Influences

Here's some lists of media that has influenced me throughout my life. While I actively like a lot of these, it's worth noting that I don't truly like all of them, but nonetheless think about them a lot. The presence of something on this list isn't an endorsement of it or whoever made it; my relationship with anything on this list could be complicated. J.K. Rowling's Harry Potter series is the iconic example of this.

 Books

• Abe, Kōbō, The Woman in the Dunes
• Achebe, Chinua, Things Fall Apart
• Adams, Douglas, Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy Etc.
• Adams, Richard, Watership Down
• Aeschylus, Oresteia
• Appleton, Edith, A Nurse at the Front
• Atwood, Margaret, The Handmaid's Tale
• St. Augustine, Confessions
• Barker, Clive, Abarat Series
• Battis, Jes, Investigating Farscape: Uncharted Territories in Sex and Science Fiction
• Bray, Libba, Gemma Doyle Trilogy
• Broker, Ignatia, Night Flying Woman
• Brom, The Plucker
• Bulgakov, Mikhail, The Master and Margarita
• Camus, Albert, The Myth of Sisyphus
• Camus, Albert, The Plague
• Camus, Albert, The Stranger
• Carrasco, Davíd, Daily Life of the Aztecs
• Clastres, Pierre, Chronicle of the Guayaki Indians
• Coe, Michael D., The Maya
• Conrad, Joseph, Heart of Darkness
• Cushman, Karen, Catherine, Called Birdy
• Cushman, Karen, Maltida Bone
• Dalkey, Kara, Water Trilogy
• Eco, Umberto, The Name of the Rose
• Eliot, George, Middlemarch
• Eliot, T.S., The Waste Land
• Epictetus, Enchiridon
• Euclid, Elements
• Faber, Michel, The Crimson Petal and the White
• Frazer, James, The Golden Bough
• Euripides, The Bacchae
• Gogol, Nikolai, Dead Souls
• Goodman, Ruth, How to Be a Tudor
• Golding, William, Lord of the Flies
• Gyasi, Yaa, Homegoing
• Herodotus, Histories
• Hesiod, Works and Days
• Homer, Iliad
• Homer, Odyssey
• Hunter, Erin, Warriors Series
• Ito, Junji, Tomie
• Ito, Junji, Uzumaki
• Jemisen, N.K., The Broken Earth Trilogy
• Joyce, James, Dubliners
• Lucretius, De Rerum Natura
• Marquez, Gabriel Garcia, One Hundred Years of Solitude
• Mishima, Yukio, The Sailor Who Fell from Grace with the Sea
• Mortimer, Ian, The Time Traveler's Guide to Medieval England
• Nix, Garth, Abhorsen Trilogy
• Otomo, Katsuhiro, Akira
• Pagnol, Marcel, Jean de Florette and Manon de Source
• Pascoe, Bruce, Dark Emu
• Pullman, Philip, His Dark Materials Trilogy
• Remarque, Erich Maria, All Quiet on the Western Front
• Renault, Mary, The Last of the Wine
• Rennison, Louise, Confessions of Georgia Nicolson Series
• Rodda, Emily, Deltora Quest
• Rowling, J.K., Harry Potter
• Sakai, J., Settlers: Mythology of the White Proletariat
• See, Lisa, Snow Flower and the Secret Fan
• Shakespeare, William As You Like It
• Shakespeare, William Richard II
• Shōnagon, Sei, Pillow Book
• Snicket, Lemony, A Series of Unfortunate Events
• Steinbeck, John, The Grapes of Wrath
• Stone, Merlin, When God Was a Woman
• Swift, Jonathan, Gulliver's Travels
• Swift, Jonathan, The Most Wonderful Wonder of Wonders
• Thompson, Craig, Habibi
• Thucydides, History of the Peloponnesian War
• Tolkein, J.R.R., The Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• Tolstoy, Leo, War and Peace
• van der Kolk, Bessel, The Body Keeps the Score
• Virgil, The Aeneid
• Woolf, Virginia, Mrs. Dalloway
• Woolf, Virginia, To the Lighthouse
• Zusak, Markus, The Book Thief

