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Holy-Grail Movies

the Tulse Luper movies are available on Surrealmoviez. (Can't vouch for quality though.)

2/16/2009 View
Books Read 11.15.06 - 11.15.07

What'd you think of Koba the Dread? I found it a strange book - reading reviews, I expected to dislike the conclusion, but in context it was really moving.

6/20/2007 View
Music Wish List

Out of the ones on this list, I recommend Scott Walker's Drift and Joy Division's Closer most, both are great albums (though I think Walker's Tilt is a little more accessible maybe). If you're looking for something lighter, though, that Blonde Redhead album is really nice.

3/23/2007 View
20 favourite works

Lunar Landscapes and Blood Oranges are neat, I like the former a little more - a strangely bland, almost lobotomized style, from what I remember of it. I still need to look at Second Skin sometime.

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3/17/2007 View
20 favourite works

This is a great list! I'm so happy to see someone else who likes The Lime Twig - that's my all-time favorite novel and I know of almost no one else who's ever read it. There are some intriguing titles here I need to check out.

3/17/2007 View
Books Read 11.15.06 - 11.15.07

I'm resisting buying Against the Day in hardcover (so unwieldy!) but I may eventually fall prey regardless.

1/8/2007 View
Harenberg's 1000 Books (tough list)

This looks like a fascinating list! Is the complete list available anywhere on the internet, do you know?

6/3/2006 View
Who is the greatest lyricist? (not including Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen)

I'm gonna suggest: Paul Westerberg?

5/6/2006 View
Who is the greatest lyricist? (not including Bob Dylan or Leonard Cohen)

Well, I was thinking more the stuff he did with the Replacements, for whom he was the lyricist and singer before he started his solo career. Check out songs of theirs like "Left of the Dial", "Here Comes a Regular", "Bastards of Young", "I'll Be You", "Can't Hardly Wait". At the very least I'd say he's more deserving than someone like Conor Oberst - I mean, Westerberg was pretty much one of the main prototypes for heartfelt indie rock of this sort.

5/6/2006 View
Movie Books: An Overview (Taking Suggestions)

Try Jonathan Rosenbaum's Essential Cinema. Really well-written, and it ends with a sort of "personal canon" listing of 1,000 movies that Rosenbaum likes.

5/3/2006 View