Comments | intj: Entertainment

m_danson in intj

Entertainment

Jan 06, 2005 11:11

As INTJs we are supposed to be unusual (warped?) in our sense of humour amongst other things. This raises the question... What types of entertainment do you like in terms of books/comics/music/movies? dislike?

How are we different from other types in our choices?

(I'm asking this partly because I'm curious and partly to get ideas.)

( My preferences )

comparisons, entertainment, characteristics

Comments 22

clevortrevor January 6 2005, 18:18:57 UTC

books - 20thC post-modern world lit.
comics - one cell comics only - far side, and that's about it.
music - indi, alternative, classic 60s, 80s new wave.
tv - documentaries, really well written dramas or comedies, and educational series.
movies - thinky, talky, clevor, wellwritten films of any genre.

current addictions/recommendations:
books: cloudstreet by tim winton, the ground beneath her feet by salman rushdie
music: cat power, david bowie
tv: animal face off, arrested development
documentaries: fast, cheap, and out of control; gates of heaven
movies: napoleon dynamite (the hype is true!), annie hall

xiota January 6 2005, 19:12:28 UTC

books - non-fiction (philosophy, etc.)

Dark evil stuff.. tricstmr January 6 2005, 20:30:16 UTC

I like things where the plots are twisted, that have a dark edge to them..and that also show a grand depth of thought and wit... so with no further ado..

Books:
Anything by Harlan Ellison(I suggest the Deathbird Stories to start), Neil Stephenson (Snowcrash, Diamond Age, Cryptonomicon, the Baroque Trilogy), Neil Gaiman, Frank Herbert, Atlases, History Books, Richard Dawkins (The Selfish Gene) and other books on Evolution, and Philosophy books

Comics: Dark evil stuff like Alan Moore's The Watchmen, Frank Miller's Sin City and Return of the Dark Knight, The Maxx, This Modern World, and Especially Foamy the Squirrel.. which you can find here:
http://www.illwillpress.com/vault.html (click on Foamy's rant 3 and the fatkins diet especially..)

Music: Lots of dark stuff and just good music: Concrete Blonde, Peter Gabriel, Ministry, Nine inch Nails, This Morn Omina (<--incredible, Sarah McLachlan, Covenant, Juno Reactor, Wolfsheim, Project Pitchfork, De/Vision, Front ( ... )

Re: Dark evil stuff.. spiritonparole January 7 2005, 03:36:05 UTC

Whoa, someone else who (a) knows of Project Pitchfork and (b) is actually into them? Wicked. Completely wicked. I also love Juno Reactor (my SO got me into them, actually) and Concrete Blonde. Naturally Ministry are fabulous.

Unfortunately Andrew and I had to miss out on Ministry last month due to egregious smoke contamination in the club. Starland Ballroom is now on my shitlist until they ban smoking in there. Ordinarily I don't mind a little smoke, but this was a LOT of smoke, and with little to no ventilation. We couldn't see two feet in front of us by the time Hanzel und Gretyl finished their set. Luckily we didn't pay for our tickets; maybe I'll get another chance to see Ministry later on.

Boondock Saints, Se7en, and The Usual Suspects are among my favorite films as well. That sequence in Boondock Saints with uber-romantic jazz music juxtaposed with the two protagonists looking at a room full of guns is pure genius...that sort of unspoken yet resounding sarcasm is the kind of twisted comedy I love best.

Re: Dark evil stuff.. m_danson January 7 2005, 13:51:52 UTC

Boondock Saints - I love that movie.

Re: Dark evil stuff.. tricstmr January 8 2005, 06:28:41 UTC

Are you into Skinny Puppy too? I just finally got to see them in concert a month or so ago, after having been a fan for like the past 17 years... and they were just fucking incredible in concert....

Overall.. I'm a huge industrial-rivethead and My best half and I--mistressmarla and I go clubbing every saturday night (we have an awesome dance club here called The Inferno--www.clubinferno.com--thus I know tons of this music.. (if you check back on this entry.. you can see even more of the bands that I'm most recently into...(this morn omina is beautiful...)

As for movies... I cannot recommend The Celebration enough.. It's a Danish film with subtitles by a guy named Thomas Vinterberg--who's an associate of Lars von Trier--it is just increbly powerful.. deathly serious... and moving... The scene where you see everyone decide to just go dancing later in the film... It makes you want to fuck freak out and scream at them... mainly because the attitude they represent is so fucking common and so unreal at the same time ( ... )

aldebaran January 7 2005, 02:23:19 UTC

Books: Mostly non-fiction - science, cultural studies, philosophy, religion, health, etc. I don't have the patience for most fiction (Excluding LOTR, Harry Potter, and a few other favorites), because I love to be able to flip from part to part, chapter to chapter, randomly. And you can't do that with fiction and have it make sense.

Comics: None, they don't really interest me.

Music: Mostly trance/electronica and new age... But also a lot of alternative and industrial. I also like classical. Some of my favorite artists: Enigma, Dave Matthews Band, Vertical Horizon, Delirium, Opus III, Sarah Mclachlan, Nine Inch Nails, Tool, Disturbed, Paula Cole, Natalie Merchant...

Movies: I hate overly cheesy and cliched things. Romantic comedies, inane humor = evil. Except for utterly pointless stupid humor-- the kind that's meant to be completely random. Like Monty Python. I like movies where it shows that the filmmakers took detail into consideration. The LOTR trilogy is a favorite, because of the books -- but also just because of the amount of ( ... )

spiritonparole January 7 2005, 03:38:38 UTC

Trance, eh? Are you into Underworld at all? If not, you really ought to give them a try...I think in many ways they're the perfect trance band for NT rationals.

If you liked Ringu, get thee to a video store and rent Ju-on posthaste. It's supremely suspenseful, althogh far more obscure than Ringu.

Oh, and something tells me you might enjoy Todd Solondz films...especially Welcome To the Dollhouse and Happiness.

Interests emmazing January 7 2005, 04:10:26 UTC

Books: A lot of books on biology or anthropology by authors like Matt Ridley or Natalie Angier, philosophy like Walden by Thoreau or psychology/self-help that really is philosophy, quite a bit of science fiction and fantasy of a wide variety but including, Orson Scott Card, Neil Gaiman, J.R.R. Tolkien (although in some ways I thought the movies were better than the books), Jacqueline Carey and also what you might consider 'lighter' stuff like Mercedes Lackey and the Harry Potter books, Erotica (which I also write), and I have a weird thing for fashion history and Tom Tierney's coloring books.

Comics: The only comic I've ever read is Neil Gaiman's Sandman but I liked it a lot.

T.V. My philosophy is just say no to television.

Music: Mostly Rock - Modern Rock, Classic Rock, Alternative, some Techno and Bluegrass. I like to listen to a) Something with a good beat that energizes me. b) Something that eloquently expresses human themes or emotions. I can't stand almost all Rap/Hip-Hop. Like the kind my dormroom neighbors are ( ... )