Completely Different

[coalescent]

Damn, it was cathartic to get all that out.

And now, something completely trivial. Thieved from tafka and brassyn, etc, etc.

(Based on what you know of me...)
Please recommend to me:

1. A book
2. An author
3. A song
4. A movie
5. An artist/band
6. A CD
7. A website
8. A new LJ friend

Comments

[tizzle-b.livejournal.com]

Thieved from tafka, hmmm?

The attention of some people... :)

well...

[nuttyxander.livejournal.com]

1. A book

Festival of Fools by Charlie Stross
Been reading the proof a couple days now, and this is really good.

2. An author

Simon Logan.

Get I-O, it's a rather nice shorts collection.

3. A song

Cornelius - Star Fruits Surf Rider (from Fantasma)

4. A movie

Nausicaa of the valley of the wind.
Kaze no Tani no Naushika
nausicaa.net

5. An artist/band

XTC

6. A CD

Elvis Costello - My Aim is True

Somewhat good for any bitterness.

7. A website

Something Awful

8. A new LJ friend

well, there has to be one question I can't answer.

Re: well...

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

Festival of Fools by Charlie Stross

Well, I have now requested a proof copy. Whether it'll turn up before I leave, I don't know. I also got rather excited to see that there's a publication date of april for Neal Stephenson's next, so maybe I'll try to chase that up as well...

Catharsis good, just don't do anything rash. :-)

[applez.livejournal.com]

1. A book

Well, you've already read & enjoyed 'Practical Demonkeeping' so I'll suggest instead:

'Monkey vs. Robot' by James Kochalka

2. An author

Mmm...now that's a challenge given what you've already read, but ... Christopher Moore (you've not read 'Bloodsucking Fiends' yet!)

3. A song

http://jameswong.com/ykproject/disc/bebop_askdna/01.ram

"What Planet Is This"

4. A movie

Ah! Your friend beat me to Nausicaa ... so I'll recommend another Miyazaki: either 'Princess Mononoke' (for countless uber cool reasons) or 'Graveyard of the Fireflies' (if you don't mind crying *lots*).

5. An artist/band

Yoko Kanno, if you couldn't guess it!

6. A CD

Vanessa Rubin, 'Sex is a Misdemeanor' ... funny lyrics with a fab voice!

7. A website

http://www.sfvisitor.org/crab/unions.asp

To make you drool (revenge will be mine, you bastard! Damn London Sci-Fi cons waaaaa!)! :-)

8. A new LJ friend

Mmmm...difficult that, try 'cflam'

[(Anonymous)]

1. A book - Habitus by James Flint
I couldn't get into it but I think it could be your kinda thing. Email me your address and you can have it......
2. An author - Katharine Kerr - I love all her stuff, big epic stories that transcend time. I think you would particularly like the sci-fi
3. A song - Jeff Buckley, Last Goodbye
4. A movie - Logan's Run
5. An artist/band - The The
6. A CD - The Smiths, The Queen Is Dead
7. A website - http://www.bbc.co.uk/6music
8. A new LJ friend - anejo is my only non-umta LJ person

Stewart (http://www.foxbasealpha.co.uk/wibblings)

[sean-gabriel.livejournal.com]

Ooh. Good musical calls....

[xsabx.livejournal.com]

1. A book: True Tales of American Life edited by Paul Auster
2. An author: Gore Vidal
3. A song: Cloud Eight by Frasier Chorus. Buy both albums and revel in brilliance.
4. A movie: House of Cards. Tommy Lee Jones, Kathryn Turner. Autism. It works.
5. An artist/band: Frasier Chorus. Just because.
6. A CD: If you haven't already, the "Gladiator" soundtrack, or failing that the original "Batman" soundtrack.
7. A website: http://www.lost.no. Everythings now been reset so you can hack on an equal footing...
8. A new LJ friend: Hmmm... I'd recommend nalsa. I think you'd like him.

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

True Tales of American Life edited by Paul Auster

Recommended to me the day before you posted this by Naomi. Weird.

[gagravarr.livejournal.com]

1 - The future of ideas, lawrence lessig. More people ought to read it
2 - Michael Kelly (http://www.michaelkelly.fsnet.co.uk/)
3 - Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne. Get off your high musical horse and enjoy it! ;-)
4 - Chasing Amy, or if you've seen that, whatever Kevin Smith film you haven't
5 - Heather Nova
6 - Take your pick from 3 or 5
7 - http://members.lycos.co.uk/turingcr/php_comic.php / http://www.bbspot.com/ - whichever of these two I haven't already suggested...
8 - never ever going to happen, Mr LJ friend whore ;-)

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

Sk8er Boi by Avril Lavigne. Get off your high musical horse and enjoy it!

No. It's rubbish. :-p

Chasing Amy

Seen it, it's great - joint favourite Kevin Smith film with Dogma. Yes, I've seen all his films.

