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| x film recommendations | May 26, 2012 11:43:28PM UTC | The Godfather | Nice movie | ||
| x book recommendations | Mar 25, 2012 11:36:56PM UTC | Orwell, '1984' | Great book! It's still topical after all these years | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Sep 30, 2011 9:46:31PM UTC | Fleet Foxes | I just saw them live and they're awesome! | ||
| x book recommendations | Apr 13, 2011 10:47:33AM UTC | The Evolution of Cooperation | It presents a method of social interaction that encourages generosity and forgiveness while not being exploitable. | ||
| Gödel, Escher, Bach: an Eternal Golden Braid | the idea that there is generality in the specific is of far reaching importance. | ||||
| x film recommendations | Jan 19, 2011 6:09:31PM UTC | Primer | |||
| x film recommendations | Nov 12, 2010 6:04:16PM UTC | The Godfather | |||
| x film recommendations | Oct 31, 2010 9:20:32AM UTC | Rififi | |||
| x Book recommendations | matrixhasneo | Jul 20, 2010 12:25:22PM UTC | |||
| x musical artist recommendations | May 27, 2010 11:10:00PM UTC | La Roux | her voice and beat make me want to move. | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Mar 26, 2010 6:15:34PM UTC | The Gourds | Their music, covers, lyrics, instrumentation and personas are a hoot. | ||
| Wilco | They have great music, thoughtful lyrics, instrumentation that appeals to me and are willing to experiment. | ||||
| x book recommendations | Feb 7, 2010 4:31:22PM UTC | Spiritual notes to myself | each of its notes send me to introspection and natural meditation without effort. | ||
| x book recommendations | Jan 31, 2010 7:56:10PM UTC | Daemon | Quite enjoyable read; especially for CS geeks. | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jan 21, 2010 3:18:41PM UTC | Stoney | he's awesome. Honestly. | ||
| Neil McSweeney | he's the real deal. | ||||
| x film recommendations | Jan 21, 2010 3:51:55AM UTC | Sherlock Holmes | It's brilliantly directed, good music, Ritchie's fight scenes are unrivaled and the humor is our cherry on top. It made my top list. | ||
| Pandorum | Loved it. The main actor, whose name I keep forgetting, has been climbing into my favorites list. Quaid is pretty good. Don't expect much of it, then you will probably enjoy the watch. | ||||
| The Call of Cthulhu | Great! Silent-film approach is unique and worked like a charm. Best Lovecraft adaptation I've seen yet, by far. | ||||
| x film recommendations | Nov 17, 2009 2:34:53PM UTC | Back to the Future trilogy | |||
| x musical artist recommendations | Nov 17, 2009 2:32:54PM UTC | The Beatles | |||
| Pink Floyd | |||||
| x Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Recommendations | jeff | Nov 12, 2009 12:34:52AM UTC | The Book of the New Sun | It is not actually possible for me to say how much I love this series, so I'm not even going to try, but I will say that it radically changed my expectations about what SF could be. | |
| Sarah Canary | One of the best, most beautiful, subtlest, and probably most realistic first contact stories ever written. | ||||
| Little, Big | Crowley's magnum opus. Enough good things cannot be said about it. | ||||
| Soldier of the Mist | Historical fantasy (although Wolfe might argue that he's just writing the way the Greeks viewed the world). Sometimes I like this even more the the Book of the New Sun, which is saying something. | ||||
| Antarctica | The Mars Trilogy gets all the press, but in Antarctica, Robinson compresses all the same themes into a much tighter narrative, without all that messy mucking about with the humours and constitutional conventions. (Although it also lacks Big Man and the Little Red Men, but you can't have everything.) | ||||
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gmackenz | Nov 11, 2009 11:31:00PM UTC | The Dosadi Experiment | Actually the two novelettes that precede this are great as well, but it all culminates in this epic tale of dangerous alien legal system, illegal mass social experimentation upon citizens of a galactic civilization and the one man who can save or condemn a planet of billions to a sudden extinction. Something different from a man only known for his Dune series. |
| War for the Oaks | Urban Fantasy books may have ebbed a little from their recent highpoint of popularity, this book was one of the first published in that genre. Before you get all immersed within the tattooed kick-ass heroine books, read this one. | ||||
