MR. ROBOT (USA Network, Season 1)
- Created by Sam Esmail
This American Life (WBEZ)
- Ira Glass (Host)
CinemaSins (YouTube)
- Jeremy
Favourite Stuff
MEDIA RECOMMENDATIONS
Favourite Movie
Pygmalion (1938)
– Directed by Anthony Asquith & Leslie Howard
“He can learn a language in a fortnight; knows dozens
of them. The sure mark of a fool.”
– Professor Henry Higgins
Television
In Treatment (HBO, Season 1)
- Starring Gabriel Byrne
Favourite Book
Straight Man (1997)
– Richard Russo
“[Russo] skewers academic pretensions and
infighting with mad abandon....I had to stop
often to guffaw, gasp, wheeze and wipe away my
tears.”
– Chicago Sun-Times
“It was my opinion (then and now) that two
people who love each other need not necessarily
have the same dreams and aspirations, but they
damn well ought to share the same nightmares.”
– William Henry Devereaux, Jr
Radio / Podcasts
Wait Wait Don’t Tell Me (NPR)
- Peter Sagal (Host)
Favourite Quotes
“Whenever a friend succeeds, a little
something in me dies.”
-Gore Vidal
“So avoid using the word ‘very’
because it’s lazy. A man is not very
tired, he is exhausted. Don’t use very
sad, use morose. Language was
invented for one reason, boys—to
woo women—and, in that endeavour,
laziness will not do. It also won’t do in
your essays.”
-N.H. Kleinbaum, Dead Poets
Society
"It's where I keep all my things. Get a
lot of compliments on this. Plus it's
not a purse, it's called a satchel.
Indiana Jones wears one."
-Alan Garner,
The Hangover
Rick: “Remember, this gun is pointed
right at your heart.”
Renault: "As it happens, that’s my least
vulnerable spot.”
-Casablanca
YouTube
Favourite shelf-warping fantasy series that gets more
disappointing with every book.
Favourite comic book artist.
Favourite author whose books all have essentially the same plot
and philosophical themes.
Favourite book cover artist.
Favourite author whose books have inflated page counts due to
the large typeface, giving the illusion that the book is worth the
money.
Favourite childhood cartoon/animé.
Most pretentious and bloated book that, for reasons passing
understanding, everyone else seems to love.
Favourite author with wit, 2/3rds of whose pop culture
references I don't understand.
Favourite book whose pop culture references I do understand.
Favourite radio station.
Once favourite author who always extends a good series with
one too many books.
Favourite book that's part of a high-school curriculum.
Favourite magazine that's read aspirationally.
Favourite magazine that's read ironically.
Favourite book read entirely because of the title.
Favourite author when I was a teenager but whose writing is
rubbish when read as an adult.
Favourite non-fiction writer.
Favourite script writer.
Favourite TV Show.
The Wheel of Time
- Robert Jordan
Alex Ross
L.E. Modesitt Jr.
Michael Whelan
Robert B. Parker
Robotech
The Corrections
- Jonathan Franzen
Chuck Klosterman
Ready Player One
- Ernest Cline
National Public Radio
Orson Scott Card
Fifth Business
- Robertson Davies
GQ
Men's Health
Banana Boys
- Terry Woo
David Eddings
Bill Bryson
Aaron Sorkin
The West Wing
(First 4 seasons)
99% Invisible (Radiotopia)
- Roman Mars (Creator and Host)