Rudi ben Pavlos

General

Anime, manga, languages, history, memorizing books of the Bible, Middle Eastern and Asian foods, Parfums de Marly fragrances, pb&j smoothies, mountains in the fall, a.c. in the summer

Music

All kinds of traditional music, jazz, bossa nova, reggae, lo-fi, synthwave, 90s hip-hop (especially Wu Tang!), K-pop, the Lumineers, Rend Collective, One Ok Rock, Stan Taylor, Pinkpantheress, Chevy, Aradhna, Lisa Ono, Ichiko Aoba, NIKI, Alina Baraz, Two Steps from Hell, Chvrches, Keane (I'm still completely in love with their Hopes and Fears album from 2004 😍)

Movies

LotR, anything by Hayao Miyazaki, Wes Anderson's movies, Master and Commander, Big Trouble in Little China, old school Indiana Jones, Star Wars, old school Kung Fu movies, 80s ninja movies starring Sho Kosugi, The Last Dragon, Miami Connection, Die Hard, Gremlins, The 13th Warrior, The Holy Grail, The Karate Kid I and Il, Tarantino movies, Jason Bourne, John Wick, Harry Potter, The Lion King, Your Name, The Garden of Words, The Legend of Hei, Akira, Zatoichi, Robin Hood: Prince of Thieves, The Physician, A Bronx Tale, Goodfellas, The Princess Bride, The Hunted, Sherlock Holmes, Crouching Tiger Hidden Dragon, The Last of the Mohicans, Dune 2021, Knives Out, Bullet Train, Sword of the Stranger, MCU movies

Television

Anime/cartoons: Mushoku Tensei, Demon Slayer, That Time I Got Reincarnated as a Slime, Oregairu, The Legend of Luo Xiao Hei, The Rising of the Shield Hero, Overlord, Re:Zero, Konosuba, The Quintessential Quintuplets, Attack on Titan, The Promised Neverland, Goblin Slayer, Bungou Stray Dogs, SAO (I don't care if Kirito is OP), One Punch Man, K-On, Death Note, Dragon Ball Z, Anohana, Clannad, Kanon, Gosick, The Seven Deadly Sins, Mushi-shi, Moribitsu, Lucky Star, Laid-back Camp, Toradora!, My Hero Academia, Vinland Saga, Adventure Time, Rick and Morty Live action: The Chosen, See, Sherlock, The Mandalorian, Fauda, Breaking Bad, Better Call Saul, Fargo, Hannibal, True Detective, GoT, The Witcher, Daredevil, Squid Game, Crash Landing on You, lts Okay to Not Be Okay, The K2, Mouse, Rome, Marco Polo, Handsome Siblings, Da Vinci's Demons, The OC, The Office, Arrested Development, Seinfeld, Curb Your Enthusiasm, Yellowstone, Tokyo Vice, First Love

Books

Fiction: LOTR, The Silmarillion, A Song of Ice and Fire, Dunk and Egg, Dune, the Aubrey-Maturin series, Sherlock Holmes, the Bourne series, the Nicholas Linnear series, The Golden Ocean, The Chronicles of Narnia, Chronicles of the Nephilim, Hemingway, Shakespeare, Dracula, The Historian, Anne Rice's vampire stuff, The Physician, old school Star Wars novels, mythological epics Non-fiction: Metaphors We Live By, all kinds of history, books about behavioral economics, self-improvement, philosophy Manga/Comics: Nausicaa of the Valley of Wind, The Quintessential Quintuplets, Phoenix, Largo Winch Religion: The Bible (including Apocrypha), 1 Enoch, the Hermeneia commentary series, The Unseen Realm, Reversing Hermon, Paul and the Faithfulness of God, Jesus and the Victory of God, Echoes of Scripture in the Letters of Paul, Adam as Israel, The Angel of the Lord, We are Being Transformed: Deification in Paul's Soteriology, Bearing God's Name, Benjamin Sommer on allusion, David A. da Silva on the cultural background of the NT, G.K. Beale on Revelation

Heroes

Jesus Christ, the apostle Paul, David, Solomon, the biblical prophets, Nausicaa, the Fellowship (of the Ring), Sherlock Holmes, Jason Bourne, Jack Aubrey, Steven Maturin, Tolkien, Miyazaki, N.T. Wright, Michael Heiser, a bunch of the famous polymaths from history (e.g. Da Vinci, Biruni, lbn Sina, Ben Franklin, Bezalel, Aholiab)