Will Chavez

Enjoying

Music, films, books, and papers I’ve spent time with.
All
You Can See Everything
film 2026
★★★★½
A Nightmare on Elm Street
film 1984
★★½
Pleasewakeupalittlefaster please . . .
music Carlos Niño & Friends
True Crime
music Axel Boman & Superpitcher
A Poet
film 2025
★★★★½
Mind: An Introduction To Cognitive Science
book Paul Thagard · 1996
KNKX Studio Session
music Joey Alexander & Theo Croker
Project Hail Mary
film 2026
★★★★☆
Bethlehem (Glimpse)
music Laraaji
Ibs
music Duval Timothy
A Long December
music Counting Crows
Teenage Sex and Death at Camp Miasma
film 2026
★★★★½
Whatsapp
music Duval Timothy
Things in Nature Merely Grow
book Yiyun Li · 2025
★★★★☆
No Longer Human
book Osamu Dazai · 1948
Michael
music Red House Painters
The Odyssey
film 2026
★★★★½
Maggot Brain
music Flea
LEAVING HELL
music R.A.P. Ferreira
The Ancient Rain: Poems 1956–1978
book Bob Kaufman · 1981
Toy Story 5
film 2026
★★★★☆
A Pair of Brown Eyes
music Cat Power
Poetry Magazine, May 2026
book Adrian Matejka
★★★★☆
beautiful, tender, colours (feat. Navy Blue)
music Duval Timothy
9 (Official Audio)
music Duval Timothy · 2020
I Love Boosters
film 2026
★★★★☆
Espectro do Submundo (feat. JooJ)
music mechanical collective
The Lord of the Rings: The Return of the King
film 2003
★★★★☆
The Lord of the Rings: The Two Towers
film 2002
★★★★★
The Devil Wears Prada 2
film 2026
★★★☆☆
San Francisco
music Foxygen · 2013
The Lord of the Rings: The Fellowship of the Ring
film 2001
★★★★★
Pretend
music Sandy · 2025
Death of a Salesman
book Arthur Miller · 1949
★★★★★
That Summer Feeling
music Jonathan Richman
Innerspace
music The Apples in Stereo · 1995
Emily
music Bill Evans · 1967
Maui
music Palakiko & Paaluhi
I Loves You Porgy
music Keith Jarrett · 1999
Mi Gente (Live in Zaire, 1974)
music Fania All Stars feat. Héctor Lavoe · 1974
I don't believe in jesus but 3 grams of these mushrooms is making me feel some kinda way
music pigbaby · 2022
Mariposas
music Silvio Rodríguez
Spanglish
film 2004
★★★★½
The Song Is Familiar
music Funkadelic · 1975
Yesterday
music Sullivan Fortner
Forest Flower - Sunset (Live at the Monterey Jazz Festival, 1966)
music Charles Lloyd · 1966
No Other Choice
film 2025
★★★★½
"Hey Curio, Can You Tell Me More?": Children’s Information-Seeking and Trust in AI
paper Sunhyo Oh, Chao Zhang, Lauren Girouard-Hallam, Zihao Zhou, Halie March, Srushti Jayaramu & Ying Xu · Proceedings of the 24th ACM Interaction Design and Children Conference (IDC ’25) · 2025
Act Too (The Love of My Life)
music The Roots feat. Common · 1999
The Road
book Cormac McCarthy · 2006
★★★★☆
A picture is worth a thousand words? Investigating the Impact of Image Aids in AR on Memory Recall for Everyday Tasks
paper Elizaveta Lukianova, Jae-Yeop Jeong & Jin-Woo Jeong · Proceedings of the 2025 International Conference on Intelligent User Interfaces (IUI ’25) · 2025
Hamnet
film 2025
★★★★½
The Secret Agent
film 2025
★★★★★