TV Shows

• Battlestar Galactica
• Boardwalk Empire
• Bojack Horseman
• The Chi
• The Eric Andre Show
• Euphoria
• Exterminate All the Brutes
• Farscape
• Gentleman Jack
• I Will Destroy You
• Insecure
• Kaiba
• Kath & Kim
• Monty Python's Flying Circus
• Moral Orel
• Neon Genesis Evangelion
• Parts Unknown
• Skins
• The Sopranos
• The Terror
• Twin Peaks
• What We Do in the Shadows
• The Wire

Movies

• The Adventures of Priscilla, Queen of the Desert
• Akira
• Babadook
• Careful
• Children of Men
• Climax
• Enter the Void
• Everything is Illuminated
• The Favorite
• Get Out
• Gravity
• Hereditary
• The Holy Mountain
• Honeyboy
• Interstellar
• Lord of the Rings Trilogy
• The Lighthouse
• Mandy
• Midsommar
• The Nightingale
• Paris is Burning
• Performance
• Santa Sangre
• Sorry to Bother You
• Suspiria (1977)
• Suspiria (2018)
• Tangerine
• Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me
• War and Peace (1966-7)
• The VVitch

Video Games

• Fallout 3
• Half-Life Series
• Oblivion
• Pathologic
• Pathologic 2
• Skyrim

Music

• Agalloch
• Alash Ensemble
• Ali Farka Touré
• alt-J
• Amiina
• Amon Tobin
• Angelo Badalamenti
• Arca
• Arvo Pärt
• Axiom of Choice
• Azam Ali
• Baltimore Consort
• Beach House
• Björk
• Blockhead
• Boston Camerata
• Buena Vista Social Club
• Cirque du Soleil
• The Clash
• clipping.
• CocoRosie
• Cocteau Twins
• Consider the Source
• Crystal Castles
• DakhaBrakha
• Dastan Ensemble
• Datach'i
• Dead Can Dance
• The Decemberists
• DeVotchka
• Divna Ljubojevic
• Dorian Electra
• The Dresden Dolls
• Enigma
• Erik Satie
• Fall Seattle
• FKA twigs
• Frédéric Chopin
• Geinoh Yamashirogumi
• Grateful Dead
• Gogol Bordello
• Heilung
• Ho99o9
• Hundred Waters
• Hungry Ghosts
• Howard Shore
• ic3peak
• Igorrr
• Iron & Wine
• Johann Sebastian Bach
• Jordi Savall and associated projects
• J.U.F.
• Kalyi Jag
• Kanizsa Csillagai
• Maggie Sansone
• Massive Attack
• Natacha Atlas
• Nick Cave & The Bad Seeds
• Niyaz
• On Drugs
• Otros Aires
• Parliament Funkadelic
• People's Blues of Richmond
• The Phantom Limbs
• Phish
• Pink Floyd
• Pink Martini
• Pram
• Public Image Ltd.
• Radiohead
• Rokia Traoré
• Shahram Nazeri
• Shpongle
• Sonic Youth
• Spaccanapoli
• Sopor Aeternus & the Ensemble of Shadows
• Stellamara
• Stillste Stund
• Storm Corrosion
• Talking Heads
• Tanya Tagaq
• Theodor Bastard
• Tipper
• TOMM¥ €A$H
• Toumani Diabaté
• Vas
• The White Stripes
• Yoshikazu Mera
• Zbigniew Preisner
• Zeki Muren

Podcasts

• The Adventure Zone
• Archaeoanimals
• Bawdy Storytelling
• Citations Needed
• Earshot
• History of Byzantium
• History of Rome
• The Human Circus
• Maintenance Phase
• Mortified
• Risk!
• Rough Translation
• On the Media
• The Stakes
• This American Life
• You're Wrong About