NWR: What is your favorite movie, book, song?

[JimHow]

Movie: Paris, Texas

Book: The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire

Song: Sympathy for the Devil

[jal]

Manhattan
One Hundred Years of Solitude

I don't know about music; maybe Debussy's Clair de Lune, or Mozart's Magic Flute, I can't think of any modern music that I can name as favorite.

[JimHow]

I was just on the Met website, Jacques, I have four tickets each to La Boheme with Anna Netrebko in March and La Traviata with Angela Gheorghiu in April if you and Jill would like to join us!

[stefan]

Song: Schubert's B-flat major piano sonata from opus posthumous (my pianist friend, Per Enflo, made me love this).

Book: Stranger in a strange land (because I am feeling cannibalistic tonight)

Movie: Hud (because Larry talked about working on the set when I was taking his course on ancient literature)

stefan

[RDD]

Movie: 2001
Song : A Day In The Life I love the juxtapositon of Lennon's morbid fatalism and McCartney's "happy go lucky " attitude.
Book : IBM MVS Priniciples Of Operations ( Or POP for mainframe geeks)

[Jay Winton]

I don't think I can be this specific as there is too much music and too many books, however I'll think about it. As far as a movie though, it might be North by Northwest. I just purchased the latest remastering so will be watching it over the holidays.

[jal]

Cool Jim, let me know the dates. We are in and out of town, but if we're in, we'll try to make it.

[JimHow]

La Boheme is Saturday March 13th at 8pm, La Traviata is a Saturday night in April, I forget the exact date. The Boheme tickets are in Row F of the prime orchestra, the Traviata tickets are in the prime orchestra as well but I'm not sure what row. If you can make it that's great, no rush in letting me know, I have replacement opera dates available if you guys can't make it.

[William P]

Movie: 2001

book: The Ring Triology.

Song: classical: Beethoven's 6th,
modern: Somebody loan me a Dime, Boz Scaggs

[Jay Winton]

modern: Somebody loan me a Dime, Boz Scagg

With Duane Allman!

[jal]

S If I have to choose a modern novel, I guess Rebound, because it made me reflect more than any other even if it is not at the level of thousands of other books that I have read.
stefan

What kind of book is it, Stefan?

[William P]

Jay, excellent knowledge!

[Comte Flaneur]

Favourite movie: Hurt Locker

Favourite book: 1984

Favourite song: The Get Yer Ya-Yas version of Jim's song is very good, especially the second half but I cannot chose it because it is blasphemous so its Gimme Shelter

[JimHow]

Yes I also have that Get Yer Ya-Yas Out version in my ipod, the guitar work in the second half is great.

[Ramon_NYC]

The Get Yer Ya-Yas version of Jim's song is very good, especially the second half but I cannot chose it because it is blasphemous so its Gimme Shelter

The second half is when they let Mick Taylor do his thing. But, I have to say that the Samba beat that Keith Richards suggested in the studio recording was pure genius.

Also, 3 of my top 5 favorite songs have already been mentioned in this thread (Sympathy FTD, Gimme Shelter and A Day In The Life)

Anyway, here goes:
Movie: Butch Cassidy and the Sundance Kid (Newman/Redford original)
Book: Where Eagle's Dare (I'm a sucker for Alistair Maclean WWII thrillers)
Song: I've Got A Feeling (Beatles in Let It Be: only because it's the 1 played in my iPod today and this easily can change next month)

[stefan]

Rebound is Sci-Fi, Jacques.

stefan

[Comte Flaneur]

Yes I also have that Get Yer Ya-Yas Out version in my ipod, the guitar work in the second half is great.

According to Chris, who should know, it is Keith R initially then Mick T takes over. Mick Taylor's slide guitar is also awesome on that album.

[JimHow]

That is correct, Comte, I have heard that before.

[RDD]

Susan and I saw Mick Taylor in a small dive here in Charlotte that we nicknamed "Freddy's Freezer" as the owver was too cheap to spring for heat. He had promised his girlfriend he would book Mick for her birthday. There were a total of 50 people or so there. Good show but soundman sucked.
We also saw Rod Piazza with a small crowd.
It eventually folded up and went bust.

[Houndsong]

"Paint it black, paint it black ... paint it black you devil."

[JimHow]

That is so funny, I was thinking about that girl up in the front row yesterday, was going to mention her.

[Ramon_NYC]

Favourite song: The Get Yer Ya-Yas version of Jim's song is very good, especially the second half but I cannot chose it because it is blasphemous so its Gimme Shelter

Not the best video, but this live version of Gimme Shelter in a 1972 concert highlighted MIck Taylor's explosive guitar work -

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=yohU99LB ... re=related

[Claudius]

Ramon,
Great track.
Mick Taylor never really got the credit he deserved.
Pity the Stones now have Ron Wood instead.
The Faces deserved him.

Anyway, my votes:

Movie: North by Northwest. Seen is dozens of times and it is brilliant.

Book: Hmmm... The Glass Bead Game by Hermann Hesse or Tolstoy's Resurrection (except the ending).

Song: Jimi Hendrix's Hey Joe. It still chills me every time I play it.
Learnt to play this note for note many years ago and I'm a left hander too playing a right handed Stratocaster.

[jal]

Ok, I have to separate fiction from non-fiction in the books category:
Fiction: I stand by "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Gabriel Garcia Marquez
Non Fiction: Just overtaking "The Omnivore's Dilemma" by Michael Pollan is the current book I'm reading and just cannot put down: "Too Big To Fail" by Andrew Ross Sorkin. An incredibly well researched and written account of last year's economic crisis.

[Corr]

Keeping in mind that similar to a wine review being akin to a snapshot of a runner in a marathon (ala RP), my favorites are always changing. That said, my snapshot right now is:
movie: Fargo
book: Life of Pi (fiction) or Guns, Germs and Steel (nonfiction)
song: I Am the Resurrection by the Stone Roses

and,

favorite Stones song: Can't you hear me knocking?

[Tom In DC]

Very, very difficult...top tens are much easier...

Movie? Dirty Rotten Scoundrels -- Before and after the Croatian Incident, just cuts too close to home.

Book? (this is REALLY hard!!!): The Name of the Rose, Umberto Eco

Song? As a musician, musicologist, this is just ridiculous... But there are a great many versions of Mussorgsky's Pictures at an Exhibition, and also many superlative renditions of Dylan's All Along the Watchtower...

(But I'm coming around to Gimme Shelter as one of the centers of the musical universe...I'd already been working up a version over thee last three months or so...)

[Chasse-Spleen]

Thanks Ramon, for pointing me to that awesome Stones YouTube track. That's a really cool guitar that he has! Late 50s Les Paul Standard. Interestingly, Keith Richards was the first to bring one of these guitars back to England from the States. Most people think it was Clapton. I don't know how Clapton got hold of the one he used in the Bluesbreakers.
-Chasse

[Ramon_NYC]

Nice guitar tidbits, Chris. Good to know who's strumming with what guitar.
I know we talked/emailed about this before, but I'm still looking forward to doing a few bottles at casual local places. Hey, if there's a great live band on stage, the better.