So, what do you like (fave films, books, music, etc.)?

[flipsidemovies]

"What really matters is what you like, not what you are like. Books, records, films -- these things matter."
--Rob Gordon (John Cusack), High Fidelity

In the spirit of High Fidelity, I thought I'd start a thread in which we all list our top 10 favorites in a few categories (top fives are just far too limiting for me). Use the same categories or skip some of mine and/or add your own. Each of my lists is in alphabetical (rather than preferential) order. Here I go...

Favorite Movies The Apartment (Wilder, 1960)
Band of Outsiders (Godard, 1964)
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
Bride of Frankenstein (Whale, 1935)
City Lights (Chaplin, 1931)
Dawn of the Dead (Romero, 1978)
Hard Eight (Anderson, 1997)
Pulp Fiction (Tarantino, 1994)
Twin Peaks: Fire Walk With Me (Lynch, 1992)
Vertigo (Hitchcock, 1958)

Favorite Albums Armed Forces (Elvis Costello, 1979)
Around the Fur (Deftones, 1997)
Blood on the Tracks (Bob Dylan, 1975)
Disintegration (The Cure, 1989)
London Calling (The Clash, 1979)
Pet Sounds (The Beach Boys, 1966)
Pinkerton (Weezer, 1996)
Revolver (The Beatles, 1966)
Tim (The Replacements, 1985)
Whatever (Aimee Mann, 1993)

Five Awesome Artists That Didn't Make My 'Fave Album' List Fiona Apple
Built to Spill
Pavement
Tool
Wilco

Favorite Novels The Age of Innocence, Edith Wharton
Don Quijote, Miguel de Cervantes
Great Expectations, Charles Dickens
The Great Gatsby, F. Scott Fitzgerald
The Long Walk, Richard Bachman
Native Son, Richard Wright
Play It As It Lays, Joan Didion
The Shining, Stephen King
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut
The Sound and the Fury, William Faulkner

Of course, these lists are subject to change depending on my mood. And it's frustrating that so many of my favorite things didn't make the cut on any of the above lists. Anyway, I'm eager to see what winds up on everyone else's lists.

BTW, this is my first post in the Film Threat forums. Not much going on here right now, but I'm sure that'll change soon.

:)

[BuckyMcSatan]

Not in any order but hereeee we goooo:

Favorite Movies
(see previous post in this forum)

Favorite Albums
• Dummy (Portishead, 1994)
• Trompe Le Monde (Pixies, 1991)
• OK Computer (Radiohead, 1997)
• Gentlemen (Afghan Whigs, 1993)
• Superjudge (Monster Magnet, 1999)
• Best Of (Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, 1998)
• Contino Sessions (Death In Vegas, 1999)
• Mechanical Animals (Marilyn Manson, 1998)
• To Be An Angel Blind, The Crippled Soul Divide (Tear Garden, 1996)
• Xtort (KMFDM, 1996)


Five Awesome Artists That Didn't Make My 'Fave Album' List
• Red Hot Chili Peppers
• Linkin Park
• Pigface
• Korn
• Skinny Puppy


Favorite Novels (non-fiction/fiction)
• Crowds And Power, Elias Canetti
• Sexual Personae, Camille Paglia
• Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas, Hunter S. Thompson
• The Stand, Stephen King
• Without Feathers/Getting Even/Side Effects, Woody Allen
• Film As a Subversive Art, Amos Vogel
• Sexus, Henry Miller
• Fight Club, Chuck Palahniuk
• Hollywood Babylon, Kenneth Anger
• Apocolypse Culture, ed.Adam Parfrey[I]

[Eric Campos]

Hmmm...this is always a bitch trying to figure out because the last couple of entries in the list wind up changing all of the time, but here we go -

Fave bands -

Faith No More
Mr. Bungle
Alice in Chains
Clutch
The Doodle Town Pipers

Fave Movies -

Clockwork Orange
The Texas Chainsaw
Fast Times at Ridgemont High
Reflections of Evil
Animal House

