/lit/ - Literature

What the fuck is "life experience" supposed to mean? That's ambiguous as shit you dickless fiend.

>>1569847

It sounds like you've had a hard life.

THIS MIGHT BE INTERESTING IF YOU KEPT THE QUESTIONS A LOT MORE /LIT/ RELATED.

>>1569847

"Life experience" is the basis on which online "universities" award fake "degrees". Just sayin'.

Country: US
Nationality:?
Sex:Male
Education:attending the harvard of community colleges
Top 5 Books:Our Lady of the Flowers (genet), Story of the Eye (bataille), Les Chants de Maldoror (lautreamont), The Loneliness of the Long Distance Runner (Sillitoe), A Season in Hell (Rimbaud)
Top 5 Movies: Le Jetee/Sans Soleil (Marker), Return of the Living Dead, The 400 Blows, Valhalla Rising, Blade Runner
Top 5 Albums:Venetian Snares-Salt EP, The Cure-Three Imaginary Boys, Brian Jonestown Massacre-Methodrone, David Bowie-Ziggy Stardust, The Velvet Underground and Nico
Life Experience: shooting dope, flagging trains, stripper at a gay club, pimping (seriously), prison time, worked/lived on a commune, went to jerusalem, kidnapped @ a young age, mental institutions, love, hate, deaths of love and hate...

>>1569850
It was as hard as any middle class white American male's life I guess.
>>1569853
I don't really know anything about online universities but now I do!

Probably the only one taking this serious, but what the hell.

>Country:
Scotland

>Nationality:
Scottish w/Franco-Irish heritage.

>Sex:
Male

>Education:
Majored in Sociology

>Top 5 books:
One Hundred Years of Solitude - Marquez
L'Étranger - Camus
The Wind-up Bird Chronicles - Murakami
House of Leaves - Danielewski
2666 - Bolano

>Top 5 movies:
Rushmore - Wes Anderson
Big Lebowski - Cohen Brothers
The Royal Tenenbaums - Wes Anderson
Requiem for a Dream - Darren Aronofsky
Breathless - Jean-Luc Godard

>Top 5 Albums:
Spirit They're Gone, Spirit They've Vanished - Avey Tare and Panda Bear
Silent Alarm - Bloc Party
Microcastles/Weird Era Cont. - Deerhunter
Post-Nothing - Japandroids
OK computer - Radiohead

>Life Experience: Not much, I grew up in a pretty poor area, but in all I lived a comfertable life. I've backpacked with friends from Scotland to England to France to Switzerland to Germany then to Holland before flying back to Scotland. I guess that counts.

Country: US
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Education: In undergrad for chemical engineering
Top 5 Books: The Moon is a Harsh Mistress, Sword of Truth series, LOTR, A Scanner Darkly, Godel, Escher, Bach
Top 5 Movies: 2001: A Space Odyssey, Pulp Fiction, Eraserhead, The Big Lebowski, Primer
Top 5 Albums: Strapping Young Lad - Alien, Mastodon - Crack the Skye, Cynic - Traced in Air, Protest the Hero - Fortress, Rush - Permanent Waves
Life Experience: Um, I lead a pretty sheltered life.

Country: UK
Nationality: Scot
Sex: female
Education: University
Top 5 Books: Ada or Ador, The Trial, Catcher in the Rye, Wuthering Heights, The Outsider
Top 5 Movies: Godfather part II, Citizen Kane, Seventh Seal, Hot Fuzz, Taxi Driver
Top 5 Albums: Mirrored, Trout Mask Replica, Total Life Forever, Incunabula, Black Saint and the Sinner Lady
Life Experience: expertise in avoidance and hiding

Country: Germany
Nationality: german
Sex: male

Education: studying information technology at the university, will be finished in 2 years

Top 5 Books: (will listen series as a whole)
Crime and Punishment
Tad Williams - Otherland
Steven Erikson - Malazan Tale of the Fallen
Kafka - The Trial
The Complete Works of William Shakespear

Top 5 Movies:
The Tenant by Roman Polanski
Fight Club
Battle Royal
Mulholland Drive
Sin City

Top 5 Albums:
Dark Tranquility - Damage Done
Nightwish - Century Child
Nightwish - Wishmaster
Rammstein - Sonne
Within Temptation - Mother Earth

>>1569901
>Female
Liar.

>>1569906
once you guys start being consistent about what you think, i will.

>>1569863

What happened.

Who hurt you?

Country: U S of A
Nationality: White, cracker, etc.
Sex: Female.
Education: In college, pretty large university - Good but not great.
Top 5 Books: Foucault's Pendulum, the Name of the Rose, Lolita, Catch-22, Crime and Punishment.
Top 5 Movies: I like the Fifth Element....Lame, I know...I don't watch many movies.
Top 5 Albums: I don't listen to much music.
Life Experience: I like to read?

