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i'd like to get some recs for any form of entertainment, and i always find it interesting to see what people are passionate about. if you have anything that you love so much that you want to recommend to the world (or at least the ST world), please post, b/c i'd love to check it out.

edited to add my own:

movies

the shawshank redemption. i know it's totally overexposed, but i can't help but love it. the score, which is used in a lot of commercials and movie trailers, still gives me goosebumps.

wallace and gromit (the shorts as well as the feature-length movie). 

books

as much as i love reading, i can't really think of books i'm die-hard passionate about... might edit later

music

i don't have a favorite album or singer, but i do have a list of songs that never fail to give me the shivers, even in 90+ degree, 90+% humidity weather

sera cahoone - the couch song

tom waits - please call me baby

iron and wine - the trapeze swinger

rilo kiley - pictures of success

john mayer - comfortable, and slow dancing in a burning room

the corrs feat. bono - when the stars go blue

tv shows/miniseries

friday night lights. i know this is very new, but every episode is a small masterpiece. i am in awe of this show.

arrested development. i came to this show late, and haven't watched every episode yet, but i adore it.



-- Edited by squishy at 12:50, 2007-02-01

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Movies

American Movie

Ghostworld

The Cruise

Waking Life

The Squid and the Whale

 

Music

Silversun Pickups

Feist

Mazzy Star

 

Books

The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Nightime

Invisible Man

Lolita

Extremely Loud and Incredibly Close 

 

 



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I haven't had much time lately for any entertainment but the one show I never miss is How I Met Your Mother.  I just love that show.

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Nothing new really.  The movies are ones that were innovative/well made or touched me.  The music artists are ones that I can't listen to without singing.

 

Movies

Transamerica

Adaptation 

Hedwig and the Angry Inch

Requiem For a Dream (hard to watch, but v. good)

In Her Shoes

Wonder Boys 

 

Music

Damien Rice

Evanescence

The Killers

soundtrack for The Village

Depeche Mode 



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Oh lord girl I could go on forever about artists and art that I am passionate about!!


TV Shows

-24

-The Sopranos

-Twin Peaks

Books/Plays
-American Psycho
-Glamorama
-Lunar Park
-Any Harry Potter book
-Hamlet
-A Midsummer Night's Dream
-The Taming of the Shrew
-Medea
-The Trojan Women
-The House of Yes
-That Scottish Play (MacBeth, for those of you non theatre folk)
-The Other Boleyn Girl

Music
-Prince (any of his music)
-Pre-Bedtime Stories Madonna
-Def Leppard
-Journey
-Motley Crue
-Musical theatre: Rent, Les Miserables, Phantom, Wicked, A Chorus Line, My Fair Lady

Movies
-The Princess Bride
-Monty Python and the Holy Grail
-American Beauty
-The Usual Suspects
-Brick
-Layer Cake
-Traffic



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Hmm, I had to really think about this one but here's what I came up with when I searched my heart.

Movies
*To Live (a Chinese film that spans pretty much the whole 20th century)
*Time Bandits/The Last Unicorn/Labyrinth- anything that fits into the horridly awful fantasy category.

Books
*Paul Theroux- he wrote Mosquito Coast, Hotel Honolulu and a huge amount of non-fiction travel essays/books. Simply amazing author, beautiful and witty prose. I've actually stopped in the middle of a sentence and sighed.
*L. Frank Baum- As in the Wizard of Oz. He wrote 13 books set in Oz and they are fantastic with gorgeous illustrations (not done by him).
*Jane Auel- She wrote Clan of the Cave Bear way back in the seventies (?) and has six or seven books in the series. They are about "cave men and women"- the level of detail that she puts into her reading is fantastic...not saying that at any level that they are true, factual details but they're there nonetheless.  
*Books in general. Books really are a passion for me, and not just the reading of them. I love the feel of a hefty hardcover book in my hands, I love the smell of a used bookstore (dreams and coffee?), I love the way the pretty covers look on my shelves. I actually cried in that scene in Pleasantville when they burned the books.

Music
*Willie Nelson- He's actually the only singer/band I could come up with that I'm passionate about. I love music, and lots of singers...but WN is the only person that I love every single song every single time.



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relrel wrote:
Music

*Willie Nelson- He's actually the only singer/band I could come up with that I'm passionate about. I love music, and lots of singers...but WN is the only person that I love every single song every single time.


Ooh, relrel I concur! I listen to the song Poncho and Lefty at least 3 times a week.

I also love nearly everything by Bob Dylan, Dolly Parton, Jay-Z and Prince.

Other faves of late: The Cure, New Order, The Afghan Whigs, the song "Debra" by Beck. Any song about wooing a woman that includes the line "Lady, step inside my Hyundai" is a winner in my book. I also love the Prince vibe that song has. *

*I realize all my music choices are pretty old, but I think I have finally reached an age where I don't keep up with that racket those young kids are playing. Just kidding, I just have been in a time warp lately.

TV (also mostly old-available on dvd only):
Law and Order: Criminal Intent and many more cop shows - deep down I secretly want to bust criminals:

Strangers with Candy - I adore Amy Sedaris
The Office (British version)
Various home shows, like Moving Up on TLC and House Hunters
Extras
Antiques Roadshow - for some reason, this often makes me cry.

Authors:
Bernard Malamud
Francine Prose
David Sedaris and Amy Sedaris
I just read David Rakoff's Don't Get Too Comfortable and laughed my ass off.
Larry McMurtry

Movies:
The Night of the Hunter
The Thin Man films
Everything by Alexander Payne - Citizen Ruth, Election, About Schmidt and Sideways
80s and 90s comedies like Coming to America, Clifford, and tons more I can't think of
Terms of Endearment

eta: U2! I can't believe I forgot them. I have been on the hugest U2 kick lately. I've always been a fan, but in the last month or so, it's almost all I want to listen to.  

