Favorites/Recommendations

Here are some of my favorite things, grouped by category. It's not an exhaustive list and I don't update it regularly but it's a start.

Albums

The links go to Spotify, because it is a convenient way to listen to a new album for the first time. But I don't want to particularly support Spotify, and encourage you to buy the actual album if you like it, to support the artist.

• Arcade Fire - Neon Bible
• Die Aeronauten - Heinz
• Die Sterne - Räuber und Gedärm
• Die Sterne - Das Weltall ist zu weit
• Tomte - Hinter all diesen Fenstern
• Tomte - Heureka
• Daft Punk - Random Access Memories
• Pink Floyd - The Dark Side of the Moon
• Paolo Nutini - These Streets
• Franz Ferdinand - Franz Ferdinand
• Amy Macdonald - This is the Life
• Eric Clapton - Unplugged
• Blumfeld - Jenseits von Jedem
• Mogwai - Come on Die Young
• Mogwai - Happy Songs For Happy People
• Neil Young & Crazy Horse - Rust Never Sleeps
• Tocotronic - K.O.O.K.
• Kae Tempest - Let Them Eat Chaos
• The Comet Is Coming - Trust in the Lifeforce of the Deep Mystery
• Buntspecht - Draußen Im Kopf

Books

• Douglas Hofstadter - Gödel, Escher, Bach: An Eternal Golden Braid
• George Orwell - Nineteen Eighty-Four
• Tracy Kidder - The Soul of a New Machine
• Klaus Kordon - Trilogie der Wendepunkte (Die roten Matrosen, Mit dem Rücken zur Wand, Der erste Frühling) (Children's Books)
• Juli Zeh - Unterleuten
• Jess Jochimsen - Abschlussball
• Wolfgang Herrndorf - Tschick
• Sven Regner - Herr Lehmann

Movies

• Wim Wenders - Im Lauf der Zeit
• Ridley Scott - Blade Runner
• Jim Jarmusch - Night on Earth
• Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey
• Stanley Kubrick - The Shining
• Sergio Leone - The Good, the Bad and the Ugly
• Alejandro González Iñárritu - Birdman or (The Unexpected Virtue of Ignorance)
• Jean-Pierre Jeunet - Amélie
• Wes Anderson - The Grand Budapest Hotel
• Wes Anderson - Moonrise Kingdom
• Wolfgang Petersen - Das Boot
• Coen Brothers - The Big Lebowski
• Coen Brothers - Fargo
• Kenneth Lonergan - Manchester by the Sea
• Danny Boyle - Trainspotting
• Aki Kaurismäki - Le Havre
• Mathieu Kassovitz - La Haine

Webcomics

• Questionable Content
• A Softer World
• Buttercup Festival
• XKCD
• webcomic name
• Crustacean Singles
• SMBC
• Dinosaur Comics
• Toothpaste for Dinner

Video Games

• Little Inferno
• Thomas Was Alone
• The Stanley Parable
• The Beginner's Guide
• Naya's Quest
• Papers Please
• Bastion
• Magicka
• Edna bricht aus (German)
• Harveys neue Augen (German)
• TIS-100
• Portal (1 & 2)
• Minecraft
• The Binding of Isaac
• World of Goo

Boardgames

• Hanabi
• Codenames
• Two Rooms and a Boom
• Carcassonne
• Samurai Sword
• Kuhhandel (aka You're Bluffing!)
• Skat
• The Resistance: Avalon
• Time Barons

Podcasts

• Song Exploder
• Durch die Gegend
• WRINT
• Resonator
• Not Safe For Work
• hockdiher
• Der Lila Podcast
• Esel und Teddy

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