The Joy of Listing

I just love making lists and ranking stuff.

Category: Lists (unranked)

  • Recently released music/film/TV/etc. recommendations

    Music:

    “Girlfriend” by Grace Ives (2026)

    I got into her because she played at this years Primavera Sound. I had never heard of her and I am now a big fan. Girlfriend is her newest album, released in 2026. I think her 2nd album Janky Star from 2022 is her best but this ones a close 2nd. It’s Pop which I don’t always like but her stuff just sounds really good to me and the lyrics are very relatable. If you like Chappell Roan or Lorde you might like her too.
    My favs from Girlfriend are “Avanlanche”, “Dance with me” and “Trouble”.

    “The World Is Not Good Enough” by Sean Solomon (2026)

    Another artist I’ve just recently discovered. Apparently he’s part of multiple bands, but I had never heard of any of them.
    The album is kind of indie folk with a lo-fi vibe. Both the general vibes and the lyrics are quite depressing and emo, which I love.
    Also he said that one of his influences is Elliott Smith which always gets bonus points from me.
    If you like melancholic indie stuff like Neutral Milk Hotel or Sufjan Stevens you might like his album.
    My favorite songs are “Car crash”, “Overdose” and “Remember”.

    Film:

    “The Drama” by Kristoffer Borgli (2026)

    This movie was sooo good. Mild spoilers ahead (but only stuff you find out like 15-20 min into the movie)
    It’s about an engaged couple played by Robert Pattinson and Zendaya who, shortly before their wedding, hang out with a couple they are friends with and one of the friends want to play a game where everyone tells one really bad secret. When it’s Zendaya’s characters turn she reveals that she was a really alienated, angry teenager (relatable!) and that when she was in high school she planned to do a mass shooting but then didn’t end up going through with it. The friends and her fiance are really disturbed by the revelation and it completely changes their dynamic and makes him question their relationship during the time right before their wedding.
    Both the acting and the script are really good. 9/10!

    Show:

    D.T.F. St. Louis (2026)

    It stars almost exclusively actors I love from other shows or movies. Jason Bateman (Arrested Development), David Harbor (West End Girl lol), Linda Cardellini (Freaks and Geeks), Richard Jenkins (Six Feet Under) and, in a small-ish role Peter Sarsgard (Garden State).
    The setting is that two straight married guys (Bateman and Harbor) start a really close friendship and one of them ends up dead. The death is being investigated by two detectives (one of them played by Jenkins). But that’s just the setting. The whole murder mystery set-up is really captivating but the show, at its core isn’t really about that in my opinion. It’s about how precious and important friendship can be, how lonely and desperate most people are deep down and how everything (people, relationships) isn’t as it seems when you judge it at first glance. The writing is soooo fucking good. It’s the best show I have seen in years and I watch a lot of TV. It is so good in fact that I watched it 2 and a half times within a couple of weeks after discovering it (shout-out to my friend Anna who recommended it) and honestly I could watch it a third time right now if someone asked me to. That’s how much I love it!! It both broke and healed me at the same time and it made me realize how much I crave the kind of love the two friends have with each other. I don’t remember ever having such a beautiful intimate friendship or relationship in general. 11/10

    Book(s):

    Famesick by Lena Dunham (2026)

    This is Lena Dunhams 2nd memoir and I’ve read both. This one is far superior to the first one. I read a lot memoirs written by famous women. In fact it might be my favorite genre of books. I feel like I gain a lot of knowledge from reading them and I feel connected and less alone when I read about how complex and, a lot of the time, fucked up even people that I admire are.
    This book is about letting yourself be treated like shit because you don’t value yourself both in relationships and at work, about how difficult it is to be a woman in the industry, how it feels to be chronically ill but forcing yourself to act and work like you aren’t. How the expectations are to work until you can’t anymore and how being a person, especially a woman in the public eye leads to being sucked dry of all your energy and scrutinized until you feel completely unlovable.
    I laughed and cried and related a lot. And I gained a lot of admiration for Lena Dunham. I wasn’t always a fan and it’s easy to judge her for all the controversies she had. But I honestly can’t imagine many people not liking her after reading this.
    It’s so funny and honest and incredibly well written. 10/10

