The Wordforge Reading/Viewing List...

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The collected works of Dan Simmons. The Hyperion Cantos, Ilium/Olympus
The collected works of Neal Stephenson. Cryptonomicon, The Baroque Cycle
The collected works of Georre RR Martin Song of Ice and Fire

South Park

Forbidden Planet


Nothing that no one else hasn't covered.

Read your Heinlein, hosers!!

Then read everything by S.M. Stirling!!

Then read everything by Peter Hamilton, followed by the works of Dan Simmons!!!

Hyperion Cantos is very good, and I wish my copy hadn't been eaten.

Lonesome Dove- Book and Mini

I Am Legend by Richard Matheson- I realize the movie is coming out soon, but the book is really good. It's also a short, easy read that you can easily do in one or two days.

Been reading a lot lately.

Another vote for Simmons (Hyperion/Endymion, Illium/Olympos), and Hamilton. Martin's Fire and Ice is the best fantasy out there right now.

I'd also recommend Vernor Vinge's A Deepness in the Sky and a Fire Upon the Deep. Absolutely fantastic.

Brin is very good, especially his first few Uplift books.

And Downbelow Station and Cyteen by CJ Cherryh. Cyteen is an amazing look at a dystopic society in the future, where cloning and brain tape give the government unprecedented control over people's lives and perceptions.

And A Mote in God's Eye and the Gripping Hand from Niven and Pournelle.

Jaws: The Revenge is an hilarious movie to wach from 2 to 4 a.m.

"This time, its PERSONAL!" No, its not. Its a fucking SHARK! Move to Iowa and get on with your life!

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Blazin' Saddles.
The first 3/4 of Young Frankenstein

Oh, and Team America: World Police

Space balls.

The late 80s action series:

Robocop
Predator
Lethal Weapon
Die Hard

(What the Hell, we'll bookend it with Terminator and Terminator 2. And though it's early 80s/late 70s, lets add in Conan the Barbarian.)

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Movies-
Metropolis, and not the fucked up and truncated colour one with the Queen soundtrack.
The Wall
The Great Rock'n Roll Swindle
Private Ryan, because even Chuck Norris cries at the end (just one weepy tear though, which is donated to the VA for cancer treatments)
A Clockwork Orange
The Vikings, because Kirk Douglas didn't need no stuntman or wires to run the oars and Ernest Borgnine is fuckin' insane.

Music-
Ted Nugent, songs about guns'n dope'n beer'n broads... this guy should be in charge of constitutional reform
The Pogues, not as much guns or dope, but more bar fights
Led Zeppelin 1-3, save 4 for candlelight dinners with the S.O.

TV-
H.R. Puffenstuff, stoner made show that sued McD's for copyright infringement and won.
Buck Rogers, to be reminded of how NOT to design scifi
The Dresden Files, he uses a hockey stick... how cool is that?

Literature
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac and or Angry Christ Comics-go to the darkest corners of your soul wearing fuzzy slippers
Richard Rohmer: Ultimatum is still relevant after 30 years. Triad had it's moments as I recall, but its been a while. Wiki this guy, he's just too awesome to describe in a paragraph.
Dickens of the Mounted-A series of letters from Charles Dickens youngest son after he came here and became a Mountie. Comical and tragic stuff.

The works of Phillip K. Dick, since so many of his stories have been turned into movies.

Ray Bradbury

The Areas of my Expertise- John Hodgeman.

Because I tire of trying to have political debates with people who still don't have any idea who the nine presidents who had hooks for hands were, or the way hobos have affected our modern life, or what omens and portents tell the coming of Ragnarok.

Intriguing...

That said, the Phillip K. Dick one got me thinking: William Gibson. You really can't live in our day and age without having read something by the Father of Cypberpunk. That said, I really found the more recent "Idoru" more readable than the original, "Neuromancer".

Oh, and if it hasn't been said yet, "The Hunt for Red October".

And "Raiders of the Lost Ark". And the first three "Star Wars" (IV-VI)

"A Bridge Too Far"
"Patton"
"Kelly's Heroes"

"Babylon 5"

The first and third seasons of Seaquest.

Air wolf
Night Rider
MacGyver
The A Team


Anyone list FireFly yet?

Maybe one episode of each of those. But I'm sure they haven't aged particularly well.

Nosir, they have not.

I haven't been able to take that film seriously for years, ever since my brother-in-law first did his hysterical impression of Kirk Douglas water ski-ing behind a longboat...

How sad is it that I can still sing the theme song of that all the way through...

Ooh...

"Harold and Maude"
Pretty much anything Monty Python
"Fawlty Towers"--particularly "The Germans".

I cannot rep this enough. Unless you can find me "Lidsville" on dvd.

Have you looked?

There was an album that came out, circa 1994, called "Saturday Mornings" that was alternative bands covering Saturday morning cartoons. Among others, it had Liz Phair doing the Banana Splits Song, Mathew Sweet doing Scooby Doo, the Butthole Surfers doing Underdog, and of course the Ramones doing Spiderman. IIRC Garbage covered H.R. Puffenstuff. It is a great album and easily ranks right up there with Dr. Hook's Greatest Hits and Warren Zevon: Excitable Boy as albums I play repeatedly in my car.

The only downside? OK, there's two: 1) Side Two is noticeably weaker than Side One and 2) The cover of Speed Racer is amazing. But the instant it comes on, traffic inevitably grinds to a halt and I sit there, staring at brake lights as this cool song about car racing plays.

Here it is on Amazon. Complete with samples.

2 full pages an on one has mentioned...

The Princess Bride

For shame....Also:

Rhustler's Rhapsody
Spaced Invaders
Bull Durham
George of the Jungle
Eddie and the Cruisers


TV

Nowhere Man
Harsh Relm
American Gothic
Invasion
Firefly (breaking my rule against repeating what others have said on this one)
Moonlighting

Post #3 baby.