Curiously Stimulated

[Sailor Saturn]

1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)

7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?

11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?

My answers:

1.)Black Holes, Baby Universes, and Other Short Essays by Stephen Hawking

2.)Either The Girl With The Silver Eyes or A Skeleton In God's Closet

3.)I Will Fear No Evil by Robert A. Heinlein

4.)Gundam Wing: Endless Waltz

5.)Either Girl, Interrupted; My Fair Lady; Highlander; or a movie of which I've forgotten now.

6.)Either Tenchi The Movie: Tenchi In Love, Project A-ko, Gal Force: Eternal Story, Highlander(Gotta love those swordfights. ), Rush Hour 2, or Jurassic Park III

7.)Sushi

8.)Crab

9.)Red Lobster's Ultimate Stuffed Flounder. I could also say chocolate syrup, but that's really just a topping for the actual food.

10.)I'm In A Hurry And I Don't Know Why by Alabama

11.)Everytime It Rains by Ace of Base

12.)Everytime It Rains by Ace of Base

[fable]

1) Probably Malraux's Voices of Silence.

2) The Mahabharata.

3) James Branch Cabell's Jurgen.

4) Carne & Prevert's Les Enfants du Paradis.

5) Cocteau's Beauty and the Beast.

6) Sjostrom's Under the Red Robe.

7) A very good curry.

8) An extremely rich, unhealthy lasagna.

9) Dolmathes.

10) Mayor Hector's Song from The Golden Apple (see below)

11) Billie Holiday's version of Strange Fruit.

12) Enya's Sail Away.


Mayor Hector's Song (lyrics by John Latouche; sung as an old sort of Fred Astaire, graceful soft shoe piece:

Some can be bought for money
And some there are that glory can buy
Some yield their purity
In search of security
And some drown their dreams in a bottle of rye

Some go for empty knowledge
And some think sex will set their body free
The man of the hour
Will settle for power
Yes, every soul alive has his fee--

Except for noble people,
Wonderful people,
Mmmmmarvelous people,
Like you, and like meeeeeeeee...

(No, I obviously don't believe this. But it's a devastating piece of pure Machiavellian tactics, in a Broadway show that took the Iliad and the Odyssey and set 'em both in turn of the 20th century, rural America. A brilliant musical called the Golden Apple, that ran afoul of the red-baiters during the 1950's Communist scare. Mayor Hector is a transmogrified Hector of Troy, who uses all the vices he can think of to distract and ultimately destroy Ulysses' band, until only Ulysses himself is left to return home.)

I'm rambling. I go to bed, now.

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[Aegis]

1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?

Sun Tzu's Art of War

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?

Dragon Lance: Dragons of Summer Flame

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?

Starship Troopers, Robert A. Heinlein

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?

Gladiator

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?

Endless Waltz (When Heero jumps to Zero in space, and the music's going... )

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)

Visions of Escalflowne

7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?

Frecnh Onion Soup

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?

That breakfast burrito... Boy it made me feel something after that...

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?

Sex in a Pan

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?

Short Skirt/Long Jacket, Cake

11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?

Rythem Emotion

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?

Stairway to Heaven, Led Zepplin (I believe anyway)

[Xandax]

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
<STRONG>1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)

7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?

11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?
</STRONG>

1) A Breif History of Time - Stephen Hawkins
2) None
3) The Prince - Machiavellie
4) Clockwork Orange or "Thin Red Line"
5) None
6) "All Quiet on the Western Front"(1930)
7) Marinaded Wild Boar cooked as game, with roasted potatoes
8) Choclade pudding(don't know if puddin is the right word or not)
9) Steak, fried red.
10) Symphoni No 9. 4th Movment - Beethoven
11) Sometimes At Night - Gorky Park
12) Take On Me - A-Ha

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[thantor3]

1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?
The Awakening of Intelligence by Krishnamurti

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?
Little Birds by Anais Nin

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?
The Course in Miracles

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?
Koyaanisqatsi

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?
Like Water for Chocolate

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)
Circle of Iron


7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Codornices tres maneras (a quail dish)

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Home made red velvet cake

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Fresh frog legs

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?
The Court of the Crimson King by King Crimson (see below)

11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?
'Cause We Ended As Lover's by Jeff Beck

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?
Novus Magnificat: Through the Stargate by Constance Demby
(incredible for any type of altered state)


THE COURT OF THE CRIMSON KING
The rusted chains of prison moons
Are shattered by the sun.
I walk a road, horizons change
The tournament's begun.
The purple piper plays his tune,
The choir softly sing;
Three lullabies in an ancient tongue,
For the court of the crimson king.