| The Warrior's Apprentice | Blew my mind when I read this, almost every book this author has written has been extremely enjoyed by this reader. Caution! This is the third in a series of more than a dozen novels, novelettes, short story collections. Addictive. | ||||
| Mercedes Thompson Series | A fun series, if you are going towards the decade-old publishing/tv/film trend of Kick-Ass women, this is the paranormal romance/urban fantasy collection for you. What if amongst us, their lived folk who shifted with the call of the moon, practiced hidden magics and had just reluctantly come out to the unsuspecting human populace? | ||||
| The Cyberiad | Really almost all of Lem's works are worth reading, but as a young man, reading this and other collections of short stories (Tales of Pirx the Pilot) of a somewhat alien (to me) 1960's European/Socialist/Internationalist viewpoint. Plus, it's full of robots! | ||||
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| x SF Book Recommendations | robert | Nov 11, 2009 10:58:29PM UTC | |||
| x Science Fiction & Fantasy Book Recommendations | jfry | Nov 11, 2009 10:52:26PM UTC | He, She and It | Fascinating post-apocalyptic cyberpunk, playing with artificial intelligence while interweaving the story of futuristic cyborg with the Golem of Prague | |
| Hyperion | Beautiful writing. Full of stories within stories, each engaging in their own right, and told with their own distinctive style. | ||||
| The Knight | I had a hard time choosing between this and Wolfe's better known series, The Book of the New Sun. Regardless, Wolfe is Gaiman's (and many other SF writers') favorite SF author, and with good reason. I don't know of anyone writing today who does as interesting things with POV and unreliable narrators. The Knight began as an interesting fantasy...and went somewhere much weirder. | ||||
| The Sparrow | Russell's first novel is a thoroughly original first contact story: a Jesuit mission to Alpha Centauri gone horrribly astray. Depending on your makeup, this novel is either completely depressing or strangely inspiring. Either way, it's a fine example of how SF creates unique opportunities to explore moral questions; and like the best of these tales, the Sparrow does a good job of asking rather than attempting to answer questions. | ||||
| The Curse of Chalion | Chalion and it's Hugo/Nebula award winning sequel, Paladin of Souls have become some of my favorite fantasy novels. Entertaining, thought-provoking fun, with some *very* engaging, nuanced heroes. | ||||
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| x SF Book Recommendations | heathercampbell | Nov 11, 2009 10:07:19PM UTC | House of Leaves | Epic post modern sci-fi/horror/comedy | |
| The Dispossessed | |||||
| Labyrinths | |||||
| The Futurological Congress | |||||
| The Best Short Stories of J. G. Ballard | |||||
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| x book recommendations | Oct 21, 2009 2:50:35AM UTC | Catch 22 | Is one of the funniest books that I've ever read. Reading the book on the bus and not being able to control yourself, while essentially in hysterics...that's what it is to read Catch-22. | ||
| x film recommendations | Oct 21, 2009 2:41:46AM UTC | The Sounds of the Sounds of Science | The films by Jean Painleve remind me of the types of video you would see at a club, and you add the music by Yo La Tengo, you can't go wrong | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Oct 21, 2009 2:36:27AM UTC | Maritime | they remind me of Modest Mouse a little bit and they are one of my favorite bands. | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Oct 15, 2009 10:12:27AM UTC | Rammstein | god | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Oct 6, 2009 11:56:30PM UTC | Rammstein | |||
| x musical artist recommendations | Sep 8, 2009 9:54:55PM UTC | Guster | Doesn't seem to be big on the West Coast yet, but anyone who likes Death Cab, the Shins, etc will love them. | ||
| x book recommendations | Aug 27, 2009 3:59:53AM UTC | The Savage Detectives | Really about coming of age and the dying of idealism. There are poetic and lyrical moments that make you yearn and mourn what it is like to be young and full of passion. | ||
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djdigit | Aug 24, 2009 11:29:53PM UTC | Shaun of the Dead | More than a zombie movie, it contains within it a social statement. Well, many, actually. |
| Thelma & Louise | |||||
| Party Monster | |||||
| Pi | |||||
| Contact | |||||
