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Xen · 08-07-2004, 05:09 PM

Books: none

Movies: Spider-Man 2, The Game, Wonder Boys, Tupac: Ressurection, Robin Hood, Kill Bill 1, LotR 1, Underworld, The last Samurai, Primal fear.

Songs:
Nas - Illmatic album

Melusine · 08-07-2004, 05:47 PM

Cool, I forgot about this thread. [img]smile.gif[/img] Have been listening to lots of music and rented lots of movies on DVD lately so here's my update. I can't remember the order of the movies, and as for music, I have my CDs ripped to MP3 and play them on shuffle, so no full albums, just loose album tracks. [img]smile.gif[/img]
Anyway.

Movies

1. Shrek 1
2. Swimming Pool (disappointing)
3. Dogville
4. The City Of Lost Children
5. Secretary* [img]graemlins/1drool.gif[/img]
6. Kill Bill 1
7. Van God Los (Dutch movie, quite impressive)
8. Jackass the Movie
9. Austin Powers Goldmember*
10. Big Fish
11. Mickey Blue Eyes
12. Eyes Wide Shut*
13. The family guy (in the plane on the way home from Greece

)

NB films marked * were ones I'd seen before



Books

1. Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (still reading, brilliant and hilarious)
2. Alison Weir - The Life Of Elizabeth I
3. Homer - Odyssea (thought it appropriate - reread the Iliad last time I was in Greece)
4. Sir David Lindsay - Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis
5. John Kennedy O'Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces
6. Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers (reread, not finished yet)
7. Short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
8. Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale (reread, not finished yet)
9. Rough Guides to Classical Music and Opera (nearly cover to cover, too

)
10. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (finally succumbed :S)

haven't had a lot of time to read lately..

Music

1. Thomas Campion (composer) - A Secret Love
2. Outkast - Gasoline Dreams
3. Simeon Ten Holt (composer) Canto Ostinato
4. Dead Can Dance - Wilderness
5. Vivaldi (composer) - Salve Regina
6. NERD - She Wants To Move [img]graemlins/1drool.gif[/img]
7. Fear Factory - Digimortal
8. Interpol - Hands Away
9. VNV Nation - Forsaken
10. The Breeders - Cannonball
11. Rachmaninoff (composer) - Allegro Molto from his 2nd Symphony
12. Theatre Of Tragedy - Musique
13. Björk - Venus as a boy
14. Nevermore - The Heart Collector
15. Lamb - Gorecki
16. Therion - Grand Finale/Postludium
17. Black Eyed Peas - Shut up
18. Korn - Freak On A Leash
19. I Am Kloot - Titanic
20. Switchblade Symphony - Gutter Glitter


Or just check http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Melusine/ which isn't wholly accurate but fun.

[ 08-07-2004, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ]

Melusine · 08-07-2004, 05:56 PM

Man, reading through this thread is really cool, love seeing what sort of stuff you all like!

Incidentally Groj I noticed you read Life of Pi a while back! Fantastic read isn't it? So hilarious and so heartwrenchingly sad.

Saturos · 08-07-2004, 06:26 PM

Books:
1. "Ship of Destiny" - Robin Hobb
2. "The Mad Ship" - Robin Hobb
3. "Ship of Magic" - Robin Hobb
4. "King's Cure" - Daniel Hood (?)
5. "Assassin's Quest" - Robin Hobb
6. "Royal Assassin" - Robin Hobb
7. "Assassin's Apprentice" - Robin Hobb

Movies:
1. "Mission: Impossible"
2. "The Jack Bull"
3. "Pale Rider"
4. "Macbeth"
5. "Gladiator"
6. "Troy"
7. "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi"
8. "Last Man Standing"

MP3s:
Metallica concert (22 tracks)
Metallica songs (118 tracks again and again [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

Melusine · 09-15-2004, 02:09 PM

Time for an update!!

