Rek Bell

Books, films and other things that I like.

Books

• Roadside Picnic, Arkady and Boris Strugatsky
• Le Péril Bleu, Maurice Renard
• Watership Down, Richard Adams
• Death, the Duck and the Tulip, Wolf Erlbruch
• The Red Tree, Shaun Tan
• Big Wolf & Little Wolf, Nadine Brun-Cosme
• Ishmael, Daniel Quinn
• North to the Night, Alvah Simon
• Ojingogo, Matthew Forsythe
• Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams and Mark Cowardine
• On Food and Cooking, Harold McGee
• Akira, Katsuhiro Otomo
• Cyberiad, Stanislaw Lem
• Sailing the Farm, Kenneth Neumeyer
• Persepolis, Marjane Satrapi
• A Sand County Almanac, Aldo Leopold
• Animal Farm, George Orwell and Russel Baker
• One Straw Revolution, Masanobu Fukuoka
• How to Do Nothing, Jenny Odell
• Blade of the Immortal, Hiroaki Samura
• The Summer Book, Tove Jansson
• We Have Always Lived at the Castle, Shirley Jackson
• The Curve of Time, Wylie Blanchett
• West With the Night, Beryl Markham
• Lord of the Flies, William Golding
• The Stories of Ray Bradbury, Ray Bradbury
• The Tartar Steppe, Dino Buzzati

Series

• Trigun
• The Expanse
• Kaamelott
• Future Boy Conan
• What we do in the Shadows
• Avatar the Last Airbender
• Daria
• The Good Place
• Brooklyn Nine Nine
• Flea Bag
• I'm a Virgo
• Our Flag Means Death

Games

• Sword & Sworcery
• Windwaker
• Jak & Daxter series

Short stories

• The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas, Ursula Le Guin
• The One Who Waits & There Will Come Soft Rains, Ray Bradbury
• Tell-Tale Heart, Edgar Alan Poe
• Bartleby the Scrivener, Herman Melville
• Flowers for Algernon, Daniel Keyes

Albums

• From Rotting Fantasylands, Nero's day at disneyland
• Juturna, Circa Survive
• Divine Infekt, Psyclon Nine
• Icarus, Trash80
• Another Eternity, Purity ring
• Yankee, 米津玄師 (Kenshi Yonezu)
• Deus Ex Machina, フロッピー
• Half the World is Watching Me, Mew
• The Thievery of Your Own Things, Immoor
• The Curse, Atreyu
• The All-American Rejects, The All-American Rejects
• Prospect Soundtrack, Daniel L.K. Caldwell
• I Am The Movie, Motion City Soundtrack
• Machines are us, Icon of Coil

People

• Ursula Le Guin (writer)
• Ray Bradbury (writer)
• Bernard Moitessier (sailor)
• Sven Irvind (sailor, boat builder)
• Lin & Larry Pardey (sailors)
• Maciej Cegłowski (computers)
• Dieter Rams (design)
• Stephen K Roberts (computers, cycling)
• Wendell Berry (writer, philosopher, activist)
• Aldo Leopold (conservationist, environmentalist, ecologist)
• Brion Toss (master rigger)
• Val Plumwood (philosopher, ecofeminist)
• Roger Taylor (sailor)
• Wes Jackson (botanist, environmentalist)
• Stromae (songwriter)
• Annie Hill (boatbuilder, sailor)
• Ernesto Tross (artist, boatbuilder, sailor)

Films

• Omoide Poro Poro
• Shoplifters
• Santa Sangre
• The Dresser(1983)
• Okja
• Dinner with Andre
• Parasite
• Sorry to bother you
• The Breakfast Club
• Akira
• Mindgame
• Existenz
• Prospect
• Promare
• Catsoup
• Tampopo
• Nausicaa
• Redline
• Trava Fist Planet
• Summer Wars
• The Lost Boys
• Ginger Snaps
• Only Lovers Left Alive
• What we do in the Shadows
• Fright Night
• Kiki's Delivery Service
• Burn After Reading
• Return of the Living Dead
• Fargo
• Vampire hunter D
• 28 days Later
• Lost in Translation
• Blade Runner
• Suzume

Artists

• Hiroaki Samura
• Q. Hayashida
• Junji Ito
• Gustave Dore
• Yuu Satomi
• Matthew Forsythe
• Emily Caroll
• Bob Rafei
• Kate Beaton
• Yoshitaka Amano
• Kazu Kibuishi

Teas

• Lapsang souchong
• Lemongrass
• Ginger
• Houjicha
• Mint
• Chamomille
• Philosopher's brew