one movie, one album, one game, one book
Wednesday, June 25th, 2008 - 9:12pm
We all have our favorite forms of media. We've all contributed to "best of" lists.
What if someone asked you to list them all?
Call it a Desert Island greatest hits, or maybe the aliens land, seeking representations of intelligent life.
How would you reply?
I'll start.
Movie: Amélie (2001)
Album: Roni Size/Reprazent - New Forms (1997)
Game: No One Lives Forever (2000)
Book: Dostoevsky - The Brothers Karamazov (1880)
What say you?
At this exact moment, mine would look something like...
Movie: Star Wars (1977)
Album: Dream Theater - Metropolis Part 2: Scenes from a Memory (1999)
Game: Star Wars: Knights of the Old Republic (2003)
Book: Tolkien - The Lord of the Rings (1954-5)
I'm not very original, as dorks go. Can't be helped.
Yours,
Darth Krzysztof
http://www.obsidianportal.com/campaign/cold-blood - My chat-based D&D Planescape campaign!
Movie - Blade Runner
Album - Bob Dylans first album
Game - Deus Ex
Book - The Man Who Was Thursday - GK Chesterton
MOVIE - Lost in Translation
ALBUM - Back to Black
GAME - THUG1 PS2
BOOK - DUNE
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(I am sure I will repost 100x if that's allowed)
Your friendly neighbourhood hair splitting singularity.
Aperture scientist is my alter ego.
Movie - Ran
Album - Kaki King, ...Until We Felt Red
Game - Silent Hill 2
Book - Salmon Rushdie, The Satanic Verses
I'm like a flashing lightning and a rolling thunder, I'm like a stepping razor
Off the top of my head with as little thinking as possible:
Movie - Sixteen Candles
Album - OK Computer - Radiohead
Game - Lord of the Rings Online
Book - Excession - Iain M. Banks
Fun topic!
XBL Gamertag: Bear Patrol
Movie: The Godfather: Part II (1974)
Album: Weezer - Blue Album (1994) - Tool's Ænima is a close second
Game: Arkanoid: Revenge of Doh (1987)
Book: A.E. van Vogt - The World of Ā (1948) - I prefer this slightly to The Voyage of the Space Beagle. I someday hope to inherit my Dad's collection of golden-age sci-fi lit.
Site note: I also enjoy New Forms quite a bit, but wft with In The Mode? I'm afraid to listen to anything but New Forms now in case I lose all respect for Roni Size.
Return to V is excellent.
Putting all of my time in learning to care
Last.fm
Movie: 12 Angry Men
Album: The Shins - Chutes Too Narrow
Game: Oblivion (and mods)
Book: Lord of the Rings
It ought never to be forgotten that the past is the parent of the present ~ J.C.Calhoun
"Your broken corpses will taste delicious lightly seasoned with nutmeg." ~ The Creature in the Darkness
Movie: Brick (2005)
Album: The Who - Who's Next
Game: Half-Life
Book: Alice in Wonderland and Through the Looking Glass
I hate you soo much Phil Collins!
Pharacon wrote:
PSN = AmazingZoidberg
After a bit of thought for some of these here is my list.
Movie: The 5th Element (1997)
A movie I can easily watch back to back in one sitting.
Aliens (The 2nd one), Godfather II and Star Wars (Ep 4) are all a close second.
Album: nine inch nails (NIN)- Pretty Hate Machine (Halo 2) (1989)
Was such a significant album in my teenage years, I can't express it's affect on me.
I now own every single NIN album from beginning to present and even a few imports.
Game: Ultima IV: Quest of the Avatar (1985)
As a teenager this game was my first significant addiction in the realm of role-playing computer games.
Which carried me through 5 and 6 in the series as well.
Book: Orson Scott Card: Ender's Game (1977)
Read this in Junior High twice back to back. I couldn't get enough of it. I still revisit it once in a while. I dream of owning an original hardback 1st run copy signed by Card.
The Robotech books were a close second in those days and were better than the cartoon by far.
Prederick wrote:
"When fascism comes to America it will be wrapped in a flag and carrying a cross." - Sinclair Lewis.
Movie: Finding Nemo
Album: As Cities Burn - Come Now Sleep
Game: Dead Rising
Book: I Am America and So Can You
"Everyone's always in favour of saving Hitler's brain but when you put it in the body of a great white shark, ooh, suddenly you've gone too far."
Off the top of my head...
Movie: The Princess Bride
Album: William Fitzsimmons - Until We Are Ghosts
Game: TF2
Book: Orson Scott Card - Ender's Game
Movie: The Blues Brothers
Album: Metallica - Master of Puppets
Game: Codename Panzers: Phase One
Book: Lord of the Rings
LiquidMantis wrote:
Movie: Aliens
Album: Dan Reed Network - Dan Reed Network
Game: NHL Hockey 93
Book: Lord of the Rings
"This is way, way more bad boy than you're gonna be able to handle." - Tommy Gavin on Rescue Me.
