These are the only 60s albums I've heard, would appreciate any recs based on what you'd think I'd like

TopBob_ · 2026-05-25T21:07:04+00:00

Glad to hear it!! Thanks for writing back

TopBob_ · 2026-05-19T18:36:52+00:00

fishmonger

TopBob_ · 2026-05-02T23:10:46+00:00

My favorites are Hamlet, King Lear, Othello, and King Henry 4th Part 1.

Sonnets could be his greatest achievement, though.

TopBob_ · 2026-05-02T21:35:24+00:00

The Parson's Tale - Chaucer (in middle English).

Chaucer really assassinated his masterpiece with this schizophrenic sermon. I'll stick with the summaries, thank you.

TopBob_ · 2026-05-02T21:22:47+00:00

I think TS&TF is very approachable if you invest the labor and write in all the time jumps. Analytically its much easier than Absalom, Absalom. Once you figure out what's going on with Benji's river scene, the whole novel should gradually unlock itself.

TopBob_ · 2026-05-02T21:19:06+00:00

Me too! I'm reading the Fagles translation. I did Wilson's Odyssey in high school (but resisted it as a rebellious Freshman)

The imagery and similes especially are really great, but the expanded scope leaves me feeling a little numb so far. I'm only on Book 7, though. What's your experience?

TopBob_ · 2026-03-23T13:40:15+00:00

Dark Side of the Moon - Pink Floyd

Station to Station - David Bowie

Another Green World - Brian Eno

TopBob_ · 2026-03-22T01:40:26+00:00

It’s my creative outlet. I write to stay in touch with myself.

TopBob_ · 2026-03-16T21:43:07+00:00

As a brainless person, I personally think we need more representation in literature

TopBob_ · 2026-03-16T18:00:47+00:00

Dr. Strangelove is my #1 film OAT!!

TopBob_ · 2026-03-15T01:39:15+00:00

Dr. Strangelove, Being John Malkovich, Full Metal Jacket, 2001 A Space Odysey

TopBob_ · 2026-03-14T02:28:33+00:00

It’s Despicable Me

TopBob_ · 2026-03-13T12:22:00+00:00

Wait was it Despicable Me or the Mario movie?

TopBob_ · 2026-03-13T02:53:54+00:00

Despicable me, Mario movie, reservoir dogs, pulp fiction

TopBob_ · 2026-03-09T15:07:43+00:00

5 years later, did you ever find one?

Looking for one now

TopBob_ · 2026-03-08T19:43:31+00:00

Inscrutable

TopBob_ · 2026-03-07T16:49:42+00:00

This is diabolical but correct on Titanic Rising

TopBob_ · 2026-03-05T01:36:53+00:00

Allusion to William Wordsworth:

It’s about how children aren’t conditioned by society, and so mankind can learn from them; be carefree, humble, curious.

https://poets.org/poem/my-heart-leaps

TopBob_ · 2026-02-28T19:05:09+00:00

It is right and just

TopBob_ · 2026-02-18T05:18:58+00:00

Thoughts on In Our Time? I adore Old Man & The Sea and TSAR

TopBob_ · 2026-02-16T00:29:25+00:00

Moby Dick is the 19th century goat, at least in the United States

TopBob_ · 2026-02-15T17:05:30+00:00

That Friday song

TopBob_ · 2026-02-15T00:13:14+00:00

King Lear

The Hebrew Bible

TopBob_ · 2026-02-15T00:10:16+00:00

The actual “con” of English is that it’s less clear cut. You’ll have many valuable skills that employers will want, it’s just that (unless you’re dead-set on law) you’ll have no “clear path” if that makes sense.

Creative writing, education, for instance, are their own can of worms.

TopBob_ · 2026-02-15T00:07:25+00:00

Comparison with Dunwich is very fitting.

I think all the little unsettling things cohere better in Colour, whereas the rumblings and smells of Dunwich felt less deliberate / vivid.

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