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2023-08-14 AvP Retrospective

2023-11-30 AFI Top 100 List

2023-12-08 YouTube Retrospective

2024-05-28 Disney Magic Retrospective

2024-08-16 Music Make You Lose Control (Of Your Emotions)

2024-08-20 I'm Tired of Being Asked to Care About the Robot

2024-09-25 My RSS Journey

2024-11-08 Mr. Smith

2024-11-19 YouTube Retrospective Year 4

2024-12-23 Default Apps 2024

2025-01-17 Dick Laurent Is Dead

2025-02-12 Illinois State Flags

2025-06-13 Bless You

2025-12-18 A Game That Is A Game

2025-12-22 YouTube Retrospective Year 5

2026-03-26 Let the lore die. Kill it, if you have to.

Books

Aeschylus - Agamemnon

Anonymous - The Epic of Gilgamesh

Autumn Christian - The Crooked God Machine

Daniel Defoe - Robinson Crusoe

Dante Alighieri - The Divine Comedy

David Lynch - Catching the Big Fish

Donna Tart - The Secret History

Homer - The Iliad

Homer - The Odyssey

J.G. Ballard - Concrete Island

Lindsay Ellis - Apostles of Mercy

Lindsay Ellis - Axiom's End

Lindsay Ellis - Truth of the Divine

Madeline Miller - Circe

Mark Frost - The Secret History of Twin Peaks

Mark Frost - Twin Peaks The Final Dossier

Mark Z. Danielewski - House of Leaves

Mary Renault - Fire from Heaven

Mary Renault - The Charioteer

Mary Renault - The Last of the Wine

Philip Pullman - The Rose Field

Quintus Smyrnaeus - Posthomerica

Rachel Reid - Heated Rivalry

Robert Kurvitz - Sacred and Terrible Air

Ruth L. Van Arsdale - From the Mixed-up Files of Mrs. Basil E. Frankweiler

S.A. Barnes - Dead Silence

S.A. Barnes - Ghost Station

Sophocles - Ajax

Sophocles - Philoctetes

Stephen King - The Shining

Virgil - The Aeneid

William Hogarth - The Analysis of Beauty

Games

7 Days to Die (2013)

Alien Isolation (2014)

American Arcadia (2023)

American Truck Simulator (2016)

Amnesia A Machine for Pigs (2013)

Amnesia Rebirth (2020)

Amnesia The Bunker (2023)

Amnesia the Dark Descent (2010)

Baby Steps (2025)

Baldur's Gate 3 (2023)

Barotrauma (2023)

Bloodborne (2015)

Book of Hours (2023)

Call of Duty 2 (2005)

Call of Duty (2003)

Call of Duty Black Ops (2010)

Call of Duty World at War (2008)

Call of the Sea (2020)

Class of '09 (2021)

Class of '09- The Re-Up (2023)

Dark Souls (2011)

Dark Souls II (2014)

Dark Souls III (2016)

Death of the Reprobate (2024)

Diner Bros (2018)

Disco Elysium (2019)

Doom Eternal (2020)

Earth Defense Force 5 (2017)

Elden Ring (2022)

Escape the Backrooms (2022)

Fallout 4 (2015)

Fallout New Vegas (2010)

Final Fantasy (1987)

Final Fantasy II (1988)

Four Last Things (2017)

Helldivers (2015)

Hypnospace Outlaw (2019)

If On a Winter's Night, Four Travelers (2021)

Jak and Daxter The Precursor Legacy (2001)

Kentucky Route Zero (2020)

Kingdom Hearts 0.2 Birth by Sleep – A Fragmentary Passage

Kingdom Hearts 2 (2005)

Kingdom Hearts 3 (2019)

Kingdom Hearts 3D Dream Drop Distance (2012)

Kingdom Hearts (2002)

Kingdom Hearts Birth by Sleep (2010)

Kingdom Hearts Chain of Memories (2004)

Lego Star Wars The Skywalker Saga (2022)

Little Nightmares (2017)

Little Nightmares II (2021)

Lost in Vivo (2018)

Mass Effect 1 (2007)

Mass Effect 2 (2010)

Mass Effect 3 (2012)

Nier- Automata (2017)

Night in the Woods (2017)

Nightmare Kart (2024)

No one lives under the lighthouse (2020)

Omen Exitio Plague (2018)

Outer Wilds (2019)

Pentiment (2022)

Project Zomboid (2013)

Psychonauts (2005)

Red Dead Redemption 2 (2018)

Resident Evil 2 (1998)

Resident Evil 3 (1999)

Resident Evil 4 (2005)

Resident Evil (1996)

Rogue Galaxy (2005)

Scarlet Hollow (2021)

Signalis (2022)

Silent Hill 2 (2001)

Silent Hill 3 (2003)

Silent Hill (1999)

Sly 2 Band of Thieves (2004)

Sly 3 Honor Among Thieves (2005)

Sly Cooper and the Thievius Raccoonus (2002)

Sly Cooper- Thieves in Time (2013)

Smile For Me (2019)

Sniper Elite 5 (2022)

Star Trucker (2024)

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic (2003)

Star Wars Knights of the Old Republic II (2004)

Stardew Valley (2016)

System Shock 2 (1999)

System Shock (1994)

The Case of the Golden Idol (2022)

The Complex- Found Footage

The Final Station (2016)

The Pale Beyond (2023)

The Procession to Calvary (2020)

The Red Strings Club (2018)

The Rise of the Golden Idol (2024)

The Witness (2016)

Tony Hawk's Underground (2003)

Tormented Souls (2021)

Total War- Rome (2004)

Warframe (2013)

We Were Here (2017)

We Were Here Forever (2022)

We Were Here Together (2019)

