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I too don't like endings to always be happy (@ Logan).  But, I do like to laugh and also have a dark sense of humour, so maybe that's another indication.  I like things to have depth and often don't find common humour funny at all (like most comedy films).  I tend to have huge gaps in years where I see no films at all and lived without tv for many years as well, so both of those areas are more sparsely populated.  I do love certain visual art, however, especially children's book illustrations such as those of Kay Neilsen and the like.  Culty, quirky things strike my fancy.  I have a long attention span, so long books, series, pieces of music are amongst my favourites.  I like puppies and kittens and long strolls at sunset on the beach.  LOL  And this topic.

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I suppose a lot of my picks either forsake or subvert narrative structure and realism, music included, or are based on non-Western narrative structures and harmony. Many of them are appealing moreso in their stimulating visuals, sonics, use of imagery than in their narrative coherence. I like themes that deal with the mind (spirituality, dreams, memory, illusions, philosophy, psychology, breaks in realism that may be interpreted psychologically). Long walks on the beach, etc.

Don't know what that says about me. 
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

hell not just lists Greg.. any monkey can throw sh*t on the wall.  Perhaps a bit of self reflection would be even more interesting...  

what does one think those choices and tastes say about yourself

On the many film threads and various TV stuff threads, I have pretty much posted all I needed to. As far as "literature" (including poetry, theater and essays), my tastes are really wide and since I came from a house of 40K books of Portuguese, Brazilian and Spanish Literature (you can visit it in Lisbon DE!), it is really difficult to choose one thing ... there are way too many that stood out, including some very good translations into Portuguese of a lot of American things.

So, I stick with the no hits none of the time ... it's how the music we love came to be called "progressive" by folks that do not know anything but to be told by their social media and mold what to like because of some supposed numbers!
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I will try to cover all the various genres I have come across in all of these rather than my most favourite ones which might have more of a skew.  Just to represent my tastes better.  

Novels

Brave New World by Aldous Huxley
Childhood's End by Arthur C Clarke
Crime and Punishment by Dostoeyevsky
Jane Eyre by Charlotte Bronte
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller
Of Human Bondage by Somerset Maugham
Summer Lightning by P G Wodehouse
Murder of Roger Ackroyd by Agatha Christie
Rebecca by Daphne Du Maurier
Picture of Dorian Gray by Oscar Wilde

Films

A Clockwork Orange by Stanley Kubrick
Network by Sidney Lumet
Casino by Martin Scorcese
Godfather by Francis Ford Coppola
The Fight Club by David Fincher
The Big Lebowski by Joel and Ethan Coen
Birdman by Alejandro Innaritu
Love Actually by Richard Curtis
Sense and Sensibility by Ang Lee
The Big Short by Adam McKay

TV shows

Boston Legal
Yes Minister
Big Bang Theory
Silicon Valley
Feud - Bette Davis/Joan Crawford
Big Little Lies
House of Cards
Mad Men
Succession
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy

Music (bands/artists)

Ilayaraja
Beatles
King Crimson
Mahavishnu Orchestra
Alice in Chains
Stevie Wonder
Morbid Angel
Fiona Apple
Dave Brubeck
Radiohead

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We've done these list things many times....but anything for Logan.  ;)
These are just off the top of my head......there are so many more...

Film:
Big Sleep
Casablanca
The Third Man
Dr Strangelove
North By Northwest
Vertigo
Body Heat
Chinatown
Altered States
Blade Runner
Alien
2001
Rio Brave
Goldfinger
The Godfather
Apocalypse Now
.....
Novels:
The Magus- John Fowles
Dune- Frank Herbert
Culture Series- Iaan Banks
3 Stigmata, Ubik, etc- P K Dick
Foundation- Asimov
9 Princes In Amber- Zelazny
Deptford Trilogy- Robertson Davies
Solaris- Lem
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy- Le Carre
Clockwork Orange- Burgess
The Crying of Lot 49 and V by  Pynchon
.......

