Max Galactica

General

theatre performance, theory, and production • ink drawing and painting • classical philosophy • contemporary existentialism • latte art • embroidery • marxist theory • feminist studies • beadwork • DIY clothing and crafting • physical media collection • burning CDs • orgochem and pharmaceuticals • Shakespeare studies • anatomy and figure drawing • reading fanfiction • cooking • dance • weightlifting • yoga and meditation • poetry • warm blankets • sexuality studies • good ramen • my bed

Music

80s new wave, pagan/symphonic metal, ska punk, jazz/jazz fusion, Estradasphere, classical piano, King Gizzard and the Lizard Wizard, digital hardcore/hyperpop, 2000s indie rock, Vulfpeck, 1970s foundational punk, gothic post-punk, vocaloid, Nightwish, musical theater, Of Montreal, Scottish/Irish folk ballads, Will Wood, and whatever else i feel like listening to at any given moment

Movies

FAVORITES: The Hunchback of Notre Dame, Stop Making Sense, all the Muppet movies but especially The Muppets Christmas Carol, Conclave, virtually all Studio Ghibli films, The Dark Crystal, Labyrinth, The Nightmare Before Christmas, The Rocky Horror Picture Show, Corpse Bride, The Room (ironically), Dead Poets Society, Monty Python's Holy Grail and Life of Brian, To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything! Julie Newmar, Hedwig and the Angry Inch, The Birdcage, Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure, Hamlet (Branagh), Macbeth (Stewart), Mamma Mia!, Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead

TO WATCH:

Television

CURRENTLY WATCHING: doccy who series 10

FAVORITES: Good Omens, Doctor Who, Agatha Christie's Poirot, Downton Abbey, Bones, The Marvelous Mrs. Maisel, etc.

TO WATCH: Ghosts, What We Do In The Shadows, Our Flag Means Death, Broadchurch, Hannibal, Sherlock, Deadwater Fell, Prime Suspect, Wire in the Blood

british television is better than american television and i will stand by that

Books

CURRENTLY READING: Hamnet by Maggie O’Farrell

FAVORITE AUTHORS: Mark Z. Danielewski, George Orwell, Dame Agatha Christie, Sir Terry Pratchett, J.R.R. Tolkien, Margaret Atwood, William Shakespeare, Octavia E. Butler, Frank Herbert, Virginia Woolf, Karl Marx, Frederick Engels, Oscar Wilde, Douglas Adams

FAVORITE BOOKS: House of Leaves — Mark Z. Danielewski, A Room of One’s Own — Virginia Woolf, Animal Farm — George Orwell, 1984 — George Orwell, Das Kapital — Karl Marx, The Hobbit — J.R.R. Tolkien, The Handmaid’s Tale — Margaret Atwood, Dune — Frank Herbert, I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream — Harlan Ellison, Going Postal (among many other Discworld installments)— Sir Terry Pratchett, The Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy — Douglas Adams, They Do It With Mirrors — Agatha Christie, And Then There Were None — Agatha Christie, Good Omens — Sir Terry Pratchett and Neil Gaiman

TO READ: War and Peace — Leo Tolstoy, Infinite Jest — David Foster Wallace, The Divine Comedy — Dante Alighieri, Paradise Lost — John Milton, S. — J.J. Abrams and Doug Dorst, The Thursday Murder Club — Richard Osman, Woman at Point Zero — Nawal El Saadawi

can you tell i like to read?

Heroes

ARTISTIC INSPIRATIONS:

David Byrne, Junji Ito, Mark Z. Danielewski, William Shakespeare, David Tennant, Sir Terry Pratchett, Oscar Wilde, Joshua Kane, Stan Lee, Virginia Woolf, Peter Capaldi, Kevin Barnes, David Lynch, Wes Anderson, Robin Williams, Stu Mackenzie, The Neofuturists, Brian Eno, David Bowie, Will Toledo, Freddie Mercury, Masayoshi Takanaka, William Finn, Stephen Sondheim, Tom Stoppard, Samuel Beckett, Douglas Adams, Margaret Atwood, Frederick Chopin, Stephen Schwartz, Hayao Miyazaki, Claude Debussy, Antwaun Stanley, Joe Dart, Les Claypool, Cory Wong, Diana Damrau, Catherine Tate, Sir Ian McKellen, Dame Judi Dench, Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Dame Agatha Christie