Real Plastic Trees: Stuff I Like

Just a long list of stuff I like, so that you can more easily judge and pigeonhole me by my interests, if you are so inclined. Very handy, I know! :-D

Please note that I do not endorse anything or anyone unreservedly. There are people with extremely problematic views on my writers list, for instance.

Writers

Margaret Atwood (esp. Oryx and Crake) - wiki / goodreads / PBS interview

Noam Chomsky - wiki / article
Michael Cunningham (esp. The Hours) - wiki / goodreads / interview

Kazimierz Dabrowski - wiki / tpd wiki / positive disintegration website
Temple Grandin - wiki / goodreads / interview

John Green - wiki / goodreads / random video

Arno Gruen - wiki / interview (in German) / english language homepage

Thomas Ligotti - wiki / goodreads / homepage / short story (audio, author's voice)

Tao Lin - wiki / goodreads / blog / interview

Thomas Metzinger - wiki / goodreads / lecture
Walter M. Miller, jr. - wiki / canticle / article/eulogy about him
Flannery O'Connor - wiki / goodreads / NPR story about her letters
Christopher Rice - wiki / goodreads / NPR interview / video discussion

J. D. Salinger - wiki / goodreads

John F. Schumaker - goodreads / audio interview / The Corruption of Reality

Cheryl Strayed - wiki
Lenore Thomson (for her analysis of the MBTI) - goodreads

David Foster Wallace - wiki / goodreads / on charlie rose

T. H. White - wiki / goodreads

Peter Wessel Zapffe - wiki / article / "The Last Messiah" essay

Music

A few artists and songs I enjoy. My loyalty to bands shifts frequently but I generally trend toward favoring prog rock, New Wave, J/K-pop and various bits of hipster/alternative shit, while dabbling in goth, English/Spanish pop, and glam. Also see my Blogger profile and Youtube channel playlists.

Ayumi Hamasaki - surreal / seasons / dearest / i am...

Band of Horses - funeral / is there a ghost / detlef schrempf

Boa - duvet / deeply / scoring

Broken Bells - the mall & misery / the high road / citizen

Built To Spill - big dipper / sidewalk / life's a dream

The Cardigans - do you believe / erase and rewind / feathers & down

Chess: The Musical - nobody's side / quartet: a model of decorum and tranquility / the arbiter
Chris Cornell - pillow of your bones / preaching the end of the world / seasons

Chroming Rose - louis xiv / they will always find a reason / integration
Chrono Trigger OST - undersea palace / corridors of time (zeal) / schala's theme
City And Colour (Dallas Green) - fragile bird / the grand optimist / unnamed or silver & gold

Cold War Kids - golden gate jumpers / welcome to the occupation / i've seen enough

Cut Copy - hearts on fire / future / sands of time

Depeche Mode - stripped / policy of truth / everything counts

Dream Theater - (Everything's good but if you've got 42 minutes, I highly recommend listening to the entirety of Six Degrees of Inner Turbulence, which is a freaking masterpiece. Although... Scenes from a Memory might be even better...)

Electronic - getting away with it / haze / a new religion

Elliott Smith - waltz #2 / baby britain / tomorrow tomorrow / independence day / waltz #1

Ferras - my beautiful life / liberation day / everybody bleeds the same
Fischerspooner - never win / we need a war / all we are