• ✔ herbalism
• communicating climate change
• laws of land stewardship
  • permaculture
  • horticulture
  • ✔ foraging
  • local soil, native plants and the ecosystem
  • environmental racism
  • regenerative farming
• ✔ traditional chinese medicine
• ✔ food security
• ✔ nutrition
• ✔ gut microbiome
• psychology
  • positive existential therapy
  • self-actualization
  • the ego
  • ✔ pleasure

an ever growing list

• About Endlessness (2019)
• Alice in the Cities (1974)
• Bell, Book and Candle (1958)
• Bringing Up Baby (1938)
• Dans la maison (2012)
• Daughters of the Dust (1991)
• ✔ Dominion (2018)
• ✔ Faces Places (2017)
• Food Coop (2016)
• ✔ From Up on Poppy Hill (2011)
• Goodbye Pork Pie (1980)
• It's Only the End of the World (2016)
• Junebug (2005)
• ✔ Law of Desire (1987)
• Marìa Sabina, mujer espìritu (1978)
• Mid-August Lunch (2008)
• Mirror (1975)
• Miyori’s Forest (2007)
• ✔ On Happiness Road (2017)
• ✔ Our Little Sister (2008)

2020

• Sex Education
• High Fidelity (♥)
• AJ & the Queen
• Hunters
• Kingdom
• Tales of the City (very much relate to Mona)
• Anne with an E (♥)
• The Handmaid's Tale
• Dear White People
• The Midnight Gospel (♥)
• Travel Man
• Grace and Frankie
• RuPaul's Drag Race S12
• BEASTARS
• Solar Opposites (♥)
• Secret Celebrity Drag Race
• One-Punch Man S02 (♥)
• RuPaul All Stars 5
• Floor is Lava

Favourites

• Rick & Morty
• Bob's Burgers
• Absolutely Fabulous
• The Midnight Gospel
• Curb Your Enthusiasm
• That 70s Show
• Midnight Special
• Twin Peaks
• Roswell
• Outlander
• RuPaul's Drag Race
• High Fidelity
• King of the Hill
• Golden Girls
• Pose
• Tuca & Bertie
• As Told By Ginger
• Freaks and Geeks
• Boy Meets World
• The Wonder Years

ambiance for the anxious: x

• To the Dancers in the Rain - Emilie Simon (x)
• Guilty Cubicles - Broken Social Scene (x)
• And She Closed Her Eyes - Stina Nordenstam (x)
• Every Time We Say Goodbye - Ray Charles (x)
• Rise - Azure Ray (x)
• Suzanne - Leonard Cohen (x)
• A Perfunctory Clockwork Yawn - Mimicking Birds (x)
• Displaced - Azure Ray (x)
• Fever Dream - Iron & Wine (x)
• Chimacum Rain - Linda Perhacs (x)
• Stars - The Weepies (x)
• Rainy Day - Shuggie Otis (x)
• Into Dust - Mazzy Star (x)

for the similar! otherwise, as an advocate for the anti-to be read/must read brigade, ignore this list, my opinion is irrelevant, read what you want

• To the Lighthouse by Virginia Woolf
• The Death of the Heart by Elizabeth Bowen
• Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh
• Animal Farm by George Orwell
• A Room of One's Own by Virginia Woolf
• Lolita by Vladimir Nabokov
• The Master and the Margarita by Mikhail Bulgakov
• The Secret Garden by Frances Hodgson Burnett
• The Crucible by Arthur Miller
• The Awakening by Kate Chopin
• The Heptameron by Marguerite de Navarre
• Watership Down by Richard Adams
• Siddhartha by Herman Hesse
• Frankenstein by Mary Shelley

• Cosmic Ocean Ship by Mia Doi Todd
• Altitude 3000 by Cécil Leuter
• The Visitor by Kadhja Bonet
• The Milk-Eyed Mender by Joanna Newsom
• Night Lights by Gerry Mulligan
• The Erotic Voice of Joe Berluck by Joe Berluck
• Tarot Funk by Nemanja
• Matahari by L'Imperatrice
• After Hours with Sarah Vaughan by Sarah Vaughan
• Just Another Diamond Day by Vashti Bunyan
• Colours by Claudine Longet
• The Brown Bunny Soundtrack
• The Far East Suite by Duke Ellington
• Mala by Devendra Banhart
• Sakura by Susumu Yokota
• Bitches Brew by Miles Davis
• Sextant by Herbie Hancock
• Soft and Sweet by Mark Duval and His Musi...

Favourites perfect balance of elements

• ...And God Created Woman (1956)
• A Brighter Summer Day (1991)
• A Woman is a Woman (1961)
• Babette's Feast (1987)
• Before Sunrise (1995)
• Before Sunset (2004)
• Being There (1979)
• Betty Blue (1986)
• Celine and Julie Go Boating (1974)
• Cleo from 5 to 7 (1962)
• Cluny Brown (1946)
• Dazed & Confused (1993)
• Do the Right Thing (1989)
• Don't Look Now (1973)
• Elevator to the Gallows (1958)
• Fantastic Planet (1973)
• Frances Ha (2012)
• Gap-Toothed Women (1987)
• Garlic is As Good As Ten Mothers (1980)
• Ghost World (2001)