    The Make-Believe by Hannah Murray (2026)

    Another memoir by a famous woman. My favorite!
    This one is written by Hannah Murray who played my favorite character in one of my favorite shows from when I was a teen: Skins. I didn’t really follow her career after that. Apparently she also played Gilly in Game of Thrones (which I never watched beyond S1 because I was so put off by all the rape scenes).
    The book is specifically about how she was lulled into joining an esoteric wellness cult in her 20s and about her having a psychotic break due to undiagnosed bipolar disorder.
    I’ve read multiple books by people who suffer from severe mental illness but her account of how it felt/feels to be bipolar and have psychotic delusions were really especially interesting to me. I’ve never heard such an honest unfiltered account about what can happen in your brain during psychosis. I feel like I gained a new sense of empathy for people who are bipolar and/or psychotic through reading this book.
    Also the whole esoteric energy healing cult thing is really interesting. My whole family is very esoteric and I always want to stay away as far as possible from all of it. Her experiences only solidified my opinion on people who present themselves as gurus trying to sell you healing and enlightenment.
    Really really interesting and well written. 9.5/10

    Stand-Up:

    Robby Hoffman: Wake Up (2025)

    This was released very late into 2025 and it’s the second comedy special of Robby Hoffman, who you might have seen on Hacks or Rooster. She’s also married to a former Bachelorette Gaby Windey.
    It’s really rare and special these days for someone to create a new comedy special that feels entirely original and not at all obnoxious or politically incorrect just for the sake of screaming how the woke left will never be able to cancel you.
    Robby Hoffman’s humor is quite edgy but in such a refreshing way that I really enjoyed it. A lot of the jokes are about growing up poor, being gay and genderqueer and about the queer community. She also pokes a lot of fun at straight people.
    She’s not trying to be sensitive AT ALL. In fact she’s a bit of an asshole but most great comedians are in my opinion.
    Would not recommend for people who are overly sensitive when it comes to humor or who don’t enjoy some edginess.
    I watched it twice already and will probably watch it again. 9/10

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  • Archive of all the numbered Mix CDs/playlists I ever made (Part 3)

    Annas Mix 11:
    
(32 min, light, sweet, happy)

    

I really love this mix. I made it on a good day for a specific road trip with my mom I was looking forward to when I was 15 I think.
    I remember sitting in the car feeling really happy and proud about making such a good mix for us to enjoy.

    

“Fleischfresser” by Funny van Dannen
    “So Nice So smart” by Kimya Dawson

    “Magic For Everybody” by Sam Phillips
    “Truly, Truly” by Grant Lee Buffalo
    “From Me To you” by The Beatles
    “The Red Telephone” by Love

    “Me And the Major” by Belle And Sebastian
    
“Lazy” by Daniel Johnston

    “Condor Ave” by Elliott Smith
    
“Lazy Confessions” by The Moldy Peaches





    Annas Mix 12:

    (26 min, melancholic, sweet and a bit sad)



    Very beautiful mix. I made this at age 15. I had just moved out of my mom’s place and I listened to it for the first while she was driving me home after visiting her. I was unhappily in love back then, my first really really hard infatuation with someone and I was also having lots of difficulties with my family.




    “Most of the Time” by Bob Dylan

    “Walk on the Wild Side” by Lou Reed

    “The Good Humor Man He Sees Everything” by Love

    “I found a Reason” by The Velvet Underground
    
“From the Morning” by Nick Drake

    “New Slang” by The Shins

    “Thirteen” (Big Star Cover) by Elliott Smith





    Annas Mix 13:

    (39 min, melancholic/sad)



    I made this mix when I was 15 because my best friend at the time was feeling sad and I asked someone to take us for a ride so we could listen to it hoping it would cheer her up. I had just exchanged music collections with someone working at the group home I lived in and started listening to a lot of indie stuff she had shared with me like Bombay Bicycle Club, Cat Power and City & Colour. Tbh I stopped listening to a lot of the music on here. 
I still enjoy the first half though.

