What Say You?

[shanmonster]

Recommend to me:
1. a movie:
2. a book:
3. a musical, artist, song, or album:

Comments

[fritzleonhardt.livejournal.com]

I recommend:

1. "Lost Skeleton of Cadavra"
2. "Testament" by Nino Ricci
3. "American Idiot" by Green Day

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Saw it!
2. Will look it up.
3. Will sample, but am dubious as I don't like Green Day.

Shannon's Recommendations

[tobysionann.livejournal.com]

1. "Garden State"
2. "Crescent" by Diana Abu-Jaber
3. anything by Jesse Cook, but my favorite album is "Nomad" -- tracks 1 & 2, Introduction and Qadukka-l-Mayyas. Awesome.

If you try any, let me know what you think.

Re: Shannon's Recommendations

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Will look for!
2. Ibid.
3. I've performed to a few pieces by Jesse Cook, but am unfamiliar with "Nomad." I'll take a peek for it.

i recommend...

[node.livejournal.com]

1. Dead Man (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/B00004Z4WX/), though you've probably seen it.
2. Syrup (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0140291873/).
3. Try the clips here (http://www.positronrecords.com/posiaudio.php). Maybe something'll click.

[ambitious-wench.livejournal.com]

1. Good-Bye Girl.
2. "I, Roger Williams", by Mary Lee Settle.
3. Gone from Danger, Joan Baez.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I'll take a peek....

[sorceror.livejournal.com]

1. Near Dark! Well, okay, it was actually kind of dumb. But it has Lance Henriksen, and vampires!

2. "The First Man in Rome" by Colleen McCullough.

3. :"Teahouse Moon" by Enya. 'Cause it's the Biggles song ! ^_^

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. I'll take a peek.
2. Read it!
3. I'll take a look, but I'm dubious. Enya was wrecked for me by an ex-roommate who played nothing but Enya and Weird Al every day.

[rebelseahorse.livejournal.com]

1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind (not sure if you've already seen it)
2. Laughable Loves by Milan Kundera
3. PJ Harvey's 'Stories from the City, Stories from the Sea'

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Saw it!
I'll check out the other two.

[purrthecat.livejournal.com]

1 - Amelie
2 - Going Postal by Terry Pratchett (part of the Discworld series)
3 - Goldfrapp - Black Cherry

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Saw it!
I'll check out the other two.

[crasch.livejournal.com]

1. Cronos (http://www.imdb.com/name/nm0868219/) -- "Mexican vampire flick" and "high production values" are not phrases you would normally expect to see together, but this is an excellent movie. It's directed by Guillermo del Toro ("Hellboy"). Ron Perlman plays the villain.

2. Ten Consecutive Years Living in Cars : Living, Traveling, Camping, Attending College, and Performing Surveillance in Cars----and Loving It! (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0967624800/ref=pd_bxgy_text_1/103-8884658-8688636?v=glance&s=books&st=*) by Craig S. Roberts. Rough around the edges (it cries out for an editor and Roberts is a little eccentric). But Roberts book is the best car living book written so far.

3. Waters of March (http://www.openknowledge.org/music/Susannah%20McCorkle%20-%20The%20Waters%20of%20March.mp3) by Susannah McCorkle. This song always makes me happy.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Saw it!
I'll check out the other two.

Recommendations

[sasha-khan.livejournal.com]

1. La Cité des enfants perdus AKA The City of Lost Children. Also starring Ron Perlman - think Hieronymus Bosch directing a steam-punk flick and you get the idea.

2. Turkish reflections - Mary Lee Settle - a travelogue. Ms. Settle has an amazing talent for describing *place*.

3. Necati Çelik - Yasemin. Necati is a master of the oud, and this album is quite a treasure. Most of the pieces are classical pieces (and not suitable for raqs sharqi) but certainly worth tracking down.

Re: Recommendations

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Saw it (it's one of my favourite films)!
I'll look for the other two.

[twopiearr.livejournal.com]

Movie: Salome's Last Dance (http://imdb.com/title/tt0096029/)
Book: La Bête (http://www.amazon.ca/exec/obidos/ASIN/0802138217/ref=sib_rdr_dp/002-2609257-4013613)
Musical: Russel & Edwards' STAR WARS: The Musical (http://www.infauxmedia.com/swmusical/STAR_WARS-The_Musical.htm)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

1. Saw it (about a bajillion times)! I want to play Salome in the play, but am afraid I'm closer to the age of Herodias.
I'll look for the other two, although I'm wary of musicals.

[elanya.livejournal.com]

1: The Devil's Backbone
2: A General History of the Pirates/A General History of the Robberies and Murders of the Most Notorious Pirates
3: I was going to say Concrete Blonde - Jonestown, but you don't like electric guitar, and there's a lot of that ;) How about Excel Saga Ending - Menchi Aishou no Borero ;)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I'll look for the first two.
Is the Excel Saga Ending something I heard while watching the anime?

[liquid-quaalude.livejournal.com]

1.- Killing Me Softly not the best but since I see your mood is sick..this a perfect couch day movie.
2.- The weight of water
3.- Mono - Life in Mono

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

All new to me!

[threemilechild.livejournal.com]

With alternates, because I don't know you well enough to know if you've already seen/read/heard these.

1. House of Flying Daggers (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0385004/) is the new film by Zhang Yimou, and continues in the "gorgeous and interesting" manner of Hero rather than the "gorgeous and dull" manner of most of his previous stuff

Alternately, Musa, (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0275083/) a very lovely Korean film about a group of diplomats stuck in China during the Ming takeover.