BOOKS

1. Shakespeare - The Taming Of The Shrew
2. William Beckford - Vathek
3. Ann Radcliffe - The Italian
4. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein
5. Anne Rice - Interview with a vampire

SONGS

1. Faith No More - Land Of Sunshine
2. Vivaldi - Stabat Mater
3. Urmas Sisask - Omnis Una
4. Bach - Jesu Meine Freude
5. A Perfect Circle - Lullaby
6. Kari Rueslåtten - In a Day
7. McLusky - Gareth Brown Says
8. Spineshank - Synthetic
9. Recoil - Jezebel
10. Recoil - Want
11. Recoil - Breath Control
12. Placebo - Protege Moi
13. Alice In Chains - Them Bones
14. David Bowie/Trent Reznor - I'm afraid of Americans
15. The Mars Volta - Televators

MOVIES

Can't really think of any - I started to watch several (Henry VIII, Deap Blue Sea) but never seem to be able to finish any

dplax · 09-15-2004, 02:41 PM

I thought that this topic had died, but it's good to see it still alive!

Here is my update:

Songs (all audio in random so not albums, only songs)
Timo Tolkki: Soldier's Prayer
Evanescence: Everybody's Fool
Ayreon: Day fourteen: Pride
Evergrey: Madness Caught Another Victim (live in Saint Etienne and acoustic)
Threshold: Life's Too Good
Stonehenge: Newcomer
Stratovarius: Tears of Ice
Nightwish: She is my Sin
Dream Theater: Finally Free (live)
The Flower Kings: Deaf, Numb & Blind
Omen: Fagyott Vilàg
Nightwish: Ghost Love Score
The Red Hot Chili Peppers: This is the Place
Queensryche: Empire
Sonata Arctica: Respect the Wilderness

Books:

Tom Clancy: The bear and the dragon
Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six
Leon Uris: Mitla Pass
Leon Uris: Trinity
Leon Uris: Exodus
Brian Herbert&Kevin J. Anderson: The Machine Crusade

Films:

Snatch
Silence of the Lambs
Black Hawk Down
The Sum of all Fears
Usual Suspects
Pulp Fiction
Prelude to Dune miniseries

all of the books and film are rereads or "relooks"

Chewbacca · 09-16-2004, 01:44 AM

Fun topic! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img]

Books:
Gone With The Wind ( on tape)
People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn

Movies:
X2
Paycheck
Bourne Identity
Falling Down
Saving Private Ryan
Clerks
Runaway Jury
Resevoir Dogs

Music:
Final Fantasy 7- Soundtrack
Bob Marley & the Whailers- Kaya
Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique
Beastie Boys- To The 5 Boroughs
FishBone- EP
Bad Brains- The Youth Are Getting Restless
Simon and Garfunkel- various from box set
Ben Harper- Burn To Shine

[ 09-16-2004, 01:44 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ]

Jerome · 09-16-2004, 09:11 AM

Just curious Mel, is the composer Thomas Campion the same person as the poet who shares the name, or someone completely unrelated? [img]smile.gif[/img]

As for lists...

Movies:
erm... I don't really watch movies, and the few that I have done reccently are *bad*.

Books:
Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning
Hard Times - Charles Dickens
Mary Barton - Gaskell
Collected Poems - Christina Rossetti
Villette - Charlotte Bronte
The Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins
Middlemarch - George Eliot
The Sorrows Of Satan - Marie Corelli
The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer
The Complete Novels - George Orwell

(Perparing for a term of Victorian Literature at Uni, which explains the majority of the list.

)

Music:
White Pearl, Black Oceans - Sonata Arctica
A Touch Of Blessing - Evergrey
Implosions of Eternity - Origin
Beyond Salvation - Kataklysm
November Rain - Guns N' Roses
Heavy Metal Universe - Gamma Ray
When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be - Aesma Daeva
And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian
Somewhere Far Beyond - Blind Guardian (On DVD

)
Heart Of The Unicorn - Gamma Ray

Marathon · 09-16-2004, 03:44 PM

I'll give this a shot:

Books:
Footfall - Niven/Pournall
Lucifer's Hammer - N/P
The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis
Cold Mountain - much better than the movie
Earth Abides
Ender's Game

Going back any further would make this more of an all time favorite list - much less time to read since my daughter came along.

Movies:
LOTR - The Return of the King
Twisted - Terrible, stupid movie
Old School - Favorite comedy
Kill Bill
Kill Bill 2
Hidalgo - put me to sleep
13 going on 30 - Hey, I'm married - got to compromise...
Freaky Friday - See above...
In America
Hellboy (She compromises as well)

CD's off the iPod -
Dinosaur Jr. - Ear Splitting Country
REM - Murmur
Built to Spill - Keep it like a secret
Fugazi - In on the kill taker
Nick Drake - Pink Moon
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
The Cure - Disintegration
Wilco - A ghost is born
Hanoi Rocks - Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Quakes, Hanoi Rocks

Aelia Jusa · 09-16-2004, 05:07 PM

I haven't read a real book in ages. I read a lot, but I don't count trashy romance novels as real books... or gossip mags...

Haven't really had time to sink my teeth into a real book of late

But I've seen a bunch of movies lately, mostly on the interminable plane trips.

Taking Lives (possibly the worst movie I've seen in years)
Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (yes, I was truly truly bored)
Proof of Life (not as bad as I'd heard)
Where the Heart is (had seen it before)
I also watched half of Envy (crap) and 50 First Dates (even crapper), but both were too bad to finish
Shallow Hal (ordinary)
Love Actually (sweet!)
Lost in Translation (a great movie)

[ 09-16-2004, 05:08 PM: Message edited by: Aelia Jusa ]

08-07-2004, 05:47 PM	#42
Melusine Dracolisk Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 6,541	Cool, I forgot about this thread. [img]smile.gif[/img] Have been listening to lots of music and rented lots of movies on DVD lately so here's my update. I can't remember the order of the movies, and as for music, I have my CDs ripped to MP3 and play them on shuffle, so no full albums, just loose album tracks. [img]smile.gif[/img] Anyway. <font color="deeppink">Movies 1. Shrek 1 2. Swimming Pool (disappointing) 3. Dogville 4. The City Of Lost Children 5. Secretary* [img]graemlins/1drool.gif[/img] 6. Kill Bill 1 7. Van God Los (Dutch movie, quite impressive) 8. Jackass the Movie 9. Austin Powers Goldmember* 10. Big Fish 11. Mickey Blue Eyes 12. Eyes Wide Shut* 13. The family guy (in the plane on the way home from Greece ) NB films marked * were ones I'd seen before </font> <font color="blueviolet">Books 1. Salman Rushdie - The Ground Beneath Her Feet (still reading, brilliant and hilarious) 2. Alison Weir - The Life Of Elizabeth I 3. Homer - Odyssea (thought it appropriate - reread the Iliad last time I was in Greece) 4. Sir David Lindsay - Ane Satyre of the Thrie Estaitis 5. John Kennedy O'Toole - A Confederacy of Dunces 6. Anthony Burgess - Earthly Powers (reread, not finished yet) 7. Short stories by Gabriel Garcia Marquez 8. Shakespeare - The Winter's Tale (reread, not finished yet) 9. Rough Guides to Classical Music and Opera (nearly cover to cover, too ) 10. Harry Potter & the Order of the Phoenix (finally succumbed :S) haven't had a lot of time to read lately.. </font> <font color="deeppink">Music 1. Thomas Campion (composer) - A Secret Love 2. Outkast - Gasoline Dreams 3. Simeon Ten Holt (composer) Canto Ostinato 4. Dead Can Dance - Wilderness 5. Vivaldi (composer) - Salve Regina 6. NERD - She Wants To Move [img]graemlins/1drool.gif[/img] 7. Fear Factory - Digimortal 8. Interpol - Hands Away 9. VNV Nation - Forsaken 10. The Breeders - Cannonball 11. Rachmaninoff (composer) - Allegro Molto from his 2nd Symphony 12. Theatre Of Tragedy - Musique 13. Björk - Venus as a boy 14. Nevermore - The Heart Collector 15. Lamb - Gorecki 16. Therion - Grand Finale/Postludium 17. Black Eyed Peas - Shut up 18. Korn - Freak On A Leash 19. I Am Kloot - Titanic 20. Switchblade Symphony - Gutter Glitter </font> Or just check http://www.audioscrobbler.com/user/Melusine/ which isn't wholly accurate but fun. [ 08-07-2004, 05:49 PM: Message edited by: Melusine ] __________________ [img]\"hosted/melusine.jpg\" alt=\" - \" /><br />Your voice is ambrosia