    “Something To Talk About” by Badly Drawn Boy
    
“I’ve Been Let Down” by Mazzy Star
    
“Jorge Regula” by The Moldy Peaches

    “Corrina, Corrina” by Bob Dylan

    “Albion” by Babyshambles

    “How Can You Swallow So Much Sleep” by Bombay Bicycle Club
“Two Fingers” by Jake Bugg

    “The Death of Me” by City & Colour
    
“Sway” by The Kooks

    “3, 6, 9” by Cat Power

    “So Perfekt” by Casper


    

Annas Mix 14:

    (33 min, yearning, a bit melancholic)



    This was originally twice as long and I cut it down to this at some point. I remember forgetting the CD in one of the cars our group home shared and one of the social workers there listened to it and complimented my taste in music. As a very mature “old soul” teen (*cough* autistic) validation from adults or older teens meant everything to me. Btw I grew to love the last song “Green Eyes” because it was one that that one social worker (that I bonded over exchanging music collections) would always sing and play on her guitar for me.

    


“I’m So Tired” by The Beatles
    
“I Believe (When I Fall in Love) by Stevie Wonder

    “Beechwood Park” by The Zombies

    “Maybe After He’s Gone” by The Zombies
    
“Like A Rolling Stone” by Bob Dylan
    
“La Belle Et La Bete” by Babyshambles
    “Sheepskin Tearaway” by Pete Doherty

    “He Can Only Hold her” by Amy Winehouse

    “Green Eyes” by Coldplay





    Annas Mix 15:

    (26 min, mostly folky stuff)



    From when I was 15. I had just started smoking cigarettes and wasn’t allowed to openly smoke in my group home yet (if you got caught smoking under the age of 16 you’d lose a couple Euros of your pocket money) because I wasn’t old enough. So I would take long walks through our village listening to this and smoking one cigarette after the other.

    

“Whatever (Folk song in C) by Elliott Smith

    “Street Boy” by Rodriguez
    
“One of these things first” by Nick Drake

    “So long” by The Kinks

    “The Castle” by Love

    “Motorpsycho Nightmare” by Bob Dylan
    
“This is Not a Song, It’s an Outburst” by Rodriguez
    
“All My Rowdy Friends Have Settled Down” (Hank Williams Jr. Cover) by Elliott Smith

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  • Archive of all the numbered Mix CDs/playlists I ever made (Part 2)

    Annas Mix 6:
    (31 min, mixed emotions, but not too much of a downer)

    

Very good mix. Still from around the time I was 14.

    “Too much on my Mind” really spoke to me at that time. It’s one of the few songs I put on more than one Mix.

    

“I Am the Rain” by Pete Doherty

    “Out of Time Man” by Mick Harvey

    “Didn’t I” by Darondo
    
“I try” by Macy Gray

    “Oh! Sweet Nuthin’” by The Velvet Underground
    “Too Much On My Mind” by The Kinks
    
“If I could Write” by Sam Phillips
    
“Dear Catastrophe Waitress” by Belle and Sebastian
    
“Little Miss Queen of Darkness” by The Kinks





    Annas Mix 7:
    
(20 min, mostly 60s rock)



    Not bad, but also not my favorite. Definitely not as personal as a lot of the other mixes from that time.



    “Take it as it comes” by The Doors
    
“One Step Beyond” by Madness
    
“Robert Montgomery” by Love
    
“Here Comes Your Man” By Pixies

    “Talking in My Sleep” by Love

    “White Light/White Heat” by The Velvet Underground
    
“You’re Gonna Miss Me” by 13th Floor Elevator




    Annas Mix 8:
    
(45 min, mostly upbeat)



    Very all over the place but I still like it. I made this one specifically for a family road trip and it didn’t receive much love from my audience. I still can remember how rejected I felt because I had put in a lot of love and thought into it and wanted to make everyone happy.

