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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
SFN Regular
USA
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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
SFN Regular
USA
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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
USA
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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
220 Posts |
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
5310 Posts |
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 Michael |
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
5310 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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Government is not reason; it is not eloquent; it is force. Like fire, it is a dangerous servant and a fearful master. - George Washington |
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Dave W.
Info Junkie
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Orwellingly Yurz
SFN Regular
USA
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 |
Edited by - Orwellingly Yurz on 07/19/2007 17:46:02 |
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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 On the WaterFront |
Life is good
Philosophy is questions that may never be answered. Religion is answers that may never be questioned. -Anonymous |
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