Quickly name your top 5 favorite books, movies and albums at the moment.
Books: Ulysses - James Joyce Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov The Last Tycoon (Unfinished) - Francis Scott Key Fitzgerald Dubliners - James Joyce The Adventures Of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain
Albums: OK Computer - Radiohead Wish You Were Here - Pink Floyd The Velvet Underground & Nico - The Velvet Underground Pet Sounds - The Beach Boys
Tie - The Battle Of Los Angeles - Rage Against The Machine and Ready To Die - The Notorious B.I.G.
Movies: Gates Of Heaven - (Errol Morris, 1978) La Passion De Jeanne d’Arc - (Carl Theodore Dreyer, 1928) The Birds - (Alfred Hitchcock, 1963) Sunrise: A Song Of Two Humans - (F.W. Murnau, 1927)
Tie - After The Thin Man - (W.S. Van Dyke, 1936) and The Lady From Shanghai - (Orson Welles, 1947)
Watership Down - Richard Adams East of Eden - John Steinbeck The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn - Mark Twain American Psycho - Bret Easton Ellis
The Harry Potter series - J.K. Rowling (I’m a sucker for them, I admit it)
Movies
Schindler’s List - (Steven Spielberg, 1993)
A Clockwork Orange* - (Stanley Kubrick, 1971)
Amadeus* - (Milos Foreman, 1984)
Pulp Fiction* - (Quentin Tarantino, 1994)
Magnolia* - (Paul Thomas Anderson, 1999)
ALBUMS
Electric Ladyland - Jimi Hendrix Master of Puppets - Metallica Back in Black - AC/DC Physical Graffiti - Led Zeppelin Appetite for Destruction - Guns N’ Roses
Books
A series, actually: The Dragon Quartet by Marjorie B. Kellogg. The Murder of the Maharajah by H.R.F. Keating A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens Forward the Foundation by Isaac Asimov Steel Beach by John Varley
Albums Hemispheres - Rush British Steel - Judas Priest Piece of Mind - Iron Maiden The Sickness - Disturbed Roll The Bones - Rush
Movies Joe vs The Volcano Star Wars (the first one) UHF (Weird Al’s movie) Lethal Weapon (the first two) (“Diplomatic immunity!” BLAM! “Has just been revoked!”) The Breakfast Club (first movie I ever paid to see twice in the theater)
The Open Society and Its Enemies, Karl Popper
The Poverty of Historicism, Karl Popper
Letters to Children, C.S. Lewis
Essays, George Orwell
The Brothers Karamazov, Fyodor Dostoyevsky
Records
Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
A German Requiem, Johannes Brahms
The Magic Flute, Wolfgang Mozart
Petite Messe Solennelle, Gioacchino Rossini
Revolver, Beatles
Films
One Flew Over the Cuckoo’s Nest, Forman
North by Northwest, Hitch
The Deer Hunter, Cimino
Something about Mary, Farrellies
Crimes and Misdemeanors, Allen
Books Brideshead Revisited by Evelyn Waugh Pride and Prejudice by Jane Austen Gone With the Wind by Margaret Mitchell Where the Sidewalk Ends by Shel Silverstein The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier and Clay by Michael Chabon
Albums Operation: Mindcrime - Queensryche Promised Land - Queensryche Grace Under Pressure - Rush Darkest Days - Stabbign Westward My Own Prison - Creed
Movies Pride and Prejudice the BBC series Lord of the Rings the series The Shawshank Redemption Reservoir Dogs The Powerpuff Girls Movie
Books (not counting Shakespeare, since he wrote for the stage):
Infinite Jest, David Foster Wallace Love Medicine, Louise Erdirch The Things They Carried, Tim O’Brien The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner The Lord of the Rings, JRR Tolkien Movies:
2001: A Space Odyssey Pulp Fiction Ed Wood Star Wars (the first one) Spirited Away Albums:
Nevermind, Nirvana Abbey Road, The Beatles Master of Puppets, Metallica Gentleman’s Blues, Cracker Dark Side of the Moon, Pink Floyd
A Prayer for Owen Meany (John Irving) Lord of the Rings (J.R.R. Tolkien)
*Pride and Prejudice * (Jane Austen) Hitchhiker’s Guide to the Galaxy (Douglas Adams)
*East of Eden * (John Steinbeck)
Albums:
(favorite means the ones I’m currently playing most often)
Pandora’s Box Collection - Aerosmith
Surfacing - Sarah McLachlan
Boulevard - Saint Germain
Everything to Everyone - Barenaked Ladies
Synkronized - Jamiroquai
Movies:
Lord of the Rings trilogy
Moulin Rouge!
