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GreysOlive 
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Instant Family 7/10
Thoight it would be a typical comedy but it was much more than that. Really good performances from Rose Byrne and Mark Walberg. |
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GreysOlive
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Posted: March 10 2019 at 10:28 |
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The Possession of Hannah Grace.
Not many films make me jump but this one did on a few occasions. I really enjoyed it. |
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Snicolette
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Posted: March 09 2019 at 22:18 |
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Will check it out, thank you
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"Into every rain, a little life must fall." ~Tom Rapp
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rogerthat
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Posted: March 09 2019 at 19:38 |
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Pretty late getting to this but do drop by if you like at the Renaissance Zone: |
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MortSahlFan
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Posted: March 07 2019 at 18:04 |
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I've enjoyed reading all these, and hope this bump might enable others to contribute.
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https://www.youtube.com/c/LoyalOpposition
https://www.scribd.com/document/382737647/MortSahlFan-Song-List |
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micky
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Posted: March 07 2019 at 17:52 |
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ehh... literature and movies were easy .. it was music that was the hard one. Then again Pedro I'd suspect you'd disagree with me on the artistic qualities of music. sure it exists.. but that really isn't what music is about. never has been.. never will be. sure it is great to see musicians try to bring all that high brow intellectual sh*t into music.. but ever since the dawn of time music has been not about artistic expression.. it isn't about stimulating the mind or the senses... but about emotional relation.. relating your emotions to the music..
that is why for me the music list was so hard.. I love so much music.. of so many styles.. and its artistic merits mean jack f**king sh*t to me.. it is all about how they related to me and my particular emotonal state.. it is like I said.. emtional reinforcemnt.. you want to get hot and revved up for a night out on the town.. do you put Rock Bottom on.. hell no.. unless you are a first class prog egghead.. for most normal people. Music is all their emotional state of mind.. music they can relate to based on what they are feeling..
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moshkito
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Posted: March 07 2019 at 17:39 |
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Hi,
I was worried about the listing for Literature, and then music, since you all pretty much know my tastes in music, although some folks do not seem to understand, or get an idea that my tastes are so universal that it throws off folks that tend to list more "well known" stuff due to their fame, or pop/hit music levels. Cervantes, would be in it, so would some Shakespeare and even Boccaccio ... not to mention Goethe and Hesse, and at least one French, and one of my favorites is Moliere, and his social and _______ commentaries everywhere. But then, there is one that is not usually mentioned, but the Marquis de Sade, is actually a very good writer, even if some think it is sad and sick! Doris Lessing is a novelist that I love to read also. Some of her works are just ... not only well written, they are the kind of stuff that you remember a long time. A lot of the literature I like happens to be in theater ... Peter Weiss MARAT/SADE is probably the play I consider the best, and one that was quoted by the Beatles, Bonzo Dog Band, and many others, which kinda explains its incredible upheaval when it opened in London, and how shocking it was, and became. It was sort of pure psychedelia in the middle of all the rest. And you didn't need dope to appreciate it, although many people will get highly upset at the political and social commentaries in there. (paraphrasing ... I am a revolutionary with a vision ... and the reply is ... no you are not. You are another man with an idiotic vision that thinks he's better than anyone else!)(... and the acting, in the play ... a total wow!). Let's see ... Michel de Ghelderode is a fantastic playwright. Sam Sheppard is also a far out playwright. And there are some things from Japan that are also amazing ... and some films were made of many of them, and they deserve the mention and attention.
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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omphaloskepsis
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Posted: March 07 2019 at 09:22 |
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I'm freaked by how many novels I have in common with you guys. In common with Logan- - The Thee Stigmata of Palmer Eldtritch (Philip K. Dick) - Mother Night (Kurt Vonnegut)- Stranger in a Strange Land (Robert A. Heinlein) - The Tin Drum (Günter Grass) - Crime and Punishment (Fyodor Dostoyevsky) - Infinite Jest (David Foster Wallace) - Island (Aldous Huxley) - Oryx and Crake (Margaret Atwood) - 1984 (George Orwell) - The Road (Cormac McCarthy) All but two in common with Dark Elf The Once and Future King - T.H. White The Name of the Rose - Umberto Eco The Lord of the Rings/The Hobbit/The Silmarillion - J.R.R. Tolkien Midnight's Children - Salman Rushdie Ulysses - James Joyce The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain I, Claudius - Robert Graves ( Livia- favorite evil woman ever) David Copperfield - Charles Dickens The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee Watership Down - Richard Adams Dune - Frank Herbert All but two in common with Exitthelemming - the Rabbit series - John Updike the Trial - Franz Kafka a Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man - James Joyce the Outsider - Albert Camus a Clockwork Orange - Anthony Burgess the Catcher in the Rye - JD Salinger Lord of the Flies - William Golding Trainspotting - Irvine Welsh Foucault's Pendulum - Umberto Eco A few other Novels Everything by Cormac McCarthy, Kurt Vonnegut, Aldous Huxley, Virginia Wolfe, Joseph Conrad, DH Lawerance and and Joseph Heller Kristin Lavransdatter by Sigrid Undset Tom Jones by Henry Fielding The Sound and the Fury by William Faulkner Native Son by Richard Wright Studs Lonigan by James T Farrell Bend in the River by V.S. Naipaul all the Hyperion novels by Dan Simmons Edited by omphaloskepsis - March 07 2019 at 09:24 |
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Posted: March 07 2019 at 08:42 |
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Movie: My Cousin Vinny
Book: Les Aventures de Michel Risque TV: La Petite Vie Music: Phish |
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rogerthat
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Posted: March 07 2019 at 07:37 |
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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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micky
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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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micky
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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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Argo2112
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Posted: March 06 2019 at 12:25 |
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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 Edited by Argo2112 - March 06 2019 at 13:17 |
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moshkito
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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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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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Posted: March 06 2019 at 09:23 |
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Cheap psychic ... you had no details!   |
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Music is not just for listening ... it is for LIVING ... you got to feel it to know what's it about! Not being told!
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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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I begin now the list of my tastes. Italians: 1) Pasolini 2) Fellini 3) Rossellini ---- 4) Elio Petri 5) Luchino Visconti 6) Gillo Pontecorvo 7) Francesco Rosi 8) Bernardo Bertolucci 9) Vittorio De Sica 10) Sergio Leone ---------------------------- 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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Amos Goldberg (professor of Genocide Studies at the Hebrew University in Jerusalem): Yes, it's genocide. It's so difficult and painful to admit it, but we can no longer avoid this conclusion.
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micky, did you also read the Mahabharata? If so, curious what kind of impression, if any, it left on you. |
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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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Snicolette
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Posted: March 04 2019 at 21:18 |
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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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