump
- ☕️ The Coffee Klatch with Robert Reich
- 🎮 The Kit & Krysta Podcast
- 💊 Narcotica
- 🎮 Nintendo Voice Chat
- 🎙️ The Panel
- 💻 REACH - A Podcast for Executive Assistants
- 🐢 Startup to Last
- 🍄 Toadstool Boardroom
- 🎮 Video games
- 🎮 Video game characters
- 🎨 Artists/art
- 🗣️ Quotes
- 👤 Inspiring people
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🐱 Animals
- 😼 Black-footed cats
- 😻 Domestic cats
- 🦫 Capybaras
- 🐭 Chinchillas
- 🐶 Dogs
- 🐬 Dolphins
- 🐰 Dwarf rabbits
- 🌊 Dwarf seahorses
- 🦦 Ferrets
- 🌳 Lemurs
- 🐙 Octopuses (apparently this is the correct spelling!)
- 🦦 Otters
- 🦉 Owls
- 🐼 Pandas
- 🐧 Penguins
- 🐵 Pygmy marmosets
- 🇦🇺 Quokkas
- 🗻 Red pandas
- 🐵 Squirrel monkeys
- 🐿️ Squirrels
🏝️ My all-time favorites (one per category):
If I had to pick just one thing in each of the following categories, these are my “desert island picks.”-
🎶 Music
- Band: Stereolab
- Solo musician: Nick Drake
- Album: Pink Moon by Nick Drake
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📚 Books
- Nonfiction: PiHKAL: A Chemical Love Story by Alexander Shulgin and Ann Shulgin
- Fiction: Calvin and Hobbes series by Bill Watterson
- Poetry: Leaves of Grass by Walt Whitman
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📺 Films
- Animated: Spirited Away
- Live-action: 2001: A Space Odyssey
- Documentary: Hayao Miyazaki and the Heron
- 🎧 Podcast
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🎮 Video game
- The Legend of Zelda: Tears of the Kingdom
- 🐱 Animal
📊 Tier Lists
Just for fun, here are various tier lists that I've created. I've arranged the items in each tier chronologically by release date (i.e. they're not listed in order of preference).
Of course, these are just my opinions (which I'm open to changing), and I respect opinions that differ from my own, so feel free to disagree with me!
Nintendo home consoles:
Nintendo handheld consoles:
Studio Ghibli films:
Pixar films:
The Beatles studio albums:
