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[sab]

Pinched from dolimir, because I can:

Recommend To Me:
1. A movie.
2. A book.
3. A musical artist, song, or album.
4. An LJ user not on my friends list.
5. Something to do in the next two months; something daring or adventuresome

Comments

[tarysande.livejournal.com]

1. In America
2. Sunshine, Robin McKinley. The Way the Crow Flies, Ann-Marie McDonald (or her Fall on Your Knees, if you haven't read it). Clara Callan, Robert Wright.
3. You and a Promise, Howie Day, the album is 'Stop all the World Now' and it is fantastic.
4. My LJ list is pathetic.
5. Get over Pneumonia? Without being hospitalized at any time? Visit Vancouver and go toboganning (sp?) at Cypress Mountain?

Wanna suggest stuff for me?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I'm recommending you several of the same things I rec'd to dolimir, 'cause they're still good, with a few changes toward your personal tastes:

1. Limbo, with Mary Elizabeth Mastroantonio. Because she's a single mom slash lounge singer and they get STRANDED on an ISLAND and the daughter reads an excellent journal about wolves. You'll see.
2. Battle Royale by Koshun Takami. Sort of the Japanese Lord of the Flies, except good, and exciting, and fucked up, and with at least sixty characters all of whom you care about and any of whom could be picked off and killed on the next page.
3. Angels Running, Patty Larkin. Beginning to end one of the best albums ever written in the singer/songwriter ten-finger badass guitarchick genre.
4. quasiradiant, because you'll love her.
5. Read a nonfiction book on a topic that only marginally interested you before and then learn all you can about it. You know, a golf memoir, or an East Asian travelogue or a Presidential biography.

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

Here's three out of five, because I cannot resist pimping.

1. Dark Blue World
2. Night Soldiers, Alan Furst
3. 6 Underground, Sneaker Pimps

[pearl-o.livejournal.com]

1. The Lion in Winter
2. Sorcery and Cecelia by Patricia C. Wrede and Caroline Stevermer
3. Iron & Wine, The Creek Drank the Cradle
4. afrai/bravecows. I'm not sure which she's mostly updating in now, because of weird family stuff, but she is endlessly entertaining and cool.
5. Start picking out things by random -- books, movies, food -- and see if anything wonderful comes from it.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I love that Iron and Wine cd. ptpatricia turned me on to it this summer. So bleak and beautiful and oddly enthralling.

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

1. Master and Commander, just because.
2. And the Band Played On, if you haven't read it. I can't remember if you have; I've recced it to several people over the past few years. If you have read it, then Pat Barker's Regeneration trilogy.
3. All I know about your musical taste is that you like William Finn. And Sondheim, maybe, because of that icon you made a little while ago. Going on that, I'd recommend Jason Robert Brown.
4. carmarthen, loneraven, or petronelle.
5. My standard answer for this question is "Go rock-climbing!", because I want to do it.

[pene.livejournal.com]

1. Together (2001)
2. Manhattan to Baghdad by Paul McGeogh
3. Peaches, Fuck the Pain Away.
Okkervil River, Saul at the Time of His Conversion
4. inertiam
5. write from a woman's point of view.

[quasiradiant.livejournal.com]

oh, "and the band played on." the bleakest thing i've ever read!

[quasiradiant.livejournal.com]

can i just say, first, that your icons are always just stunning? also, that i miss you.

now. you're probably better read/listened/watched than i am. however. i'll give it a shot anyway.

1. i am pathetic. i have seen so very, very few movies in my lifetime, and especially few that i can imagine you haven't seen. so. huh. the fifth element is my favorite movie of all time. unconditional love is perfect for its utterly awful kitsch value. malena? oh! or, the red violin which is perhaps perfect.

2. muriel rukeyser's the life of poetry. or sherie reynold's a gracious plenty.

3. amy ray's album "stag." the mountain goats. save ferris. leona naess. the decemberists. liz phair's "polyester bride."

4. missparker.

5. hmmmm. learn to cook something insanely extravagant, particularly something you get to light on fire at some point within the process, like a flambe.

[cofax7]

1. Chicken Run, even though I'm sure you've seen it. "But I don't want to be a pie!" Or in honor of an old friend who took her name off the credits, Elves, which is about evil neo-nazi Christmas elves defeated by an alcoholic dime-store Santa Claus played by Dan Haggerty.

2. Cadillac Desert, Marc Reisner. Because everyone who lives in California should read this book.

3. The Waterboys, "A Pagan Place." Because it has "Red Army Blues" and "A Church Not Made with Hands", which are songs I think you'd like.

4. stormrunner Because you know her, even if you don't think you do.

5. Get healthy. Eat salads. Learn to cook. *g* Okay, okay -- go climbing!

[pene.livejournal.com]

hee I was going to say. "buy something perishable. put it in your fridge. cook it the next day. and eat it. ... ah fuck it, go climbing instead."

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

1. Into the West
2. Little, Big by John Crowley
3. Anything by The Waterboys, but particularly the song, The Pan Within on This is the Sea
4. cyloran, cause she's a terrific person
5. Hike part (or all) of the Appalachian Trail. Might be a bit too cold to do this over the next two months. Hmmm. Take the Amtrak all the way across the United States.