 



-- Edited by boobaby at 20:54, 2007-01-31

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TV:
The Golden Girls (yes, really!)
Absolutely Fabulous
The O.C.
Veronica Mars
Brothers & Sisters
Entourage

Movies:
Match Point
Pride & Prejudice (the new one)
The Princess Bride
Love Actually
Life as a House
Ghost World

Books:
Harry Potter
Dracula
Twilight
The Little Prince
Bridget Jones' Diary
Memoirs of a Geisha

Music:
My Chemical Romance
Imogen Heap
Bond
The Rolling Stones
CCR
The Like
The Streets


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I know I'll be missing a ton (and I may add more later when I think of them), but here's some of mine.

TV:
- Felicity
- LOST
- What About Brian?
- Grey's Anatomy

Movies:
- The Shawshank Redemption
- Serendipity
- Frequency
- Beauty & the Beast (I'm serious! The story is so touching and I love the music.)
- Anything with Johnny Depp (duh!)

Books:
- The Lovely Bones
- Good Grief
- The Stand

Music- Artists:
- Anything Broadway- I seriously love it all
- Stephen Sondheim (speaking of Broadway...)
- Chantal Kreviazuk
- Over the Rhine
- Harry Connick, Jr.
- And I generally like soundtracks from my favorite shows (Grey's Anatomy, Felicity, etc)
- Pirates of the Carribean soundtrack (both 1 and 2)-- It's by Hans Zimmer and he's amazing. Also did the music for The Da Vinci Code, which I also loved
- U2
- Bon Jovi (don't laugh at me!)

Music- Songs:
I could probably go on forever with this one, but I'll try not to.
- 'Mistakes I've Made' - Fran Lucci
- 'Feels like Home' - Chantal Kreviazuk
- 'Ghosts of You'- Chantal Kreviazuk
- 'Stay'- Wood
- 'In His Eyes' - Jekyll & Hyde (the musical)
- 'Someone Like You' - Jekyll & Hyde
- 'Latter Days' - Over the Rhine
- 'When you Know'- Shawn Colvin

Okay, I've got to stop. This list is getting too long.




-- Edited by kenzie at 20:57, 2007-02-06

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TV:
Lost (I'm hoping the third season starts to get better)
Grey's Anatomy
Ugly Betty
The Office
Scrubs
Like you, I got into Arrested Development too late, but I that show.

Movies:
Frida
The Motorcycle Diaries
Anchorman
Matchpoint (actually, I like a lot of Woody Allen stuff)
Finding Neverland (soooooooo good)

Books:
I like a lot of Latin American Authors:  Gabriel Garcia Marquez, Oscar Hijuelos, Isabel Allende
I'm also reading The Black Dahlia right now and I'm loving it
About a year ago I read The Time Traveller's Wife and I loved it
Anything by Bill Bryson--squishy, I think you'd love him if you haven't read him before.  He's got a fantastic sense of humor that I think you'd totally "get."

Music:
I kind of run the gamut on music.  Some of my favorites are:
The Beach Boys' Pet Sounds album.  I just got it for my birthday and it's fantastic
Beck (he's consistently GREAT)
David Gray
Ben Harper
Some of The Cure
The Eagles
Elton John
Eric Clapton
The JB's
Jack Johnson
Johnny Cash
John Mayer
Jurassic 5
Justin Timberlake
Les Nubians
Madeleine Peyroux
Paul Simon
Ray Charles
Another fan of Willie Nelson

-- Edited by NCshopper at 20:01, 2007-02-02

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TV
1.  How I Met Your Mother
2.  CSI
3.  Entourage
4.  Nigella's show - she is so soothing and her food is always so good!

Books
1.  Pride and Prejudice
2.  In Cold Blood
3.  anything by MFK Fisher - though How to Cook a Wolf is probably my favorite
4.  Gigi
5.  To Kill a Mockingbird
6.  Make Way for Ducklings

Music
1.  The Shins
2.  Ella Fitzgerald
3.  Madeleine Peyroux
4.  Madonna
5.  Nina Simone
6.  Cat Stevens

Movies
1.  Rushmore
2.  Sideways
3.  The long version of Pride and Prejudice
4.  Breakfast at Tiffany's
5.  LA Confidential



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Books/authors/plays/poetry:

-The Brontes
-Gothic suspense novels
-Margaret George
-The Death of Ivan Ilyich
-Larry McMurtry
-Margaret Atwood
-Gabriel Garcia Marquez, esp. Love in the Time of Cholera
-The Woman in White
-Lord of the Flies
-Shakespeare, esp. the Sonnets, Macbeth, and Titus Andronicus
-Stephen King -- his outlook on writers and writing is fantastic, and he is a great storyteller
-Gone With the Wind (but not the movie)
-Emily Dickinson
-J.R.R. Tolkien
-Death of a Salesman
-Our Town
-Jorge Luis Borges

Movies:
The Jerk (anything Steve Martin, really)
The Princess Bride
The Shawshank Redemption
To Kill a Mockingbird
Anything Alfred Hitchcock
Anything Disney
Grease
Office Space
Cinema Paradiso

TV Shows:
The Sopranos
24
Heroes
The OC ()
LOST
Saved by the Bell
The Office

Music:
Cinema Paradiso (soundtrack)
I am with Nyla on the Broadway stuff, esp. Phantom, Les Miserables, Jekyll & Hyde, RENT and Starlight Express
The Format
Old-school Dave Matthews Band
Billy Joel

-- Edited by halleybird at 16:53, 2007-02-03

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