Things to Steal From

This page is all about the various things I've read or watched or listened to, things that I've found inspiration in and can refer to if I ever need to steal something. I'll add things here from time to time.

Books

Masterpieces
2001: A Space Odyssey - Arthur C. Clarke
A Tale of Two Cities - Charles Dickens
Into The Wild - John Krakauer
Looking For Alaska - John Green
Moby Dick - Herman Melville
Speaker for the Dead - Orson Scott Card
The Things They Carried - Tim O'Brien

Good Reads
American Gods - Neil Gaiman
The Day of the Locust - Nathanael West
Ender's Game - Orson Scott Card
Every Day - David Levithan
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Lazarus War: Artefact - Jamie Sawyer
The Man Who Mistook His Wife for a Hat - Oliver Sacks
Michael Vey: The Prisoner of Cell 25 - Richard Paul Evans
The Shell Collector - Anthony Doerr
The Sound and The Fury - William Faulkner

Plays and Musicals

Seen and Liked
An Octoroon (2017, Los Angeles)
The Book of Mormon (2015, San Francisco)
The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nighttime (2017, Los Angeles)
Dear Evan Hansen (2017, bootleg)
The Great Comet of 1812 (2017, bootleg)
Next To Normal (2017, San Francisco)
Nice Work If You Can Get It (2015, San Mateo)
The North Pool (2017, Redwood City)
The Phantom of the Opera (2015, San Francisco)
Punk Rock (2017, Los Angeles)
Spring Awakening (2016, bootleg)
Trojan Barbie (2017, Los Angeles)
Waiting for Godot (2016, Redwood City)
When the Rain Stops Falling (2016, Redwood City)
Wild Boy (2016, Redwood City)

Read and Liked
Angels in America - Tony Kushner
Animals Out of Glass - Rajiv Joseph
A Raisin in the Sun - Lorraine Hansberry
Awake and Sing! - Clifford Odets
Circle Mirror Transformation - Annie Baker
The Glass Menagerie - Tennessee Williams
Goldfish - John Kolvenbach
Lizards... - Megan Mostyn-Brown
Macbeth - William Shakespeare
On an Average Day - John Kolvenbach
On Stars Not Falling - Scott Shallenbarger
Punk Rock - Simon Stevens
Romeo and Juliet - William Shakespeare
The Seagull - Anton Chekhov
Twelfth Night - William Shakespeare
Twilight: Los Angeles, 1992 - Anna Deavere Smith
Water by the Spoonful - Quiara Alegria Hudes

Movies

Masterpieces
American Beauty
Avatar
Birdman
Chinatown
The Dark Knight
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Ex Machina
Her
The Matrix
No Country For Old Men
Interstellar
Shawshank Redemption
Spirited Away
The Truman Show
Whiplash

Exceptional
Castle in the Sky
The Disaster Artist
Heathers
Howl's Moving Castle
Inception
Into the Spider-Verse
It Follows
The Phantom Thread
Purple Rose of Cairo
Rogue One: A Star Wars Story
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
Se7en
The Stanford Prison Experiment
Star Wars: Revenge of the Sith
Watchmen
Wreck-It Ralph

Really Really Good Stuff
Darkest Hour
Dead Poets Society
Get Out
Inside Out
Memento
Treasure Planet
The Usual Suspects

Television Shows

Masters of Television
American Horror Story: Asylum
Breaking Bad
Death Note
Friends
Seinfeld
Westworld

Binge-Worthy
Adventure Time
Attack on Titan
Black Mirror
Game of Thrones
Life On Mars
Regular Show
Rick and Morty
Star Trek: The Original Series
Sword Art Online
The Walking Dead

Music

An Objective List of the Best Songs Ever
Agnes - Glass Animals
Baba O'Riley - The Who
Can't Help Falling In Love With You - Elvis Presley
Casimir Pulaski Day - Sufjan Stevens
Come On Eileen - Dexy's Midnight Runners
Holding On To You - twenty one pilots
I Am the Walrus - The Beatles
Martha - Tom Waits
Mr. Blue Sky - Electric Light Orchestra
Piano Man - Billy Joel
Sad Machine - Porter Robinson
Skinny Love - Bon Iver
Space Oddity - David Bowie
Wake Up - Arcade Fire
Yer Fall - Hey Rosetta!
Your Fires - All the Luck in the World

An Objective List of the Best Albums Ever
All the Luck in the World - All the Luck in the World
The First Days of Spring - Noah and the Whale
For Emma, Forever Ago - Bon Iver
Illinois - Sufjan Stevens
Magical Mystery Tour - The Beatles
Sargeant Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band - The Beatles
Splitting Branches - Tree
Vessel - twenty one pilots
Worlds - Porter Robinson
22, A Million - Bon Iver