[aud-woman-in.livejournal.com]

1. The Cooler
2. The Bookseller of Kabul
3. Tchaikovsky: Symphony No. 4, Georg Solti and the Chicago Symphony Orchestra - oh, the angst, oh the plucking!
4. Me!
5. Only slightly adventuresome, but thrilling nonetheless: Wintertime sunset from Keyes View at Joshua Tree Nat'l Park

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I've read And the Band Played On, also seen the movie several times, and it ain't bad. I actually think I might own it on DVD. *g*

Also! Glad to hear the rec for Regeneration, as the first, eponymous one's been sitting on my To Read shelf for a while. I'll read it next.

Thanks!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Peaches is great. We were just talking about her the other day, but now I can't remember why. As for:

5. write from a woman's point of view.

Interesting! Very interesting. I'll do it, by George, I'll do it. *g*

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

I miss you TOO. And belated Happy Birthday, because I am both a flake and apparently have pneumonia, so there. :P

And I adore everyone on your music selection except Save Ferris whom I haven't heard, so obviously, that goes on my list.

And while I'm not sure about the cooking, I will absolutely watch The Red Violin -- thank you!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Ooh, I *do* know stormrunner, and I've added her. And of course I love Chicken Run. Love it.

I will not cook. But I might climb. Fair enough?

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Ooh, the Waterboys, you know, they've been on my list a while. I'll have to check them out.

And I've already *done* the Amtrak thing, so I recommend it back to you. Great fun.

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Yeah, it's pretty sad I've never been to Joshua Tree. And, pleased to make your acquaintance!

[iamsab.livejournal.com]

Hey, tell me more about Alan Furst, will you?

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

Alan Furst writes historical espionage set on the stage of WWII. His characters are flawed, his prose isn't superfluous, and nothing is okay in the end, but it is the best it can be, given the situation. Death, betrayal, love, politics, and war. I will send you one of his books, if you like.

[cofax7]

Get healthy first, okay? No climbing while having pneumonia.

[thassalia.livejournal.com]

1. Spirited Away because it's so lovely. Or Notorious because it's elegant, and sharp, and has lovely, lovely Ingrid Bergman.

2.

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1. <i>Spirited Away</i> because it's so lovely. Or <i> Notorious</i> because it's elegant, and sharp, and has lovely, lovely Ingrid Bergman.

2. <Winter's Tale> by Mark Helprin. Because it's about cities, and snow and ice and shining things that we long for, and because it never snows in L.A., but so often, it can be beautifully shiny.

3. Nick Cave's <i>The Boatman's Call</i>, because he's too thin, and too rangy, and smokes as he sings and because this album is just very, very good.

4. Hmmm. You know far, far more people than I do:)

5. Go to the Museum of Jurassic Technology, or to the dollar sale on Sunday morning at Jet Rag on La Brea.

[sorlklewis.livejournal.com]

I will not cook.

lazy_cooks... ? Maybe?

[jood.livejournal.com]

1. I'm torn between recommending the "Microcosmos"/"Winged Migration" double feature and "Bagdad Cafe". Let's go with "Bagdad Cafe". No, "The Dark Crystal". Because I'm a dork.
2. "The Road To Mars" by Eric Idle.
3. "The Visit" by Loreena McKennitt
4. thewalterdoll
5. Tell five random strangers on the street, sincerely, "You are GORGEOUS."

[gamesiplay.livejournal.com]

I think I have the movie on tape somewhere. It's not my favorite, but I do like to see Alan Alda. :)

Regeneration is absolutely wonderful, as are its sequels; some of the best books I've read in a long time, and, along with The Things They Carried, some of the best contemporary literature I've read.

[marinwood.livejournal.com]

Good idea - I'm so pinching this.

1. Brand new: My Architect: A Son's Journey - the best documentary of 2003.
Oldie but goodie: Lord Love A Duck - a 1968 mad pop bonanza in glorious B&W.

2. Drinking Coffee Elsewhere, short stories from the nitty-gritty by ZZ Packer.

3. Neutral Milk Hotel, who are sadly, no more. I especially recommend their second (and last) album, In the Aeroplane Over the Sea. It has songs like "Holland, 1945" and the title one, which are very-BoB like.

4. Hmmm, let's see. For words of wisdom, definitely dargie. For bringing the funny, absolutely trollprincess.

5. Dunno - find a brand spanking new fandom, fall in love with it, then write a kick ass new fic?

[mischa.livejournal.com]

1. A movie: Spun.
2. A book: Pattern Recognition.
3. A musical artist, song, or album: THE MARS VOLTA!
4. An LJ user not on my friends list: kim_jong_il__ :P
5. Something to do in the next two months; something daring or adventuresome: Take a class at the Free University of LA. Or, take ju-jitsu in West Hollywood with me :)

[jood.livejournal.com]

Also:

1) "The Shipping News" and "Salt Water Moose"

[barbary-coast.livejournal.com]

I've taken the Amtrak around the East coast, and from DC to Minneapolis. I love trains!

If you're going to pick up any Waterboys, I'd recommend that you start with This is the Sea and A Pagan Place, first. This is the Seais shortly going to be remastered and re-released with additional material. A Pagan Place has already been remastered. The last couple of Waterboys albums are very different in sound. I love them, but not all fans do. The latest, Universal Hall, is a series of spiritual affirmations. The one just before it is its exact opposite, A Rock in a Weary Land. It's a pure rock album with angry lyrics and a terrific but odd distortion over all the vocals. I think that This is the Sea and A Rock in a Weary Land are the best of the lot.

Another movie recommendation: The Sweet Hereafter. Brilliant film.