my personal canon:

- comfort, comfort ye my people
- joe hill's last will

can't find a good recording of this that fits how i remember it--this and the above hymn were my father's favorite lullabies to sing me to sleep when i was little.

- the last unicorn (1982)
- conan the barbarian (1982)

did not watch this fully until i was a teenager, but i go to see the opening sequence pretty young; my father's favorite movie.

- janelle monae (metropolis: the chase suite)
- earthsea series (and other ursula k le guin works)
- fgep + jwqs

getting into cnovels was definitely a pivotal turn in my life... chose these two because they're the ones i still think about the most.

- revolutionary girl utena
- amitav ghosh's early novels
- the sparrow
- repo man (1984)
- legend of the galactic heroes (ova)
- the seafort saga

realistically, feintuch's other work, the rodrigo of caledon saga, should also be here since i would've never gotten into seafort without it, but i was trying to be picky with this list.

- absalom, absalom

the culmination of my southern lit binge. my first faulkner was a rose for emily and i've read most of his other early stuff but this one is my all time favorite.

- the desert of the tartars (1976)