recommendations

[rivendellrose]

Gacked from becksbooks:

Recommend to me:

1. a movie
2. a book
3. a musical artist, song, or album
4. a LiveJournal user not on my friends list
5. what I should have for dinner
6. a website
7. a quote

And then post in your journal, if you want, and I'll do the same for you.

Bed time, now. Or at least very soon.

Comments

[zodikins.livejournal.com]

1. Some Like it Hot
2. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville
3. Diana Anaid :D
4. dunno :\
5. Sushi (mostly because I'm craving it right now)
6. http://www.shadowstar.cjb.net/ (the one RPG I'm active in right now)
7. I would give you the Emerson quote I usually give with things like this, but, alas, I am sleepy and can no longer find it.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

2. Jeremy Thatcher, Dragon Hatcher by Bruce Coville

That was one of my favorite books when I was younger!

I'll have to look up Diana Anaid - I think I've heard some of her stuff, but I'm not remembering it at the moment. And I'll add Some Like it Hot to my mental list of movies we should rent soon. ;)

[lovelies.livejournal.com]

1. Cube
2. You've probably read absolutely everything. Anthony Burgess' A Clockwork Orange, the uncensored version?
3. A Perfect Circle, Mer De Noms
4. cleolinda
5. Home-made Pizza-pie.
6. The Literature Network
7. Its like a feedback loop. You're somewhere quiet. There's people. Its a solemn occasion - say, a wedding. No - it's a minutes silence for someone who's died. The minute is ticking away... tick tock tick tock... and suddenly this thought pops into your head - The worst thing you can do in a minute silence is laugh. And you almost do, as an automatic reaction. But then, you think how awful it would have been if you HAD laughed, and you almost laugh again, only its a bigger laugh. But, then you think how funny it would have been if you'd laughed that bigger laugh, but this time the laugh is an enormous laugh. Let this one out and you get whiplash! So you're standing there, in this quiet room, shoulders going like you're drilling the road, and what do you think of the situation? Dear Christ! You think its funny! -- coupling_quotes

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I haven't read half the books that I should have, even out of 'classical' literature. And reading A Clockwork Orange would definitely be preferable to watching it, since I'm a huuuuuge wimp, so I'll add that to the list. ;)

The Literature Network looks likely to be my new favorite bookmark. Whee!

[theladyfeylene.livejournal.com]

1. Shock Treatment
2. Skinny Legs and All by Tom Robbins
3. Clanaad
4. suyari
5. Roast chicken with carrots and potatoes.
6.Notes From the Road
7. "Show me a man or a woman alone and I'll show you a saint. Give me two and they'll fall in love. Give me three and they'll invent the charming thing we call 'society'. Give me four and they'll build a pyramid. Give me five and they'll make one an outcast. Give me six and they'll reinvent prejudice. Give me seven and in seven years they'll reinvent warfare. Man may have been made in the image of God, but human society was made in the image of His opposite number, and is always trying to get back home."

(Fixed the bad tags. I know, I know, I should be asleep.)

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Yeah, if I ever get the time to read a book for pure pleasure again, I will definitely steal Skinny Legs... from you. From what I remember of what you told me about it, it sounded awesome.

And I just plain need to listen to Clanaad soon. *Checks the other stuff out*

[ladysonnet.livejournal.com]

This is what I posted in becksbooks' journal, but I think it still should be good for you too. I've added extra comments for you too, though.

1. a movie: La Cité des enfants perdus". I thought first of Amelie, but I figured you've seen that one. You've probably seen this one too. Or at least you should have.
2. a book: Perfume: A story of a Murderer by Patrick Suskind. Amazing book about a murderer with a perfect sense of smell. I'm pretty sure I've recommended this one to you before. Have you read it yet?
3. a musical artist, song, or album: Moxy Fruvous. I linked one of their albums so that you can listen to some clips. A capella from Canada. Sounds dumb, but is cool.
4. a LiveJournal user not on my friends list: Actually, I can't think of anyone who you should know that you don't already have friended. Maybe dracosangel, but I've never met her in person so I can't comfortably make that recommendation.
5. what I should have for dinner: Hmm, you should be in bed by now, so I think this question is moot. But for tomorrow, tuna steak. Why not.
6. a website: The Daily show with Jon Stewart. Hooray!
7. a quote: "On the Moon, nerds get their pants pulled down and they are spanked with Moonrocks." Sorry, it was all I could come up with on short notice. :)

Bethany

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I am a bad bad person for never having seen La Cite, so it definitely goes on the list. I will definitely have to read Perfume, especially since apparently Alan Rickman's next movie is based on it. A capella is always good!

...And now I'm craving tuna steak.

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

Movie: Reduced Shakespeare Companies All the Great Works of Literature in 90 minutes This will help you with all those classics you haven't read ;)
Book: The Tenant of Wildfell Hall by Anne Bronte - the least famous Bronte and my favorite Bronte book
Musical Artist: Coldplay
LJ User: therealjerre (my mommy!)
Dinner: Teriyaki salmon with rice, green tea to drink, a fresh salad of field greens on the side!
"That warrants 2 hours W.O.O. ... With Out Oxygen!" (Rimmer, Red Dwarf)

[scearley.livejournal.com]

"If you're you and he's you, and he's him and you're him, am I still me? If not, who's eating this chicken?"

[becksbooks.livejournal.com]

um...that HAS to be a Cat quote. But I can't figure out the episode...

[onefishjyuufish.livejournal.com]

1. Erm. I don't remember your tastes in movies, but maybe What Dreams May Come? The visuals alone are worth the movie, but Robin Williams is very good too.

2. Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country would be my rec. tiffangelwings loaned it to me and I loved it. The sequel isn't quite the same (as the first is written as letters from the two main characters to each other and the second is their diaries during the time of the tale), but still good. And that one would be The Grand Tour : Being a Revelation of Matters of High Confidentiality and Greatest Importance, Including Extracts from the Intimate Diary of a Noblewoman and the Sworn Testimony of a Lady of Quality. ;3

3. Anuna. I have a couple songs of theirs(?), but it's sort of an ethereal sound with voices and such. Hard to describe, but I think you would like it.

4. misia, because she says things well and interestingly.

5. I want sushi too. ;o; So I say sushi!

6. Catster! And then look for Elliott and add our cat as a friend. XD

7. Life does not cease to be funny when people die any more than it ceases to be serious when people laugh.
George Bernard Shaw

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

Oooo... fun stuff! I think I've heard of Anuna before, and that book sounds really awesome. And I love Shaw - he was so clever about the things he said. *Hurries off to check things out*

[scearley.livejournal.com]

1) Jacob's Ladder. If you've seen that, Eat Drink Man Woman. If you've seen that, Goodbye Lenin!. If you've seen that, To Live and Die in L.A.
2) American Roulette, by Richard Marcus. (Since everyone else is recommending fiction)
3) Smoosh. Or Michael Penn.
4) lorelei_aisling
5) Chicken piccata.
6) www.straightdope.com
7) "Never trust a philosopher who hasn't been arrested." I used to think that Bertrand Russell said it, but I've never been able to find out why I think that. It may have been me that actually came up with that line.

[rivendellrose.livejournal.com]

I'll take "Goodbye Lenin" for the movie; I saw the preview for that when ladysonnet and I saw "Girl with a Pearl Earring," and it looked great!

And now, to check out the rest!