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[Tarka Dal]

Right. I’ve been meaning to post this thread for a couple of weeks so here goes. In the name of pop-culture I’d like each and every last m*thefucking one of you to recommend the following…

ONE FILM
ONE BOOK
ONE ALBUM
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING*

* – Said thing cannot be a film, book or an album.

Topic

[Kris ‘Drivaaar’ Carter]

FILM: Speed. Because it is gloriously stupid good fun.

BOOK: Truckers/Diggers/Wings by Terry Pratchett – a fantastic trilogy!

ALBUM: Yourself or Somene Like You by Matchbox Twenty – because it’s shorter than most Meatloaf albums.

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING THAT IS NOT A FILM, BOOK OR ALBUM: Any Transformers: Alternators toy – they’re just THAT cool.

[Dave]

ONE FILM: The Fisher King
ONE BOOK: Gulliver’s Travels
ONE ALBUM: This Is Hardcore
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Nebulous, a radio show you should all buy

[Andrew]

ONE FILM: The Fly
ONE BOOK: The Shining
ONE ALBUM: Life In Cartoon Motion
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: The Fountain (graphic novel and movie for full experience)

[peas_and_corn]

ONE FILM: Johnny Got His Gun

This film is about a bloke who had his face and limbs blown off in WW1 and his journey in trying to come to terms with his life. It’s very interesting.

ONE BOOK: Inside the Global Jihad

Written by a bloke who joined the French security services, became a member of Al Qaeda and went to a training camp in Afghanistan, and his story. Reads like fiction, is all true. Amazing and easy to read.

ONE ALBUM: Opeth “Ghost Reveries”

Fantastic album by the blokes from Sweden.

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Lunch Meet

It’s the off topic podcast by the brewing network which sometimes crosses the line but is really funny.

[hummingbird]

Delicatessen
A Prayer for Owen Meany: John Irving
Tom McRae: Tom McRae
The Hunterian Museum, London – fascinating and gruesome. Not recommended for a romantic date.

[Baz]

One Film- Moulin Rouge.
One Book- London, The Biography by Peter Ackroyd.
One Album- Stereotomy by The Alan Parsons Project.
One Really Cool Thing- Digital radio.

[Jonathan Capps]

ONE FILM: Your mother.
ONE BOOK: Your mother by Your mother.
ONE ALBUM: Your mother (self titled).
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Your mother.

[ori-STUDFARM]

FILM- Goonies. Can’t beat a bit of 80’s harmless fun

BOOK- Only Forwards by Michael Marshal Smith. Starts of as a stupid futuristic comedy about a private eye (dick :)) that is hired to find a missing person. then, about halfway through it suddenly turns into a very dark and scary horror story. Absolutely fantastic for a debut novel!

ALBUM- Cortizone- Selling Out For A Sucker. Available very cheap on Amazon but not on iTunes. The band are now split up, but this album is an amazing melodic rock/metal. They have a myspace where some of the tracks can be heard if you want to check it out…..but I can’t be arsed top post the link!

ONE REALLY COOL THING- The Suckcast podcast. Childish and immature humour. They use the podcast to promote a film they’ve made which they are trying to find distributers for. Basically 2 american blokes (and 1 in the background) The humour is childish, sometimes sexist and always funny as fuck!(IMO) The best thing is one host trying to control his co-hosts A.D.D. (I can’t spell Attention Deficit Disorder) giving in and switching his mic off!

[si]

FILM: The Rocky Horror Picture Show. (Yes, I’m obviously a perv.)

BOOK: Who On Earth Is Tom Baker? (The best autobiography ever.)

ALBUM: The Life On Mars Soundtrack album. (It may be a compilation, but it’s one of the only albums I have complete on my mp3 player.)

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Spaced. (Unbelievably, it’s ten years since this was first shown. Dave will be showing it from the beginning from later this month.)

[Pete Part Three]

OK, these aren’t my favourites…but since my favourites aren’t exactly obscure, I thought I’d go for stuff that there’s a slim chance you might not be aware of.