[gagravarr.livejournal.com]

No. It's rubbish. :-p

Oohhhh. Now you've gor'ram gone and done it. Just you wait....

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

1. A book: Flowers for Algernon by Daniel Keyes. I'm reading it at the moment and will shortly be able to lend, if you're interested.

2. An author: I'm sure I've said this before, but Jasper Fforde. He doesn't do the kind of stuff you're used to, exactly, but then his stuff isn't like anything anyone is used to.

3. A song: White Rabbit by Jefferson Airplane, as heard on the soundtrack to The Game

4. A movie: Ghost Dog: Way of the Samurai, if you've not already seen it.

5. An artist/band: I think our tastes in music are sufficiently different for none of my recommendations to be of interest to you. I'm sure you already know about the stuff I listen to that you might like .

6. A CD: The Morvern Callar soundtrack is pretty good.

7. A website: I find http://www.empireonline.co.uk useful for film-related info.

8. A new LJ friend: Nothing doing. My LJ friends are your LJ friends.

Movie Afterthoughts

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

(Damnit, I can never think of one film without thinking of three.)

Two other films you really should see are:

After Life - a Japanese film in which the recently deceased are given a week to choose one memory to be recreated on film, which will then be the one and only memory they will be laft with for all eternity.

Last Night - a Canadian film covering the final few hours before the world ends. It's about what people choose to do with their last hours, and how their choices of how they spend their end time are affected by other people.

Both films are beautifully made, slow, and moving, and both lead to the interesting and thought-provoking "What would you choose?" question. I have them both on tape if you'd like to borrow them; they're quite hard to get hold of otherwise.

Re: Movie Afterthoughts

[applez.livejournal.com]

Fascinating! I'll have to look for them here.

Fun too to see the US/Canada split. From big budget 'Armageddon' to the much smaller 'The Day After' (hey, that film is so esoteric that IMDB doesn't even have it!), the stated American assumption is that 'we'll fight now matter what' to prevent the outcome, or failing that, will survive to rebuild (TDA). Astonishing optimism really.

Re: Movie Afterthoughts

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

Last Night

Oh! I really really want to see that! :)

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

Flowers For Algernon

Yes, I've had my eye on that for a couple of weeks now. It's an intelligence-amplification story, isn't it? It'll be interesting to see how it stacks up against Ted Chiang's 'Understand', or Vinge's 'Bookworm, Run!'...

Invitiation to match quotation wits on my LJ!

[applez.livejournal.com]

1) Incidentally, I think 'Clerks' is by far Kevin Smith's best film.

2) 'Flowers for Algernon' is very very cool, I remember reading that as an assignment in grade school ... closet ALF propaganda handbook? Maybe, maybe.

If this is the same book that I'm thinking of, I do not recommend the Disney animated film version of the book called, 'Rats of NIMH.' Disney just can't help throwing a 'it's magic!' curve ball in what is otherwise a great story.

Re: Invitiation to match quotation wits on my LJ!

[despotliz.livejournal.com]

2) 'Flowers for Algernon' is very very cool, I remember reading that as an assignment in grade school ... closet ALF propaganda handbook? Maybe, maybe.

If this is the same book that I'm thinking of, I do not recommend the Disney animated film version of the book called, 'Rats of NIMH.'

IIRC The film The Scret of NIMH is based on the book Mrs. Frisby and the Rats of NIMH, which I absolutely loved as a child and haven't read for ages. Oh, and it's Don Bluth, not Disney. :)

Re: Invitiation to match quotation wits on my LJ!

[applez.livejournal.com]

Superb!

My memory completely sucks!

:-)

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[sean-gabriel.livejournal.com]

Hmmm. From the point of view of not knowing you at all.... Interesting....

1. A book: Gabriel Garcia Marquez - One Hundred Years Of Solitude
2. An author: Jorge Luis Borges. Master of the bizarre, mind altering and provocative short story. Plus, I have a thing for Latin-American literature....
3. A song: Boomtown Rats - I Don't Like Mondays. A fantastically irreverent mish-mash of syles, and just damn silly.
4. A movie: The Crying Game
5. An artist/band: Oh God... too many.... Bjork; Jethro Tull; Tori Amos; Yma Sumac; Tom Waits... People everyone shoould listen to at least once
6. A CD: Agh. Bob Dylan - Highway 61 Revisited
7. A website: Shotokan Planet (http://www.24fightingchickens.com/shotokan) - about karate. Interesting even if you don't do it or get it.
8. A new LJ friend: jeredge

[brassyn.livejournal.com]

1. A book - happy days: samuel beckett
2. An author - Al kennedy or samuel beckett
3. A song - sebadoh: mindreader
4. A movie - city of god!
5. An artist/band - folk implosion
6. A CD - sigur ros: ()
7. A website - http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/
8. A new LJ friend - too tough to do. davidchapman?

[malenfant.livejournal.com]

http://www.timeanddate.com/worldclock/

That's just cool.