The keeper of the city keys
Put shutters on the dreams.
I wait outside the pilgrim's door
With insufficient schemes.
The black queen chants
the funeral march,
The cracked brass bells will ring;
To summon back the fire witch
To the court of the crimson king.

The gardener plants an evergreen
Whilst trampling on a flower.
I chase the wind of a prism ship
To taste the sweet and sour.
The pattern juggler lifts his hand;
The orchestra begin.
As slowly turns the grinding wheel
In the court of the crimson king.

On soft gray mornings widows cry
The wise men share a joke;
I run to grasp divining signs
To satisfy the hoax.
The yellow jester does not play
But gentle pulls the strings
And smiles as the puppets dance
In the court of the crimson king.

[Yshania]

1) How to behave....Dr Sal Severe
2) The Colour Purple or Kes
3) Diary of a Geisha or Wasp Factory
4) Clockwork Orange
5) The Colour Purple
6) The Matrix
7) not really stimulated intellectually by food
8) as above
9) as above
10) none
11) The Wall - Pink Floyd
12) Song of a Vampire - Annie Lennox or Harrys Game - Clannad

[Vehemence]

1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?
Dr. Zeus's Cat in the Hat

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?
Saddam Huseins' Cooking Tips

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?
Playboy's Greatest Girls Swimsuit Edition

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?
Home Alone

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?
Home Alone 2

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)
Home Alone 3

7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Re-fried Grasshoppers

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Chilly Dog

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Baked Beans

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?
Bear in the Big Blue House's Christmas Song

11)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?
Sesame Street's Captain Vegetable Remix

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?
Sesame Street's Cookie Monster Remix

[Kameleon]

And the spam hits the fan...I knew all this serious stuff couldn't last. LOL @Veh.

[C Elegans]

1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?
Textbook: "Principles of neural science" editor Eric Kandel.
Fiction: Umberto Eco's "Foucault's pendulum"

@SS and Xan: I also enjoyed Hawking a lot

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?
Mishima's Sea of fertility tetralogy, especially the 4th book, "Decay of the angel".

Shakespeare's "King Lear" (if it counts as a book).

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?
James Joyce's "Ulysses"
sir Philip Sidney's "The countess of Pembroke's Arcadia".

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?
Bunuel's "The golden age"

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?
A clockwork orange

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)
An autobiographic cartoon for adults about the firebombing of Tokyo and a two children trying to survive after the rest of the family was wiped out. (Saw it at a film festival, I don't remember the title or the director's name.)

(Porno films bore me more than looking at grass growing...)

7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Traditional Arabic dinner with fatyer, sambosek, falafel, hommous, etc

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?
South East Asian lobster/scampi in cocoa milk and green curry.

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?
Sushi

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?
Not really a song, Shostakovitch 10th symphony.

11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?
Björk's "Yoga".

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?
James Brown's "Sex machine"

[EMINEM]

1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?

Either Mere Christianity (C.S. Lewis) or Hamlet (Shakespeare)

2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?

War and Peace, Crime and Punishment, Brothers Karamazov

3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?

Lord of the Rings

4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?

Citizen Kane

5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?

Reservoir Dogs

6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)

Full Metal Jacket

7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?

Linguini Chicken Primavera

8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?

Hot fudge sundae lavished with caramel and sprinkled with white sugar topped with a cherry.

9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?

Can't beat the Triple Decker Big-Mac!

10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?

Bridge Over Troubled Waters

11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?

Pachebel's Canon

12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?

"Jupiter," from the Planets (Holst)

[EMINEM]

@Elegans

You read Ulysses?! Wow! I only read the first couple chapters before giving up. Uh... how does it end?

[C Elegans]

@Eminem: Crime & Punishment is great - if you like Dostojevsky, have you tried Solochov ("Quiet Don"?)

"Reservoar dogs" - oh, I loved that one. Very sharp, very disturbing.