    

“Bitch” by Meredith Brooks

    “There She Goes Again” by The Velvet Underground

    “You’re Looking Fine” by The Kinks
    
“Ball And Biscuit” by The White Stripes

    “Sometimes” by Antsy Pants

    “Heroin” by The Velvet Underground
    
“Alma Mater” by Alice Cooper
    “Too Much on My Mind” by The Kinks
    
“Smackwater Jack” by Carol King
    
“In the Mood” by Glenn Miller
    
“The Way you look Tonight” by Frank Sinatra


    

Annas Mix 9:

    (29 min, melancholic mixed with upbeat)



    Not one of my favourites. It’s not bad but there wasn’t a lot of thought put into it.

    I think during this time I was really enthusiastic about making lots of mixes all the time but wasn’t close to as perfectionist as I am now with the composition of mixes. I just put on a bunch of songs I liked on a playlist and burned it on CD.

    

“The State I Am In” by Belle and Sebastian
    
“Fill My Eyes” by Cat Stevens
    
“Corrina, Corrina” by Bob Dylan

    “This Is Where I Belong” by The Kinks
    
“Eight Days A Week” by The Beatles
    
“What Became of the Likely Lads” by The Libertines

    “Hey Jude” by The Beatles





    Annas Mix 10:

    (22 min, melancholic, yearning)

    

I love all of the songs on this but the mix itself is still not one of the better ones. 
I love “Always See Your Face” as a closer. It’s one of the most perfect songs to ever exist imo.

    

“Music When The Lights Go Out” by The Libertines

    “Ride Into the Sun” by Lou Reed

    “Such a Shame” by The Kinks

    “Wait Till the Summer Comes Along” by The Kinks
    
“It Ain’t Me Babe” by Bob Dylan

    “The Fairest of The Season” by Nico

    “Always See Your Face” by Love

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  • Archive of all the numbered Mix CDs/playlists I ever made (Part 1 of many)

    

I have compiled Mix CDs for most of my life at this point and they mean a lot to me. As a teen I wasn’t (and am often still not) very good at sharing my feelings and making mix CDs was a way for me to connect to my mom and show her how I felt and what was important to me.
    
I am scared that one day the CDs will get scratched or lost and that I will somehow lose the record of these mixes and forget when and why I made them.

    So I wanna list all of the important details about all of them here so that the information is safe forever.

    Annas Mix 1:

    (27 min, upbeat happy mood)


    I reworked this one multiple times. The first version had almost none of the same songs. I started making my numbered mixes when I was about 12, so the reworked version is probably from when I was 13-14. It’s mostly older music I found through movies and TV shows. My mom really enjoyed this one because it’s not as depressing as most of my other mixes and she loves Janis Joplin.



    “It’s Alright, Baby” by Komeda
    “Soul Kitchen” by The Doors
    
“I’m A Believer” by the Monkees

    “The Joker” by Steve Miller Band
    “It’s Alright” by The Impressions
    
“Surfin’ U.S.A” by The Beach Boys
    “Me and Bobby McGee” Janis Joplin
    “Stranger in a Strange World” by Leon Russel


    

Annas Mix 2:
    
(36 min, as depressing as it gets)


    Also a reworked one from when I was about 14. I made this for really bad days.
    
I wouldn’t leave my house/room at the time for any reason (also refusing to go to school) and would spend most of every day by myself. My mom would often drive me around for 30-40 min and we would listen to these mixes, so I at least would get out of the house for a little while that way.

