In the spirit of sharing, list a few recent discoveries, or unsung items in the realm of entertainment that you've come across.
Album
Alice in Ultraland by The Anonymous Androgynous - the ultimate homage to psychedelic rock of the late 60s/early seventies. If you like Ravi Shankar, Floyd & Syd Barrett, Jefferson Airplane, Space Oddity era Bowie, Led Zeppelin. It links up quite nicely if you play it as an alternative soundtrack to a certain Disney film.
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The Isness by The Anonymous Androgynous - their previous album, not as good but still quite fun.
Film
The Last Waltz - I've only just seen this. Having never really given The Band the time of day I must say I was knocked out and will definitely be searching out some of their albums. A fantastic concert film that nearly gives Stop Making Sense a run for it's money (in terms of energy rather than visual scope I might add).
TV
Arrested Development - I don't really watch much TV so I missed this when it was shown. A cool quirky show which actually made me laugh out loud (a rare occurrence for TV for a long time). Smartly written with plots which seem to curl back on themselves and some oddball touches I must admit I'm hooked and will be hiring (hey I'm cheap) the rest of the series.
Book
VALIS by Philip K Dick - Dick's best book after A Scanner Darkly, very much in the same tone. The observation of a man viewing his split personality spiralling into insanity. This would make a great head-fuck movie if someone could work out how to... oh read it and see!
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The Dumas Club by Arturo Perez-Reverte
The Book the film The Ninth Gate was based on. Much better than the book (which cuts out over half the plot!) a real page turner.
Avoid Avoid Avoid
Film - What the Bleep Do We Know: some interesting nuggetts are immersed in a jumble of utter twaddle and a dreadful "dramatic" which numbs the grey matter.
Album - Storms over Still Water by Mostly Autumn: a band trumpeted as Floyd/prog rock like. Utterly abysmal.
-------------------- "You've got to get hold of the thread of marching time, pull the fuck thing down, get on the end of it and pang yourself to the infinitude of absolute mind" Ken Campbell - Furtive Nudist "The mystery of life is not a problem to be solved but a reality to be experienced" - Aart van der Leeuw
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Album - Minus the Bear - Self Titled - A nice easy listening band, I recently heard them
Film - A Clockwork Orange - I LOVE this movie, and I love the book even more. It's so damn good. The movie is entertaining, but the book passes the message on to the audience much better. If you make something/somebody be good against their will, is it really good?
TV - Weeds - I love this show. Damn good. Book
-Battle Royale - By Koushun Takami - I ABSOLUTELY LOVE THIS BOOK. - Opressive dictatorship government that rules over Japan. To weed out supporters of democracy they institute a game, where every so often a random group of students(around 16 - 17 years old) and take them to a secluded and government controlled island. They then give the kids instructions to the 'game' give the kids duffle bags with some supplies and a random weapon and send them on their way. :P It gets better. See the movie too!
-------------------- http://www.toolband.com/ "... This body holding me reminds me of my own mortality. Embrace this moment. Remember, We are eternal. all this pain is an illusion...."
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