[Dan Wible]

Favorite Movies
(see previous post in this forum)

Favorite Albums (in no particular order):
U2 - Achtung Baby
U2 - The Joshua Tree
Air - Moon Safari
The Strokes - Is This It
Radiohead - OK Computer
Lou Reed - Transformer
The Cure - Disintegration
Depeche Mode - Violator
Ned's Atomic Dustbin - God Fodder
Velvet Underground - Loaded

Five Awesome Artists That Didn't Make My 'Fave Album' List:
Daft Punk
Black Rebel Motorcycle Club
Fischerspooner
Coldplay
Marilyn Manson

Favorite Books:
The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy - Douglas Adams
Foucoult's Pendulum - Umberto Eco
In the Hands of Dante - Nick Tosches
Midnight Movies - Hoberman and Rosenbaum
The Trial - Kafka
Survivor - Chuch Palahniuk
Rendezvous with Rama - Arthur C. Clarke
Lord of the Rings Trilogy - Tolkien
Story of the Eye - Bataille
The Stranger - Camus

[mynameisnobody]

(No particular order)

Top Ten Pics:

Movies:

1. Citizen Kane
2. Casablanca
3. The Conformist
4. Seven Samurai
5. Chinatown
6. Mean Streets
7. Lawrence of Arabia
8. Sunset Blvd.
9. In The Mood For Love
10. Yojimbo

Cont'd (Honorable Mentions):

11. Platoon
12. Miller's Crossing
13. The Usual Suspects
14. Scarface
15. Memento
16. The Natural
17. Immortal Beloved
18. Apocalypse Now
19. Shanghai Triad
20. Road To Perdition
21. Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid
22. True Romance
23. Pulp Fiction
24. Field of Dreams
25. Wall Street
26. Glory
27. The Shawshank Redemption
28. Evil Dead Trilogy
29. Goodfellas
30. Blade Runner (Director's Cut)
31. Dead Poets Society
32. Conan The Barbarian
33. Superman I and II
34. Narc
35. Star Wars Trilogy
36. The Untouchables
37. Fight Club
38. Excalibur
39. Vanilla Sky
40. Cool Hand Luke

Bands:

1. NIN
2. Radiohead
3. U2
4. Sex Pistols
5. The Clash
6. Nirvana
7. The Doors
8. VAST
9. My Bloody Valentine
10. Sigur Ros

[AmaiStina]

in alphabetical (rather than preferential) order. Here I go...
Favorite Movies
The Best Years of Our Lives (Wyler, 1946)
Hard Eight (Anderson, 1997)

Favorite Albums
Pinkerton (Weezer, 1996)

Five Awesome Artists That Didn't Make My 'Fave Album' List
Pavement

Favorite Novels
Slaughterhouse-Five, Kurt Vonnegut



Nice choices.

My 10 Fave English Language Films in random order:

1. 99% of Audrey Hepburn films
2. Trainspotting
3. Swingers
4. House of Yes
5. About A Boy, Lilo & Stitch tied
6. A Room with a View
7. Monty Python & The Holy Grail
8. Chungking Express (Wang KarWai)
9. Some Like It Hot
10. Lock, Stock, & Two Smoking Barrels


Tommy Boy was a close runner-up.


My 10 Fave Non-English Language Films in random order:

1. Basically any movie starring Takeshi Kaneshiro
2. My Neighbor Totoro (Hayao Miyazaki)
3. When the Cat's Away (french film)
4. Storm Riders (Andrew Lau, Hong Kong)
5. Lavender (Yip Kam-Hung, Hong Kong)
6. Red (from Kieslowski's Trois Couleurs)
7. Graveyard of the Fireflies (anime)
8. Yojimbo (Akira Kurosawa)
9. Vampire Hunter D: Bloodlust (anime)
10. Princess-D (Sylvia Chang & Alan Yuen)