    

“Needle in the Hay” by Elliott Smith

    “No Name #1” by Elliott Smith

    “Between the Bars” by Elliott Smith

    “2:45 a.m.” by Elliott Smith

    “Like a Monkey in a Zoo” by Daniel Johnston
    
“I’ve been alone too long” by Soko
    
“A Minor Incident” by Badly Drawn Boy

    “Trouble”(Cat Stevens Cover) by Elliott Smith

    “Voice from the Mountain” by Nick Drake
    
“Eleventeen” by Kimya Dawson

    Annas Mix 3:

    (32 min, very upbeat, only 80s bangers)

    
I consumed a lot of media as a child/teen that was made by women who were teens in the 80s and who would frequently mention 80s music and films that were important to them as teens. Because I have a need to get pop culture references I started watching and listening to a lot of stuff from the 80s and developed an obsession with collecting and watching 80s teen movies. A lot of the music from this mix is from those movies.



    “Faith” by George Michael

    “Shadow Dancing” by Andy Gibb
    
“Jessie’s Girl” by Rick Springfield

    “Pretty in Pink” by Psychedelic Furs

    “We are not alone” by Karla Devito
    “Heart of Glass” by Blondie

    “Shy Boy” by Bananarama

    “Kiss” by Prince


    

Annas Mix 4:
    
(19 min, pretty, romantic, a bit melancholic)

    
This is the first mix I am still proud of and like a lot. It used to be longer but I cut a few songs at some point that were not perfect enough for me when I was feeling perfectionist at some point.
    As with the other early mixes almost all the songs are from movies and shows I love. Watching a lot of tv as a kid and teen was my main gateway to developing my own music taste and an interest for researching music history.



    “I don’t mind” by Slumber Party
    
“Only Yesterday” by Taken by Trees
    
“These Days” by Nico
    
“Oh Yoko!” by John Lennon
    
“Ooh La La” by The Faces

    “I Will” by The Beatles




    Annas Mix 5:
    

(27 min, sad, but somewhat hopeful, mostly 70s)


    This is one of my favorite mixes from back then. Also from when I was 13-14.

    I had a 60s/70s wannabe hippie phase and would always wear a floor-length patchwork skirt and John Lennon sun glasses. 
I had just watched Harold and Maude and The Graduate for the first time and through that learned of Cat Stevens and Simon and Garfunkel. Also my estranged father had sent me a couple of CDs as a gift to bond with me, one of them the White Album, which was my introduction to the Beatles.
 “Trouble” was my favorite song for a long time and “Cry Baby Cry” is still my favorite Beatles song.



    “Been Smoking too long” by Nick Drake

    “Way Over Yonder” by Carol King

    “Trouble” by Cat Stevens

    “If you want to Sing Out” by Cat Stevens
    
“Blackbird” by the Beatles

    “Where Do the Children Play” by Cat Stevens
    
“April Come She Will” by Simon & Garfunkel

    “Don’t be Shy” by Cat Stevens

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  • 27-year old movie characters

    I’ve (re)watched a lot of movies recently where an important character, most of the time the protagonist, turned out to be explicitly mentioned to be 27 years old (the same age as me) and it’s gotten to the point where I noticed it so often that I started keeping track of it.
    I screenshot-ed the scenes I couldn’t find good-quality screencaps of, myself.

    Btw it is sooo weird to me that ALL of the 27 old women in their respective movies are really insecure about their age and that it’s always implied that, for women, 27 is an age where you should worry about your desirability diminishing and be very stressed about finding a partner.
    Very strange messaging. I mean I am stressed out about that stuff, too, but not because of my age. lol

    Also: I really like all the movies on the list except for “Billy Madison”, but beware: “Naked” has a loooot of rape scenes in it, so big TW.

    • Pride and Prejudice (2005) – Charlotte Lucas
    • Frances Ha (2012) – Frances Halliday
    • The House Bunny (2008) – Shelley
    • My Best Friend’s Wedding (1997) – Julianne Potter
      (The guy she’s in love with turns out to be engaged to a 20-year-old btw which of course is being framed as very threatening to her 🙃)
    • American Psycho (2000) – Patrick Bateman
    • Naked (1993) – Johnny
    • Lars and the Real Girl (2007) – Lars Lindstrom
    • Billy Madison (1995) – Billy Madison
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  • The Movies I’ve rewatched the most in the last couple of years

    I’ve started logging every movie I watch on Letterboxd in October 2022. In-between then and now these are the movies I’ve (re)watched 3 or more times.