Xbox Live: AbsolutTexan
My home on the web
Movie: Galaxy Quest
Album: Panic! At the Disco - A Fever You Can't Sweat Out
Game: Dark Age of Camelot
Book: Robert Jordan - The Eye Of The World
Chumpy wrote:
Malor wrote:
movie: LOTR (yes all three, it's one story after all)
album: The Tragically Hip, Day for Night
Game: Twilight Princess
Book: Terry Pratchett, Going Postal
My ongoing D&D campaign, Gaald, Certis and Trachalio playing
Movie: The good, the bad and the ugly
Album: Chronicitis, Slightly Stoopid
Game: N ninja.
Book: A Confederacy of Dunces, John Kennedy Toole
*Legion* wrote:
Movie: Shaun of the Dead
Album: Tenacious D - The Pick of Destiny
Game: Super Smash Bros. Brawl
Book: Playboy magazine
XBL Gamertag: Effin Bear | PSN Name: Effin Bear | Steam ID: MechaSlinky | Wii Console Code: 5185 2886 9649 1657 | Spore: MechaSlinky
Movie: Ghostbusters
Album: U2, The Joshua Tree
Game: Star Control II
Book: Diamond Age - Neal Stephenson
Movie: Ordinary People
Album: Sgt. Peppers Lonely Heartsclub Band
Game: Pirates
Book: Lord of the Rings
Freeagent is formerly known as divorced. Please make the necessary legal and illegal adjustments.
Movie: My Neighbor Totoro. Or virtually anything from Studio Ghibli.
Album: Bad Religion, Stranger than Fiction.
Game: Planescape: Torment
Book: Ender's Game, Or The Lord of The Rings trilogy. I honestly couldn't choose between the two.
Movie: Ferris Bueller's Day Off
Album: Tool - Lateralis
Game: Oblivion (+ Mods)
Book: George R.R. Martin - A Game of Thrones. All of ASOIAF if i'm allowed.
Morrolan wrote:
XBLA / Steam: Dysplastic
movie - The Matrix
album - Out of the Cellar - Ratt
game - Mechcommander 2
book - For Love of Evil (Pier's Anthony's Incarnations of Immortality)
Honorables:
movie - Star Wars A New Hope, 12 Angry Men, 13th Warrior, Serenity
album - Construction Time Again - Depeche Mode, Lexicon of Love - ABC, And Justice for All - Metallica, Facelift - Alice n Chains
game - Mechwarrior 2, Mechwarrior 4 Mercs, WoW, Diablo 2, Spore
book - On a Pale Horse and most of the rest of the Incarnations of Immortality, Of Mice and Men
Being fangoriously devoured by a gelatinous monster.
Movie - Amelie
Album -1
Game - Infantry
Book -
"Three blokes go into a pub. One of them is kind of stupid, and the whole scene unfolds with a tedious inevitability." - Bill Bailey
Ok lets seeeeeeeee:
Movie - Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Is that what you call running?)
Album - Soul mining by The The (No honestly! That's the name of the band)
Game - World of Warcraft (That's presuming I have a reliable connection to the internet (perhaps in an secret underwater lab like that one on 'Lost' only with less explosions and flooding.))
Book - Fables by Bill Willingham The entire run of graphic novels* collected in one volume (including the ones he hasn't written yet
)
For a theoretical exercise that was tough.
*Anyone who wants to try Fables start with book 3. That's where it gets good and you'll pick up the story fairly easily.
... herald of Piggledy 'Destroyer of Worlds'
Movie - The Shawshank Redemption
Album - Euphoria
Game - Dwarf Fortress
Book - The Right Stuff
I went the "desert island" route, and picked things that never get old.
XBLive: Ruckus
Movie - Aliens
Album - Master of Puppets
Game - Starcraft
Book - The Stand
XBLive: Thin J
PSN: Thin_J
I don't imagine master craftsmen leaping away from completed projects and shouting "Done, motherf*ckers! - 1Dgaf
Ha, I remember The The.
Some tough choices to make :/
Movie - The Big Lebowski
Album - Iron Maiden Live After Death
Game - Starcraft
Book - Lord of the Rings
kuddles wrote:
Movie - Some Like It Hot
Album - Jane's Addiction, Ritual de lo Habitual
Game - Addams Family pinball
Book - Strange Battles of the Civil War
MaxShrek .. looks like Jake.. drives like Elwood.
Movie - Empire Strikes Back
Album - Ben Fold's Rockin the Suburbs
Game - X-Wing (if there's a good connection, I'll choose WoW)
Book - Silmarilion (or Grey's Anatomy hollowed out with activated charcoal tablets and matches inside)+
Decisions based on things I can read/play/watch/listen to without getting very tired very quick.
I'm an Uncle!!! -8/20/07
I buy even though I have 2 of them. I likey the Snakey. - Scrub
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