So, just cos I got me Mrs Mangles on wots ya top 5 books, movies and songs.

 

Edited March 12, 20188 yr by notsmokinjo

UMovies (movies you've watched so much ya can quote em in ya sleep)

1. Two Hands

2. Calamity Jane

3. V for Vendetta

4. Gallipoli

5. Willow

 

Books - For me these are books I've read so much I needed to buy new copies:

1. A Fortunate Life - AB Facey

2. The Periodic Table - Primo Levi

3. The Finalists - Russell Braddon

4. The Narrow Road to the Derp North - Richard Flanagan

5. To Kill A Mockingbird - Harper Lee

 

Songs (if I could only listen to 5 songs for the rest of me life these would be it):

1. How to Make Gravy -Paul Kelly

2. Four Green Fields - The Fureys

3. Prisoner of Society - The Living End

4. Four Walls - Cold Chisel

5. Sgt. Mackenzie - Joseph Kilns MacKenzie (If ya seen we were soldiers its the song that plays during the last battle)

 

Yep that's right, not 1 ACCA Dacca (acdc) song on the list...I had an ex who killed ACCA Dacca for me.

 

Edited March 11, 20188 yr by notsmokinjo

I am a bit embarrassed by the amount of time I have spent thinking about this thread.  Dammit, I just can't resist countdowns and lists.

 

Songs

1.) Into the Mystic--Van Morrison

2.) The Weight--The Band

3.) Angel Flying too Close to the Ground--Willie Nelson

4.) Descending--The Black Crowes

5.) Thunder Road--Bruce Springsteen

 

Books

1.) The Call of the Wild--Jack London

2.) Walden--Henry David Thoreau

3.) Lonesome Dove--Larry McMurtry

4.) The Forgotten 500--Gregory Freeman

5.) The Right Stuff--Tom Wolfe

 

Movies

1.) The Good, the Bad and the Ugly

2.) Tombstone

3.) The Great Escape

4.) Blazing Saddles

5.) Goodfellas 

Someone here's gunna come along an psychoanalysise our choices an stuff. Need ta go read 2 books on Boos list cos I ain't read em.

A list of 5 is really difficult

 

Movies.

1. Enemy of the state

2. Hudson hawk

3. Good will hunting

4. Dead poets society

5. The Bourne Identity

 

Books - Only ever read them once

1. love and other near death experiences - mil millington (also know for the things my girlfriend and I have argued about http://mil-millington.com/)

2. a prayer for owen meaney - john irving

3. native tongue - carl hiaasen

4. divorcing jack - colin bateman

5. gridlock - ben elton

 

Songs (an ecclectic mix ... for ecclectic you could also read confused ):

1. se a vide e - pet shop boys ... it just cheers me up

2. out in the fields - gary moore/phil lynott ... honest, true and the guitar work is magical

3. a town called malice - The Jam ... the best of a good period of work

4. you're so cool - hans zimmer ... sometimes i just need to chill

5. ecuador - sash ... A little bit of energy

Edited March 12, 20188 yr by Sslip

This is not a good thread idea, I now have 6 books to read cos I've only read onea Slip's... But Ben Elton is good, read a few of his.

 

 

3 minutes ago, notsmokinjo said:

This is not a good thread idea, I now have 6 books to read cos I've only read onea Slip's... But Ben Elton is good, read a few of his.

 

 

 

I've read a lot of Ben Elton and the stories usually have a few challenging ideas. This one is my favourite though and has an unexpected hero. Along with inconceivable his best work.

 

I think you may like Colin Bateman, a lot of it set around NI factions, but in a lighthearted way.

 

But the one I would recommend to anyone is the John Irving books. This one first. There are some that I'd recommend against.

I remember reading Popcorn and feeling a bit dirty at times.... But Two Brothers frustrated me and I haven't read one of his since.

Songs:
#1    Tchaikovsky - Violin Concerto in D major, Op. 35, Jascha Heifetz recording 1957

#2    Mike Oldfield - Incantations Part 4  Remastered, not the 1978 recording.

#3    65 Days of Static - Retreat!

#4    Abinoni - Adagio in G minor

#5    C.W. McCall - Wolf Creek Pass

Movies:
#1    Silent Running

#2    2001 A Space Odyssey

#3    Apocalypse Now

#4    The Rocky Horror Picture Show

#5    Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory

Books
#1    Wilson Rawls - Where the Red Fern Grows.

#2    Gordon Kendall - White Wing

#3    James Clavell - Shogun

#4    John Steakly - Armor

#5    James Joyce - Finnegan's Wake
 

And now there are 3 more books to read..

 

 

You will definitely want to read Finnegan's Wake.  it's a classic, plus, it's a very easy read. 

 

http://finwake.com/

On 12/03/2018 at 1:17 PM, Sslip said:

Songs (an ecclectic mix ... for ecclectic you could also read confused ):

1. se a vide e - pet shop boys ... it just cheers me up

2. out in the fields - gary moore/phil lynott ... honest, true and the guitar work is magical

3. a town called malice - The Jam ... the best of a good period of work

4. you're so cool - hans zimmer ... sometimes i just need to chill

5. ecuador - sash ... A little bit of energy

 

Just realized I got one wrong here

 

Sorry Paul, regardless of how good you are, you're dumped.

 

And in comes

 

Mad World - Michael Andrews and Gary Jules. It has to be this version of it as well. Cos, well, sometimes I'm just really pissed off and this suits those moods.

On 17/03/2018 at 2:01 AM, Sirius said:

You will definitely want to read Finnegan's Wake.  it's a classic, plus, it's a very easy read. 

 

http://finwake.com/

I've read that one, year 10 lit. Have also read Shogun, but that was just a for fun choice.

 

On ‎3‎/‎16‎/‎2018 at 10:01 AM, Sirius said:

You will definitely want to read Finnegan's Wake.  it's a classic, plus, it's a very easy read. 

 

http://finwake.com/

 

Just one sentence from the link.

 

Color me not just confused, but totally addled, baffled and befuddled. 

 

Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-

core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy

isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor

had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse

to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper

all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to

tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a

kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in

vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.

 

Just now, Lin-quitting said:

 

 

Just one sentence from the link.

 

Color me not just confused, but totally addled, baffled and befuddled. 

 

Sir Tristram, violer d'amores, fr'over the short sea, had passen-

core rearrived from North Armorica on this side the scraggy

isthmus of Europe Minor to wielderfight his penisolate war: nor

had topsawyer's rocks by the stream Oconee exaggerated themselse

to Laurens County's gorgios while they went doublin their mumper

all the time: nor avoice from afire bellowsed mishe mishe to

tauftauf thuartpeatrick: not yet, though venissoon after, had a

kidscad buttended a bland old isaac: not yet, though all's fair in

vanessy, were sosie sesthers wroth with twone nathandjoe.

 

Its a stream of conscious if a stream of conscious was inside an active paint shaker.

Well, that explains it! Thanks Sirius.

 

 

(think I'll stick to modern-era novels)