My 10 Favorite Books/Novels in random order:

1. John Lancaster's The Debt to Pleasure
2. Herman Hesse's Siddhartha; Demian; & Steppenwolf
3. Neil Gaiman's Neverwhere; American Gods; and Bad Omens
4. Ray Bradbury's Illustrated Man
5. Truman Capote's Music for Chameleons; Answered Prayers; & In Cold Blood
6. most prose & poetry by Dorothy Parker
7. Vivian Vande Velde's Companions in the Night
8. Louis Sachar's Sideways Stories from Wayside School; Wayside School is Falling Down; and Wayside School Gets Stranger
9. Dr. John J. Ratey's A User's Guide to the Brain
10. Paulo Coehlo's The Alchemist


My 10 Favorite Western Singers in random order:

1. Jeff Buckley
2. Toad the Wet Sprocket
3. Linkin Park
4. Indigo Girls
5. Skid Row
6. Jars of Clay
7. Cousteau
8. Maroon 6
9. Cake
10. Sade tied with Bjork & Bob Marley


My 10 Favorite Asian Singers in random order (though, im sure a very small number of you might even have heard of any of these artists):

1. Elva Hsiao (Taiwan)
2. Amei (T)
3. Jay Chou (T)
4. Namie Amuro (Japan)
5. Utada Hikaru (J)
6. Machi (T)
7. David Tao (T)
8. all the artists at YG Family (Korea)
9. Evonne Hsu (T)
10. Kelly Chen & Angelica Lee (Hong Kong & Taiwan respectively)

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by AmaiStina
Kelly Chen

Hubba hubba
;)

Oh man, a list! Well, here goes.

Several favourite movies in no partuicular order:
Excaliber
A Chinese Ghost Story
Fight Club
Exorcist
The Ninth Configuration
The Road Warrior
The Seven Samurai
The Good, The Bad and The Ugly
Frankenstein ('31)
The Blues Brothers

Several favourite books in no partuicular order:
Random Acts of Senseless Violence - Jack Womack
Elvissey - Jack Womack
Last Exit To Brooklyn - Hubert Selby jr.
Eon - Greg Bear
Hardcore Roadshow: a screenwriter's diary - Noel S. Baker
Post Office - Charles Bukowski
Survivor - Chuck Pahlaniuk
Dispatches - Michael Herr
Homicide: a year on the killing streets - David Simon
Into the Wild - Jon Krakauer

Several favourite albums in no partuicular order:
Street Survivors - Lynyrd Skynyrd
Nighthawks at the Diner - Tom Waits
Sexual Roulette - Art Bergman
Transformer - Lou Reed
Naive: Hell to Go - KMFDM
14 Songs - Paul Westerberg
The Rise and Fall of Ziggy Stardust and the Spiders from Mars - David Bowie
Sabotage - Black Sabbath
The Electric Version - The New Pornographers
High Voltage - AC/DC
Honey's Dead - The Jesus and Mary Chain
source tags & codes - and you will know us by the trail of dead

[jonnyredman]

I don't have a list...

But at the moment I'm listening to Senor Coconut, Massive Attack, Portishead and The Buena Vista Social Club...

Last book I read was Invisble Monsters.

I'm too drunk to even think about compiling a big list of stuff...

I did, however, have the pleasure if meeting Gualtiero Jacoppeti (Director of Mondo Cane) the other week... Nice guy.