Country: United States
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Education: Undergrad in English Education
Top 5 Books: The Bell Jar, Gravity's Rainbow, Moby Dick, Water Margin, Old Man and The Sea
Top 5 Movies: Dr. Strangelove, The Royal Tenenbaums, Kenneth Branagh's Hamlet, Night of The Hunter, Psycho
Top 5 Albums: I can't even begin to list that
Life Experience: What?

.......a compelling question

>>1569927
>Dr. Strangelove
i want to see this.

where do you guys download your movies?

(inb4 subhuman torrent fags)

>>1569941

Demonoid. Haters gonna hate.

>>1569932

why are you asking this now? I wouldnt say literatur tast depends on gender or anything, sure there might be stuff that apeals more to girls and stuff that apeals more to guys, but thats that.

>>1569932
Looking at the lists of favourite albums, the questions we should be asking in how does taste in music relate to taste in books, because I'm seeing terrible choices of music.
It's either hipster garabe (Bloc Party, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mingus etc) or high school outcast music (Strapping Young Lad, Nightwish etc.

>>1569941
why are you so butthurt about torrent???

>>1569941
I usually buy them, but Stagevu sometimes has movies worth downloading.

http://stagevu.com/video/xxfkvrejkwwh
Just right click the download and save as.

>>1569951
>It's either hipster garabe (Bloc Party, Brian Jonestown Massacre, Mingus etc) or high school outcast music (Strapping Young Lad, Nightwish etc.
>Mingus
>hipster
jesus chirst being entry-level but at the same-time god-tier does not make something hipster. what a fag.

also modern music is a more natural thing to listen to, dont shit on people for that either.

>Mingus
>hipster
oh god that one's terrible xD

>>1569941
karagarga, and no, I'm not giving you an invite, dork

>>1569967
>dork

>>1569951

Why do you consider Nightwish as high school outcast music (I am the guy who likes it btw)? I am a big fan of melodic / symphonic metal and somehow like femal singers.

>>1569987

>I am a big fan of melodic / symphonic metal

You're either a douchebag, a virgin, or both.

>>1569949
>I wouldnt say literatur tast depends on gender or anything
why do guys always cum when 'omg a girl likes indie musics!!!!!!!!1!!!!!1!1' then?

>>1569987
i listened to a nightwish album once. no comment i can make.

>>1569993
WHY THE FUCK DID THIS THREAD DEGENERATE INTO MUSIC DISCUSSION? OH WAIT, YOU'RE POSTING IN IT.

>>1569987
Just a standard. Most HS outcasts listen to it while eating lunch with their other outcast buddies all wearing black, and band tee's and studded collars. Probably calling everyone hipsters.

>>1569992

I am neither. I just like this type of music. I also didnt say I only listened to this stuff, I am pretty much open to any kind of music apart from hip hop.

>>1569993

I usually dont care what kind of music girls listen too. Sure if she only listens to hip hop I probably wouldnt really like it and also would be damn happy if a girl tells me she likes stuff like Dark Tranquillity, but like I said it doesnt matter for me.

>>1569997
>WHY THE FUCK DID THIS THREAD DEGENERATE INTO MUSIC DISCUSSION? OH WAIT, YOU'RE POSTING IN IT.
more irrational mouth-piss because he has a personal problem with me. caps you're kind of like a representation of most of the anons here.

is still not tripping just a fancy or particularly to avoid anon-hate?

>>1570000

Haha thats pretty fun, I think I really got into Nightwish when I was 19 or 20 years old. Also I didnt wear black or stuff like that, I was pretty normal in school most of the time. Neither an outcast but also not one of the cool / badass types and pretty much got along with nearly everyone.

>>1570004
IF I WANTED TO AVOID HATRED, I DON'T THINK I'D BE POSTING IN CAPS.

IT IS NOT IRRATIONAL, BECAUSE THIS IS A BOARD OF LITERATURE, AND YOU SEEM TO ENJOY DISCUSSING ANYTHING BUT.

>>1570002
>apart from hip hop.
This leads me to believe my stereotype was right.

Hip hop is fine, not R'n'B or Rap like Eminem, fiddy cent and stuff, but many good hip hop artists are around. Big yeezy, Kid Cudi etc.

