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Best narrative poem: Dante
Best poetry: Blake
Best Novel: Proust
Best Playright: Shakespeare
Best nonfic writer: Hegel
Best overtures and piano sonatas: Beethoven
Best piano concertos and string orchestra: Mozart
Best choir/mass: Bach
Someone call me a pseud and disagree so I can discover more music

A Thousand Plateaus
Autechre

Beach House makes me want to kill myself. Too depressing. How do you listen to this?

>Autechre
Nice I'll have to look up your book now

Oh it's Deleuze, 9/10 picks doug

Paradise Lost, Ulysses.

Pretty basic bitch but thats the truth.

man's search for meaning

talk talk or bark psychosis

Paradise lost isn't obscure at all. Its required reading in the 10th grade for fucks sake.

Pale Fire
Steely Dan

Nostromo
Stan Rogers

Read my comment again, you couldn't figure it out the first time also
>Its required reading in the 10th grade
No it's not, in the UK? Do you mean like the Odyssey were you read a couple passages in a dumbed down translation, yeah that completely invalidates it's worth

he didn't say it was

>yeah that completely invalidates it's worth
That was sarcastic by the way, I know you have a hard time understanding Veeky Forums comments

>The facebook feed, live journal and other social media of the person i am stalking
>TV static

The World of Yesterday by Zweig
Clark (of warp records)

you from NC?

Count of Monte Cristo

Radiohead or Husker DU

>brothers karamazov
>probably eyehategod rn
nice taste
meh taste
abysmal taste

NM.

>having a single favorite
You'll never learn Veeky Forums

>Brothers Karamazov as favorite novel
>Nice taste
It's good but obviously unfinished, replicates all of his previous work and is pseuded so fucking hard

meh taste I must say

Why can't you be more like

>Sufjan Stevens
>The Recognitions

>he's never had a single work of art call him by name
I hope you find happiness some day, user.

Live had more than one. That's my point you dumb normie.

not guy you're replying to but for the sake of the thread you can just pick one of your top favorites like I did and probably most did

Libra - Don Delillo
Pavement

>Moby-Dick
>Brand New

And what is the point? If I say Don Quijote and The Beatles what does it say? There's still The Iliad and Mahler.

The Beatles and Mahler are kind of shit gimmicks desu.

Could of picked better literary examples to

Why?

Huh?

A Canticle for Leibowitz
Elliot Smith

The Virtue of Selfishness
Children of Bodom

Awful, very bad choices, embarrassing

They are the best Melodic Death Metal band on God's green earth phallusmancer

Suttree
Captain Beefheart

Book
>Either Anna Karenina or The Once and Future King

Musician/Band
>Frank Sinatra/Yes

I'll go ahead and say that you're probably more read than I am. BUT

Best narrative poem: Paradise Lost
Best poetry: Edgar Allan Poe
Best Novel: Anna Karenina
Best Playright: Arthur Miller
Best nonfic writer: Ralph Waldo Emerson

what I say to girls
>hopscotch
>joy division
what is true
>either/or
>this heat

Frank Sinatra...pbbbbbbtttttttffffffffffff
Neeew yooork, NEEWWW YOOORRK, HOMELESS PISS AND GARRRBAAAGE AND STEEL NIGHTMAREEEEES AND SHOOOOWBIIIIIIZZZ IM ITALLLIAAAAN MAFIOSOOOOOOOoo

That guy is worthless

Emerson is great, incredibly underrated in our shit American educational system, you could argue he is a better poet than Poe

Self Reliance is perhaps the best essay ever written

That essay literally fuels me

I am the owner of the sphere,
Of the seven stars and the solar year,
of Caesar’s hand, and Plato’s brain,
Of Lord Christ’s heart, and Shakespeare’s strain.

>pseud
Best Narrative poem: Browning
Best Poetry: Rilke
Best Novel: Melville
Best Playwright: Shakespeare
Best Philosophy: Kierkegaard
Best Symphonies: Sibelius
Best String Quartets: Shostakovich
Best Piano Sonatas: Scriabin
Best Piano Music: Chopin
Best Violin Concerto: Dvorak
Best Modernist Novel: Broch

how can you enjoy the lack of complexity in sufjan and also hold the recognitions as a favorite?

>Stan Rogers
My fucking /out/nigger

Good god I know this feel. It's torturous isn't it?

All Quiet On The Western Front
Thee More Shallows

lovely

Lol stop stalking people you fucks hahaha
Turn off those feels and do something else

There's no off switch for these feels user.

Self Reliance man, some girl (or guy) ain't gonna solve your puzzle for you. Those are just convenient images perpetuated by culture to keep people marrying and procreating beyond any real connection. To keep you desperate for that "other person".

Forget that mess

>Death Grips or Joanna Newsom
I hope your mother dies in her sleep.

Favorite Book: The Idiot

Favorite Musician: youtube.com/watch?v=UDPT-lM4EWU (pic related)

Bonus, theme song of my life: youtube.com/watch?v=KZqket_suHw

You seem to lack the belasic self-awareness to realize that most people who do this sort of thing understand that perfectly and despise themselves for it.