TV:
The Pisoner
The Avengers
Outer Limits
Twilight Zone
MASH
Cheers/ Frasier
Big Bang Theory
X Files
Supernatural
Inspector Morse/ Lewis
Combat
Have Gun Will Tavel
...
Music:
King Crimson
Yes
Caravan
Hatfield
Steely Dan
Beatles
Stones
ELP
Jethro Tull
Led Zep
The Who
Neil Young
Coltrane
Mozart
Bach
Ralph Vaughan Williams
...

and so many others....










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I'll stick to 10 per category. Of course these are constantly changing. Ask me again tomorrow and I would probably come up with a whole different list.

Books (not an avid reader I must confess)

Dracula (Bram Stoker)
Do Androids Dream Of Electric Sheep? (Philip K. Dick)
Moby Dick (Herman Melville)
Rosaura A Las Diez (Marco Denevi)
El Aleph (Jorge Luis Borges)
The Metamorphosis (Franz Kafka)
Wuthering Heights (Emily Brontë)
Solaris (Stanislaw Lem)
Frankenstein (Mary Shelley)
Animal Farm (George Orwell)

Film

Fanny And Alexander (Ingmar Bergman)
Bleu (Krzysztof Kieslowski)
Paris, Texas (Wim Wenders)
M (Fritz Lang)
Rashomon (Akira Kurosawa)
Citizen Kane (Orson Welles)
Barton Fink (Joel & Ethan Coen)
Happiness (Todd Solondz)
Rebecca (Alfred Hitchcock)
The Tree Of Life (Terrence Malick)

Music:

Genesis
Opeth
Echo & The Bunnymen
Talk Talk
Nick Drake
Portishead
Steven Wilson
Frank Zappa
Miles Davis
John Coltrane

Tv:

The Sopranos
Twin Peaks
Six Feet Under
The X Files
The Americans
Hannibal
Peep Show
Fargo
South Park
Curb Your Enthusiasm

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Post Options Post Options   Thanks (0) Thanks(0)   Quote micky Quote  Post ReplyReply Direct Link To This Post Posted: March 04 2019 at 19:32
man I struggled with mine.... for a good reason.

Books movies... easy that sh*t is art.  Music though... ehhh.. not so fast.  Books and movies can entertain but they are best when the provoke you to think...  where i break with some/many, especially on this site, is music is not about stimulating the mind, it is about the heart and soul? Is that art?  Perhaps..   that is why I struggled with my list.  As such much more than with the other categories it really isn't a list of favories..  oh they are favorites of course.. but only when I feel the need or desire to have my heart and soul stimulated.. or more precisely refilled..  most of the time music for me is about emotional reinforcement.. 

if I am feeling pissed and angry...   my tastes will be far different and much less artistic than when I am feeling pensive or introspective.. if I am wanting something to get hot and jazzed up my tastes again will be far different ..

so sticking with the artistic theme here..  going with the pieces of music I do consider art.. they might not stimulate the mind.. I read f**king books when I want that.. but they do one thing much better than any other medium can do.. stimulate one's soul.. so I went with my favorites in that.. and went with specific pieces.. not merely groups or even albums.

Books.

1. The Foundation Trilogy - Issac Asimov

if there has been any book(s) that intellectually stimulated me.. it was reading these as a child.  

2. This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

my bible as a lost 20 something after the Gulf War

3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

the single most gut wrenching, powerful, and painful reading experience I've ever had. Only read it once... but it was enough.. but I will never EVER forget it or the feelings it provoked.  Amazing ...

4. World War Z - Clive Brooks

forget all the zombie bullsh*t..  the intellectual subtexts Brooks went into with this book and the various cultures were fascinating

5. The Stand - Stephen King

as Greg notes.. yeah perhaps a slight bend to the morbid and dark.. but god damn if this wasn't a fascinating read. The literary equivalent of Peckinpah it was (see below)

6.  The Ramayana - Valmiki

next to the Foundation series.. no book has made more of a life impression and even influenced my life more than this one did.