Country: USA
Nationality: American I guess
Sex: Failure
Education: In college now
Top 5 Books: The Trial, Pale Fire, The Plague, The Baron in the Trees, A Scanner Darkly
Top 5 Movies: Confessions of a Dangerous Mind, The Good, The Bad and the Ugly, McCabe and Mrs Miller, Nashville, There Will Be Blood
Top 5 Albums: Skip Spence - Oar, Beck - Midnite Vultures, Big Black - Atomizer, The Police - Synchronicity, The Fugs - The Fugs' Second Album
Life Experience: Can cook and use a floor loom, had the lame-ass church childhood so I really don't want to read your lame-ass memoirs about it. Been called "slaughter queen" in critique groups. Survived countless encounters with anime club members. Out of practice black belt.

>>1570010

Well I have to admite that my opinion about hip hop is almost solely based on the stuff that was shown on tv, so most likely the stuff you said isnt good hip hop. Thats the stuff I dont like, maybe I am gonna look into the two you posted.

>>1570009
>IT IS NOT IRRATIONAL, BECAUSE THIS IS A BOARD OF LITERATURE, AND YOU SEEM TO ENJOY DISCUSSING ANYTHING BUT.
again taking things away from the present argument and substituting in my public image here as if thats ever been justified.

its irrational to blame me for something that someone else in the thread clearly started.

you are really so full of shit. try following facts instead of opinions and favouritism. jesus basic argument skills you fucking lack. you cant keep track of points. cant believe you're doing a maths degree....

>Country: USA
>Nationality: Mixed
>Sex: Male
>Education: Majoring in Economics
>Top 5 Books: The Giver, One Flew over the Cuckoo's Nest, Ender's Game, To Kill a Mockingbird, The Great Gatsby
Top 5 Movies: It's a Wonderful Life, Finding Nemo, Big Fish, Amores perros, pan's labyrinth
Top 5 Albums: Illmatic - Nas, The Cool - Lupe Fiasco, Food & Liquor - Lupe Fiasco, College Dropout - Kanye West, Funeral - The Arcade Fire
Life Experience: ?

Country: usa
Nationality: none
Sex: m
Education: in college
Top 5 Books: moby dick, spinoza's ethics, ulysses, fathers and sons, anna karenina
Top 5 Movies: lion king, empire strikes back, army of darkness, squid and the whale, waking life
Top 5 Albums: ween - pure guava, nomeansno - small parts isolated and destroyed, shizuo vs. shizor, edit - crying over pros for no reason, let them eat jellybeans
Life Experience: a few things, been slow recently

>>1570020
Fyi: Big Yezzy is Kanye West.

Country: America
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Education: NONE
Top 5 Books: The Divine Comedy, Don Quixote, Finnegans Wake, Molloy trilogy, Gravity's Rainbow
Top 5 Movies: Citizen Kane, 8½, Persona, Dr. Strangelove, Eraserhead
Top 5 Albums: Bach's Goldberg variations, Mozart's piano concertos, Beethoven's string quartets, Wagner's music dramas, Dvorak's symphonies
Life Experience: NONE

Country: UK
Nationality: Pureblood Scot
Sex: M
Education: Private school / Uni
Top 5 Books: Dangling Man, Independent People, Botchan, Evasion, Heart of a Dog
Top 5 Movies: Uhh... 12 Angry Men, South Park the Movie, probably nostalgic Disney movies for the rest
Top 5 Albums: I don't really listen to music so couldn't tell you
Life Experience: Sheltered upbringing. However, I have lived in a couple of different countries throughout childhood and been on holidays to many far-out-there places. Can't help but feel like a sponge and that I haven't achieved much on my own without parental intervention or support. I got a summer job all by myself though which is probably the most independent I've been ever.

Country: Arg
Nationality:argentinean
Sex:Male
Education:Going to college (mathematics)
Top 5 Books: Ficciones (Borges), The trial (Kafka), The castle (Kafka), Bestiario (Cortázar), Lewis Carroll (Cohen)
Top 5 Movies: Taxi Driver, 2001, Winter Light, Felicidades, El aura
Top 5 Albums: lots
Life Experience: None

>>1570054
>Don Quixote in the same list as The Divine Comedy, Finnegans Wake, Molloy trilogy, and Gravity's Rainbow

Explain yourself! This is an outrage!

Country: USA
Nationality: USA
Sex: Man
Education: No more than what was required by the state
Top 5 Books:
>Mal.com X
>Latin America in the era of the Cuban Revolution
>Sirens of Titan by Kurt V.
>The Adrian Mole Series
>This book of short stories I got
Top 5 Movies:
>It's a Wonderful Life
>The Matrix
>Fight Club
>Trainspotting
>The Commitments
Top 5 Albums:
>Ghostface Killah - Fishscale
>Wu-Tang - 36 Chambers
>NWA - Straight Outta Compton
>Kinks - Lola and the whatever that album is called
>Rolling Stones - Voodoo Lounge

Also, my favorites list was personal. I know, for example, that the Adrian Mole series is not heavy literature, it's just something I really like growing up.

