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Orwellingly Yurz
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 Posted - 07/18/2007 : 21:57:23 [Permalink]
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YO...me again. Reading Halfmooner's quote that's up, currently, made me think of another really good movie from the Seventies,
"Slaughterhouse Five," from the novel of the same name by a really great human whom we called Kurt Vonnegut, Jr. It's always fun to hear the Trafalmadorian ask on the soundtrack, "Are they mating, now?"
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
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Chippewa
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 02:11:42 [Permalink]
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Some really fine films and cool music are listed in this thread.
Following up on my earlier list, even though I liked the original versions of Star Wars and Das Boat much more than the "director's cuts", there are two other revamped films that I liked more than the original versions, and would recommend:
Apocalypse Now Redux
Blade Runner - The director's cut
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BigPapaSmurf
SFN Die Hard
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 05:08:53 [Permalink]
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THATS RIGHT ZARDOZ BITCHES! At least Im not alone. Its one of three, count em three, movies I own. The others being Memento, which could be on my list, and LoTR extended trilogy.
P.S. If you are considering watching Zardoz for the first time, skip the intro where Arthur Frain's floating head gives a synopsis of the Zardoz world, its really ghetto, ruins the mystery and was tacked onto the front of the flick so that morons wouldnt get scared and confused.
And remember Zardoz Says "The gun is good, the penis is EVIL!"
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"...things I have neither seen nor experienced nor heard tell of from anybody else; things, what is more, that do not in fact exist and could not ever exist at all. So my readers must not believe a word I say." -Lucian on his book True History
"...They accept such things on faith alone, without any evidence. So if a fraudulent and cunning person who knows how to take advantage of a situation comes among them, he can make himself rich in a short time." -Lucian critical of early Christians c.166 AD From his book, De Morte Peregrini |
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moakley
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 05:25:56 [Permalink]
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19. Bat out of Hell - Meatloaf
edited to add
20. I'm not in Love - 10cc |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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Kil
Evil Skeptic
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 Posted - 07/19/2007 : 07:23:07 [Permalink]
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Favorite Songs in no particular order:
Lust for Life - Iggy Pop
Dear Prudence - The Beatles
Ain't Misbehaven - Fats Waller
Summer Wind - Frank Sinatra
Smokestack Lightning - Howlin Wolf
I Feel Good - James Brown
Imagine - John Lennon
Ring of Fire - Johnny Cash
The Dreaming - Kate Bush
Kiko and the Lavender Moon- Los Lobos
That Ol' Black Magic - Louis Prima and Keely Smith
Cold Cold Heart - Hank Williams
Enter Sandman - Metallica
Across the Ally from the Alamo- Mills Brothers
Candy Man - Mississippi John Hurt
Heart Shaped Box - Nirvana
American Tune - Paul Simon
Please Send Me Someone To Love - Percy Mayfield
Money - Pink Floyd
End of the World as We Know It- REM
Gods Song - Randy Newman
In Dreams - Roy Orbison
Remember (Walking in the Sand)- The Shangri-La's
Talent is an Asset- Sparks
La Grange - ZZ Top
Once in a Lifetime - Talking Heads
Istanbul - They Might be Giants
Innocent When You Dream - Tom Waits
Lawyers Guns and Money - Warren Zevon
Fell in Love With a Girl- White Strips
Blue Eyes Crying in the Rain - Willy Nelson
Making Plans for Nigel - XTC
Dick Dale - Nitro
Crossroads - Robert Johnson
Things Have Changed - Bod Dylan
Lola - The Kinks
God Only Knows - The Beach Boys
Well, it appears that I have gone over my favorite 20. But I just can't narrow it down that way and I didn't want to hog this list or there would be way more songs on it. I mean I didn't even get to Billy Holliday fer-crying-out-loud… Or any of the jazz stuff.
I'll do movies later.
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Uncertainty may make you uncomfortable. Certainty makes you ridiculous.
Why not question something for a change?
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Rubicon95
Skeptic Friend
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 07:26:52 [Permalink]
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The Emperor and the Assassin
In the Heat of the Night
Once Were Warriors
Lumumba 2000
Python and the Holy Grail
Heathers
Finding Neverland
Clean and Sober
Forbidden Planet
Colossus: Forbin Project
Remo Williams: The Adventure Begins.
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 09:20:40 [Permalink]
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Movies:
The Matrix trilogy
The Blues Brothers (both movies)
Oh Brother
American History X
The Hustler
Somebody Up There Likes Me (rocky graziano story)
One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (book and movie)
Sometimes a Great Notion (book and movie)
The Godfather series
The Omen
The Shining
The Exorcist
Wallace and Gromit movies
Phenomenon
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I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Cuneiformist
The Imperfectionist
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 09:24:37 [Permalink]
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Interesting topic, BPS. It will be interesting to find the most common films and songs once this list gets longer.
