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From: filifa <filifa.breath652@8alias.com>
Date: Mon, 9 Mar 2026 23:09:55 -0400
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 				<h2 class="cleared">Favorites.</h2>
 				<h3>Albums.</h3>
 				<ul>
-					<li>Oceanic - ISIS</li>
-					<li>Panopticon - ISIS</li>
-					<li>Ants From Up There - Black Country, New Road</li>
-					<li>Ashes Against the Grain - Agalloch</li>
-					<li>In Rainbows - Radiohead</li>
-					<li>Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness - Smashing Pumpkins</li>
-					<li>Flood - Boris</li>
-					<li>Solace - Jakob</li>
-					<li>Emergency &amp; I - Dismemberment Plan</li>
-					<li>The Downward Spiral - Nine Inch Nails</li>
-					<li>Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven - Godspeed You! Black Emperor</li>
-					<li>Stage Four - Touche Amore</li>
-					<li>Mirror Reaper - Bell Witch</li>
-					<li>Sunbather - Deafheaven</li>
-					<li>Somewhere Along the Highway - Cult of Luna</li>
-					<li>This Will Destroy You - This Will Destroy You</li>
-					<li>Siamese Dream - Smashing Pumpkins</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Oceanic</cite> - ISIS</p>
+						<p>Effortlessly glides between beautiful instrumentals and
+						head-banging metal. Even if you don't like harsh vocals, do me and
+						you both a favor and listen to Weight - it's instrumental.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Panopticon</cite> - ISIS</p>
+						<p>Like Oceanic, but a little more instrumental and a bit fewer
+						harsh vocals. If that sounds better to you, try this one first.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Ants From Up There</cite> - Black Country, New Road</p>
+						<p>Gorgeous modern rock album. Basketball Shoes is one of the
+						greatest songs ever made.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Ashes Against the Grain</cite> - Agalloch</p>
+						<p>Atmospheric metal. Love the guitar riffs.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>In Rainbows</cite> - Radiohead</p>
+						<p>If you only listen to one Radiohead album, it should be this
+						one. Probably one of the greatest indie rock albums ever.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Mellon Collie and the Infinite Sadness</cite> - Smashing
+						Pumpkins</p>
+						<p>A double album that's all over the place sonically in the best
+						way possible. I may never forgive Hot Chelle Rae.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Flood</cite> - Boris</p>
+						<p>This album is actually just one 70 minute song (in four parts).
+						Very long. Very slow. Largely instrumental. Not for the
+						impatient.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Solace</cite> - Jakob</p>
+						<p>Very pretty instrumental post-rock.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Emergency &amp; I</cite> - Dismemberment Plan</p>
+						<p>Indie/math rock with some of my favorite lyrics from any album.
+						Basically no misses. At any given moment I probably have the
+						keyboard riff from The City stuck in my head.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>The Downward Spiral</cite> - Nine Inch Nails</p>
+						<p>Probably the most violent, depressing album I've ever heard.
+						That being said, oddly catchy.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Lift Your Skinny Fists Like Antennas to Heaven</cite> -
+						Godspeed You! Black Emperor</p>
+						<p>Even if you're not into long, instrumental pieces, you should
+						listen to Sleep. Just once. For your own sake. Also an incredible
+						band to see live.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Stage Four</cite> - Touche Amore</p>
+						<p>A screamo album about the singer losing his mother to cancer.
+						Heart-wrenching, catchy, and beautiful all at once.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Mirror Reaper</cite> - Bell Witch</p>
+						<p>Another album that's actually just one long 80 minute song, in 2
+						parts (or 4). You'll know if it's your thing after the first 7
+						minutes or so, if not sooner.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Sunbather</cite> - Deafheaven</p>
+						<p>Blend of black metal and shoegaze. Simultaneously pretty and
+						heavy.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Somewhere Along the Highway</cite> - Cult of Luna</p>
+						<p>More atmospheric metal. No misses IMO. Feels wrong to call out
+						just one track, but Dim has one of the greatest buildups I've ever
+						heard.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>This Will Destroy You</cite> - This Will Destroy You</p>
+						<p>More very pretty instrumental rock. If you've seen Moneyball,
+						you'll have a Leo-DiCaprio-pointing-at-the-TV moment listening to
+						this.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p><cite>Siamese Dream</cite> - Smashing Pumpkins</p>
+						<p>A classic. Some incredible guitar solos. Think I prefer Mellon
+						Collie overall, but Mayonaise is an all-timer.</p>
+					</li>
 				</ul>
 				<h3>Movies.</h3>
 				<ul>
-					<li>2001: A Space Odyssey</li>
-					<li>The Dark Knight</li>
-					<li>The Big Short</li>
-					<li>Spider-Man 2</li>
-					<li>Bill and Ted's Execellent Adventure</li>
-					<li>Inglourious Basterds</li>
-					<li>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</li>
-					<li>Napoleon Dynamite</li>
-					<li>Clerks</li>
-					<li>My Cousin Vinny</li>
-					<li>The Departed</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>2001: A Space Odyssey</p>
+						<p>The prettiest movie I've ever seen. You could take every frame
+						of it and hang it on your wall. Slow paced, but that isn't a bad
+						thing.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>The Dark Knight</p>
+						<p>One of the greatest superhero movies of all time.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Spider-Man 2</p>
+						<p>The other greatest superhero movie of all time.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>The Big Short</p>
+						<p>My guilty pleasure movie because I'm worried it makes me too
+						close to having the same tastes as a finance bro.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Bill and Ted's Excellent Adventure</p>
+						<p>Much funnier than I expected.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Inglourious Basterds</p>
+						<p>Favorite Tarantino. The opening is one of the most tense scenes
+						I've ever watched.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Monty Python and the Holy Grail</p>
+						<p>If someone tells me they don't like this movie, I write them off
+						as having a terrible taste in comedies.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Napoleon Dynamite</p>
+						<p>Knew I would enjoy it from the very first scene.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Clerks</p>
+						<p>Some great dialogue and acting. Now every time I see the number
+						37 somewhere, I think "... in a row?".</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>My Cousin Vinny</p>
+						<p>Knew people gushed about this movie, but it was even funnier
+						than I expected.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>The Departed</p>
+						<p>A great thriller.</p>
+					</li>
 				</ul>
 				<h3>TV shows.</h3>
 				<ul>
-					<li>Community</li>
-					<li>Nathan for You</li>
-					<li>Veep</li>
-					<li>Arrested Development</li>
-					<li>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</li>
-					<li>Workaholics</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Nathan for You</p>
+						<p>Possibly the funniest show I've ever seen. The first episode
+						might seem dumb. Stick with it for at least two or three more
+						episodes, it improves quickly.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Veep</p>
+						<p>Also possibly the funniest show I've ever seen. Has some of the
+						most hysterical, most vulgar, most incredible one-liners ever.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Community</p>
+						<p>One of the most unique and creative sitcoms you'll ever watch.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Arrested Development</p>
+						<p>A classic. Thinking about it, similar to Community in a few ways.
+						<a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9LomnFmhdPE">Please tell your friends about this show.</a>
+						</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>It's Always Sunny in Philadelphia</p>
+						<p>If you haven't heard of this one, you must have been cut off
+						from the outside world since at least 2005. In that case, I've got
+						bad news about basically everything that's happened since then, but
+						at least you can catch up on this show.</p>
+					</li>
+					<li>
+						<p>Workaholics</p>
+						<p>Very similar vibes to IASIP.</p>
+					</li>
 				</ul>
 
 				<h2>Contact.</h2>
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