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Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

maxperenchio — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 17:12:10 GMT

Author: maxperenchio

Posted: 08/25/2009 21:12

Norman Bates wrote:

@maxperenchio : did you really get to the end of Finnegan's Wake ? As much as I love Joyce, I never could.

I focused on Joyce when I was in college, and I still love reading him. The first time I read the Wake I used "A Skeleton Key" by Campbell as a guide to keep me motivated, which was worth it! From the viewpoint of the semantic, meta-historical and meta-mythic its in a class of its own. One of the great pleasures of world literature If you've got the patience. Its kind of a drag that many people associate it with the overly-erudite or snobbish.

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Norman Bates — Tue, 25 Aug 2009 15:28:57 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 08/25/2009 19:28

@maxperenchio : did you really get to the end of Finnegan's Wake ? As much as I love Joyce, I never could.

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

videoheadcleaner — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 22:17:32 GMT

Author: videoheadcleaner

Posted: 08/25/2009 02:17

Favourite Album
Never changes in my chart: The Cure - Disintegration

Favourite Song:
Hard to decide but between:
- Doves - The Storm
- The Cure - Fascination Street
- Radiohead - How To Disappear Completely

Favourite Artwork:
Eye by MC Escher

Favourite Quote:
"Let's not do that, and say we did." - Anon.

Favourite Novel:
War Of The Worlds by HG Wells

Favourite Play:
The Dumb Waiter by Harold Pinter

Favourite Movie
Comedy - Clue; Drama - Donnie Darko; Thriller - North By Northwest

Favourite Video Game
ICC 2002

Favourite Beverage
Johnnie Walker

Favourite Building/Landmark
Adelaide Oval

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Anonymous — Mon, 24 Aug 2009 11:07:44 GMT

Author: Anonymous

Posted: 08/24/2009 15:07

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Favourite Album:
(check out my chart)
Nirvana-In Utero

Favourite Song (s):
Stooges- Wanna be your Dog
but...
Nirvana- Radio Friendly Unit Shifter
Wire- Low Down
Black Flag- Damaged I all come damn close

Favourite Painting (s):
anything by post-impressionist painters makes me gasm, but if I had to pick a couple it would be...
Cezanne- Portrait of Chocquet
Cezanne- Joachim Gasquet
Van Gogh- (either of his) Irises

Favourite Food:
saag

Favourite Quote:

Favourite Novel (s):
Herman Melville- Moby Dick
but...
Nathaniel Hawthorne- House of the Seven Gables
Cormac McCarthy- Blood Meridian
Bronte- Wuthering Heights
William Faulkner- Sound and the Fury
all come close

Favourite Poem
Robert Frost-Mending Wall

Favourite Movie
Raging Bull

Favourite Video Game
ICO/ Shadow of the Colossus

Favourite Beverage
Water and wine and daiquiris (real ones, w/ just lime, rum and sugar)

Favourite Building
the Buffalo, NY police station? (art deco)

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

maxperenchio — Fri, 21 Aug 2009 19:12:27 GMT

Author: maxperenchio

Posted: 08/21/2009 23:12

Lots of cultured folks on this board!

favourite album
ehhhhh- something in my top 50... right this second its Odyssey and Oracle by the Zombies

favourite song
eeeeshhh- A Day in the Life? Surf's Up? Goodbye Yellow Brick Road?

favourite paintings
Renoir- Bal du Moulin de la Galette
Chagall - I and the Village
De Kooning - The Excavation
Titian- Venus and Adonis
Fitzgerald- the Painter's Dream

favourite food
I love a good Mattar Paneer dish, Falafel sandwich, or a medium rare steak.

favourite quote
"Your move, creep" - Robocop

favourite novel
Ulysses and Finnegan's Wake -Joyce
Moby Dick - Melville

Favourite poem
The Waste Land, lots of Eliot

favourite movie
Robocop, Blue Velvet

favourite video game
Sonic 2 - Sega Genesis

favourite beverage
Beer of all kinds and splendors - especially Red Stripe

favourite building
Sears Tower! Now the Willis Tower 🙁 - Chicago!