Mine will probably be edited as more things come to mind, but here is a beginning list:
Films
Airplane!
Aliens
Fletch
Independence Day
The Matrix
The Shawshank Redemption
Spider-Man 2
Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
Star Wars
Terminator 2: Judgment Day
Songs
Beautiful Day - U2, All That You Can't Leave Behind
Get Together - Madonna, Confessions on a Dance Floor
Landslide - Fleetwood Mac, Fleetwood Mac
Mexico - James Taylor, Gorilla
O.P.P. - Naughty by Nature, Naughty by Nature
Traveling Riverside Blues - Led Zeppelin, boxed set disk 1
Voodoo Child (Slight Return) - The Jimmy Hendrix Experience, Electric Ladyland
Wild Horses - The Rolling Stones, Sticky Finers
More to be added later...
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Gorgo
SFN Die Hard
USA
5311 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 09:33:50 [Permalink]
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| Crap! Star Wars and Star Trek and Spiderman! Yup. |
I know the rent is in arrears
The dog has not been fed in years
It's even worse than it appears
But it's alright-
Jerry Garcia
Robert Hunter
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Robb
SFN Regular
USA
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Posted - 07/19/2007 : 10:16:31 [Permalink]
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Nightmare Before Christmas
Captain Ron
Amadaus
Star Trek: The Wrath of Kahn
Office Space
Any Toy Stories
Monster Inc.
Night at the Museum
Usual Suspects
Pale Rider
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Cool Hand Luke
Shawshank Redemption
The Thin Man
Arcenic and Old Lace
The Philidelphia Story
North by Northwest
Unforgiven
The Princess Bride
Spaceballs
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Dave W.
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
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529 Posts |
Posted - 07/19/2007 : 17:13:50 [Permalink]
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Yo: 30 fave music pieces: songs, jazz pieces and classical works.
Hits (songs)
Rumble Link Wray (instrumental)
Get Back The Beatles
She's About A Mover Sir Douglass Quintet
That'll Be The Day Buddy Holly
Mabeline Chuck Berry
What'd I Say Ray Charles
Most anything by Crosby, Stills, Nash & Young
Home Sweet Oklahoma Leon Russell
Call Me When You're Sober Evanescence
Fire and Rain James Taylor
Also, lots of stuff done by Chicago and Bob Dylan
Jazz tunes
Stolen Moments Oliver Nelson
Giant Steps John Coltrane
Mood Indigo Duke Ellington
Most anything written by Antonio Carlos Jobim
Interlude(by Stan Kenton:progressive big band jazz of the late 50's)
Jump For Joe Stan Kenton
Killer Joe Benny Golson
Lush Life Billy Strayhorn
Angel Eyes Matt Dennis
"Round Midnight Thelonius Monk
And lots of jazz played by pianists, Bill Evans and George Shearing.
Classical pieces
Ballad for Piano & Orchestra by Gabriel Faure
Daphnis & Chloe Ballet Suite by Maurice Ravel
Concerto da Camera for Flute & English Horn by Arthur Honegger
Symphony #4 by Ludwig van Beethoven
Symphonic Dances by Serge Rachmaninoff
Concerto #3 for Piano & Orchestra by Sergei Prokofiev
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra by Erich Wolfgang Korngold
Concerto for Violin & Orchestra by Samuel Barber
All keyboard music by Johann Sebastien Bach played on piano
Concerto for Piano & Orchestra #20 in D Minor by W. A. Mozart
And lots of music by Claude Debussy, too.
Whoops, forgot: Concerto for Piano, Trumpet & Orchestra by Dmitri Shostakovich. Kicks ass at the speed of light.
Too many, but tough to narrow down any more.
OY!
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"The modern conservative...is engaged in one of man's oldest exercises in moral philosophy. That is the search for a superior moral justification for selfishness."
--John Kenneth Galbraith
If dogs run free
Then what must be,
Must be...
And that is all
--Bob Dylan
The neo-cons have gotten welfare for themselves down to a fine art.
--me
"The meek shall inherit the earth, but not the mineral rights."
--J. Paul Getty
"The great thing about Art isn't what it give us, but what we become through it."
--Oscar Wilde
"We have Art in order not to die of life."
--Albert Camus
"I cling like a miser to the freedom I lose when surrounded by an abundance of things."
--Albert Camus
"Experience is the name so many people give to their mistakes."
--Oscar Wilde |
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moakley
SFN Regular
USA
1888 Posts |
Posted - 07/23/2007 : 19:26:09 [Permalink]
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The Unforgiven
Pulp Fiction
Lord of the Rings Trilogy
Rocky (the first one)
The King of Hearts
Duck Soup
Young Frankenstein, Silent Movie, Blazing Saddles
Animal House
The Holy Grail, Life of Brian, Meaning of Life
Alien
MIB I and II
2001: A Space Odyssey
Citizen Kane
12 Angry Men
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Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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