Let's see what happens...

[reldnahkram]

So this has been shamlessly lifted several times, most recently from neverseenbleu:

Recommend to me...
1. A movie.
2. A book.
3. A musical artist, song, or album.
4. A livejournal user not on my favorites list

In other news, Penn may turn into a royal headache because it's not the Arts & Sciences Dept, but I think I'll win this fight. Martin (the registrar) said there might be a few hoops to jump through (they'll (Penn) certainly put some up), but I think I can jump high enough. If not, I'm guessing it'll be feasible to do a 'directed reading' and have Vuchic and McGarity or someone sign off on it. Hopefully. Tomorrow I'll tackle the music end of my course of study...

28 more 8.30 classes, sleep now to prepare for one of them...

Comments

[sildra.livejournal.com]

Well, I can't really recommend music to you, since you got bored with Carmina Burana and thus clearly have irreconcilably different tastes from me (although if you change your mind I'll lend you my CD again). Anyway, other songs I like are really obvious things that you're probably familiar with (various Beatles and Simon and Garfunkel songs).

As for books... I can never remember whether or not you like fantasy. In any case, Sabriel, by Garth Nix, is a good book. It's written in much the same style as children's fantasy novels (Garth Nix is, primarily, a children's fantasy author), but it's about necromancy and I doubt it's actually meant for children. Also, books by Robin Hobb are generally good. And Shogun by James Clavell (historical fiction, and probably my favorite non-fantasy book). I could probably go on and on.

Straight off your IMDB list, I recommend "Dr. Strangelove" and "The Usual Suspects." And I like "Amelie," although I have no idea if you would.

Can't help you with the lj user thing, though. The only SWILlie I noticed that you hadn't friended was sammka, but I, myself, don't know my way around lj that well yet.

[aryky.livejournal.com]

Well, I know nothing about your tastes, so I'll just pick things that fall into the relevant categories that I've enjoyed recently.

Movie: Monster - not a feelgood movie, at all, but definitely very interesting, and a look at a part of society that I, at least, am not all that familiar with. It also led to my family having an argument after we saw it that ended with me saying to my father, rather loudly, in front of some policemen, that he was turning into a Christian Republican, my mother telling me to be quieter, and my brother remarking that, in New York City, policemen frequently arrested people for being Christian Republicans.

Book: Portrait of a Lady, Henry James - I'm rushing through this now for my book club meeting tonight. It's surprisingly good. I remember reading a couple of Henry James novellas when I was younger, one of which I liked, and one of which seemed excessively wordy and confusing. Now, I'm surprised to find that the wordy bits seem to consist mostly of introspective character analysis of the type that I like. I also really like most of the characters. So far, out of about seven characters that any time has been spent on, there are only two whom I'm not quite fond of.

Music: This Is Hardcore, Pulp - I've been listening to this again recently after a couple of years of just not, very much. I'm surprised anew by how good an album it is. It has a really consistent theme, expectations versus reality, which happens to be a theme that's really important to me, personally. I love the way it takes different perspectives on that theme through the course of the album and would love to analyze it in more depth. Musically, it doesn't sound like Pulp, but it's just really good, with some very beautiful songs such as the title track, "I'm a Man," and "Seductive Barry," which is making its way in leaps and bounds back on to my list of best songs ever.

LJ User - Umm. . . here we'll have to go all out and just talk about one who, in reality, shouldn't be recommended to you at all, but I just love reading myaru's LJ. I don't know her at all, and she's very different from me in a lot of ways, but I think, if we knew each other in person, we could be friends. I've been quasi-stalking her basically ever since my freshman year, she's introduced me to at least one thing that I really love, and I just love to hear her opinions about things.

[alwaysregal.livejournal.com]

1) Philadelphia, though I'd hope you'd already seen it. Or else the Harry Potter Movies -smirks-
2) Microserfs - Douglas Coupland - early 90s portrayal of Microsoft employees and their lives. Or anything else by him.
3) Beth Amsel's solo work; or Thea Gilmore.
4) Not sure if you're into meeting random people but I think you're really enjoy my friend celaeno - an ex-Drewid with lots of interesting opinions - she's now a grad student in Oregon. Worth a look anyway.