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Recommendation meme attempt!

I would love to hear from each and every person inclined one

1. Book (or story or poem or comic or collected works of an author or anything otherwise printed or printable)

2. Movie (or tv show or youtube video or otherwise viewable)

and

3. Song (or album or symphony or whistle or otherwise hearable)

that they wished many more people understood were wonderful, or maybe more wonderful than they already thought.

Got none of my own this time, just fishing for new experiences or productive revisions of old ones.

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1. Miami Blues (the novel).

2. Blue Ruin is worth watching if you haven't yet. Probably still have to pay for it though. I don't think it's on Netflix yet.

3. Have you listened to Yeezus?

hmm, trying desperately to recall what it's like to Like things.

1) Weird Scenes Inside the Canyon: Laurel Canyon, Covert Ops & the Dark Heart of the Hippie Dream : approaching this one like Detective Fiction. author has a sense of humor at least (unlike, say, those who *insist* they saw the flying disc rising from-out the ocean). Tandyn Almer and Judee Sill are in the index ..

2) The Ninth Configuration - Haunted Astronaut drama with all-canine production of Hamlet.

3) CANADIA !

Just the skinhead thing that made it to radio briefly.

Thanks for these!

Saw that movie so long ago I remember little beyond Keach being grim and unhinged. Around the same time as Krassner's autobiography came out, which gave me most of what I've forgotten about unhinged and grim '60s radicals.

1. Gravity and Grace, Simone Weil.

A ... sudden absence, one might say.

2. Freaks, Tod Browning.

Be it just to see Prince Randian light that cigarette. An early coolness challenge.

3. Poisoning Pigeons In The Park, Tom Lehrer.

An evening not wasted with whichever of his songs one chooses. National Brotherhood Week or So Long Mom.

These may be old but are much more wonderful than many may think. Also, I can´t think of wonderful new ones.

2. Very dimly remember this.

a) henderson the rain king

2) it's not your sort of thing i don't think, but i had a blast rewatching the adventures of brisco country jr. on its 20th anniversary. was going to recommend it to all lost-watchers for all the actor crossovers and the handful of idea crossovers (carlton cuse produced both).

3) i, who have nothing

I remember that show fondly. Despite not getting all the way through a single episode - could almost never catch a show at its proper time. Or keep my eyes on it once it was there even if Bruce Campbell was on it.

This revisionary thing is fucking up pretty much every memory, as though the swirling harp sounds indicating a soap opera style flashback were interrupted by a mean old man screaming "you sucked."

1. Post-Exoticism in Ten Lessons, Lesson Eleven and Writers, both by Antoine Volodine, are being published in translation this year. Monomaniacal of me, I know, but there it is. I have electronic copies of both but haven't been able to stand to read them, Englished. I'm not even sure these were the best choices of what to translate. And yet I hope more people will start to appreciate Volodine.

2. Queen Margot? But probably not your cup of tea.

3. I'm in a very un-musical phase now--Windows 8 broke my computer's microphone/speaker jack, and most of my music didn't make the transition from the old broken Windows 7 computer anyway.

Was just today thinking of that movie, wondering how it would hold up. It was walking a fine line between restoring bodies to history and bodice-ripping, as I recall.

1) I optimistically requested a stack of (possible) pleasure reading from the library just last week & the spines of a couple Anna Kavan books are casting on me baleful looks. I'm not sure that counts as a recommendation. You might enjoy Amy Catanzano's latest, which is called Starlight in Two Million .

2) http://vimeo.com/88829079

3) Haven't the faintest idea about your taste in music (what a dangerous game this is) but do I sense that you are already, perhaps, a John Grant fan?

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=ekFWPsXXcg0

No, all very new to me. Thank you!

I just found the two-volume selected poems of Gwendolyn MacEwen on betterworld. It's poorly organized so far (table of contents is in the back? damn Canadians). But I know so little about her and what I know makes me want to know more.

How about play. I just read Woyzeck. Or, I read a version of Woyzeck, since there is no final Woyzeck. A friend of mine was in a terrible production/adaptation of it a few years back and I can sense he wants to try to do a better one in the future and wants me involved. He once said it's the Hamlet of the 20th century and it was written in the 19th century.

Elbow is still the band I can put on repeat when I need to think.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sFUdxnd-LAQ

I think Woyzeck's my least favorite Buchner thingie but I still like it. He couldn't send a postcard without rewriting Hamlet.

Been curious aboutMcEwan, who was emerita here; the faculty were sad when she died.

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