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there is no inahandbasket, only ZUL!!! a) Perdido Street Station, China Mieville (here), and any of his other stuff. (king rat is his weakest, don't start with that.) b) Man, I read so little non-fiction offline... oo! Last Chance to See, Douglas Adams. c) No idea what you've seen, so I'll list a few. -Delicatesen (french, crazy movie) -Donnie Darko (very good coming-of-age type thing with a twist) -Hudson Hawk (bad Bruce Willis comedy. I love it.) (here)-Delicatessen and City of Lost Children (Delicatessen isn't on DVD in the states yet, both french movies. Earlier, edgier stuff from the guys who did Amelie.) d) again, no idea your taste here, so I'll give a selection. -Django Reinhardt (Gypsy guitar, phenomenal) -Aphex Twin (edgy electronica, soundtrack to Pi) -Gomez (british garage band/experimental rock. I'll have to burn you a copy of the CD i have, some of their stuff sucks but this album is sweet. I can't find it on Amazon, was a promo copy sent to my radio station in college.) -Franz Ferdinand (pop rock but done well, perfect for the early aughts.) e) I browse very little visual art, sadly. Can't help you here. f) Bawls. The ultimate energy drink. If you ever need to not sleep for a few hours, find one of these little blue bottles and drink it. (Tastes good too!) I'd recommend a beer, but you're already more knowledgable in that realm than I am. Although I had a really good double wheat the other day. I'll try to locate the bottle in my pile of brew stuff. g) Licorice. Good licorice, from that little euro-store in harvard square. h) The Canon Digital Rebel D300, because I'm freakin obsessed with it lately. ... Oh! you meant media. heh. www.boingboing.net, the source of much amusement in a day's time for me. Also has an LJ feed, http://www.livejournal.com/userinfo.bml?user=boingboing_nethope I was helpful! or at least amusing!
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From:  transcribe |
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a) 'The Monkey's Mask' Dorothy Porter (via cinemama), poetry: 'The City in Which I Love You', or 'Book of My Nights', by Li-Young Lee. 'Molloy', Samuel Beckett. b) 'The Way of the Warrior' Chogyam Trungpac) 'The Long Day Closes', dir. Terence Davies. one of my all time favorites. 'Heaven' dir. T. Tykwer. ditto. d) castanets, piano magic, the arcade fire, colder, polyphonic spree, the national, rachels, xiu xiu e) haven't paid close enough attention for a long time, as not much has remotely interested me. i suspect that's changing though. political strife does that. i always love Katharina Fritsch though. f) hangar 1 kaffir lime vodka, sparkling wine: argyle tirage (butterscotch and toast). perfect for the season. g) cocao cardonah) shoes: dansko. okay, more wine: alsatian white, oregon pinot noir, Aussie shiraz-- Henry's Drive. don't overlook dessert wines. i know sweet isn't your thing, but good examples are sip-ful divinity... sauternes... mmmm.
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From: jawalter |
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November 19th, 2004 11:36 am (UTC)
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None of these are really obscure, but they've all been on my mind for one reason or another lately. So basically, this list is more about me than it is about you. Life is hard that way.
a) Anything by Nabokov. I'm reading Ada, or Ardor right now, and boy howdy, is it a mouthful.
b) I've just read a book about vanilla and a book about baseball on Cape Cod, but I'm going to recommend one that I'm still impressed by: Moneyball, by Michael Lewis. Yes, it is a book about baseball, but no, it's not really about baseball. It's about human behavior ... the baseball is just the framework within which that behavior is examined.
c) The Good, The Bad, and The Ugly. I bought this a while ago, but I haven't been able to watch it because I'm surrounded by philistines.
d) William Shatner. Pe-fucking-riod.
e) Frank Miller or Alan Moore. I don't know if this is exactly what you mean, but I've been reading a pantsload of graphic novels lately, and I remember you reading League of Extraordinary Gentlemen in Maine. Sin City is really cool, and Watchmen is brilliant!
f) Booooooze. Any more specific suggestion I could make would just be redundant.
g) I've had a weird craving for mushrooms lately, but I can't figure out why.
h) How to Have Sex Like a Porn Star by Jenna Jameson. She's a (duh) porn star, and I kind of want to read this book (for non-salacious reasons ... partly), but I'm too ashamed to buy it because it probably sucks.
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From: cris |
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November 19th, 2004 11:49 am (UTC)
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a) Elizabeth McCracken - The Giant's Houseb) Bill Bryson - A Short History of Nearly Everythingc) you've seen The Incredibles already, yes? d) an old roommate just turned me onto The Futureheads. If you're into that Interpol/Franz Ferdinand/Killers vein of indie rock, they're well worth checking out. e) File magazinef) late autumn New England is totally Burdick's Hot Chocolate season g) currently, I'm contemplating cooking up this braised chicken with a lemongrass sambal sauce from the Simply Ming cookbook. The online archive hasn't posted that recipe yet, but his recipe for a 5 Spice Chile Rub can be applied to lamb and beef stews to awesome effect.
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a) book, fiction The Hiram Key* b) book, non-fiction Second Messiah c) movie Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind d) musical artist Natasha Atlas e) visual artist me, duh... f) drink Pomegranite Juice g) foodstuff Bing Cherry Pie (no reference to agoodshinkickin's vagina intended) h) wildcard/user's choice Starbucks Pumpkin Spice Frappucinno or however the fuck you spell that.
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a) Dhalgren, Samuel R. Delany; The Screwtape Letters, C.S. Lewis; or If On a Winter's Night a Traveller, Italo Calvino
b) A Natural History of the Senses, Diane Ackerman; And There Was Light, Jacques Lusseyran; The Image of the City, Kevin Lynch
c) The Trouble with Harry; Beetlejuice
d) Crooked Still
e) Jamal Elias (go see his photos at the Cambridge Multicultural Arts Center, really, and the textile show upstairs, even though I can't remember the artist's name); Paul Stopforth (artist in residence at Nelson Mandela's former prison); Egon Schiele (my personal obsession d'annee)
f) Orchid oolong tea, "fish eye" water, steeped 1.5 minutes
g) Clementine oranges (organic, but necessarily out of the big crate)
h) A very long walk around sunset or sunrise
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