Trans-girl who loves music and shit. If this page shows anything, I must be pretty self indulgent as well.
NOTE: I only tend to edit the top 10s on this. The rest is kinda outdated rn
Favourite bands
- Between the Buried and Me
- King Crimson
- Converge
- Nine Inch Nails
- Radiohead
- The Mars Volta
- Godspeed You! Black Emperor
- Meshuggah
- Autechre
- Swans
Personal Hall of Fame (Favourite people)
- Andrew W.K.
- Barney Greenway
- Devin Townsend
- Henry Rollins
- Ian MacKaye
- Stewart Lee
- Tom G Warrior
- Trent Reznor
Favourite Political & Philosophical Writers
- Baruch Spinoza
- Emil Cioran
- Friedrich Nietzsche
- Gilles Deleuze
- Jean Baudrillard
- Max Stirner
- Paulo Freire
Other Political & Philosophical Writers of High Interest
- Georg Wilhelm Friedrich Hegel
- Georges Bataille
- Michel de Montaigne
Top 10 Albums
1. King Crimson - In the Court of the Crimson King
2. Converge - Jane Doe
3. The Mars Volta - Frances the Mute
4. John Fahey - Fare Forward Voyagers (Soldier's Choice)
5. Elaine Radigue - Trilogie de la Mort
6. Steve Reich - Structures From Silence
7. Godspeed You! Black Emperor - Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven
8. Edge of Sanity - Crimson
9. Opeth - Blackwater Park
10. My Bloody Valentine - Loveless
Top 10 Films
1. S.T.A.L.K.E.R. (dir. Andrei Tarkovsky)
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey (dir. Stanley Kubrick)
3. Vertigo (dir. Alfred Hitchcock)
4. Metropolis (dir. Fritz Lang)
5. The Holy Mountain (dir. Alejandro Jodorowsky)
6. Sátántangó (dir. Béla Tarr)
7. Mulholland Dr. (dir. David Lynch)
8. Braindead (dir. Peter Jackson)
9. Brazil (dir. Terry Gilliam)
10. The Thing (dir. John Carpenter)
Top 10 Books
1. Tao Te Ching (by Lao Tzu)
2. The Marriage of Heaven and Hell (by William Blake)
3. The Divine Comedy (by Dante Alighieri)
4. The Art of War (by Sun Tzu)
5. Hamlet (by William Shakespeare)
6. Crime and Punishment (by Fyodor Dostoevsky)
7. On the Heights of Despair (by Emil Cioran)
8. Ethics (by Baruch Spinoza)
9. On the Genealogy of Morals (by Friedrich Nietzsche)
10. Songs of Innocence and of Experience (by William Blake)
Top 15 Video Games
8. Riven
9. Devil May Cry 3: Dante's Awakening
10. Yume Nikki / .flow
11. Va 11 Hall A
13. Disco Elysium
14. Grim Fandango
15. Stardew Valley
Top 13 Shows (Western Animation & Live-Action TV)
2. Breaking Bad
3. The Sopranos
5. Planet Earth
6. It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia
8. Twin Peaks
9. The Bear
10. Brass Eye
11. The X-Files
13. Samurai Jack
Top 15 Anime
7. Cowboy Bebop
10. Toradora!
11. Penguindrum
12. Monster
13. Texhnolyze
14. Mushishi
15. Fullmetal Alchemist: Brotherhood
Top 6 Manga
3. Fire Punch
4. Jo Jos Bizarre Adventure Steel Ball Run
5. Berserk
7. Uzumaki
8. Chainsaw Man
Associated Tropes
- Adorkable
- The Anti-Nihilist
- Big Eater
- Browser Narcotic: Many websites can be this to me, including the obvious.
- Cuddle Bug
- Deadpan Snarker
- Enraged by Idiocy
- Genre Savvy: Thanks, rateyourmusic... Pricks...
- Innocently Insensitive
- Motor Mouth
- Not Good With People
- No Social Skills
- Self-Deprecation
- Sliding Scale of Idealism Versus Cynicism: All over the scale.
- Tsundere: Somewhat. Went from Dandere to this.
