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Picks: November

Theme: Dreams


Album: Teen Dream

Beach House

Why I chose this album: I had quite a large number of dream pop albums to choose from going into this month, and the seemingly quintessential listen within the genre Teen Dream checks all the boxes. It's spacey, airy, and most importantly has Dream, in the title! Of course I'm only joking - when listening to a few samples of the albums I was deciding between, Teen Dream really just best set the mood I was going for, and was definitely the album I most wanted to hear more of.

Film: Lucia

Pawan Kumar



Why I chose this Film: To be honest with you all, my first instincts for this month had me picking Requiem for a Dream, not Lucia. Upon looking a bit more into the movie though, I realized it's just not as relevant to the theme as it seems. Lucia though, was a perfect match. It deals not just with dreams as they pertain to sleeping, but also with dreams in the aspirational sense. The second I saw the description I knew I had to watch it, and it has an 8.3 on IMDB which is a nutty af score so, I'm pretty hyped.

Book: The Alchemist

Paulo Coehlo


Why I chose this Book: As it states on the front of the book, The Alchemist is a book about a man following his dreams. When my friend originally pitched the book to me he described it as the first shounen of all time, something that super peaked my interest. After almost a year without a good theme in which to read this critically acclaimed masterpiece I finally have the chance to get to it and I'm so incredibly excited.

Game: Psychonauts

Doublefine


Why I chose this Game: Psychonauts is a game I have really fond memories of playing when I was younger. I loved the art style, gameplay, humor, you name it. I never got around to beating it though, and with a sequel coming next year there's no better time to play it than now. When you think games that deal with dreams, it's one of the first ones that comes to mind as you see yourself traversing different characters dreamscapes to solve their problems. It's an awesome game that I'm psyched to finally complete.

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And those are my picks for November! Pretty pleased with this theme overall, I think the picks are all super solid. Join me soon (hopefully) where I will be reviewing the black metal album Hvis lyset tar oss, be on the lookout for it.

Until then!

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