Joyce's Ulysses: It's certainly a book you only read for style and concept, not for story. I liked the middle chapters best, the advertising note style and the pseudo logical paragraphs style passage where Bloom is at his work, goes the pub and meet the funeral party. The book ends with Molly Bloom's famous stream of consciousness part, and then, a short chapter where Bloom is on his way home from the pub with his friends.
24 hours in Dublin, the stylistic masterpiece of the 20th century, and the birth of the modernism. I love it - I've read it twice, in Swedish and English.

[EMINEM]

Solochov? No, sorry, I don't remember reading him. Is he a Russian author, too?

Second to Leo T., Dostoyevsky is my favorite writer of all time.

Was Ulysses voted Book of the Century, or did that honor go to Lord of the Rings? Stylistically, I can see Joyce with the laurel, but Tolkien I think appealed to a greater audience.

[fable]

Are we including musical compositions, rather than just songs? If so, I'll have to change my offerings. I'll get back with you lot right after brunch.

[Craig]

Originally posted by Sailor Saturn:
<STRONG>1.)What is the most intellectually stimulating book you've ever read?
(Guiness book of records)
2.)What is the most emotionally stimulating book you've ever read?
(Script to romeo and juiliett)
3.)What is the most otherwise stimulating book you've ever read?
(Hobbit)
4.)What is the most intellectually stimulating movie you've ever seen?
(Sphere)
5.)What is the most emotionally stimulating movie you've ever seen?
(Anistasia)
6.)What is the most otherwise stimulating movie you've ever seen?(Porno films don't count)
(The mummy)
7.)What is the most intellectually stimulating food you've ever eaten?
(Squid)
8.)What is the most emotionally stimulating food you've ever eaten?
(Spaghetti Bolognes)
9.)What is the most otherwise stimulating food you've ever eaten?
(Curry!)
10.)What is the most intellectually stimulating song you've ever heard?
(None)
11.)What is the most emotionally stimulating song you've ever heard?
(Hold my hands(think thats it)
12.)What is the most otherwise stimulating song you've ever heard?
(Let the bodies hit the floor)</STRONG>

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[fable]

Kudos to Eminem on his Dostoevsky and musical choices: what do you think of Tolstoy? And have you tried Sozhenitzyn's One Day in the Life of Ivan Denisovich, or The Gulag Archipelago? He's a very inspirational writer: sent to labor camps himself by Stalin, a man who used anger as the fuel for a moral response to social injustice.

I suppose that if compositions, rather than songs, were included, I'd pick:

Intellectual composition: Verdi's Falstaff; Beethoven's late string quartets.

Emotional composition: Faure's Pavane; Vaughan Williams' Pilgrims Progress; Nielsen's Inestinguishable Symphony.

Other composition: Ravel's Ma Mere l'Oye; Bartok's Concerto for Orchestra.

[Mr Sleep]

1.)Dune - Frank Herbert

2.)LA Noir or Crime Wave - James Ellroy

3.)The Player of Games - Iain M banks

4.)Blade Runner (souldn't it be film? )

5.)Vertigo (or a wonderful life )

6.)The (original) Haunting

7.)Fish and Chips

8.)Coq au van (sp?)

9.)My mothers Sunday Roast

10.)Return To Innocence lost - The Roots

11.)Gorecki (and no that isn't a typo ) - Lamb

12.)Me and those dreamy eyes of mine - D'Angelo

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[fable]

@Sleep, I agree about Gorecki: a fine composer.

[Mr Sleep]

Actually i was not talking about the composer, i was referring to a band named [url="http://www.cottonwool.com/"]lamb[/url] who created a track called Gorecki.

They are a British band and they deserve more credit, they are inspirational and innovative.

[fable]

Originally posted by Mr Sleep:
<STRONG>Actually i was not talking about the composer, i was referring to a band named [url="http://www.cottonwool.com/"]lamb[/url] who created a track called Gorecki.

They are a British band and they deserve more credit, they are inspirational and innovative.</STRONG>

*blink* I'll betya they named the cut after the Polish composer, Gorecki. I know he's been something of a crossover hit, ever since a part of a symphony he wrote was used in a popular film about the atrocities of WW II.

[ 09-02-2001: Message edited by: fable ]