Bring It on Home to Me (Live at the Harlem Square Club)
music Sam Cooke · 1963
If I Had Legs I'd Kick You
film 2025
★★★★☆
GazeSwipe: Enhancing Mobile Touchscreen Reachability through Seamless Gaze and Finger-Swipe Integration
paper Zhuojiang Cai, Jingkai Hong, Zhimin Wang & Feng Lu · Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25) · 2025
Sweet Memory
music ARTHUR · 2018
Prototyping with Prompts: Emerging Approaches and Challenges in Generative AI Design for Collaborative Software Teams
paper Hari Subramonyam, Divy Thakkar, Andrew Ku, Jürgen Dieber & Anoop K. Sinha · Proceedings of the 2025 CHI Conference on Human Factors in Computing Systems (CHI ’25) · 2025
early
music Joel Ross · 2024
28 Years Later: The Bone Temple
film 2026
★★★★☆
Their Eyes Were Watching God
book Zora Neale Hurston · 1937
★★★★★
It Must Change
music ANOHNI and the Johnsons · 2023
Marty Supreme
film 2025
★★★★☆
Bugonia
film 2025
★★★★☆
Materialists
film 2025
★★★★½
The Emperor of Gladness
book Ocean Vuong · 2025
★★★★☆
Sorry, Baby
film 2025
★★★★½
Sentimental Value
film 2025
★★★★½
Train Dreams
film 2025
★★★★☆
Barbarian
film 2022
★★★★½
One Battle After Another
film 2025
★★★★★
The Baltimorons
film 2025
★★★★½
Weapons
film 2025
★★★★☆
Recitatif
book Toni Morrison · 1983
★★★★☆
Sinners
film 2025
★★★★☆
Stoner
book John Williams · 1965
★★★★☆
Mickey 17
film 2025
★★★★½
The Old Man and the Sea
book Ernest Hemingway · 1952
★★★★☆
The Brutalist
film 2024
★★★★★
I'm Still Here
film 2024
★★★★½
The Prophet
book Kahlil Gibran · 1923
★★★★☆
Of Mice and Men
book John Steinbeck · 1937
★★★★☆
A Complete Unknown
film 2024
★★★★☆
Babygirl
film 2024
★★★★½
Martyr!
book Kaveh Akbar · 2024
★★★★★
The Room Next Door
film 2024
★★★★☆
Wallace & Gromit: Vengeance Most Fowl
film 2024
★★★★☆
Nickel Boys
film 2024
★★★★★
The Last Showgirl
film 2024
★★★★☆
James
book Percival Everett · 2024
★★★★★
Nightbitch
film 2024
★★★★☆
No Bad Parts
book Richard C. Schwartz · 2021
★★★★☆
Flow
film 2024
★★★★½
All We Imagine as Light
film 2024
★★★★☆
I Have Some Questions for You
book Rebecca Makkai · 2023
★★★★☆
Anora
film 2024
★★★★½
The Wild Robot
film 2024
★★★★☆
The Substance
film 2024
★★★★★
Bottle Rocket
film 1996
★★★★☆
Deadpool & Wolverine
film 2024
★★★★☆
My Dinner with Andre
film 1981
★★★★★
Bliss Montage
book Ling Ma · 2022
★★☆☆☆
The Woman in Me
book Britney Spears · 2023
★★★☆☆
Dìdi (弟弟)
film 2024
★★★★☆
Bad Lieutenant: Port of Call – New Orleans
film 2009
★★★☆☆
Sula
book Toni Morrison · 1973
★★★★★
Sideways
film 2004
★★★★★
Thelma
film 2024
★★★★½
Days at the Morisaki Bookshop (Days at the Morisaki Bookshop, #1)
book Satoshi Yagisawa · 2010
★★★☆☆
The Complete Maus
book Art Spiegelman · 1992
★★★★★
Inside Out 2
film 2024
★★★★☆
Oldboy
film 2003
★★★★★
The Iron Claw
film 2023
★★★★☆
A Clockwork Orange
book Anthony Burgess · 1962
★★★★☆
Tomorrow, and Tomorrow, and Tomorrow
book Gabrielle Zevin · 2022
★★★★☆
Problemista
film 2023
★★★★☆
Sexy Beast
film 2000
★★★★☆
Perfect Days