Favourite Tropes (W.I.P)
- Author Tract
- Badass Baritone
- Bookends
- Brick Joke
- Comically Missing the Point
- Concept Album
- Cosmic Horror Story
- Darker and Edgier
- Deconstruction: Probably as cringy as you might think it sounds, but when done well, I can get really drawn to this sorta thing.
- Favourite Deconstructive media: Bojack Horseman (Sitcom/celebrity decon & more)); Henry: Portrait of a Serial Killer (Serial Killer Villain Protagonist decon); House of Leaves (Horror decon); Hunter × Hunter (Shounen decon); The Incredibles (Superhero decon); Metal Gear Solid games (where to start?...); Revolutionary Girl Utena (Magical Girl decon); Spec Ops: The Line (First-Person Shooter decon); The Truman Show (Reality TV decon)
- Doing It for the Art: One word. Fugazi.
- Drone of Dread
- Epic Rocking: Goes almost without saying considering Dream Theater were one of my first favourite bands. Favourites include:
- Edge of Sanity - "Crimson" (40:00)
- We All Die (Laughing) - "Thoughtscan" (33:07)
- The Mars Volta - "Cassandra Gemini" (32:32)
- X Japan - "Art of Life" (29:00)
- Pink Floyd - "Echoes" (23:31), "Dogs" (17:03)
- Meshuggah - "I" (21:00)
- Opeth - "Black Rose Immortal" (20:14)
- Rush - "Cygnus X-1 Book II - Hemispheres" (18:07)
- Between the Buried and Me - "Swim to the Moon" (17:54)
- Shining - "Total utrysning" (16:46)
- Everything Is an Instrument
- Gainax Ending
- Genre Tropes
- Genre-Busting / Genre Roulette / Neoclassical Punk Zydeco Rockabilly: Faves include The Beatles, Beck, Björk, Candiria, Cardiacs, David Bowie, Diablo Swing Orchestra, Frank Zappa, John Zorn, Magma, Mr. Bungle, Nick Cave, Prince, Public Image Ltd., The Residents, Shiina Ringo, Sigh, Swans, Talking Heads, Tom Waits, Ulver, Ween
- Genre Shift / Song Style Shift / Out-of-Genre Experience
- Gilligan Cut
- Gratuitous English: Engrish in Anime, especially on JoJo's Bizarre Adventure.
- Hypocritical Humour
- Insane Troll Logic
- Last Note Nightmare
- Lead Bassist: Type A, or D
- Lead Drummer
- Lighter and Softer: Depends on context and how it's used. Favourite examples being:
- The Mood Whiplash from "21st Century Schizoid Man" to "I Talk To The Wind" onwards on In the Court of the Crimson King
- Damnation by Opeth
- Longest Song Goes Last
- Man of a Thousand Voices
- Mind Screw
- Mohs Scale Of Rock And Metal Hardness: Favourite bands from each level:
- Level 10: Converge, Einstürzende Neubauten, Gorguts, Meshuggah, Pig Destroyer, Strapping Young Lad
- Level 11: Anaal Nathrakh (pre-Desideratum), Deathspell Omega, Dragged Into Sunlight, The Gerogerigegege, Gnaw Their Tongues, Merzbow, Swans (Public Castration is a Good Idea)
- Mohs Scale Of Violence Hardness
- Level 10 faves: Berserk, Braindead, Fate/stay Night: Heaven's Feel, Hellraiser, Riki-Oh: The Story of Ricky, The Thing (1982), anything by Takashi Miike, Uzumaki
- Postmodernism
- Refuge in Audacity: When done well. This can often turn out rather poorly if not disastrously though. Applies similarly to True Art Is Angsty.
- Romanticism
- Rule of Symbolism
- Scary Musician, Harmless Music: The inverted variant of this
- Scenery Porn
- Sensory Abuse: Depends on context or use, and sometimes goes in tandem with Mind Screw
- Shout-Out / Take That!
- Shown Their Work
- Something Completely Different
- Soprano and Gravel
- Soundtrack Dissonance
- Surreal Humor
- Widget Series
