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- #21
- Posted: 06/23/2009 04:39
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also, anyone familiar with John Fahey: read the last few lines from Part III of Dry Salvages.
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Charicature
Age: 51
Location: Vermont 
- #22
- Posted: 06/23/2009 13:49
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| 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
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Welcome back to PETA...People Eating Tasty Animals 😁
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<(: @ :)>
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CellarDoor
Shoe-Punk Loner
Gender: Male
Age: 41
Location: Marseille 
- #23
- Posted: 06/24/2009 12:37
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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).
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- #24
- Posted: 06/24/2009 23:34
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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.
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France
- #25
- Posted: 06/26/2009 06:56
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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.
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maxperenchio
Location: Chicago
- #26
- Posted: 08/21/2009 23:12
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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!
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- #27
- 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)
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videoheadcleaner
formerly Harkan
Gender: Male
Age: 40
- #28
- Posted: 08/25/2009 02:17
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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
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Norman Bates
Gender: Male
Age: 53
Location: Paris, France
- #29
- Posted: 08/25/2009 19:28
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@maxperenchio : did you really get to the end of Finnegan's Wake ? As much as I love Joyce, I never could.
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maxperenchio
Location: Chicago
- #30
- Posted: 08/25/2009 21:12
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| 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.
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