7.  To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

I love me southern literary works.. and you get into race.. oh yeah. One of the few mandatory readings we all had that really made an impression especially for me as I already had a strong passion and interest in racial inequalities.

8. Cross of Iron - Willie Heinrich

one of the very few books I have always had a copy of, since I first read it back in the 70's, replacing as need be when fallen apart or tossed into fireplaces by vindictive redheaded women.  Probably read it hundreds of times over the last 40 years.. and still never fails to make an impression. Much as the film (also see below) one of the most powerful anti-war novels ever written.

9. O Pioneers!- Willa Cather

a powerful portrait of frontier life in turn of the century America. Highly highly recommended if you haven't read it.  A portal back in time so to speak....

10. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

Big smile

 

 

Movies

1. Doctor Zhivago  (1965) David Lean

good God almighty has there been a more perfect movie ever made..   no there has not. It had it all..

2. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott

like many I rate this so very highly..   in large part to the final scene with Rudger Hauer which is IMO one of the the more powerful and soulful cinematic moments. If you can't relate to that.. you have no soul.

3. The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam ‘the f**king Man’ Peckinpah

speaking of art..  art can take many forms... here the master takes it where no one really had before..the beauty of violence ...the beauty of death. However while the film is canonized for its beginning and end.. you actually had a interesting morality tale in between the extreme (even to this day) cinematic violence that bookends it.

4. Melancholia (2011) Lars Van Trier

this movie...  simply blew me away from the first time I saw it.. which is a story in itself.. A WTF moment..  a personal movie that speaks to me on many levels.

5. The Thing (1982) John Carpenter

bah... perhaps no art here..  but can't not be a list of Mick movies..  'you have to be f**king kidding me' that scene alone gets you into the Mick top 5...

6. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Sergio Leone

much as Cather's novel hit a nerve with a part of our history I have strong interest and affintiy towards.. so this gem which was such a vivid window into the world of early 20th century immigrants in America. 

7.  Cross of Iron (1977) Sam ‘you bet your sweet ass I made this list twice’ Peckinpah

'the best war film about the common ordinary enlisted man since All Quiet of the Eastern Front' Orson Wells

much different than the book.. but obviously packs more of punch visually in typical extreme violence Peckinpah style.. he might have only done one war film.. but the one the master did was one of the greatest and most powerful anti-war flims ever..

8.  The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994) Stephan Elliot

oh my God...  we are talking art right...  well here we go... what a visually stunning movie and so good even the Spawn of Satan and I both loved this one.LOL

9. Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino

so much to say about this one...  I'd need several paragraphs 

10. Leaving Los Vegas (1995) Mike Figgis

 the cinematic version of The Road...  umm hmmm...

 

Music

1. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Sergei Rachmaninoff

so much to say about this one.. but I'll stick to ... '18th variation'.. perhaps the single most beautiful melody that human kind has ever created...  I listend to this last night while working up the list. .and goddamend... I went from crying tears of pure joy and emotion to nearly breaking my wrists pounding the table playing air piano like only Rachmaninoff can inspire

2. Dreams - The Allman Brothers

that guitar solo is hands down the single most breathtaking and emotional I've ever heard.  An emotional sauve.. that is what this song is for me

3. Cours d’Amours - Carl Orff

dear God...  ranking a close 2nd to #1 as perhaps the most beautiful melodies ever created by humankind... another one that if you have a dry eye after listening to it..  

you are soulless...

4. Sequenze e Frequenze - Franco Battiato

unlike the first 3 that are purely emotional experiences for me.. this one hit me so hard for being more introspective.. as I once said.. the best piece of music EVER for rainy days and Mondays haha

5. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band

not just the best thing the Allmans ever did.. but the perfect fusion of rock and jazz. Instead of playing rock in a jazz format as so many did.. the ABB reversed the flow and did something that few attempted to do..and none did so well... playing jazz in a rock format. 

6. Glad -Traffic

a piece of music that has, ever since I first heard it, spoken directly to me in its dual themes.