The Sound of Music
Amadeus
Pirates of the Caribbean
Movies:
Army of Darkness
Oscar
The Dark Crystal
The Fifth Element
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Books:
“Men Of Mathematics” by E.T. Bell
“Slaughterhouse Five” by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
“The Hitchhiker’s Guide To The Galaxy” by Douglas Adams (RIP)
“The Thurber Carnival” by James Thurber
“The Unnameable” by Samuel Beckett
Albums: Anthems To The Welkin At Dusk by Emperor Little Creatures by Talking Heads Nattens Madrigal by Ulver The Sham Mirrors by Arcturus Vovin by Therion
Books Martian Time-Slip by Philip K. Dick Brave New World by Aldous Huxley The Sirens of Titan by Kurt Vonnegut (a totally underrated book) A Canticle for Leibowitz by Walter M. Miller, Jr. Valis by Philip K. Dick (okay, so it’s a repeat, the whole top five would probably be PKD if I could make it so)
Movies Donnie Darko 12 Monkeys Blade Runner Gattaca
three-way tie between the MST3K versions of The Wild World of Batwoman, This Island Earth, and Santa Claus Conquers the Martians
Albums Subliminal Plastic Motives by Self The Return of the Rentals by the Rentals
Elastica’s self-titled album Pinkerton by Weezer (although I think I’m just nostalgic because this is the first album I ever bought) Dig Me Out by Sleater-Kinney
Books:
*The Amazing Adventures of Kavalier & Clay *(Chabon)
*East of Eden *(Steinbeck)
*The Odyssey *(Homer)
*The Inferno *(Alighieri) A Farewell to Arms (Hemingway)
Movies:
*Almost Famous
Lord of the Rings *(cheat!)
*Manos: The Hands of Fate…*MST3k version
…And I can’t really think of anything else.
Albums:
Darned if I know. I haven’t listened to a real album in a long time.
Books
One Hundred Years of Solitude – Gabriel Garcia Marquez
The Sot-Weed Factor – John Barth
Gravity’s Rainbow – Thomas Pynchon
Catch-22 – Joseph Heller
Staroamer’s Fate – Chuck Rothman
Albums
Atom Heart Mother – Pink Floyd
Who Are You? – The Who
Live in Texas – Lyle Lovett
Allman Brothers Band Live at Fillmore East
Lullabye of Broadway: The Best of Busby Berkely at Warner Brothers
Movies
Singin’ in the Rain
Citizen Kane
North by Northwest
Bringing Up Baby
Duck Soup
Books:
Towing Jehovah-James Morrow
Good Omens-Neil Gaiman and Terry Pratchett
High Fidelity-Nick Hornby
Cloud Atlas- David Mitchell
Slaughterhouse V-Kurt Vonnegut
Movies:
This is Spinal Tap
Gummo
Star Wars
Blade Runner
Rock and Roll High School
Albums:
Some Folks-The Dukes of Hamburg
Knock Loud-The Paybacks
Five Weeks Ahead of my Time-Sugar Shack
Ultraglide in Black-The Dirtbombs
All Night Riot-The Makers
Movies:
Casablanca
Jaws
Raiders of the Lost Ark
Saving Private Ryan
LOTR trilogy
Books:
The Demon Haunted World by Carl Sagan
4,000 Years Ago by Geoffrey Bibby
Band of Brothers by Stephen Ambrose
In the Beginning by John Gribbin
Thunder Run by David Zucchino
Albums:
Van Halen 1984
Beach Boys Pet Sounds
Led Zepplin Houses of the Holy
Eagles Hotel California
Fleetwood Mac Rumors.
Paul Simon, There Goes Rhymin’ Simon
Verdi’s La Traviata, Carlos Kleiber conducting Ileana Cotrubas and Placido Domingo
Capitol Sings Cole Porter, Anything Goes
Counting Crows, This Desert Life
Led Zeppelin, IV
Movies:
Pride and Prejudice (the BBC miniseries)
Charade (1963)
The Importance of Being Earnest (1952)
The Awful Truth (1937)
The Lord of the Rings is one giant movie, in my opinion, but if I have to pick one, I’ll pick The Two Towers
Books:
Charles Dickens, Great Expectations
Dorothy L. Sayers, Gaudy Night
Lloyd Alexander, Prydain Chronicles (if I have to pick just one, The Black Cauldron)
Homer, The Iliad (there is no perfect translation, so I won’t name one)
Dick Francis, Blood Sport
Watership Down
Gone With the Wind
One Flew Over The Cuckoo’s Nest
The Shining
Chronicles of Narnia, esp. The Dawn Treader
Movies
Reservoir Dogs
From Dusk Til Dawn
Blazing Saddles
The Shawshank Redemption
Back To The Future
Albums
Alan Parson’s Project, The Definitive Collection
Iron Maiden, Piece of Mind
Electric Light Orchestra, Greatest Hits
Blue Oyster Cult, Greatest Hits
Bee Gees, Still Waters
Yes, I know “Greatest Hits” is cheating. And as soon as I hit Submit, I’ll know what I should have posted. :smack: