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I had one of those conversations last night with a guy that I'm not-quite-dating, one of the kind of conversations where you basically lay out all the things you love, hope they agree, or at least don't violently disagree. A High Fidelity questionnaire type conversation.
It'd be easier if I could just hand any guy I was interested in, or vice versa, a package that contained all of this information, and tell him to get back to me in a month or so after he's had time to digest it. It's an interesting mental exercise to choose the books, movies, and music I'd put in such a package. I've talked extensively on here before about the books that I love above all others, but I'm not sure how many of them would go into the package.
What would you put in your package? What media do you reference enough to make required reading/viewing/listening? What's important that the people you love love too?
Here's a short, off the top of my head, list:
Books: Neal Stephenson, everything except Big U, especially Diamond Age and the Baroque Cycle--if you don't know what I'm talking about when I talk about Waterhouses and Shaftoes, we're doomed.
Watchmen
House of Leaves
Lolita
High Fidelity (I reference this book more or less constantly, and I am apparently the only person other than Elis who's read it)
Dracula
Gone with the Wind, in either book or film form
Movies: Hot Fuzz
The Departed
Reefer Madness (the musical)
TV: Season Two of the Office
Clone High
Music: Philip Glass's score to Koyaanisqatsi & Naqoyqatsi
Original Broadway recording of The Last Five Years (this is another thing I refer to a lot that very few people are familiar with)
It'd be easier if I could just hand any guy I was interested in, or vice versa, a package that contained all of this information, and tell him to get back to me in a month or so after he's had time to digest it. It's an interesting mental exercise to choose the books, movies, and music I'd put in such a package. I've talked extensively on here before about the books that I love above all others, but I'm not sure how many of them would go into the package.
What would you put in your package? What media do you reference enough to make required reading/viewing/listening? What's important that the people you love love too?
Here's a short, off the top of my head, list:
Books: Neal Stephenson, everything except Big U, especially Diamond Age and the Baroque Cycle--if you don't know what I'm talking about when I talk about Waterhouses and Shaftoes, we're doomed.
Watchmen
House of Leaves
Lolita
High Fidelity (I reference this book more or less constantly, and I am apparently the only person other than Elis who's read it)
Dracula
Gone with the Wind, in either book or film form
Movies: Hot Fuzz
The Departed
Reefer Madness (the musical)
TV: Season Two of the Office
Clone High
Music: Philip Glass's score to Koyaanisqatsi & Naqoyqatsi
Original Broadway recording of The Last Five Years (this is another thing I refer to a lot that very few people are familiar with)