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).
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.
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!
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)
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
@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.
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