    Letterboxd also counted John Mulaneys newest special (watched 5 times), Bo Burnham’s Make Happy special (3 times) and the Netflix docu-series about Ghislaine Maxwell (3 times) but I don’t.
    I am also a bit ashamed of the last one because I didn’t even think it was good the first time. Don’t ask me why I’ve watched it so many times. I have no idea.

    Silver Linings Playbook – 5 times
    I love this movie so so much. For me it’s one of those movies you can watch when you feel completely hopeless and by the end your hope and faith in love and happiness is completely restored.

    Chungking Express – 5 times
    Cult classic. I was really obsessed with it for a little while and showed it to multiple people. Tbh I’m low-key already kind of sick of it by now. I think I’ve rewatched it one too many times.

    Past Lives – 4 times
    Celine Song had me at the Eternal Sunshine mention. Probably one of the best directorial debuts I’ve ever seen. (I should make a list about that) I’m sooo hyped for Materialists.

    May – 3 times
    My favorite horror movie atm. May is so me (except for the murdering people aspect). I actually found this movie through an “autistic girls” movie list on Letterboxd. May is not canonically autistic though, but it’s heavily implied with the way she’s written.

    Eighth Grade – 3 times
    Bo Burnham channeling his own anxiety through a coming-of-age story about a 14 year old girl who’s extremely awkward, insecure and unpopular? Yes please!

    Me and You and Everyone We Know – 3 times
    One of my favorite movies. I probably rewatched it an extra 3-5 times in the year before I made a Letterboxd account. I was very obsessed with it for a while.

    Kajillionaire – 3 times
    Another heavily autistic-coded protagonist in this one that I identify with strongly. Also probably my favorite sapphic love story of all time.

    Adaptation. – 3 times
    Genius movie and my favorite Nic Cage performance(which says a lot for me). Great for when you feel pathetic and insecure.

    Anomalisa – 3 times
    A stop motion movie about a guy who has a disorder which makes every person look and sound the same to him. But then he meets a girl (played by one of my favs Jennifer Jason Leigh) who doesn’t and romance and drama ensues…
    Warning: graphic puppet sex scene. Might be a bit awkward to watch with others.

    Jane Wants a Boyfriend – 3 times
    A movie about an autistic woman in her 20s who’s obsessed with movies. I mean come on! This was basically made for me.

    Twilight – 3 times
    It’s like my own personal brand of heroin.

    Booksmart – 3 times
    Probably the funniest teen movie of the last ten years.

    Bottoms – 3 times
    Fight Club but a teen rom-com for lesbians is such a great premise. Also I love Ayo Edebiri and Rachel Sennot in everything.

    Fallen Angels – 3 times
    The unofficial sequel to Chungking Express. Sort of its darker and raunchier counterpart, but still with similar themes (criminal activities, unrequited love, feeling lost)

    Mean Girls – 3 times

    Wicked – 3 times

    Bridget Jones’ diary – 3 times
    There’s a special bond between a girl and the movies that gave her body dysmorphia growing up. <3

    Love Actually – 3 times
    Does it still make me feel things? Yes. Do I think it aged horribly and do I love to hate it? Also yes.