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Norman Bates — Fri, 26 Jun 2009 02:56:19 GMT

Author: Norman Bates

Posted: 06/26/2009 06:56

Favourite Album:
"Pink Moon" by Nick Drake

Favourite Song:
"Move On Up" by Curtis Mayfield

Favourite Painting:
The Garden of Delights by Hieronymus Bosch

Favourite Food:
Le saucisson sec

Favourite Quote:
"Eeverybody's clever nowadays" - Wilde.

Favourite Novel
Just about anything from Dostoïevski, most notably The Damned

Favourite Poem
"Le Dormeur du Val" - Rimbaud

Favourite Movie
Citizen Kane

Favourite Video Game
I'm not into videogames at all.

Favourite Beverage
Châteauneuf-du-Pape while eating
Hautes Côtes de Nuit before
Calva after

Favourite Building
I really don't know.

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Elston — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 19:34:26 GMT

Author: Elston

Posted: 06/24/2009 23:34

They're indeed amazing. He's one of the best discoveries I've made this year along with Friedrich Nietzsche, Andrei Tarkovsky, Camille Paglia and a few others perhaps. I'm finding The Waste Land to be very complex and nearly impenetrable, though still fascinating. I'm liking Four Quartets a lot more. Very profound and beautiful and full of lots of astonishing wisdom.

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

CellarDoor — Wed, 24 Jun 2009 08:37:37 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 06/24/2009 12:37

Elston wrote :

Quote:

Favourite Poem:
Burnt Norton - T.S. Eliot (from Four Quartets)

5 days ago I finished a compilation of poems by T.S. Eliot, including "The Waste Land", "Four Quartets"...
They're amazing! I keep coming back to them. Quite complex stuff, multilayered, with many references in the text, but utterly beautiful (and depressing).

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Charicature — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 09:49:50 GMT

Author: Charicature

Posted: 06/23/2009 13:49

teodor_matz wrote:

Favourite Food:
A couple of days i started eating meat again after being a vegetarian for a couple of years so right now it's meat

Welcome back to PETA...People Eating Tasty Animals 😁

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Elston — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:39:31 GMT

Author: Elston

Posted: 06/23/2009 04:39

also, anyone familiar with John Fahey: read the last few lines from Part III of Dry Salvages.

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

Elston — Tue, 23 Jun 2009 00:19:19 GMT

Author: Elston

Posted: 06/23/2009 04:19

Favourite Poem:
Burnt Norton - T.S. Eliot (from Four Quartets)

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

br1 — Fri, 19 Jun 2009 20:54:23 GMT

Author: br1

Posted: 06/20/2009 00:54

[b]Favourite painting:[/b]
The treachery of images, by Magritte

[b]Favourite food:[/b]
Milanesa a la napolitana (it's just fried chicken with ham and cheese on top of it)

[b]Favourite novel:[/b]
La tournee de Dios, by Enrique Jardiel Poncela

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

teodor_matz — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 16:05:46 GMT

Author: teodor_matz

Posted: 06/06/2009 20:05

Favourite Album:
My favourite album of all time is Odessey and Oracle by The Zombies
but right now it's a album called Processen by Swedish hip-hop group Mohammed Ali

Favourite Song:
B.I.B.L.E by GZA

Favourite Painting:
This one: http://www.michaelbarrier.com/Essays/Barks/barks_painting.jpg
by Carl Barks

Favourite Food:
A couple of days i started eating meat again after being a vegetarian for a couple of years so right now it's meat

Favourite Quote:
You Remind me of a TV show that's alright i watch it anyway
// The Feelies

Favourite Novel
Glamorama by Bret Easton Ellis

Favourite Poem:
To be honest i never read poetry and that's a shame

Favourite Movie
The Graduate by Mike Nichols

Favourite Video Game
FIFA 2005

Favourite Beverage
Boylan Sugar Cane Cola

Favourite Building
The Golden Gate Bridge

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

telefunker — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 13:00:14 GMT

Author: telefunker

Posted: 06/06/2009 17:00

mate, my parents knock back the earl grey like whales in the desert but i'm strictly green.. i checked out that odd story your english prof recommended jewsom, was a trip. next they're gonna tell us we're breathing ourselves to death.. which i guess, we are..