FILM : 12 Angry Men

BOOK : Everything I Know I Learned From TV, Mark Rowlands

ALBUM : I’m Not Dead, Pink

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING : The Angry Video Game Nerd

[Jonsmad]

Film: Still Crazy (starring Bill Nighy)
Book: The Complete Farside by Gary Larson
Album: The Liberty Of Norton Folgate (Madness)
Other Really Cool thing: Ganymede & Titan

[Bob Loblaw]

FILM : The Lookout

BOOK : Unreal!, Paul Jennings

ALBUM : The ’59 Sound, The Gaslight Anthem

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING : Dr Horrible’s Sing-Along Blog

[Ben Paddon]

Film: Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind

I love this film. It’s easily my favourite film of all time. It’s a sort-of scifi-love-drama-comedy film in which Jim Carrey plays more or less the straight man and Kate Winslet plays the batshit insane Jim Carrey role, and it works really well. It’s a beautiful piece of film and I could watch it every day for the rest of my life.

Book: “Feet of Clay” by Terry Pratchett

Re-read this recently and decided it’s probably my favourite Discworld novel. A fascinating, clever fantasy murder mystery.

Album: “Demon Days” by Gorillaz

I love this album. I have difficulty listening to the tracks individually – usually if one pops up on my iPhone’s shuffle I’ll skip it – but the album from beginning to end is an unrivalled masterpiece. There isn’t anything else quite like it.

Other Thing: “Left 4 Dead” – Xbox 360, PC

Cracking game.

[JamesTC]

Film: Clerks

Book: Lord of the Flies

Album: Oasis – Be Here Now

Cool Thing: Crackdown, it is like GTA meets the Hulk on crack.

[Joey TORDFC]

Film: Fanboys

Book: The Time Traveler’s Wife (the film was shit)

Album: Tilly and The Wall – O

Cool Thing: Saw – The Ride

[MANI506]

Film: Live Forever (documentary about British music in the 90s. Great for dwarfers of a certain age and Noel and Jarvis are really funny too)

Book: Harry Potter (I’m surprised how much I’m enjoying the series having previously shown no interest)

Album: Pulp – This Is Hardcore. I second that! Absolutely brilliant.

Other cool thing: Collings and Herrin is mah favourite podcast.

[Daff]

Film: Shaolin Soccer
Book: Shogun – James Clavell
Album: Terrorvision – Regular Urban Survivors
Other Cool Thing: A Fridge

[Phil1034]

Film: ‘Good Night and Good Luck’
Book: ‘The Complete Book of Scriptwriting’ – J. Michael Straczynski (for the anecdotes, rather than the advice)
Album: ‘Parade’ – Prince
Other Cool Thing: The play ‘Blue/Orange’ – Joe Penhall

[TheLeen]

Film: Sneakers
Book: If Chins Could Kill by Bruce Campbell
Album: MUSE – Origin of Symmetry
Other Cool Thing: xkcd’s playpen ball pit sofa

[JamesTC]

ONE FILM: Your mother.
ONE BOOK: Your mother by Your mother.
ONE ALBUM: Your mother (self titled).
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Your mother.

Your mother gets around.

[Carlito]

On the understanding that “recommend” doesn’t neccessarily imply that the following items represent my actual favourite item in each genre, nor neccessarily suggest that I consider these to have the highest artistic quality in their respective genres…

ONE FILM: Ghost Busters (greatest Hollywood popcorn blockbuster ever)
ONE BOOK: Colony (simply because it’s my most recent read and I really enjoyed)
ONE ALBUM: Ian Broudie – Tales Told (because only about 5 people ever bought it and its cruelly overlooked… not my absolute favourite ever but it deserves to be heard)
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Harry Hill’s early stand up comedy, before he became Mr. Family Entertainment Cabaret Act. I mourn for ‘old Harry’.

[Carlito]

> Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind. I love this film.

I hear ya. It makes me feel something and I don’t know what. Contentedly melancholy, I think. I suddenly feel the urge to watch it right now.

[Tarka Dal]

> ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Your mother.