    (the last two I rewatch once every year on Christmas)

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  • Bands and musicians I’ve wanted to or still want to see play live

    I’ll sort the names in different catagories:

    “will never happen” (because they died or the band broke up/stopped touring or someone turned out to be a nazi piece of shit *cough* Kanye *cough* Morrissey *cough*. Bob Dylan is in that category because I don’t think I will ever be able to afford a ticket lol)
    “has sort of happened” (I’ve seen parts of a band play their music for example -> John Cale playing Velvet Underground songs live or because I have technically seen them at a festival but I was too tired to appreciate it or had to leave for another concert after two songs)
    “has happened”
    “should’ve happened” (because I had tickets but then couldn’t go for some reason or because they played at a festival I was at but I didn’t go to the concert)
    and “could still happen” (I have put some bands in there that don’t tour atm/have broken up but I, for some reason still have hope)

    Another disclaimer: I have seen way more concerts and I want to see way more artists than are on the list. These are only the ones that felt significant.
    Also some artists I wouldn’t wanna support these days because of things that have come out about them that weren’t known at the time I saw them live but the concerts were still great so it felt wrong to exclude them. (Die Antwoord and Amanda Palmer)

    *”Regina Spettro” was meant to be Regina Spektor. My computer autocorrected and I didn’t notice until it was too late

    Also I forgot to put Mazzy Star in the will never happen catagory. 🙁

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  • Fictional characters and famous(-ish) people somebody once told me I remind them of

    • Rogue from X-Men
      I haven’t seen any X-Men movie since I was a teenager so I don’t remember that well how Rogue’s character is and the details of her story and accordingly cannot tell how accurate the comparison was/is. The guy who told me I remind him of her was some older dude who was pretty creepy towards me (I was 15-16), so maybe the extend of the similarity were my tits or something. Idk
      Is somebody who knows me an expert and can tell me wether or not I actually have traits in common with Rogue?
    • Hannah from Girls
      This one actually came from my best friend when I was 18 and I am insulted by it to this day. I don’t really like “Girls”. I’ve seen a couple of seasons because I was intrigued by the fact that the main character isn’t thin (that was such a rarety in media when I was a kid/teenager that that alone made it worth watching), but I always thought the titular girls were mostly unlikeable. The main thing I remember about Hannah is how spoiled and not down to earth she was.
      I kind of hope that I reminded my friend of her only because I had a similar body type.
    • Willow from Buffy
      This one came from one of my best friends a couple of years ago and I still feel very honoured by it.
      I loooove Willow! She’s nerdy, awkward, talkative and overly excited a lot and I can totally see myself in her character.
      So thank you, friend. <3
    • Clementine from Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
      Multiple people have said that to me, but I’m honestly not sure if it isn’t just because I have been so obsessed with that movie for such a long time that I modelled my aesthetic after her when I was a teen (maybe a bit of my personality too😬). Anyway, I am fine with that comparison. With time, I kind of moved away from being obsessed with Clementine to being obsessed (and relating to) Mary Svevo. So I don’t identify with her as much as I used to, but I can definitely still see a lot of myself in her.
      Btw I have had one friend who explicitly told me I am nothing like her because she didn’t like her or the movie. We are not friends anymore.
    • Jennifer Lawrence
      So, this is the weirdest one in my opinion. Someone first told me I looked a bit like her when I was in my late teens and it was a guy who had a crush one me so I didn’t take it serious because I thought he probably just wanted to say something flattering. But then years later I got it again multiple times by a (straight) girlfriend of mine and I don’t think she had any agenda when saying it. I never got any other comparisons to celebrities. Maybe just a weird concidence.
      I still don’t see it at all. I am kind of flattered but also confused.
    • The girl on the cover of Elliott Smith’s first album “Roman Candle”
      Roman Candle was the first Elliott Smith album I ever got on vinyl and I’ve had the cover from it framed in my kitchen for many years. When my mother was at my place for a visit once she saw it and asked me if the picture in the frame was a photo of me, which confused me a lot because I for some reason always thought it was Elliott Smith on the cover and only realised it wasn’t when she asked me about it and then kept insisting that the person looks a lot like me.
      I kind of see it a bit.

