YouAreMySilence
09.02.09 | And everyone needs to check out Year Of No Light's album Nord. |
kitsch
09.02.09 | read everything dostoevsky has ever written, starting with notes from underground and crime and punishment.
my other favorite pieces of literature:
waiting for godot - beckett
heart of darkness - conrad
these i dont really recommend unless you are willing to do some work as the first one requires some background in philosophy to understand, the second requires some research of africa at the end of the 19th and early 20th century to understand. also, heart of darkness's plot is about 10% of the meaning and godot has no plot.
as for end of the world, idk the stand by stephen king even tho he is a hack. |
kitsch
09.02.09 | 4 is one of the most powerfully subtle albums of all time. i looove it. |
YouAreMySilence
09.02.09 | Yah I'll get some background information.
4 is incredible. |
Athom
09.02.09 | waiting for godot is amazing. i saw it performed a few months ago. I still need to read it.
I just finished reading "A History of God: The 4,000-Year Quest of Judaism, Christianity and Islam". It was VERY though provoking. try that. |
kitsch
09.02.09 | i heard about that book.
im gonna check it out |
kitsch
09.02.09 | and seeing that play performed would be on par with seeing radiohead with me.
two things i should've done by now. |
kitsch
09.02.09 | as for documentaries
food inc. - if you buy food at a supermarket or fast food, you need to see this.
hoop dreams - follows these kids that play basketball through a large portion of their life. its worth watching just to appreciate the amount of effort that went into making the doc even if you hate basketball.
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YouAreMySilence
09.02.09 | That History Of God seems interesting. I watched a documentary the other day called Jesus Camp, about the rise of the Christian "army" in America. It was very thoughprovoking and quite frightening. |
kitsch
09.02.09 | that movie is crazy |
YouAreMySilence
09.02.09 | Indeed broseph. |
Athom
09.02.09 | Jesus Camp scared me on so many levels. |
YouAreMySilence
09.02.09 | The last scene during and before the credits with the two kids on the street converting people was one of the scariest things I've ever seen. |
Yotimi
09.02.09 | I watched two awesome documentaries recently that I highly recommend:
The King of Kong: Fistful of Quarters - About the two best Donkey Kong players in the world competing for the world record. The current record holder Billy Mitchell is such a douche but it's funny.
American Movie - Classic, so you may have already seen it. But it's hilarious. About a redneck movie buff who is fullfilling his life-long dream to film his movie "Coven". |
zuzek
09.06.09 | Try Ayn Rand - Atlas Shrugged, found it to be one of the most interesting books I've ever read. It's very philosophical in nature, dealing mostly with the role of a man's mind in his life in a dystopian society where all the creative minds have gone on strike. It isn't unlike the works of Dostoevsky, who has been recommended before by someone if I'm correct. |