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| x book recommendations | Aug 21, 2009 11:39:25PM UTC | The Other Boleyn Girl | i said so | ||
| x film recommendations | Aug 21, 2009 5:28:15PM UTC | ||||
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| x musical artist recommendations | Aug 20, 2009 8:48:09PM UTC | Hot Chip | They are rad. | ||
| x film recommendations | ianfarbrother | Aug 20, 2009 5:53:10PM UTC | Until the End of the World | Just amazing! | |
| Kill Bill Volume 1 | Tarantino is always pretty awesome ;-) | ||||
| Adaptation | Wonderfully self-referential. | ||||
| x musical artist recommendations | Aug 20, 2009 12:38:23AM UTC | ||||
| x film recommendations | Aug 17, 2009 5:35:42AM UTC | Knowing | Nicolas Cage actually acting again! Great film. | ||
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| x musical artist recommendations | Aug 13, 2009 11:00:41PM UTC | Prince | |||
| U2 | |||||
| x film recommendations | Aug 10, 2009 8:05:13PM UTC | The Deer Hunter | It is very touching, and Robert De Niro plays a good part in it. | ||
| x film recommendations | Jul 30, 2009 4:26:44PM UTC | The Dancer Upstairs | it is a very artful movie with a powerful message. Must see! | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jul 28, 2009 7:44:27AM UTC | Luciano | Great reggae artiste | ||
| x book recommendations | Jul 28, 2009 7:37:56AM UTC | Thinking in Java | Good book | ||
| x Book recommendations | kirk | Jul 16, 2009 10:20:23AM UTC | Everything is Miscellaneous: The Power of the New Digital Disorder | ||
| Everything Bad is Good for You: How Today's Popular Culture Is Actually Making Us Smarter | |||||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jul 15, 2009 7:13:37AM UTC | Quietdrive | I can't stop listening to their newest album, Deliverance. It's the current soundtrack to my life, constantly on repeat in the back of my head. | ||
| x book recommendations | Jul 14, 2009 5:58:07PM UTC | Chance and Necessity | |||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jul 14, 2009 12:45:54AM UTC | Ufomammut | they are either the heaviest psych band or the the trippiest metal band I've ever heard. | ||
| x film recommendations | Jul 7, 2009 3:35:04PM UTC | The Big Blue | great scenery and a, as usual, spot on performance by Jean Reno | ||
| Up in the Air | Started kinda weird and all George Clooney-ish (looking really good and smiling while firing people) - hit all the right notes in terms of life problems | ||||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jul 1, 2009 11:18:05PM UTC | They Might Be Giants | |||
| Dead Milkmen | |||||
| x film recommendations | Jun 30, 2009 6:26:40PM UTC | The Hangover | Haven't laughed so hard at the movie theater in ages... it's like "Memento meets All About Mary". Comedy genius. | ||
| x book recommendations | Jun 30, 2009 1:05:16PM UTC | Iron Kingdoms Character Guide | of the brilliantly deep and evocative world it describes. | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jun 29, 2009 11:53:01PM UTC | The Beatles | They're awesome. | ||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jun 29, 2009 8:39:23AM UTC | Michael Jackson | rip | ||
| x book recommendations | Jun 29, 2009 8:37:46AM UTC | Breakfast of Champions | funny | ||
| x film recommendations | Jun 29, 2009 8:36:41AM UTC | Slumdog Millionaire | it's a good one | ||
| x book recommendations | Jun 29, 2009 1:42:47AM UTC | Ulysses | |||
| x musical artist recommendations | Jun 28, 2009 12:25:44AM UTC | Sigur Rós | Too ethereal for words | ||
| x film recommendations | Jun 27, 2009 11:39:51PM UTC | Tenacious D in The Pick of Destiny | it rocks and it's funny (but surprisingly well done) | ||
| x book recommendations | Jun 27, 2009 11:39:16PM UTC | Pride and Prejudice and Zombies | It's hysterically funny | ||
| Baudolino | Travels through history, following the creation of religious relics, in a sarcastic yet reverent manner | ||||
| fool | Christopher Moore's take on King Lear is disturbing and funny, and offers insight into Shakespeare | ||||
| x film recommendations | Jun 27, 2009 9:47:34PM UTC | The Scent of Green Papaya | |||
| The Vertical Ray of the Sun | |||||
| Strictly Ballroom | |||||
| Muriel's Wedding | |||||
| Lost in Translation | |||||
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| x musical artist recommendations | Jun 27, 2009 9:46:19PM UTC | Leonard Cohen | |||
| Lucinda Williams | |||||
| Dulce Pontes | |||||
| Billie Holiday | |||||
| Billy Idol | |||||
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