Top 5

[notsmokinjo]

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

 

Edited March 12, 2018 by notsmokinjo

[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, 2018 by notsmokinjo

[Boo]

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 

[notsmokinjo]

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.

[Sslip]

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, 2018 by Sslip

[notsmokinjo]

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.

 

 

[Sslip]

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.

[notsmokinjo]

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.

[Sirius]

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
 

[notsmokinjo]

And now there are 3 more books to read..

 

 

[Sirius]

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

 

http://finwake.com/

[Sslip]

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.

[notsmokinjo]

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.

[Lin-quitting]

 

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.

 

[Sirius]

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.

[Lin-quitting]

Well, that explains it! Thanks Sirius.

 

 

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