Monday, July 18, 2005

TELL ME WHAT TO DO

Post a comment on here with recommendations of any movies, music, TV, books or anything else.

Recommendations so far:

Movies

  • City of God - Watched it 6/18. Pretty good, worth watching. Probably not good enough that I would go out of my way to recommend it to someone several times though...
  • Bad Education
  • Equilibrium
  • The Machinist
  • Motorcycle Diaries
  • Spiderman 1 or 2 -I suppose I'll probably watch these one day, but I don't usually have much interest in comic book movies. Batman Begins was awesome though.
  • Taxi Driver - I've seen this, good movie.
  • Waking Life
  • The Primer


Music

  • The Shins - They aren't available on my Yahoo service, so I doubt I'll check them out.
  • Spoon - Same


TV


  • Arrested Development
  • The Shield -I've seen this show a little bit. It does look pretty good.
  • Angels in America


Books

  • Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist
  • Guns, Germs, and Steel -Currently reading it
  • Freakonomics - Read in July 05. Check out their website and blog.
  • How I Became Stupid, by Martin Page
  • The Footprints of God, by Greg Iles
  • Courtroom 302
  • American Prometheus
  • PROFESSIONAL POKER: The Essential Guide To Playing For A Living, by Mark Blade
  • The Language Instinct, by Steven Pinker - I've read this. It is excellent.

7 comments:

Anonymous said...

Movie: City of God
- Cara

Walt said...

Music: anything except dave matthews or billy joel

Action: sit on it, spin.

Anonymous said...

Movie: Bad Education

Anonymous said...

Movie: Strongly second Cara on City of God. Also Equilibrium, The Machinist, Motorcycle Diaries, and pick 1 of Spiderman 1 or 2. You've seen Taxi Driver right?

Music: The Shins

TV: Arrested Development, The Shield

Books: Buffett: The Making of an American Capitalist; Guns, Germs, and Steel; The Language Instinct; Freakonomics

chuck zoi said...

I've seen Taxi Driver.
I've occassionally watched the Shield, and it is prettty good.
The Language Instinct is excellent, as are all of Pinker's books.

Thanks for the recommendations

Anonymous said...

The Machinist is really good, but a MUST SEE is: The Primer. It's one of the best films I've ever seen. Angels in America (the mini series) was also very good.

Anonymous said...

Movie: The Twilight Samurai

is pretty good. i thought the last ten minutes were pretty dumb though, like in finding neverland.