09-15-2004, 02:09 PM	#45
Melusine Dracolisk Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 6,541	Time for an update!! <font color="FF66FF">BOOKS 1. Shakespeare - The Taming Of The Shrew 2. William Beckford - Vathek 3. Ann Radcliffe - The Italian 4. Mary Shelley - Frankenstein 5. Anne Rice - Interview with a vampire</font> <font color="CC66FF">SONGS 1. Faith No More - Land Of Sunshine 2. Vivaldi - Stabat Mater 3. Urmas Sisask - Omnis Una 4. Bach - Jesu Meine Freude 5. A Perfect Circle - Lullaby 6. Kari Rueslåtten - In a Day 7. McLusky - Gareth Brown Says 8. Spineshank - Synthetic 9. Recoil - Jezebel 10. Recoil - Want 11. Recoil - Breath Control 12. Placebo - Protege Moi 13. Alice In Chains - Them Bones 14. David Bowie/Trent Reznor - I'm afraid of Americans 15. The Mars Volta - Televators</font> <font color="9966FF">MOVIES Can't really think of any - I started to watch several (Henry VIII, Deap Blue Sea) but never seem to be able to finish any </font> __________________ [img]\"hosted/melusine.jpg\" alt=\" - \" /><br />Your voice is ambrosia

09-15-2004, 02:41 PM	#46
dplax Jack Burton Join Date: July 19, 2003 Location: an expat living in France Age: 38 Posts: 5,577	I thought that this topic had died, but it's good to see it still alive! Here is my update: <font color=red>Songs (all audio in random so not albums, only songs) Timo Tolkki: Soldier's Prayer Evanescence: Everybody's Fool Ayreon: Day fourteen: Pride Evergrey: Madness Caught Another Victim (live in Saint Etienne and acoustic) Threshold: Life's Too Good Stonehenge: Newcomer Stratovarius: Tears of Ice Nightwish: She is my Sin Dream Theater: Finally Free (live) The Flower Kings: Deaf, Numb & Blind Omen: Fagyott Vilàg Nightwish: Ghost Love Score The Red Hot Chili Peppers: This is the Place Queensryche: Empire Sonata Arctica: Respect the Wilderness</font> <font color=orange>Books: Tom Clancy: The bear and the dragon Tom Clancy: Rainbow Six Leon Uris: Mitla Pass Leon Uris: Trinity Leon Uris: Exodus Brian Herbert&Kevin J. Anderson: The Machine Crusade</font> <font color=green>Films: Snatch Silence of the Lambs Black Hawk Down The Sum of all Fears Usual Suspects Pulp Fiction Prelude to Dune miniseries</font> all of the books and film are rereads or "relooks" __________________

09-16-2004, 01:44 AM	#47
Chewbacca Zartan Join Date: July 18, 2001 Location: America, On The Beautiful Earth Age: 50 Posts: 5,373	Fun topic! [img]graemlins/thumbsup.gif[/img] Books: Gone With The Wind ( on tape) People's History of the United States by Howard Zinn Movies: X2 Paycheck Bourne Identity Falling Down Saving Private Ryan Clerks Runaway Jury Resevoir Dogs Music: Final Fantasy 7- Soundtrack Bob Marley & the Whailers- Kaya Beastie Boys- Pauls Boutique Beastie Boys- To The 5 Boroughs FishBone- EP Bad Brains- The Youth Are Getting Restless Simon and Garfunkel- various from box set Ben Harper- Burn To Shine [ 09-16-2004, 01:44 AM: Message edited by: Chewbacca ] __________________ Support Local Music and Record Stores! Got Liberty?

09-16-2004, 09:11 AM	#48
Jerome Knight of the Rose Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location: Scotland Age: 38 Posts: 4,418	Just curious Mel, is the composer Thomas Campion the same person as the poet who shares the name, or someone completely unrelated? [img]smile.gif[/img] As for lists... Movies: erm... I don't really watch movies, and the few that I have done reccently are bad. Books: Aurora Leigh - Elizabeth Barrett Browning Hard Times - Charles Dickens Mary Barton - Gaskell Collected Poems - Christina Rossetti Villette - Charlotte Bronte The Poems - Gerard Manley Hopkins Middlemarch - George Eliot The Sorrows Of Satan - Marie Corelli The Canterbury Tales - Chaucer The Complete Novels - George Orwell (Perparing for a term of Victorian Literature at Uni, which explains the majority of the list. ) Music: White Pearl, Black Oceans - Sonata Arctica A Touch Of Blessing - Evergrey Implosions of Eternity - Origin Beyond Salvation - Kataklysm November Rain - Guns N' Roses Heavy Metal Universe - Gamma Ray When I Have Fears That I May Cease To Be - Aesma Daeva And Then There Was Silence - Blind Guardian Somewhere Far Beyond - Blind Guardian (On DVD ) Heart Of The Unicorn - Gamma Ray __________________ Psychos do not explode when hit by sunlight, no matter how crazy they are!