Crazy fool. I clearly stated this couldn’t be something you had allready mentioned ;-)

[Jo]

ONE FILM: Way Out West
ONE BOOK: Notes from a Small Island – Bill Bryson
ONE ALBUM: Garbage – Garbage
ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: The West Wing. If you haven’t already watched it, shame on you! Watch it NOW!

>Book: The Time Traveler?s Wife
>Cool Thing: Saw – The Ride

Double YES!

> Film: Sneakers

Did I mention that I love you Marleen?

>Album: MUSE – Origin of Symmetry

Pls see above comment.

>ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Harry Hill?s early stand up comedy, before he became Mr. Family Entertainment Cabaret Act. I mourn for ?old Harry?.

Funnily enough I hated Harry Hill’s early stand up, it’s only recently with TV Burp that I’ve warmed to him.

[si]

>Album: Terrorvision – Regular Urban Survivors

God, I remember when this album came out. I was your average ‘Kerrang!’ teenager, with all the posters from the mag on the wall. I had a penpal called Amanda who sent me a recorded copy of the album on a tape, with a little message from herself afterwards. I went to HMV and nicked a cassette inlay for said tape, because I’m pernickerty like that…

As for Harry Hill – I thought his old C4 show was hilarious. It lost something when it came to ITV. And as brilliant as TV Burp is, I must agree, stuff like ‘Hooves’ is brilliant.

[Seb Patrick]

– The Hudsucker Proxy
– Bryan Lee O’Malley – Scott Pilgrim (I can’t recommend starting at anywhere but the first of the five volumes so far, but if you only want me to choose one book, then it’s volume four, Scott Pilgrim Gets It Together)
– The Unicorns – Who Will Cut Our Hair When We’re Gone?
– The November issues of Wired UK and When Saturday Comes, both of which feature articles by a certain S. Patrick. In all good newsagents shortly!

[Seb Patrick]

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Harry Hill?s early stand up comedy, before he became Mr. Family Entertainment Cabaret Act. I mourn for ?old Harry?.

Considering the existence of TV Burp… I don’t.

[Tarka Dal]

As great as TV Burp is, I too miss the old Harry stuff.

[si]

Ooh!!! New series of TV Burp next Saturday! 7:30 pm

[Pete Part Three]

Engaging Sky+, Sky+ Engaged

[mick]

ONE FILM: Brazil

ONE BOOK: James Herbert – ’48

ONE ALBUM: Marillion – Misplaced Childhood

OTHER COOL THING: Laying under a blanket in a 2cv with the roof down watching the sun set.

[Mr Flibble]

The November issues of Wired UK and When Saturday Comes, both of which feature articles by a certain S. Patrick. In all good newsagents shortly!

Which article in Wired Mr Patrick? I’m a subscriber so I assume it’ll be through my door soon.

[The PerformingMonkey]

> I hear ya. It makes me feel something and I don?t know what. Contentedly melancholy, I think

Definitely one of my favourites of the last few years. I too feel like watching it again right now! When I first saw it I was in a shitty place, for various reasons, and I think as a result it sank deep into my brain and…cleansed me, almost biblical style(!)

It’s one of those genuinely perfect films. The first 10 minutes or so when they meet ‘again’ on the train, you can’t tear your eyes away from it because it’s so beautifully executed. The ending is equally as amazing. They know they’re probably going to argue, fall out, leave each other again like before, and yet their attitude is basically ‘fuck it’. All the stuff they said in the tapes means nothing. Apparently it was originally going to end with the idea that they had erased their memories more than once and yet they always end up in the snow together.

[Nick R]

ONE FILM – Almost Famous, which I watched last week and really enjoyed. (Some of you have mentioned Eternal Sunshine – yep, it’s brilliant, but I love Adaptation. and Being John Malkovich just as much.)

ONE BOOK – The Player of Games by Iain M Banks. I’ve read three of his Culture novels recently, and this was my favourite so far. Although I’m looking forward to getting to Excession, after what I’ve heard about it…

ONE ALBUM – Sonic Youth’s Daydream Nation, because it really is as good as its reputation suggests.

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING – This webcomic page

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING: Harry Hill?s early stand up comedy, before he became Mr. Family Entertainment Cabaret Act. I mourn for ?old Harry?.

