dholliday
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We love lists, and we love the popular entertainment mediums of watching, playing, listening and reading. You can define your 'top' any way you like: current favourite, all-time, objectively best, secret guilty pleasure...whatever.
So let's have yer top 3's! How varied (or similar) are Evertonians' cultural tastes?
film:
1. oldboy (if you haven't seen it yet, do it but don't read anything about the plot! make sure you've got the original audio and english subs)
2. Excalibur (if we rated films on the strength and frequency of goosepimp attacks, this would be number 1)
3. There Will Be Blood (what sounds well boring when reading about it, suddenly becomes the most immense cinema when actually watching it)
telly:
1. Family Guy (don't think about the times it doesn't make you laugh, treasure the times it does! and marvel at the amazing observational skills of the writers)
2. Doctor Who (again, plenty of hit-n-miss out there...but when it's good, you yourself feel improved)
3. Lost (there's tons of ridiculously high-quality American drama out there, and many had final seasons much superior to Lost, but ye gods there was a time when this transcended mere TV drama)
games:
1. Final Fantasy VII (christ, i got goosepimps just typing that...the greatest story ever told, and i include film/tv/books in that)
2. ISS Pro Evolution (it's had the odd slight name change, my phase was 1998-2004...up to i think Pro Evo 4 on the PS2....always had to make my own Everton team as back then we didn't have ready-made options files on t'interwebs. the greatest virtual football experience)
3. Knights of the old Republic (another mighty story, with exceptional writing and voice-acting. This game made me realise how potentially huge and varied the Star Wars universe is, while still remaining faithfully 'in-universe'. The Star Trek universe, with its countless hundreds of hours more TV screentime, surprisingly feels more limited now)
albums:
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall (i'm always surprised that this isn't everyone else's favourite Floyd album...a supremely masterful, unique and emotional ride...one of the few albums where skipping tracks isn't allowed)
2. Psykovsky - Tanetsveta (what a trip! True psychedelia...it will wait for all eternity for someone to understand it. Give it a few listens, as at first it just sounds like hectic noise. At some point you'll realise it's actually the voice of the universe)
3. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (although you'll more likely find mention of Reich alongside Pink Floyd discussions, this album has a lot more in common with Tanetsveta. It's pure hypnotism, and indirectly inspires my own musik)
books:
1. George Orwell - 1984 (way before we realised that the world's governments are using this book as an instruction manual, rather than as the warning it intended to be, 1984 was always my favourite novel. It's flawless.)
2. Stephen Baxter - Manifold Cycle ( mind. blown. )
3. Stephen King - The Dark Tower series (a masterclass in the art of story-telling. Why this hasn't been made into a big-budget film or tv series I have no idea...it's absolutely epic! Even now when I meet someone called Roland I automatically respect him and want to shake his hand.)
right, let's have yer!
So let's have yer top 3's! How varied (or similar) are Evertonians' cultural tastes?
film:
1. oldboy (if you haven't seen it yet, do it but don't read anything about the plot! make sure you've got the original audio and english subs)
2. Excalibur (if we rated films on the strength and frequency of goosepimp attacks, this would be number 1)
3. There Will Be Blood (what sounds well boring when reading about it, suddenly becomes the most immense cinema when actually watching it)
telly:
1. Family Guy (don't think about the times it doesn't make you laugh, treasure the times it does! and marvel at the amazing observational skills of the writers)
2. Doctor Who (again, plenty of hit-n-miss out there...but when it's good, you yourself feel improved)
3. Lost (there's tons of ridiculously high-quality American drama out there, and many had final seasons much superior to Lost, but ye gods there was a time when this transcended mere TV drama)
games:
1. Final Fantasy VII (christ, i got goosepimps just typing that...the greatest story ever told, and i include film/tv/books in that)
2. ISS Pro Evolution (it's had the odd slight name change, my phase was 1998-2004...up to i think Pro Evo 4 on the PS2....always had to make my own Everton team as back then we didn't have ready-made options files on t'interwebs. the greatest virtual football experience)
3. Knights of the old Republic (another mighty story, with exceptional writing and voice-acting. This game made me realise how potentially huge and varied the Star Wars universe is, while still remaining faithfully 'in-universe'. The Star Trek universe, with its countless hundreds of hours more TV screentime, surprisingly feels more limited now)
albums:
1. Pink Floyd - The Wall (i'm always surprised that this isn't everyone else's favourite Floyd album...a supremely masterful, unique and emotional ride...one of the few albums where skipping tracks isn't allowed)
2. Psykovsky - Tanetsveta (what a trip! True psychedelia...it will wait for all eternity for someone to understand it. Give it a few listens, as at first it just sounds like hectic noise. At some point you'll realise it's actually the voice of the universe)
3. Steve Reich - Music for 18 Musicians (although you'll more likely find mention of Reich alongside Pink Floyd discussions, this album has a lot more in common with Tanetsveta. It's pure hypnotism, and indirectly inspires my own musik)
books:
1. George Orwell - 1984 (way before we realised that the world's governments are using this book as an instruction manual, rather than as the warning it intended to be, 1984 was always my favourite novel. It's flawless.)
2. Stephen Baxter - Manifold Cycle ( mind. blown. )
3. Stephen King - The Dark Tower series (a masterclass in the art of story-telling. Why this hasn't been made into a big-budget film or tv series I have no idea...it's absolutely epic! Even now when I meet someone called Roland I automatically respect him and want to shake his hand.)
right, let's have yer!
