# Favourite Media

> Source: https://ollybritton.com/misc/favourite-media/ · Updated: 2026-04-15 · Tags: misc, safe-to-post-online

Inspired by [Luke Meulhlhauser](http://lukemuehlhauser.com/)'s quarterly updates on his favourite media (music, movies/TV and books), here is a small selection of my favourite things to watch, read or listen to.

## Music
The links aren't to the album as a whole but to a good part of each album.

### [Band on the Run](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=RjlvdcBAKdg)
- meta: Wings

### [Geography](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kJZTcrB4boA)
- meta: Tom Misch

### [Songs in the Key of Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=6sIjSNTS7Fs)
- meta: Stevie Wonder

### [The Nightfly](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ueivjr3f8xg)
- meta: Donald Fagen

### [I Am](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CUCLNPOjPZw)
- meta: Earth, Wind and Fire

### [Let's Throw a Party](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=JBoRYAtj5rg)
- meta: Sammy Rae & The Friends

### [Love Is The Key To The City](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=tZOVSjURHxw)
- meta: Jockstrap

### [Ants From Up There](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=YPrs3DqraWM)
- meta: Black Country, New Road

### [Build a Problem](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sRGnSy7YCYE)
- meta: Dodie

### [The Secret to Life](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=T3OpOgM_Yuk)
- meta: Fizz

### [Family Business](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=85ewvhgV700)
- meta: Lawrence

### [For the first time](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=u3H8O8RJp3M)
- meta: Black Country, New Road

### [CINEMA](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=CsOLDl6ZSpQ)
- meta: The Marías

### [Dot](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=DEsKgbYs9Mc)
- meta: Vulfmon

### [Bad Self Portraits](https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5wUvzfz6F-A)
- meta: Lake Street Dive

## Movies
### Catch Me If You Can
### Whiplash
### Full Metal Jacket
### Snatch
### A Beautiful Mind
### Vice
### Chef
### The Social Network
### Ferris Bueller's Day Off

## TV
### Breaking Bad
### The IT Crowd
### Outnumbered
### Black Mirror
### Fresh Meat
### I Think You Should Leave with Tim Robinson

## Books
These are kept in [Book Notes](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/).

## Blogs
### [Minding our Way](https://mindingourway.com/)
, personal blog of Nate Soares who has written a lot about rationality and motivation, I really enjoyed his series [Replacing Guilt](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/):

- [Half-assing it with everything you've got](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/half-assing-it-with-everything-youve-got/)
- [The value of a life](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/replacing-guilt/the-value-of-a-life/)

### [Astral Codex Ten](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/)
(formerly [Slate Star Codex](https://astralcodexten.substack.com/)), personal blog of Scott Alexander

- [Meditations on Moloch](https://ollybritton.com/notes/articles/meditations-on-moloch/)
- ["Who by very slow decay"](https://slatestarcodex.com/2013/07/17/who-by-very-slow-decay/)

### [Derek Sivers](https://sive.rs/blog)
- [How To Live](https://ollybritton.com/notes/books/how-to-live/)

### [Gwern Branwen](https://www.gwern.net/index)
- ["Spaced Repetition for Efficient Learning"](https://gwern.net/spaced-repetition)
- ["Epigrams"](https://gwern.net/epigram)

### [Andy Matuschak](https://andymatuschak.org/)

- ["Work with the garage door up"](https://notes.andymatuschak.org/Work_with_the_garage_door_up)
- ["How can we develop transformative tools for thought?"](https://numinous.productions/ttft/)

### [Charlie Britton](https://chza.me/)
, my brother

- ["The Case for a Local Smart Home"](https://chza.me/blog/2024/07/18/the-case-for-a-local-smart-home/)
- ["Building an Offsite Backup NAS"](https://chza.me/blog/2024/07/11/building-an-offsite-backup-nas/)

## Info
This page was last fully updated `2024-12-01`.

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