7. Piano Concerto in Am Op. 16 - Edward Grieg

while I love the 2nd Rach..  for personal reasons and bad personal memories I associated with it...  this one might be my second favorite piano concerto. That opening...   blow thy speakers man...

8. Toccata - ELP

this is a prog site.. and I sort of hang out here and occasionally enjoy listening to it.. LOL so tossing a bone to the classic prog.  While Tales might be the pinacle of prog from an album standpoint..  Toccata was from a purely song standpoint...  

9.  Say What - Miles Davis

another piece of emotional art from me..

10. Chain Reaction/Quantum Physics - Can

and this one unlike most has not been a part of me for many years, many since I was a child but more a recent addition .. but much like the Battiato entry.. it is a incredible journey not into the heart and soul but a deeper place .. into the recesses of one mind and senses...

 

T.V

1. NYMFingPD Blue

Sipowicz..  'nuff said. The greatest TV show character.. EVER!!!!!!

2. MASH

I mean really...  if Doctor Zhivago had it all on the big screen... MASH had it all on the small screen..  well.. expect for Sipowicz.. which is why you are #2 haha

3. Frasier

one word.. Niles...

4. Sopranos

one word.. Tony

5. 3rd Rock From the Sun

one word.. John

6. Taxi

one word..  hahahhah

7. The Rockford Files

one word..  James

8. Dallas

one word..  J.f**king.R

9. Cheers

one word... CLIFF!!!

10 . Everybody Loves Raymond

not sure why .. but damnit.. I loved this show..




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Well thought out, as usual, Micky.  You never disappoint.  And reminded me of a couple of things I have to go back and add in.  
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It was worth the wait, thanks Micky, and thanks to everyone so far who has participated (I'd been hoping to do something with this data).
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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

man I struggled with mine.... for a good reason.

Books movies... easy that sh*t is art.  Music though... ehhh.. not so fast.  Books and movies can entertain but they are best when the provoke you to think...  where i break with some/many, especially on this site, is music is not about stimulating the mind, it is about the heart and soul? Is that art?  Perhaps..   that is why I struggled with my list.  As such much more than with the other categories it really isn't a list of favories..  oh they are favorites of course.. but only when I feel the need or desire to have my heart and soul stimulated.. or more precisely refilled..  most of the time music for me is about emotional reinforcement.. 

if I am feeling pissed and angry...   my tastes will be far different and much less artistic than when I am feeling pensive or introspective.. if I am wanting something to get hot and jazzed up my tastes again will be far different ..

so sticking with the artistic theme here..  going with the pieces of music I do consider art.. they might not stimulate the mind.. I read f**king books when I want that.. but they do one thing much better than any other medium can do.. stimulate one's soul.. so I went with my favorites in that.. and went with specific pieces.. not merely groups or even albums.

<p ="msonormal"="">Books.


<p ="msonormal"="">1. The Foundation Trilogy - Issac Asimov

<p ="msonormal"="">if there has been any book(s) that intellectually stimulated me.. it was reading these as a child.  


<p ="msonormal"="">2. This Side of Paradise - F. Scott Fitzgerald

<p ="msonormal"="">my bible as a lost 20 something after the Gulf War


<p ="msonormal"="">3. The Road - Cormac McCarthy

<p ="msonormal"="">the single most gut wrenching, powerful, and painful reading experience I've ever had. Only read it once... but it was enough.. but I will never EVER forget it or the feelings it provoked.  Amazing ...


<p ="msonormal"="">4. World War Z - Clive Brooks

<p ="msonormal"="">forget all the zombie bullsh*t..  the intellectual subtexts Brooks went into with this book and the various cultures were fascinating


<p ="msonormal"="">5. The Stand - Stephen King

<p ="msonormal"="">as Greg notes.. yeah perhaps a slight bend to the morbid and dark.. but god damn if this wasn't a fascinating read. The literary equivalent of Peckinpah it was (see below)


<p ="msonormal"="">6.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>The Ramayana -
Valmiki

<p ="msonormal"="">next to the Foundation series.. no book has made more of a life impression and even influenced my life more than this one did.