So do I. TV Burp is great, but I miss Stouffer, “and relax”, the Badger Parade, and regular viewer Bunty Hoven.

[Carlito]

> Harry Hill?s early stand up comedy, before he became Mr. Family Entertainment Cabaret Act. I mourn for ?old Harry?.

>> As for Harry Hill – I thought his old C4 show was hilarious. It lost something when it came to ITV. And as brilliant as TV Burp is, I must agree, stuff like ?Hooves? is brilliant.

>>>So do I. TV Burp is great, but I miss Stouffer, ?and relax?, the Badger Parade, and regular viewer Bunty Hoven.

Just to clarify, I adore TV Burp; I was talking specifically about his pre-Channel 4 show stand-up, when he didn’t have a full band, a stream of costumed/puppet characters, myriad of songs… when he was a lot more unpredictable and manic and even a bit near the knuckle on occasion.

I loved that manic Harry with the mad look in his eye when you never knew what was coming next, when his surreal act consisted almost solely of words and not endless walk-ons from Bert Kwouk and Al Murray, badgers, Savlon… all the running jokes he built up on his Channel 4 show…

Check out Harry Hill Live! (1995?) and Harry Hill: Man Alive (1997?) if you are able to. Stouffer’s there, and his ‘tiny son’ Alan Hill, but that’s it. The rest is just wildly surreal and bizarre stream of seemingly random statements that eventually pay-off in running gags or the last quarter ’round-up’ of callbacks and punchlines… just brilliant.

I don’t hate anything post-C4… First Class Scamp, Hooves and the third one that I can’t recall at this moment are all good entertainment… but I miss vintage Harry.

[Carlito]

Birdstrike… that’s the other one.

“Those Variety packs of cereal you get… there’s two boxes of Coco Pops, isn’t there? Hmm? Where’s the variety in that?”

“My grandmother’s got false teeth. Hmm. My grandmother’s got false teeth… so how can I believe a word she says? Eh?”

Love it.

[clem]

ONE FILM
Napoleon Dynamite

ONE BOOK
The Hitch Hiker’s Guide to the Galaxy by Douglas Adams

ONE ALBUM
My Beauty by Kevin Rowland

ONE OTHER REALLY COOL THING
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=gzxQgRbTesA

[Ben Paddon]

I cannot take the recommendations of “Fanboys” or “Napoleon Dynamite” seriously. Fanboys, while fun, failed to meet the potential promised over the years of development. And Napoleon Dynamite is just shit.

[Seb Patrick]

>Which article in Wired Mr Patrick?

It’s about LongBox, a new digital distribution platform for comics… apparently it’s been chopped down somewhat from its original length, but should still be in there! It’ll be in the “Play” section.

[si]

>myriad of songs

That ‘of’ is superfluous.

[Seb Patrick]

Wow, I can’t believe I missed that one.

[si]

And more Harry Hill: He’ll be popping up on Steve Wright’s show at some point between now and 5pm, on Radio 2.

[Carlito]

> That ?of? is superfluous.

I thought so. Doesn’t sound right to me without it though.

[Seb Patrick]

It’s because you don’t tend to think of “myriad” as being a number, but rather as a collective noun. However, etymologically… it’s a number, and should be used in the same way as “million” or “thousand”. Common mistake, though.

(and now I’m waiting for Andrew to pop up and say why that makes it “correct”)

[Steve Harris]

The Life of Brian:

HHGTTG:

Out Of The Blue (ELO):

Live music (wherever that may be):

[si]

Harry Hill’s on Now.

[si]

He’s not now.

[si]

Wasn’t really worth waiting for really, was it? Twelve minutes or so, with a Robbie Williams record in the middle of the interview.

[Tarka Dal]

Makes a change from eating Pizza.

[Mr Flibble]

It?s about LongBox, a new digital distribution platform for comics? apparently it?s been chopped down somewhat from its original length, but should still be in there! It?ll be in the ?Play? section.

Arrived today!

It’s half of p67 – so as it’s Wired, that’s about 10 words*.

I shall read tomorrow on the train to London.

*It’s about 200 really with a nice picture

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