We Were Here Too (2018)

Movies

12 Angry Men (1957)

2001 A Space Odyssey (1968)

A Clockwork Orange (1971)

A Night at the Opera (1935)

A Streetcar Named Desire (1951)

A Trip to the Moon (1902)

Alice in Wonderland (1951)

Alien Romulus (2024)

All About Eve (1950)

All the President's Men (1976)

American Graffiti (1973)

Annie Hall (1977)

Apocalypse Now (1979)

Back to the Future (1985)

Back to the Future Part II (1989)

Back to the Future Part III (1990)

Blade Runner 2049 (2017)

Blade Runner (1982)

Blue Velvet (1986)

Boiling Point (2021)

Bonnie and Clyde (1967)

Bringing Up Baby (1938)

Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (1969)

Cade The Tortured Crossing (2023)

Casablanca (1942)

Chinatown (1974)

Citizen Kane (1941)

City Lights (1931)

Civil War (2024)

Do the Right Thing (1989)

Double Indemnity (1944)

Dr. Strangelove (1964)

Duck Soup (1933)

E.T. the Extra-Terrestrial (1982)

Easy Rider (1969)

Everything, Everywhere, All At Once (2022)

Fantasia (1940)

Forrest Gump (1994)

Friendship (2024)

Gone With the Wind (1939)

Goodfellas (1990)

Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone (2001)

Hercules (1997)

Hereditary (2018)

High Noon (1952)

Hocus Pocus (1993)

I Saw the TV Glow (2024)

In the Heat of the Night (1967)

Inland Empire (2006)

Interview with the Vampire (1994)

Intolerance (1916)

It Happened One Night (1934)

It’s a Wonderful Life (1946)

King Kong (1933)

Lawrence of Arabia (1962)

Longlegs (2024)

Lord of the Rings (2001-2003)

Midnight Cowboy (1969)

Modern Times (1936)

Mr. Smith Goes to Washington (1939)

Mulholland Drive (2001)

Nashville (1975)

No Country For Old Men (2007)

North By Northwest (1959)

Nosferatu (2024)

On the Waterfront (1954)

Once Upon a Time in Hollywood (2019)

One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (1975)

Passengers (2016)

Perfect Blue (1997)

Pinocchio (1940)

Portrait of a Lady on Fire (2019)

Pulp Fiction (1994)

Quo Vadis (1951)

Raging Bull (1980)

Raiders of the Lost Ark (1981)

Rear Window (1954)

Saludos Amigos (1942)

Saving Private Ryan (1998)

Schindler’s List (1993)

Silent Hill (2006)

Singin In the Rain (1952)

Skinamarink (2022)

Sleeping Beauty (1959)

Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs (1937)

Some Like It Hot (1959)

Sophie's Choice (1982)

Spartacus (1960)

Star Wars A New Hope (1977)

Strange Darling (2023)

Sullivan's Travels (1941)

Sunset Boulevard (1950)

Swing Time (1936)

Taxi Driver (1976)

The African Queen (1952)

The Apartment (1960)

The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

The Bridge on the River Kwai (1957)

The Call of Cthulhu (2005)

The Deer Hunter (1978)

The French Connection (1971)

The General (1926)

The Godfather (1972)

The Godfather Part II (1974)

The Godfather Part III (1990)

The Gold Rush (1925)

The Graduate (1967)

The Grapes of Wrath (1940)

The Great Dictator (1940)

The Last Picture Show (1971)

The Lighthouse (2019)

The Maltese Falcon (1941)

The Man from Earth (2007)

The Naked Gun (2025)

The Philadelphia Story (1940)

The Prophecy (1995)

The Searchers (1956)

The Seventh Seal (1957)

The Shawshank Redemption (1994)

The Shining (1980)

The Sign of the Cross (1932)

The Silence of the Lambs (1991)

The Sixth Sense (1999)

The Sound of Music (1965)

The Straight Story (1999)

The Ten Commandments (1956)

The Treasure of the Sierra Madre (1948)

The Wild Bunch (1969)

The Witch (2015)

There Will Be Blood (2007)

They Shoot Horses, Don't They (1969)

To Kill a Mockingbird (1962)

Toy Story (1995)

Twisted Pair (2018)

Unforgiven (1992)

West Side Story (1961)

What's Up, Doc (1972)

Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf (1966)

Yankee Doodle Dandy (1942)

Music

Artists

People

Alfred Hitchcock

Anjelica Huston

Autumn Christian

Cecil B. DeMille

Charlie Chaplin

Charlton Heston

Christophe Gans

Christopher Walken

Claudette Colbert

Céline Sciamma

Daniel Scheinert

Denis Villeneuve

Ernest B. Schoedsack

Francis Ford Coppola

George M. Cohan

George Roy Hill

Haley Joel Osment

Hattie McDaniel

Humphrey Bogart

James Gandolfini

John G. Avildsen

John Schlesinger

Joseph L. Mankiewicz

Katharine Hepburn

Kyle Edward Ball

Lilly Wachowski

Lorraine Bracco

M. Night Shyamalan

Mark Z. Danielewski

Marlene Dietrich

Martin Scorsese

Merian C. Cooper

Michael Shannon

Mitch McConnell

Norman Ferguson

Patricia Arquette

Paul Thomas Anderson

Peter Bogdanovich

Preston Sturges

Quentin Tarantino

Richard Schenkman

Robert Mulligan

Robert Pattinson

Robert Zemeckis

Stanley Kubrick

Steven Spielberg

William Friedkin

Tech

Website

TV

Boardwalk Empire

BoJack Horseman

Game of Thrones

The Chair Company

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The Good Place

Review

One of my favorite shows of all time. Have watched it probably 5 or so times now.

The Good Place

Review