<p ="msonormal"="">7. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>To Kill A
Mockingbird - Harper Lee

<p ="msonormal"="">I love me southern literary works.. and you get into race.. oh yeah. One of the few mandatory readings we all had that really made an impression especially for me as I already had a strong passion and interest in racial inequalities.


<p ="msonormal"="">8. Cross of Iron - Willie Heinrich

<p ="msonormal"="">one of the very few books I have always had a copy of, since I first read it back in the 70's, replacing as need be when fallen apart or tossed into fireplaces by vindictive redheaded women.  Probably read it hundreds of times over the last 40 years.. and still never fails to make an impression. Much as the film (also see below) one of the most powerful anti-war novels ever written.


<p ="msonormal"="">9. O Pioneers!- Willa Cather

<p ="msonormal"="">a powerful portrait of frontier life in turn of the century America. Highly highly recommended if you haven't read it.  A portal back in time so to speak....


<p ="msonormal"="">10. Starship Troopers - Robert Heinlein

<p ="msonormal"="">Big smile


<p ="msonormal"=""><o:p> </o:p>


<p ="msonormal"=""><o:p> </o:p>


<p ="msonormal"="">Movies


<p ="msonormal"="">1. Doctor Zhivago<span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> 
</span>(1965) David Lean

<p ="msonormal"="">good God almighty has there been a more perfect movie ever made..   no there has not. It had it all..


<p ="msonormal"="">2. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott

<p ="msonormal"="">like many I rate this so very highly..   in large part to the final scene with Rudger Hauer which is IMO one of the the more powerful and soulful cinematic moments. If you can't relate to that.. you have no soul.


<p ="msonormal"="">3. The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam ‘the f**king Man’ Peckinpah

<p ="msonormal"="">speaking of art..  art can take many forms... here the master takes it where no one really had before..the beauty of violence ...the beauty of death. However while the film is canonized for its beginning and end.. you actually had a interesting morality tale in between the extreme (even to this day) cinematic violence that bookends it.


<p ="msonormal"="">4. Melancholia (2011) Lars Van Trier

<p ="msonormal"="">this movie...  simply blew me away from the first time I saw it.. which is a story in itself.. A WTF moment..  a personal movie that speaks to me on many levels.


<p ="msonormal"="">5. The Thing (1982) John Carpenter

<p ="msonormal"="">bah... perhaps no art here..  but can't not be a list of Mick movies..  'you have to be f**king kidding me' that scene alone gets you into the Mick top 5...


<p ="msonormal"="">6. Once Upon a Time in America (1984) Sergio Leone

<p ="msonormal"="">much as Cather's novel hit a nerve with a part of our history I have strong interest and affintiy towards.. so this gem which was such a vivid window into the world of early 20th century immigrants in America. 


<p ="msonormal"="">7.<span style="mso-spacerun:yes">  </span>Cross of Iron
(1977) Sam ‘you bet your sweet ass I made this list twice’ Peckinpah

<p ="msonormal"="">'the best war film about the common ordinary enlisted man since All Quiet of the Eastern Front' Orson Wells

<p ="msonormal"="">much different than the book.. but obviously packs more of punch visually in typical extreme violence Peckinpah style.. he might have only done one war film.. but the one the master did was one of the greatest and most powerful anti-war flims ever..


<p ="msonormal"="">8. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>The Adventures of Priscilla
Queen of the Desert (1994) Stephan Elliot

<p ="msonormal"="">oh my God...  we are talking art right...  well here we go... what a visually stunning movie and so good even the Spawn of Satan and I both loved this one.LOL