Nice, Rilke is great (you speak German)? Putting Brown above Homer, Dante ,Milton ,Tasso ,Virgil is beyond retarded though. Never heard of Broch and gonna have to disagree with those music choices except for maybe Chopin, who has so many good Piano pieces it's hard not to pick him. But then there's Rach to. Sibelius is beautiful but kind of feels like a one trick pony, Movies scores have ruined Dvorak for me, his Requiem isn't bad but compared to Mozart, Haydn and so many others.... Shostovich is talented but not my thing

He's just a namedropping pseud, don't worry about. He picked Kierkegaard as best philosopher.

Ah.
I was getting high on my own supply a bit I think.
Yeah, I have analogous experiences in memory now that I consider.
mm.

The wanting of change within ourselves does not always correspond with our ability or willingness to make it so, even if we know our suffering is self-caused. That's the truth for so many people. Those who do not understand this are blessed, at least for a while.

Mmm.
>Those who do not understand this are blessed, at least for a while.
Blessed with the promise of deep disruption inevitably down the line isn't so blessed to me but I know what you mean, ignorance is bliss for the time being
but the time of compensation occurs soon enough
if you, or rather I, wanted to get metaphysical about it, all suffering is "self-caused".
The missing factor here is memory.

Using your imagination, supposing you could do anything. Would you ever modulate / renew your memory?

..The short answer is yes, and thus we find ourselves.

Our perceptions are the dualistic key to both our ideological salvation and our metacognitive doom.

> favorite book
The Waste Land
> favorite musician/band
Either Tchaikovsky or Bob Dylan

Dorian Gray
ZUN

>metacognitive doom
I like that two wording
youtube.com/watch?v=a6BbvCC0VI0

metacognitive salvation - ideaological doom

Sinuhe egyptiläinen (the egyptian in the states)
nujabes, daft punk and Judee Sill are some people I enjoy

about to read this one, had to ask the library to acquire it. hope ill like it.

>Brave New World
>Kendrick Lamar

bully me

>book
A hero of our time

>band
Alice in chains

Ready Player One
Led Zeppelin

Karamazov or Ficciones
Bach or Kraftwerk

>all these tryhard pseuds picking classical music

Master and Margarita
Belle and Sebastian

I'm a simple person.

The Grapes of Wrath
Iron Maiden

Milk & Honey
Cardi B

>A Portrait of the Artist as a Young Man
>Can't pick a single favorite artist, but my top 2 albums are American Football & Deathconsciousness

>book
The Farseer trilogy
>band
Sparklehorse (rip)

>Taras Bulba

>The Pogues, CCR, Of the wand and the moon

>music
youtube.com/watch?v=Y4xL0cDKWUs

>book
the bible

fiction: The Lord Of The Rings
band: Bathory
poetry: Blake
plays: Shakespeare
non-fiction - Nietzsche

>CoB
>best melodeath
t. nu-male

Also, melodeath is shit and so is your taste.

The Black Obelisk (Remarque) or King, Queen, Knave (Nabokov)

Crywank

My favorite novel has gotta be "Crime and Punishment" for overall impact on what was my teenage mind and opening the doors to existentialism and other Russian literature.

Favorite poet is Theodore Roethke with "The Waking."

Non- fiction goes to C.S. Lewis' "Mere Christianity."

Animal Collective is my favorite band hands down.

hahaha you are a living meme. How old are you? 17? I bet you think you're very smart even though you get bad grades

> critiques Death Grips and Joanna Newsom
> posts totally unoriginal wannabe 60s rockabilly trash song about being a lonely faggot who isn't cool

nice, user

I'm 20 with a 3.97. And I think I'm smarter than most people but I'm certainly no genius.

I could give reasons why I like those musicians. I discovered Joanna Newsom when I was in middle school and it took me a long time to actually get into her whole discography but she always stuck with me even when the artists I liked were changing. She's one of the most technically proficient musicians I've ever heard and perhaps the greatest poet of our generation. I listen to her only maybe a couple times a month but she's still one of my favorites.

As for Death Grips, well, they slowly grew on me. I still haven't listened to a lot of their discography because so much of it is hectic. But I appreciate their violence, creativity, primal sort of energy, etc. I always come back to them out of curiosity and find something new I like. But once again, I listen to them pretty rarely. They demand a certain headspace. Usually for me, it's anger and despair all in one.

But I don't know. I like a lot of music. I just put two that have impacted me profoundly and never really get boring for me.

The Once and Future King
St. Vincent
>tfw patrician as fuck

St.Vincent is hipster garbage though. Nothing patrician about that.

That's the music that resonates with me, user. I found them while feeling terribly alone living in some shitty fucking Army barracks, picking up hot rodding, and going through a bad breakup. Could've been a marriage, but I wouldn't ask her. Fuck marriage, it's for selfish plebs and delusional normies and only creates suffering.

Here, try this: youtube.com/watch?v=ts-4DhxQxKE

Other favorites are Kat Edmonson or JD McPherson or early Neko Case (The Virginian, Furnace Room Lullaby). To be honest I did like Joanna Newsom like 15 years ago. Death Grips is just okay. Killer Mike is better. Kool Keith, however, has the mastery.

Most patrician post coming through make way.

Theory: Bachelard's Poetics of Space
Artist: Tame Impala youtube.com/watch?v=sBzrzS1Ag_g
Philosopher: Pseudo-Dionysius
Essayist: Emerson
Poet: Tennyson
Cookbook: Mallman
Novelist: Barth
Sci-fi: Bradbury

/thread

Book of Disquiet
Morphine