Alternately, Ong Bak (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0368909/), a Thai movie that could very well be chop-socky if it wasn't Thai and from 2003. I saw a version that wasn't subtitled or dubbed, but it doesn't matter. The plot is still transparent and the ability of the stuntmen is unbelievable.

2. Brigadier Gerard, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, any collection by Dorothy Parker, if on a winter's night a traveller... by Italo Calvino

3. I'd say "Juno Reactor" since it sounds like something a weirdo could dance to, but I'm sure you've already heard it, so instead I'll say RJD2, which is sometimes classified as rap, although I don't know why... it's more the sort of music Moby was famous for, except good -- "Rain" is really a nice song

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I have yet to see House of Flying Daggers or Musa, but I watched Ong Bak a few weeks ago. I was excited about the martial arts. It's so rare to see a wire-free performance, and I really appreciate seeing people doing seemingly impossible things by merit of extreme skill.

I have a Dorothy Parker collection (prose), but little of her poetry. I haven't read Brigadier General of Calvino's book. I'll try to find them.

Juno Reactor's pretty fun. I haven't heard of RJD2. I'll look it up.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I saw the movie, but haven't read the book or listened to the album....

[badcat42077.livejournal.com]

Movie: White Nights (I'm sure you've seen it, but I love it that much)

Book: Tinker by Wen Spencer, or The Sherwood Game by Esther Friesner. Technofantasy is fun!

Music: Any track on Right Said Fred's "Up" that isn't 'I'm Too Sexy'

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Nope! I haven't seen it. Neither have I read the books. I have listened to Righ Said Fred, though.

[indigopurple.livejournal.com]

1. "Versus", by Ryuhei Kitamura.
2. "A Night In The Lonesome October", by Roger Zelazny.
3. "Psychic Warriors Ov Unicron", by Iszoloscope / Robot Haus. Crunchy!

[indigopurple.livejournal.com]

Oh also, the VNV mix of Suicide Commando's "Hellraiser" is pretty rad.

[firelie.livejournal.com]

1. To Wong Foo, Thanks For Everything!
2. "Mother Ocean, Daughter Sea" by Diana Marcellas
3. Four Tet

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Saw the first, but the others are new to me. For the record, I prefer Priscilla, Queen of the Desert.

[zero-design.livejournal.com]

only if you answer my request first, since mine was up first ;)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Done.

[phil-in-a-box.livejournal.com]

1. El Espinazo del Diablo (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0256009/)

2. The Long Dark Tea-Time of the Soul, by Douglas Adams

3. the music of Gabriel Faure--whatever you can find.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Thanks!

[forthright.livejournal.com]

Movie: Intacto
Book: The Professor and the Madman, by Simon Winchester
Musical Group: Hedningarna

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

All new to me. Thanks!

[silver-insanity.livejournal.com]

Movie - Grave of the Dragonflies
Book - The Otherland Series by Tad Williams
Music - St. Germain (Tourist)

[silver-insanity.livejournal.com]

um... it was supposed to be fireflies... not dragonflies

[goth-hobbit.livejournal.com]

1. Sabrina (the original with Audrey Hepburn, not the Harrison Ford remake.) Metropolis is another that's high on my list.
2. The Abhorsen Trilogy (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0060528737/ref=pd_sbs_b_1/102-4727585-1840967?%5Fencoding=UTF8&v=glance) (Sabrael, Lirael, and Abhorsen), by Garth Nix. It was marketed as young adult, which apparently means that Mr. Nix was able to tell an engaging, character-driven story with no cuss words.
3. Jane Siberry (http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/search-handle-url/ref=dp_searchBox_1/102-1959752-0682559?url=index%3Dblended&field-keywords=Jane+Siberry&x=0&y=0) - anything by her is worth a listen. She has a light, ethereal, singing voice that manages to avoid sounding whiny or annoying.

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

I haven't seen the original Sabrina, although the remake inspired me to cut all my hair off when it came out. I own Metropolis, but my copy is jittery and I get headaches when I watch it.
I'm unfamiliar with the Abhorsen books, but I'll take a look for them. I like YA books, anyhow.
I listen to Jane Siberry from time to time, and have since the early 90s.

[zero-design.livejournal.com]

1. Way of the Gun (a surprisingly good movie, for what it is)
2. Ishmael by Daniel Quinn (I'll cheerfully lend it to you if you like)
3. Wither, Blister, Burn and Peel by Stabbing Westward (the album, I can lend you this one too)

[shanmonster.livejournal.com]

Excellent! And I'll cheerfully borrow....

[threemilechild.livejournal.com]

Musa is pretty cool-looking, too. It was the first movie I saw where the action sequences were shot as for slow motion but played at normal speed; the effect is to make them noticibly clear. Since then I've seen it in a few other places. (American football broadcasts!)

I prefer Parker's poetry to her prose, for the most part; all the venom of a short story distilled into eight perfect lines.

Brigadier Gerard is /hilarious/; it's a bit like The Pink Panther movies. The White Company and Sir Nigel (also by Doyle) are good too, although they're primarily action stories with humour in them instead of being outright comedy as is Gerard.

[basksinshadows.livejournal.com]

The Man from Elysian Fields-Mick Jagger never looked so debonair as he did playing an upscale pimp of men.
Contract With an Angel-Father Andrew M. Greeley-A surprisingly easy warm-hearted twist on the selling of one's soul to a higher power.
The Essential Pogues-in my opinion ,the Pogues have never been matched in punk music.