<p ="msonormal"="">9. Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino

<p ="msonormal"="">so much to say about this one...  I'd need several paragraphs 


<p ="msonormal"="">10. Leaving Los Vegas (1995) Mike Figgis


<p ="msonormal"=""><o:p> the cinematic version of The Road...  umm hmmm...</o:p>


<p ="msonormal"=""><o:p> </o:p>


<p ="msonormal"="">Music


<p ="msonormal"="">1. Rhapsody on a theme of Paganini - Sergei Rachmaninoff

<p ="msonormal"="">so much to say about this one.. but I'll stick to ... '18th variation'.. perhaps the single most beautiful melody that human kind has ever created...  I listend to this last night while working up the list. .and goddamend... I went from crying tears of pure joy and emotion to nearly breaking my wrists pounding the table playing air piano like only Rachmaninoff can inspire


<p ="msonormal"="">2. Dreams - The Allman Brothers

<p ="msonormal"="">that guitar solo is hands down the single most breathtaking and emotional I've ever heard.  An emotional sauve.. that is what this song is for me


<p ="msonormal"="">3. Cours d’Amours - Carl Orff

<p ="msonormal"="">dear God...  ranking a close 2nd to #1 as perhaps the most beautiful melodies ever created by humankind... another one that if you have a dry eye after listening to it..  

<p ="msonormal"="">you are soulless...


<p ="msonormal"="">4. Sequenze e Frequenze - Franco Battiato

<p ="msonormal"="">unlike the first 3 that are purely emotional experiences for me.. this one hit me so hard for being more introspective.. as I once said.. the best piece of music EVER for rainy days and Mondays haha


<p ="msonormal"="">5. In Memory of Elizabeth Reed - The Allman Brothers Band

<p ="msonormal"="">not just the best thing the Allmans ever did.. but the perfect fusion of rock and jazz. Instead of playing rock in a jazz format as so many did.. the ABB reversed the flow and did something that few attempted to do..and none did so well... playing jazz in a rock format. 


<p ="msonormal"="">6. Glad -Traffic

<p ="msonormal"="">a piece of music that has, ever since I first heard it, spoken directly to me in its dual themes.


<p ="msonormal"="">7. Piano Concerto in Am Op. 16 - Edward Grieg

<p ="msonormal"="">while I love the 2nd Rach..  for personal reasons and bad personal memories I associated with it...  this one might be my second favorite piano concerto. That opening...   blow thy speakers man...


<p ="msonormal"="">8. Toccata - ELP

<p ="msonormal"="">this is a prog site.. and I sort of hang out here and occasionally enjoy listening to it.. LOL so tossing a bone to the classic prog.  While Tales might be the pinacle of prog from an album standpoint..  Toccata was from a purely song standpoint...  


<p ="msonormal"="">9. <span style="mso-spacerun:yes"> </span>Say What - Miles
Davis

<p ="msonormal"="">another piece of emotional art from me..


<p ="msonormal"="">10. Chain Reaction/Quantum Physics - Can

<p ="msonormal"="">and this one unlike most has not been a part of me for many years, many since I was a child but more a recent addition .. but much like the Battiato entry.. it is a incredible journey not into the heart and soul but a deeper place .. into the recesses of one mind and senses...


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<p ="msonormal"="">T.V


<p ="msonormal"="">1. NYMFingPD Blue

<p ="msonormal"="">Sipowicz..  'nuff said. The greatest TV show character.. EVER!!!!!!


<p ="msonormal"="">2. MASH

<p ="msonormal"="">I mean really...  if Doctor Zhivago had it all on the big screen... MASH had it all on the small screen..  well.. expect for Sipowicz.. which is why you are #2 haha


<p ="msonormal"="">3. Frasier

<p ="msonormal"="">one word.. Niles...


<p ="msonormal"="">4. Sopranos

<p ="msonormal"="">one word.. Tony


<p ="msonormal"="">5. 3rd Rock From the Sun

<p ="msonormal"="">one word.. John


<p ="msonormal"="">6. Taxi

<p ="msonormal"="">one word..  hahahhah


<p ="msonormal"="">7. The Rockford Files

<p ="msonormal"="">one word..  James


<p ="msonormal"="">8. Dallas

<p ="msonormal"="">one word..  J.f**king.R


<p ="msonormal"="">9. Cheers

<p ="msonormal"="">one word... CLIFF!!!