[Key Largo]

FAVORITE FILMS (This is a list that I wrote for a movie section of a webzine called rockcritics.com)

1. Almost Famous (Cameron Crowe, 2000)
2. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest (Milos Forman, 1975)
3. Heat (Michael Mann, 1995)
4. Blade Runner (Ridley Scott, 1982)
5. The Godfather Part II (Francis Ford Coppola, 1974)
6. Apocalypse Now (Francis Ford Coppola, 1979)
7. Donnie Darko (Richard Kelly, 2001)
8. Being John Malkovich (Spike Jonze, 1999)
9. Clerks (Kevin Smith, 1994)
10. Bottle Rocket (Wes Anderson, 1996)

**I wrote that list last year and it will probably change in the years to come.

FAVORITE FILMS I RECENTLY SAW/OR SAW AGAIN AND WILL DEFINITELY ADD TO MY FAVOURITES LIST IN THE YEARS TO COME)

1. Mean Streets (1973, Martin Scorsese)
2. Pulp Fiction (1994, Quentin Tarantino)
3. Boogie Nights (1997, Paul Thomas Anderson)
4. Fingers (1978, James Toback...why doesn't ANYONE talk more about this movie? Harvey Keitel is fucking brilliant in it!)
5. Key Largo (1948, John Huston)
6. Chinatown (1974, John Huston...again)
7. Double Indemnity (1944, Billy Wilder)

FAVORITE BANDS

1. Wilco
2. The New Pornographers
3. The White Stripes
4. The Strokes
5. The Velvet Underground

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by Key Largo
FAVORITE BANDS

2. The New Pornographers


Obviously, you have exemplary taste. :)

[Key Largo]

Chinatown (1974, Roman Polanski) ...forgive my typo. John Huston plays the oil tycoon. Both directors. One acted alot more.

[Philo Bedo]

no order...

TURBONEGRO
WILLIAM EGGLESTON
STANLEY KUBRICK
HARRY CREWS
THE CHERRY VALENCE
VIC CHESNUTT
THE DANCIN' OUTLAW
DEAD TRIOLOGY
SOLARIS (SODERBERG VERSION...YES THE SODERBERG VERSION..FUCK OFF)
HIGH AND LOW
KING OF COMEDY
JOHN STEINBECK
JOHN FORD
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS
DESTROYER
JOHN CARPENTER
J.T. LeROY
ANDREW VACHHS
HEAVENLY CREATURES
JAN MICHAEL VINCENT
THX-1138
CLEAN SHAVEN
SUSPIRIA
JOHN SAYLES
PHILIP LORCA DeCORCIA
STOOGES (THE 3 + IGGY &THE..)
BRIAN De PALMA

many more. i'm tired of typing. your tired of reading.

by all means,

-philo

m[/URL] ApeDrape Films (http://www.apedrapefilms.com)

"I still wander why film students babble on about Orson Welles or Howard Hawks when they ignore...Russ Meyer and Herschell Gordon Lewis... Their relatively unheralded success outside the Hollywood system should give hope to any independent director starting out today... Russ Meyer is the Eisenstein of sex films..." - John Waters

[El Duderino Diablo]

Originally posted by Philo Bedo
THE NEW PORNOGRAPHERS

Someone else with exemplary taste!


Originally posted by Philo Bedo
ANDREW VACHHS

Do you mean Andrew Vachss (http://www.vachss.com/)?
I wonder if a Burke movie is ever going to get made?

[squeaka]

1>of the year
2>prettiest people
3>best albumns
4>best films
5>worst dressed
6>celebrity boob jobs
7>richest people
8>money earners
9>biggest lemons
10>biggest jerks

[Ricky Retardo]

Best live bands/shows I ever sawed...