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  • Songs about being a specific age

    Listed chronologically by the age mentioned in the song

    I’ve always looked up songs that mention the age I’m turning before my birthday every year since I was a teenager. When I turned 25 I even made a whole mix dedicated to only songs mentioning being 25 or songs that came out in the year I was born. For some reason there are a lot of good songs mentioning being 25. It’s been downhill since then unfortunately. 🙁

    Also: There are a lot of songs out there mentioning ages, so the list only contains the ones that mean something to me.
    But if you think of one that you think is good please go ahead and tell me. Maybe I forgot or just don’t know about some good ones.
    (I didn’t forget about the Beatles)

    • Kimya Dawson – All I could do: ages 12 and 15

    “And I thought back to when I was 15

    How I was squeaky clean and I wanted to die
    I was feeding the homeless while combating loneliness

    All I could do was keep living a lie

    Then I think back to that 12 year old poet
    How she didn’t know it was what she would be

    All she could do was hide under her bed

    Scared to death that somebody might read her diary”

    • The Smiths – Half a Person: age 16

    “Sixteen, clumsy and shy
    That’s the story of my life”

    • Janis Ian – At Seventeen: age 17

    “I learned the truth at seventeen

    That love was meant for beauty queens

    And high school girls with clear-skinned smiles

    who married young and then retired”

    (fun fact: Tina Fey apparently loves this song. I get it btw, I do too. Not only is it featured in an episode of 30 rock where Liz Lemon sings it at karaoke. One of the main characters in Mean Girls was also named after Janis Ian, who’s mainly known for this one song)

    • The Smiths – Never Had No One Ever: age 20

    “I had a really bad dream

    It lasted 20 years, 7 months and 27 days”

    • Garbage – Cherry Lips (Go Baby Go!): age 21

    “She gave you everything she had
    But she was young and dumb

    She’d just turned twenty-one”

    • Daniel Johnston – I Am a Baby (In My Universe): age 22

    “I am a baby in my universe

    I’ll live forever
    Ooh, I’m only twenty-two

    I’ll live forever”

    • Mitski – First Love/Late Spring: age 25

    “And I was so young when I behaved twenty-five
    Yet now, I find I’ve grown into a tall child”

    • 4 Non Blondes – What’s Up?: age 25

    “25 years and my life is still

    tryin’ to get up that great big hill of hope

    for a destination”

    • Kanye West – We don’t care: age 25/26(?)

    “We wasn’t supposed to make it past twenty-five

    Joke’s on you, we still alive”

    • SZA – 20 something: age 20s

    “How could it be? Twenty-something

    All alone, still not a thing in my name

    Ain’t got nothing, runnin’ from love, only know fear

    That’s me, Ms. Twenty-Something”

    • Soko – Happy Hippie Birthday: ages 22 and 35

    “Thirty-five candles blown away

    That I picture in my head
    Thirty-five years old
    and I’m twenty-two
    and I remember how you used to say

    That I was young, but you didn’t care at all”

    • Blumentopf – Manfred Mustermann: ages 46 and (close to) 60

    “Jetzt ist mein Leben doch schon aus mit 46

    Ist doch kein Wunder dass man dauernd deprimiert ist”

    “Auch wenn ich bald 60 bin fühl ich mich immer noch jung”

    (Fun fact: when my sister was a teenager she made our mom a mix CD for her 46th birthday and put that song on it just because of that one line. I still think that’s hilarious.)

    Honorable Mention: “Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl” by Broken Social Scene
    Great song, but the age doesn’t get mentioned once in the song besides in the title. So it felt to me like it doesn’t quite count.

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  • A chronological list of my go-to comfort shows over the years

    I have always had 1-2 shows that I would rewatch for comfort over and over again despite having seen it a million times before.

    • Gilmore Girls (elementary school-now)
    • The Office (age 13(?)-late teens)
    • The Simpsons – golden age only (age 13/14-now, I’ve seen the show before then, but when I started buying myself the DVD box sets as a teen was when my obsession really went through the roof)
    • RuPauls Drag Race (18-25ish)
    • Bojack Horseman (age 18-now)
    • Fleabag (age 25-now)