These are a few of our fav-o-rite things
Hey guys, I like new things; and I've recently realized that in my life I've run out of new things. So I made this thread for everyone to suggest their favorite things for me to try. So tell me your favorite things and tell me why you like them, books, bands, movies, TV, poets, booze, comics, foods, physical activities, anything. I'm open to trying most things and I'll let ya know how it goes when I get around to them.
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Books:
-1984 by George Orwell, Excellent, especially If you (like I) enjoyed V for Vendetta
-Flatland by Edwin A. Abbott, I haven't gotten the chance to read it yet, But I've heard several people say it's well written. Apparently It's about what the world may be like if I was 2 Dimensional (?)
Movies:
-Pulp Fiction If you haven't seen it yet, that is. Great movie, great direction, and one of my favorite Samuel Jackson films.
-The Green Mile, (Also the book it was based on) Amazing film based of of Stephen King's novel about inmates on death row. Long movie but worth the watch, although it's a bit of a tear jerker. Oh and it has Tom Hanks....may be a pro or a con.
Booze:
-Southern Comfort Just great, smooth, spice liquer.
-Jägermeister One of those "you best have your friends around" kinda alcohol, just don't over do it. No really, don't.
As far as music goes, try something you haven't heard before. read up on what the best artists of that genre are, and see if you enjoy it.
Hope I helped
Huh, they got the sequel out already? Cool.
hahaah my bad, i typed it up then decided...ehh they need links and did it over really fast. Thanks for catching it :]
Also: Marsupials.
I've already read 1984 and seen both those movies, but I enjoyed them all immensely. I thought Pulp Fiction was really imaginative, unpredictable, and well done. And I was completely blown away by The Green Mile, one of the best movies I've ever seen. Flatland sounds interesting, and I'll give V for Vendetta a try, I saw the movie but have never read the comic.
I'll come to Australia when you get rid of at least 6 of your most poisonous animals.
1. Satirical. As a book written in 1880 by an English pastor and mathematician, it serves as a scathing social satire. Abbott points out many injustices rampant throughout his merry own England through the use of two dimensional characters.
2. Pre-Einstein Einstein thought experiment. Abbott paints a world that exists in only two dimensions, totally void of up or down. The protagonist, a square, has a difficult time explaining his two dimensions to the inhabitants of 1-dimensional Lineland, and in turn has difficulty understanding the possible physics of Spaceland which exists in three dimensions. From this you can understand just how difficult it would be for us to imagine a fourth, fifth, sixth, etc. spacial dimension.
3. Religious Allegory. When the Square is first visited by the Sphere from Spaceland, he can only interpret him as a perfect circle - since that is the two dimensional intersection of a sphere. Get it? He has neither the eyes to see nor the ears to hear what this being can look like in three dimensions. So too is Jesus the three-dimensional intersection of the multi-dimensional God. As mere 3D mortals are unable to understand God, we can only see his perfect intersection - Jesus.
It's a good book.
Speaking of books, I just finished rereading Freakonomics. I highly recommend this book, even if you aren't an economics buff. It asks very odd, yet sometimes relevant questions and answers them using statistical data. Questions include:
-Why do most drug dealers live with their parents?
-What do sumo wrestlers and school teachers have in common?
-What do the Ku Klux Klan and Real Estate Agents have in common?
It also proposes an extremely controversial, yet very well founded, suggestion as to why crime rates suddenly dropped in the 90s. Politicians and religious leaders exploded in anger when this idea was proposed, but the authors' evidence is very solid.
Definitely worth a read.
One of my favorite movies: Pans Labyrinth. From the director of Hellboy, and it's in Spanish. Cool little adult fairy tale, filled with violence and all.
Things I often like to do in my spare time: talk to my boyfriend. If you do not have a potential life partner, they're pretty nice. I just spent the weekend with mine, and now I feel great, ready to start off the next week of not-so-fun time. I'd look into finding one if I were you!
Also: kittens. Are adorable.
This kinda turned into a book discussion thread, which we dont yet have? Or I just never saw it
Also, milk chocolate. No cherries. No marshmallow, unless it's s'mores.
Tool, except for the part where it takes em five years to put out an album. Sigh.
Cuddles from my sleepy girls. I still don't like other people's kids, though.
Edit: SEX. Thank you for the reminder, Mish. Um, dry spells suck.
SIG'D
I really enjoyed Pan's Labrynth, there was great design in every set, creature, and scene, and I thought the comparison of fairy tale monsters to human monsters was very clever.
I've never looked too much into Tool beyond their singles, but my brother likes them too. And don't worry, I enjoy both sex and the company of my girlfriend on a regular basis, there's no need to convince me of either of their merits.