08-07-2004, 05:09 PM	#41
Xen Symbol of Moradin Join Date: June 5, 2002 Location: Slovenia,Ljubljana Age: 36 Posts: 8,554	Books: none Movies: Spider-Man 2, The Game, Wonder Boys, Tupac: Ressurection, Robin Hood, Kill Bill 1, LotR 1, Underworld, The last Samurai, Primal fear. Songs: Nas - Illmatic album

08-07-2004, 05:56 PM	#43
Melusine Dracolisk Join Date: January 8, 2001 Location: Amsterdam, The Netherlands Age: 43 Posts: 6,541	Man, reading through this thread is really cool, love seeing what sort of stuff you all like! Incidentally Groj I noticed you read Life of Pi a while back! Fantastic read isn't it? So hilarious and so heartwrenchingly sad.

08-07-2004, 06:26 PM	#44
Saturos Elite Waterdeep Guard Join Date: February 22, 2003 Location: Brynnlaw Age: 36 Posts: 48	Books: 1. "Ship of Destiny" - Robin Hobb 2. "The Mad Ship" - Robin Hobb 3. "Ship of Magic" - Robin Hobb 4. "King's Cure" - Daniel Hood (?) 5. "Assassin's Quest" - Robin Hobb 6. "Royal Assassin" - Robin Hobb 7. "Assassin's Apprentice" - Robin Hobb Movies: 1. "Mission: Impossible" 2. "The Jack Bull" 3. "Pale Rider" 4. "Macbeth" 5. "Gladiator" 6. "Troy" 7. "Star Wars: Return of the Jedi" 8. "Last Man Standing" MP3s: Metallica concert (22 tracks) Metallica songs (118 tracks again and again [img]tongue.gif[/img] )

09-16-2004, 03:44 PM	#49
Marathon Elminster Join Date: December 10, 2003 Location: OP, KS Age: 50 Posts: 489	I'll give this a shot: Books: Footfall - Niven/Pournall Lucifer's Hammer - N/P The Screwtape Letters - CS Lewis Cold Mountain - much better than the movie Earth Abides Ender's Game Going back any further would make this more of an all time favorite list - much less time to read since my daughter came along. Movies: LOTR - The Return of the King Twisted - Terrible, stupid movie Old School - Favorite comedy Kill Bill Kill Bill 2 Hidalgo - put me to sleep 13 going on 30 - Hey, I'm married - got to compromise... Freaky Friday - See above... In America Hellboy (She compromises as well) CD's off the iPod - Dinosaur Jr. - Ear Splitting Country REM - Murmur Built to Spill - Keep it like a secret Fugazi - In on the kill taker Nick Drake - Pink Moon Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures The Cure - Disintegration Wilco - A ghost is born Hanoi Rocks - Bangkok Shocks, Saigon Quakes, Hanoi Rocks

09-16-2004, 05:07 PM	#50
Aelia Jusa Iron Throne Cult Join Date: August 23, 2001 Location: Brisbane, Australia Age: 42 Posts: 4,867	I haven't read a real book in ages. I read a lot, but I don't count trashy romance novels as real books... or gossip mags... Haven't really had time to sink my teeth into a real book of late But I've seen a bunch of movies lately, mostly on the interminable plane trips. Taking Lives (possibly the worst movie I've seen in years) Win a Date with Tad Hamilton (yes, I was truly truly bored) Proof of Life (not as bad as I'd heard) Where the Heart is (had seen it before) I also watched half of Envy (crap) and 50 First Dates (even crapper), but both were too bad to finish Shallow Hal (ordinary) Love Actually (sweet!) Lost in Translation (a great movie) [ 09-16-2004, 05:08 PM: Message edited by: Aelia Jusa ] __________________

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