Good Songs
All By Myself - Eric Carmen
All I Got - Hendersin
Bleecker Street - Simon & Garfunkel
The Bitch of Living - Duncan Sheik
Buttercup - Jack Stauber
Byegone - Volcano Choir
Chasing After Deer - Midlake
Circulation - The Early November
Cosmic Love (Seven Lions Remix) - Florence + the Machine
Death with Dignity - Sufjan Stevens
Disconnected - Pegboard Nerds
Distance - Christina Perri
Dreams - The Cranberries
Everyday I Write the Book - Elvis Costello
Eyes Wider Than Before - Scott Matthews
Feel Good Inc. - Gorillaz
Find You - Zedd
Flume - Bon Iver
Go Solo - Tom Rosenthal
Go Your Own Way - Fleetwood Mac
i dont wanna waste my time - joji
I Write Sins Not Tragedies - Panic! At The Disco
Internet Personas - atlas
It's Always Summertime - The Gregory Brothers
It's Strange - Louis The Child
Jocasta - Noah and the Whale
Land Locked Blues - Bright Eyes
Last Nite - The Strokes
Lemon Tree - Peter, Paul, & Mary
Let Me In - Grouplove
Life On Mars? - David Bowie
Long Way Home - The Two Friends
Lost in Hollywood - System of a Down
Lydia - Highly Suspect
The Moon Song - Karen O
Mt. Washington - Local Natives
Never Going Back Again - Fleetwood Mac
Never Have to Guess - Bears
Operator (That's Not The Way It Feels) - Jim Croce
The Other Side of Paradise - Glass Animals
Parasite - Armors
Pay No Mind - Madeon
Red Flag - The Moth & The Flame
Rocky Mountain High - Bob Denver
Rose Tattoo - Dropkick Murphys
Running To The Sea (Seven Lions Remix) - Röyksopp
Sedated - The Two Friends
Selection - The Noisy Freaks
Set Yourself on Fire - Stars
Sex - The 1975
She - Elvis Costello
Simple As This - Jake Bugg
Somewhere Only We Know - Keane
Sunset Lover - PETIT BISCUIT
Thirteen Thirtyfive - Dillon
Time In A Bottle - Jim Croce
Trouble - Cage the Elephant
Twice - Catfish and the Bottlemen
Umpqua Rushing - Blind Pilot
Walk On The Wild Side - Lou Reed
We're Going to Be Friends - The White Stripes
Where Are Ü Now - Jack Ü
You Make My Dreams Come True - Hall & Oates
Your Ex Lover is Dead - Stars
You're My World - atlas
YOUTH - Troye Sivan

Fun Listens
Agnes, the Teenage Russian Spy - MAD Twists Rock N Roll
Alien Boy - Oliver Tree
All The Things I Didn't Do - The Majority Says
Bonfire - The Hunna
Brighter - The Two Friends
Critical Mistakes - 888
Drop That Child - Droptek & Tut Tut Child
dunes - dontloveme
Favorite Liar - The Wrecks
Fried Noodles - Pink Guy
How To - dynah
Meant To Be - Hybrid Minds
More Than You - Koven
Modulus - T-Mass
Once Again - Tristam
Ordinary World - Get Set Go
Raise Your Weapon - deadmau5
Repeat Stuff - Bo Burnham
Spacin Out - The Mowgli's
Sweet Disaster - DREAMERS
Tocando el Cielo - Sie7e
Today I Saw the Whole World - Pierce the Veil
Touched - What So Not
Up All Night - Arty
Who We Want To Be - Tom Day
Zombie - The Cranberries

Videogames

Masterpieces
Animal Crossing: City Folk
Cities: Skylines
Fallout 4
Fez
Grand Theft Auto V
Half-Life 2
The Last of Us
The Legend of Zelda: Breath of the Wild
The Legend of Zelda: Majora's Mask
The Legend of Zelda: Twilight Princess
Lego Star Wars: The Complete Saga
Minecraft
Papers, Please
Portal 2
Prison Architect
Rimworld
The Sims 3
Skyrim
Spore
Stardew Valley
The Witcher 3: Wild Hunt

Great Games
Animal Crossing: New Leaf
Bomber Crew
Civilization V
Counter-Strike: Source
Grow Home
Heat Signature
Kerbal Space Program
Pokemon Y
Quiplash
Shelter
The Sims 4
Star Wars Battlefront 2
Super Hexagon
Surgeon Simulator
This War of Mine
To the Moon
Westerado: Double Barrelled

Nostalgia Trips
Boogie
Boom Blox
Go Vacation
Harry Potter and the Order of the Phoenix
Monster Hunter Tri
SimCity Creator
The Sims Medieval
Tony Hawk's Proving Ground
UpThere
Wii Music
Wii Sports Resort

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