Choices: The Movie

[kookbox]

Inspired by a few pals, here's that recommend-something meme:

Please recommend:

01. A movie
02. A book
03. A musical artist, song, or album
04. An LJ user not on my friends list

BONUS:
05. Some other piece of media--newspaper, teevee show, website, video game, whatever.

Then, if you please, add any or all of this request to your own LJ.

Comments

[cloverest]

You may have been exposed to all this earlier, but here it is anyway.

Movie - Swimming to Cambodia, which you may have seen already but which holds a high place in my esteem because it's so brilliant. Poor Spalding Gray.

Book - I'm working on reading a fascinating book by Harry Matthews called The Sinking of the Odradek Stadium. I'm only about 30 pages in, but it comes highly recommended by fellow linguaphiles. It consists of letters between a married couple: a scholarly treasure-hunter who has spent a lot of time in the bars of early 70s Miami, and his wife, a woman from a small Asian nation. The wife's letters to him are garbled and phonetic adventures in English, sprinkled liberally with Italian, French and her nation's language. It's worth checking out, I believe, if only for the fun of piecing together what she means to say.

Music - Uhhhh. I haven't really been down with the music world much since 1996, so I'll just have to recommend the oevure of the Russian composer Sergei Prokofiev.

LJ user - nickfarr is a photoessayist who

[kookbox]

Ooh, I like Spalding Gray, and I hadn't been giving him much attention lately.

Let me know how you like the book--Is it fiction, or, like, found documents?

What happened in 1996?

Ooh, Trillian, I love it. Especially SecureIM and Cubbie's Microscopic skin. Check it out.

[cloverest]

The book is fiction, a novel. Fascinating yet!

And with the music thing and 96 - I just stopped buying CDs that year, basically. I think that was the last year I had disposable income that I felt like disposing on music instead of on books.

Thanks on the recommendation for Trillian stuffs. What a great toy it is.

nice idea!

[dreamattack]

01. Hell's Highway

02. Odd Girl Out - the hidden culture of aggression in girls / Rachel Simmons

03. Beequeen - ownliness

04. mcfnord

05. Airline!

Re: nice idea!

[kookbox]

Wow, Hell's Highway sounds really good.

I keep looking at the book-on-tape version of Odd Girl Out when I'm shelving A/V stuff (also: there's some funny stuff in those Amazon user reviews). There was a mediocre alterna-rock group by that name, years ago, in NE Ohio.

Beequeen is also new to me--ah, you and the Dots.

Re: nice idea!

[dreamattack]

cool - hope you enjoy stuff.

suggestionzmeme

[mappess]

"Kicking & Screaming"
"Map of the World" by Simon Winchester (the title may be incorrect, but i'm sure of the author)
www.grouphug.com
www.witchbeam.com

Re: suggestionzmeme

[kookbox]

Kicking and Screaming, ooh, I want to watch that. It sounds like Reality Bites, only good, and maybe minus the irritating slacker period trappings.

Ooh, Simon Winchester. I like his OED book. I'll check the map one out.

Is grouphug.com the anonymous-confession site, or am I thinking of something else? Ooh, here's the confession site. I wanted to link to that anyway. Heh.

Re: suggestionzmeme & library talk

[mappess]

yah you should enjoy that winchester book. i read part of the OED one.

i posted to grouphug.us but for now it's sit back and wait.

hey there is an immediate full time 1 yr position open at weber college in utah! you should call right away they need someone asap!!! they offered to fly megan out but she turned it down!! (to work part-time at the twinsburg, oh library)

ciao

[myspoonis2small]

I suppose I should have added you awhile back, so i added you., take care joe
-Cale

Re:

[kookbox]

Neato. You're added. How 'bout some recommendations?

[heartache_scene]

So hey, you don't know me, but Vino's was in your list of interests and my friends are playing there march 10th. They are called Kingsdown www.kingsdownmusic.com and possibly easier said www.easiersaidmusic.com and Utica www.uticamusic.com Please come! They are really awesome. :D