<p ="msonormal"="">10 . Everybody Loves Raymond

<p ="msonormal"="">not sure why .. but damnit.. I loved this show..






micky, did you also read the Mahabharata? If so, curious what kind of impression, if any, it left on you.
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I begin now the list of my tastes.

Film director.

Italians:

1) Pasolini
2) Fellini
3) Rossellini
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4) Elio Petri
5) Luchino Visconti
6) Gillo Pontecorvo
7) Francesco Rosi
8) Bernardo Bertolucci
9) Vittorio De Sica
10) Sergio Leone
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11) Ermanno Olmi
12) Nanni Moretti
13) Matteo Garrone
14) Paolo Sorrentino
15) Giuseppe Tornatore
16) Marco Tullio Giordana
17) Paolo e Vittorio Taviani.
18) Michelangelo Antonioni
19) Liliana Cavani
20) Mario Monicelli
23) Paolo Virzì
24) Carlo Verdone
25) Francesca Archibugi.




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Books 

George Orwell-Animal Farm
Aldous Huxley-The Human Situation
Bruno Walter-Theme and Variations
Sir Thomas Beecham-A Mingled Chime
Michael Kater-The Twisted Muse
Erik Ryding and Rebecca Pechefsky-Bruno Walter-A World Elsewhere
Fred K. Preiburg-Trial Of Strength
Harvey Sachs-Toscanini

Film

Amadeus
Planet Of The Apes (1968)
Beneath The Planet Of The Apes
The Pianist
The Shawshank Redemption
Downfall
Logan's Run (1975)
2001-A Space Odyssey

Music

Triumvirat
Giger Lenz Marron
Dzyan
Colosseum
Passport
Anton Bruckner 
Hector Berlioz
Richard Strauss 
Gustav Mahler
Beethoven
Arnold Schoenberg
Pytor Tchaikovsky

TV

One Step Beyond
Star Trek (TOS)
Star Trek Continues
The Twilight Zone (original)
Whiz Quiz
The Beverly Hillbilies
Get Smart
Dragnet (original 50s)
Northwest Passage

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Originally posted by The Dark Elf The Dark Elf wrote:

^ Call me prescient.

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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

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Movies

1. Doctor Zhivago  (1965) David Lean

good God almighty has there been a more perfect movie ever made..   no there has not. It had it all..

2. Blade Runner (1982) Ridley Scott

like many I rate this so very highly..   in large part to the final scene with Rudger Hauer which is IMO one of the the more powerful and soulful cinematic moments. If you can't relate to that.. you have no soul.

3. The Wild Bunch (1969) Sam ‘the f**king Man’ Peckinpah

speaking of art..  art can take many forms... here the master takes it where no one really had before..the beauty of violence ...the beauty of death. However while the film is canonized for its beginning and end.. you actually had a interesting morality tale in between the extreme (even to this day) cinematic violence that bookends it.

8.  The Adventures of Priscilla Queen of the Desert (1994) Stephan Elliot

oh my God...  we are talking art right...  well here we go... what a visually stunning movie and so good even the Spawn of Satan and I both loved this one.LOL

9. Deer Hunter (1978) Michael Cimino

so much to say about this one...  I'd need several paragraphs 

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Nice listing. THE WILD BUNCH is, likely one of the best "westerns" ever done. And the character definitions in it are amazing (Ernest Borgnine anyone?) 

Priscilla .... "ohh, wow ... my tits have fallen off!" And you go out laughing even more!

Cimino ... I also liked his HEAVEN'S GATE, and the DVD on it, seems to show/suggest that is stuff in there that is badly cut up, taking away the long bits that he had in DEERHUNTER and also on this film. The government corruption in the film's last part, is toned down by the cutting ... and I think the last line in the film is sad (probably not in the original script I bet!) ... excusing the genocide, and obvious murder attempt.

There are too many films in my listing ... and I love many of them for different reasons ... it's hard to not like Sven Nykvist, who made Ingmar Bergman look good, and later went on to gain an OSCAR. Visual clarity like no other. I love the way music is used in DR. ZHIVAGO, although he never really duplicated it in later films. The writing, in many of the Luis Bunuel films is fantastic ... THE DISCREET CHARM OF THE BOURGEOISIE ... is a perfect example as the film makes a loop through everyone's "head" ... and then the earlier stuff is just full of amazing stuff. Even his ROBINSON CRUSOE makes the remake a la Tom Hanks look silly, while Bunuel's was sort of ... wait a minute ... things don't happen that way ... VIRIDIANA, with the famous scene towards the end, and how things get that far ... is crazy ... as are many of the small bits and pieces in LOS OLVIDADOS ... things that you do not forget. Jean-Luc Godard, because he shows you how the Hollywood camera puts you to sleep with their mechanical shots and lack of "continuity" in a visual medium. Shots that don't make sense, like the shot/crossshot of a conversation ... how many people are you watching this? But the best of all is the pendulum shot in the bar, going away from the lovers ... it's exactly what you do in a bar!!!!!!! If that's not enough, try the backwards stuff in Weekend.

Stuff like this makes it hard to choose ... the nature of it all is so lively and real, that one is not seduced by the colorful background with the angled shot to make the face look better, kind of thing ... that for me, always appear to not be as "true" and helpful in terms of "accepting a story ..." like a book and such.
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Films
  Clockwork Orange
  Pulp Fiction 
  Spartacus
  The Godfather
  Silence of the Lambs
  Blade Runner
  The Great Escape
  Alien/ Aliens 
  The Martian
  Inception  
  Apocalypse Now
  Monty Python & the Holy Grail

Music
  Yes
  Beatles
  Rush
  Allman Brothers
  Al Di Meola
  Genesis
  Zappa
  Grateful Dead
  Pink Floyd
  Rolling Stones
  Porcupine Tree
  Dire Straights
  The Who
  Police/ Sting
  Clapton (Cream/Blind Faith...)

T. V.
  Breaking Bad
  The West Wing
  Sons of Anarchy
  Game Of Thrones
  Shamless
  All in the Family
  Sopranos
  Dexter
  Star Trek
  Twilight Zone
  MASH
  Black Mirror
  
  
 


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oh man.. a big omission on my list...   how could I forget this one. Thanks Pedro for reminding me .. I owe you a Q of good high quality dope whenever we finally get a chance to meet.. and god help the town if that ever happens..

classic...



should have been ranked #3...  sorry Raymond..  but no Drew you were.. god almighty that might have been the funniest show EVER ...



not to mention the greatest show opening EVER!!!

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Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

 
micky, did you also read the Mahabharata? If so, curious what kind of impression, if any, it left on you.

Never did Madan..   the Ramayana was the gateway, my introduction...  but I had the Gita recommended to me after that (for obvious reasons I suppose).  After that I studied the Upanishads.. but never did make it to the Mahabarata in full as my life hit the wall about 90mph soon after and I suppose I never fully found all the pieces that wreck scattered about. 

I really should finally do that... especially as life has finally found a bit of peace and quiet and can fully digest it.


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Originally posted by micky micky wrote:

Originally posted by rogerthat rogerthat wrote:

 
micky, did you also read the Mahabharata? If so, curious what kind of impression, if any, it left on you.

Never did Madan..   the Ramayana was the gateway, my introduction...  but I had the Gita recommended to me after that (for obvious reasons I suppose).  After that I studied the Upanishads.. but never did make it to the Mahabarata in full as my life hit the wall about 90mph soon after and I suppose I never fully found all the pieces that wreck scattered about. 

I really should finally do that... especially as life has finally found a bit of peace and quiet and can fully digest it.

Cool, was just very curious to see Ramayana mentioned without a mention of Mahabharata because people usually go on to read it as well after Ramayana.
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Movie: My Cousin Vinny

Book: Les Aventures de Michel Risque

TV: La Petite Vie

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