1) Black Flag (every time I saw 'em), This was when punk was dangerous! BF brought a scary, unpredictable vibe with them each time they came to town.
2) Bad Brains (Ms Lucky Club, Tampa FL, '81)-So we go to the local punk club and there's these four black dudes there in a band named after a Ramones song and hitting everybody up for pot. Then they plugged in and all 12 of us were blown thru the back of the bar by the sheer, precise power these brothers wielded.
3) The Butthole Surfers (Clearwater National Guard Armoury, Clearwater Florida, '86)-One and a half songs into a mindfuck of a set by this band at the peak of it's powers was all that a group of skinheads could handle. The dancer got snatched offstage, a guitar was broken to pieces a full-scale riot ensured and Gibby tried to burn the place down. Awesome!
4) Warren Zevon- (University Of S FL Gym, Tampa FL, '79)
A two hour set, and hour of encores and they had to scoop him off of the floor when it was all over. I'll miss you when you go Warren.
5) Nirvana (Cat's Cradle, Chapel Hill NC, '91)-This was JUST before Nevermind blew up. I had seen them before but this time they were just fantastic. Perhaps it was the addition of Dave Grohl, maybe 'cause the songs were better or it could have been the acid I had taken.
6) Chickenhead (Gainesville FL, '92)-Mix Robitussen and White Crosses and you wind up with this delinquent Miami punk collective. How can you go wrong with lyrics like "Smash and grab/smash and grab/anything I want/I can have" or the immortal "I gave that cop/a karate chop".
7) Janes Addiction (Jannus Landing, St Petersburg FL, '87)- They were opening for Iggy Pop. The band comes out and Dave Navarro goes "Uh, I hope you don't mind if we just play. Our singer hasn't shown up yet". They meander thru two intrumentals and then Perry comes out smoking a giant hawg-leg (that's a joint). He passes the doob into the crowd and lets out a piercing scream. He proceeded to just go insane. They were NEVER as memorable again.
8) The Damned (Jannus Landing, St Petersburg FL, '89)-This was when the Damned were performing with all there line-ups, alternating instruments as the song-era called for. The best thing about this show was the way that Cap'n Sensible dropped trou right in the middle of the stage and let's go with this stream of urine that seemed to last forever. He had the most serene expression on his face while doing so.
9) No Fraud (Clearwater National Guard Armoury, Clearwater FL, '86)-They were locals opening on this night for a past thier prime Bads Brains. Dan Destructo (singer) was a local icon. He opened the show with in a female Publix uniform and long (natural) hair. At some point in the show he pour the contents of several honey bears onto the front rows. At the end of the set, he shaved his head all over the folks that he had honey'd. They had to go thru the rest of the night with hair stuck all over them. I always thought that was one of the punkest things I had ever seen.
10) Pearl Jam (Jannus Landing, St Petersburg FL, '92) Man, I hate to include these guys, but they really put on an incredible show when I saw them. Eddie shimmied up a 20 foot pole that supported the cover over the stage and did a backwards crucifixion dive that was pretty intense. Plus they did "Sonic Reducer".

[Philo Bedo]

Chickenhead, yes!

I bet you're a big STUNN GUNNS fan too.

Now, where did I put that TRASH MONKEYS disc?

-philo

www.apedrapefilms.com (http://apedrapefilms.com)

[AshDraven]

Fave Movies:
All Pyton Movies including all Terry Gilliam Directed movies
All Bruce Lee
All the Star Wars
All the Kevin Smith
The Alien Series
Evil Dead Trilogy and Sam Raimi Directed movies with the exception of "For Love of the Game"
Bubba-Ho-Tep
Slapshot
Full Metal Jacket
Highlander
Strange Days
The Crow
Near Dark
A Clockwork Orange
Blade Runner
Excalibur
The Shining
One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
Memento
Frailty
Fight Club
Blue Brothers, Animal House
Hellraiser
The Longriders
Ravenous
To many more to list and to few brain cells to remember.

Fave Bands:
Frank Zappa
Alice Cooper
Jimi Hendrix
Stevie Ray Vaughn
Rush
Steve Vai
Yngwie Malmsteen
Soundgarden
Rage Against the Machine
Audioslave
TOOL
Primus
Badlands
Living Colour
Helmet
To many to list and to few brain cells once again.

Fave Authors:
Clive Barker
Michael Moorcock
Tolkien
Raymond E Feist
Robin Hobb
Robert Jordan
George R.R. Martin
A.A.Attanasio
L.E.Modesitt
Piers Anthonys series "The Incarnations of Immortality" which the Showtime series "Dead Like Me" took the idea from.