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The albums I listen to the most are Harvest, Harvest Moon, Unplugged and Broken Arrow. This thread has reminded me that I've been wanting to get Tonight's the Night for a really long time now.

you really can't go wrong by picking up Live at Massey Hall

Someone put this on last night at work. It was so good I was having a really hard time concentrating on what I was doing. I think I'll have to pick this up very soon.

This is the first album that came to mind. I can't listen to it too often, but whenever I do I'm always amazed.

Just yesterday I was listening to a Fresh Air (re-broadcast) interview with Patti Smith. I had forgotton just how good Gone Again was - I enjoy it more than any of her earlier stuff. I haven't been impressed with her more recent stuff, but her new covers album looks like it might be good. I think her version of Wicked Messenger is the only Dylan cover that is better than the original.

I think The Satanic Verses is next for me, though.

Great book - it's where I got my username. Midnight's Children is also very good, maybe even better than Satanic Verses.

Just started:

About Yeats and his fascination with the occult. Really interesting so far.

I haven't tried playing it yet, but is this the song?

Duet for Guitars 3

Ahhh - I think I found it. If anyone else is interested:

In Colla Voche, Dutch cellist Ernst Reijseger, Sardinian vocal choirs Tenore and Concordu de Orosei, and Scottish percussionist Alan "Gunga" Purves create a soothing album of beautiful melodies with a strong focus on harmonies.

Since this thread has been brought back up...

Yesterday I was trying to find the soundtrack for (or the music that was used in) White Diamond, all I remember is that there was a cello and some kind of throat singing. It's really beautiful and eerie and haunting. Does anyone know what this is? I looked through the Popul Vuh albums, thinking that since they had been involved with other Herzog films I would find it there, but no luck.

After you read One Hundred Years, I highly recommend Love in the Time of Cholera. Equally amazing, but completely different than Solitude. Very subtle.

I've never read One Hundred Years, but I second the Love in the Time of Cholera recomendation. One of my favorite books of all time.

I'm obviously missing out on something...

He's one of the best.

I'd like to read me some Chandler. Any recommendations for an RC virgin?

I'd probably start with his first one - The Big Sleep. That and The Long Goodbye are probably his best known. I think he's at his peak with The Lady in the Lake though - you really can't go wrong with any of the three.

I'm on a huge Raymond Chandler kick right now...

I use this website alot:

World's Healthiest Foods

Here's the list - it has nutritional info, health benefits and recipes for the 130 healthiest foods.

Well, plus I'm on a mac.

I'm on a Mac too. I can't imagine that only people on PC's would be able to watch, but according to the minimum system requirements:

Computer running Windows XP with Service Pack 2 or higher, or Windows Vista

Internet Explorer version 6 or higher

Windows Media Player version 9 or higher

An active broadband connection to the Internet

1.0 GHz processor

512 MB RAM

3 GB free hard disk drive space

-From Fear and Loathing On The Campaign Trail '72

I got this about 10 years ago when I was first discovered and fell in love with HST - but have never read it. Would you recommend this to someone who wasn't even alive at the time and has no particular interest in politics?

I also really enjoy Joe Henry's voice. And Tom Waits - Tom Traubert's Blues, Shoreleave, Kommienezuspadt. And Nick Cave has recently (The Boatman's Call on) become a really great singer.

While he's not the first that comes to mind (others have pretty much listed everyone I've thought of), I listened to Return Of the Frog Queen this morning and Jeremy Enigk has a great set of pipes.

I'll have to check this out. I really enjoyed Clockers alot.

I picked this up as an advanced reading copy about 5 years ago and am just now getting around to it. It's not great, but it's kept my interest so far. For some reason, I have three Philip Roth books, but have never read anything by him before.

Just wanted to say hey to a fellow Santa Cruzian.

Do it. It might be the best book I've ever read.

I agree, "White Noise" is a great book. Currently, I'm stuck halfway through "Underworld" - I think it's a bit too ambitious. A writer like Tolstoy can pull off a book with such scope, but with "Underworld" I feel like the characters aren't developed enough to make me want to trudge through the remaining 600 pages.

Astral Weeks - unlike anything I've heard before or since. Simply gorgeous and perfect in every way.

Are you looking for light, quick reads or something that takes a little time to get through?

Edit: I'll just list some of the ones that come to mind when I think "Great Books"

Steppenwolf - Herman Hesse

I've read this one about 15 times and each time I enjoy it as much as the first.

Tin Drum - Gunter Grass

How can you go wrong with a book whose first line is "Granted, I am an inmate of a mental hospital"? It takes "unreliable narrator" to a whole new level.

Lolita or Pale Fire - Nabokov

Nabokov is my favorite writer and Lolita is my favorite book of all time. Pale Fire is a book in two (or three) parts - a poem, an editors commentary on the poem (which is where the real story is) and maybe the index. It's very funny and smart.

London Fields - Martin Amis

My second favorite book of all time. His writing reminds me of Nabokov, but isn't quite as arrogant. There's been talk for years about turning this into a movie (by Cronenberg last time I checked), but the characters are just so real I can't imagine how they would cast it.

The Magus - John Fowles

Breakfast of Champions - Vonnegut

Everyone's probably read this, but I thought I'd put it on here anyway

Short stories of Jorge Luis Borges

I have the Complete Fictions, but Book of Sand is the best collection if you're looking for something a little less expensive

 

It's no Talk to Her, but I enjoyed it.

Would you recommend it to a sometimes Almodovar fan? I loved Live Flesh, All About My Mother and Talk to Her, but nothing else I've seen by him.

I would adore anyone who could watch that video and figure out Duet #3. That would be the most incredible thing

Please!

Much better than I expected - Ray Winstone was great as the Captain. I hope Nick Cave gives up on this Grinderman band and starts writing more screenplays.