film 2023
★★★★★
Dune: Part Two
film 2024
★★★★★
Knight of Fortune
film 2022
★★★★★
The Wonderful Story of Henry Sugar
film 2023
★★★★☆
Dumb Money
film 2023
★★★☆☆
Red, White and Blue
film 2023
★★★★☆
The Holdovers
film 2023
★★★★½
Go Ahead in the Rain: Notes to A Tribe Called Quest (American Music Series)
book Hanif Abdurraqib · 2019
★★★★★
Tetris
film 2023
★★★★½
Orlando, My Political Biography
film 2023
★★★★☆
The Zone of Interest
film 2023
★★★★☆
American Fiction
film 2023
★★★★½
Anatomy of a Fall
film 2023
★★★★★
Asteroid City
film 2023
★★★★½
Barbie
film 2023
★★★★½
Elemental
film 2023
★★★★☆
Indiana Jones and the Dial of Destiny
film 2023
★★½
Killers of the Flower Moon
film 2023
★★★★½
Maestra
film 2023
★★★★☆
Maestro
film 2023
★★★½
Moonstruck
film 1987
★★★★☆
Oppenheimer
film 2023
★★★★½
Past Lives
film 2023
★★★★½
Poor Things
film 2023
★★★★½
Saltburn
film 2023
★★★★☆
Silver Dollar Road
film 2023
★★★★½
Time Bomb Y2K
film 2023
★★★★☆
Wonka
film 2023
★★★★½
You Hurt My Feelings
film 2023
★★★★☆
Seeking Fortune Elsewhere: Stories
book Sindya Bhanoo · 2022
★★★★★
Heavy
book Kiese Laymon · 2018
★★★★★
The Candy House
book Jennifer Egan · 2022
★★★★☆
Slouching Towards Bethlehem
book Joan Didion · 1968
★★★★★
Crying in H Mart
book Michelle Zauner · 2021
★★★★★
Piranesi
book Susanna Clarke · 2020
★★★★★
Invisible Child: Poverty, Survival & Hope in an American City
book Andrea Elliott · 2021
★★★★★
When We Cease to Understand the World
book Benjamín Labatut · 2020
★★★★★
How Beautiful We Were
book Imbolo Mbue · 2021
★★★★★
Carefree Black Girls
book Zeba Blay · 2021
★★★★★
Going to Meet the Man
book James Baldwin · 1965
★★★★★
On Earth We're Briefly Gorgeous
book Ocean Vuong · 2019
★★★★★
The Undocumented Americans
book Karla Cornejo Villavicencio · 2020
★★★★★
Chatter: The Voice in Our Head, Why It Matters, and How to Harness It
book Ethan Kross · 2021
★★★★☆
Go Tell It on the Mountain
book James Baldwin · 1953
★★★★★
All About Love: New Visions
book bell hooks · 1999
★★★★★
Attached: The New Science of Adult Attachment and How It Can Help You Find and Keep Love
book Amir Levine · 2010
★★★★★
Things Fall Apart (The African Trilogy, #1)
book Chinua Achebe · 1958
★★★★★
Paris, Texas
film 1984
★★★★★
Freedom is a Constant Struggle: Ferguson, Palestine and the Foundations of a Movement
book Angela Y. Davis · 2015
★★★★★
A Really Good Day: How Microdosing Made a Mega Difference in My Mood, My Marriage, and My Life
book Ayelet Waldman · 2017
★★★★☆
The Sirens of Titan
book Kurt Vonnegut Jr. · 1959
★★★★★
Kafka on the Shore
book Haruki Murakami · 2002
★★★★★
Devil in a Blue Dress (Easy Rawlins, #1)
book Walter Mosley · 1990
★★★★★
Once I Was You: A Memoir of Love and Hate in a Torn America
book María Hinojosa · 2020
★★★★★
The Will to Change: Men, Masculinity, and Love
book bell hooks · 2003
★★★★★
The House on Mango Street
book Sandra Cisneros · 1984
★★★★★
The Sailor Who Fell From Grace with the Sea
book Yukio Mishima · 1963
★★★★★