withnail and i, some mentioned that above as their favourite film.. it's a good pick, and the prospect of ever ending up like those two is one of the most sobering kicks up the arse a slacker could ever get..

and no, i can't say i've ever read a poem that moved or inspired me in any way at all.. to be honest, very few works of art ever penetrate me to the extent of eliciting an emotional reaction.. so i tend to eulogise over the exceptions.. add to that i'm not very well read ..i just pick things up mighty quickly

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

CellarDoor — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 12:22:09 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 06/06/2009 16:22

And this thread made me realize how much I still dislike green tea. Come on ! Who could ever prefer green tea to Earl Grey 😉 Joanna can be excused, but are you really from England telefunker ?!

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

joannajewsom — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 08:13:50 GMT

Author: joannajewsom

Posted: 06/06/2009 12:13

This thread has made me realize how much I really need to read Lolita.

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

CellarDoor — Sat, 6 Jun 2009 06:03:58 GMT

Author: CellarDoor

Posted: 06/06/2009 10:03

current favourites

favourite album
"Unknown Pleasures" by Joy Division

favourite song
"The Killing Moon" (allnight version) by Echo and The Bunnymen

favourite painting
"Nighthawks" by Edward Hopper

favourite food
my father's apple crumble

favourite quote
"I must not fear. Fear is the mind-killer. Fear is the little-death that brings total obliteration. I will face my fear. I will permit it to pass over me and through me. And when it has gone past I will turn the inner eye to see its path. Where the fear has gone there will be nothing. Only I will remain."
(Litany Against Fear, Dune)

favourite novel
"1984" by George Orwell (but "Lolita" by Nabakov is another favourite)

favourite poem
"Hyperion" by John Keats

favourite movie
"Psycho" by Alfred Hitchcock (and I mustn't forget "Suspiria" by Dario Argento or "The Rocky Horror Picture Show" by Jim Sharman)

favourite video game
"Pac-Man". Very old school !

favourite beverage
Coffee ("Black as midnight on a moonless night.")

favourite building
Palais des Papes (Avignon, France)

PS bc1991

Quote:

Favourite Novel
Divina Commedia - Dante Alighieri

Divina Commedia is a poem ("Inferno" is my favourite)

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

maxxy — Fri, 5 Jun 2009 22:04:50 GMT

Author: maxxy

Posted: 06/06/2009 02:04

Favorite Album:
Wish You Were Here by Pink Floyd now and probably always

Favorite Song (contemporary):
Blowin in the Wind by Bob Dylan

Favorite Song (jazz):
All Blues by Miles Davis

Favorite Song (classical):
Dvorak cello concerto

Favorite Painting:
Impression, Sunrise by Monet

Favorite Sunday Comic:
Calvin and Hobbes

Favorite Novel:
The World According to Garp

Favorite Video Game:
Metroid Prime

Favorite Movie:
This one is HARD. Divided into categories:

1. Favorite Drama:
Godfather

2. Favorite Action movie:
Raiders of the Lost Ark

3. Favorite Comedy:
Anchorman

4. Favorite Thriller:
Sixth Sense

5. Favorite Sci-Fi:
Blade Runner

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

RFNAPLES — Fri, 5 Jun 2009 19:30:46 GMT

Author: RFNAPLES

Posted: 06/05/2009 23:30

Sculpture:

Bird in Space-Constantin Brancusi-1923
Birth of the Muses-Jacques Lipchitz-1944 to 1950
Pietà-Michelangelo-1499
Rape of the Sabine Women-Giambologna-1583
The Sculpture of Love and Anguish-Kenneth Treister-1985 to1990
The Three Graces-Antonio Canova-1813 to1816

Re: Your Favourite Work(s) of Art? (Anything you consider art)

bc1991 — Fri, 5 Jun 2009 17:07:02 GMT

Author: bc1991

Posted: 06/05/2009 21:07

Elston wrote:

bc1991, good pick for a painting. Edvard Munch is great. Have you ever seen that movie from 1975 they did of his life? fantastic.

I've read of his life but haven't watched the movie yet. Thanks for the recommendation.