Also, anybody else do non-fiction?

Country: UK
Nationality: British
Sex: M
Education: University
Top 5 Books: Franny & Zooey, Brighton Rock, Bell Jar, Castle of Otranto, Dubliners
Top 5 Movies: Children of Men, City of God, Kick-Ass, End of Evangelion, American Pie 2
Top 5 Albums: Hello Rockview, Burial, The Power of Failing, Diary, Good Mourning
Life Experience: None

>>1570057
what's your opinion of me?

>>1570068
...because it's the greatest novel ever written?

>>1570069
On second thought, Fight Club sorta sucked. Imma say The Rundown with Dwayne The Rock Johnson

>>1570074

I'm not that familiar with /lit/'s tripfags. Why do you ask? Are you from Scotland too or something?

Country: UK
Nationality: Irish
Sex: Male
Education: At college
Top 5 Books: Metamorphosis, Notes from Underground, Egil's Saga, Good Omens, Crime and Punishment
Top 5 Movies: Don't have a top 5
Top 5 Albums: John Cage - Complete prepared piano, King Crimson - LTIA, Pink Floyd - Animals, Bartók String Quartets, Black Saint and the sinner lady - Charles Mingus
Life Experience: Not much.

>>1570080
He, Tom Harper, Brownbear are all from scotland and are fuck buddies. Also Shitty Leith fag, but Ty doesn't like him, and I'm not sure the rest do either. He doesn't seem to get involved in their group wanks as much.

In short, the tripfags are making the Scots look bad.

>>1570086

So >>1570074 is tybrax? Ohhhh.

Also, I agree about the shittiness of the tripfags you mentioned, I visit here often enough to know that. All tripfags as a rule are generally shitty but they take the fucking biscuit and make Scots seem like conceited pretentious wankers.

>>1570086
>>1570097
>these posts

Country: UK
Nationality: British
Sex: Male
Education: Undergrad (History)

Top 5 Books: Life and Fate (Vasily Grossman), Tropic of Cancer (Henry Miller), Pale Fire (Nabokov), The Brothers Karamazov (Dostoevsky), Alice in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)

Top 5 Movies: The Big Lebowski, Blue Velvet, Oldboy, Evil Dead 2, 300

Top 5 Albums: Blonde on Blonde (Bob Dylan), The Doors (The Doors), Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd), In On the Kill Taker (Fugazi), Tallahasee (The Mountain Goats)

Life Experience: Typical slacker

>>1570097

>make Scots seem like conceited pretentious wankers.

Nobody's mentioned it yet, but Truman Capote is also Scottish.

>>1570068

Bit of an outrage that it's listed alongside the unreadable mass of codswallop that is Finnegan's Wake, but otherwise everything looks to be in order.

>>1570108

I am nearly finished with Crime and Punishment now and I really enjoyed it, would you say I should read Brothers Karamazov too?

>>1570097
>Scots seem like conceited pretentious wankers.
It's better they're taking away from the fact most of you scots are fucking junkie wasters eating up Britains money. Welfare monkeys.

>>1570113
It's not like you've even read Finnegans Wake, but whatever.

Country: Brazil
Nationality: Brazilian
Sex: Male
Education: 2 year of medicine
Top 5 Books: War and Peace, The Picture of Dorian Gray, Illusions perdues, The Year of the Death of Ricardo Reis, Crime and Punishment
Top 5 Movies: Dead Man, Master and Commander, Somewhere, American Psycho, gone in 60 seconds
Top 5 Albums: ah fuck
Life Experience: travelled around the world in a boat

>>1570115

yessssss

I love both books, but The Brothers Karamazov really blew my mind. Broader scope and palette of characters, but just as intense throughout. Also if you finish that and are still hungry for more Dostoevsky, The Idiot is pretty great too.

Country: Canada
Nationality: WASP
Sex: Male
Education: College
Top 5 Books: The Trial, Things Fall Apart, The Culture Industry, Si Pres, Sartor Resartus
Top 5 Movies: Yashagaike, Lucifer Rising, Jordan Belson's Mysterious Journey, Flaming Creatures, The Heart of London
Top 5 Albums: The Pop Group - Y, タコ - 大全, Alvin Lucier - Music For Solo Performer, Half Japanese - Sing No Evil, The Normal - Warm Leatherette
Life Experience: Installation artist, musician, general slacker

>>1570118

No, I made an honest effort, but I couldn't read it. Truly seems like drivel. Disappointing as shit considering how much I loved Ulysses.

>>1570132

Thanks mate, gonna check them out then, heard that Brothers is somewhat religious thougt, is that right?

Country: USA
Nationality: Italian American
Sex: M
Education: College at the moment
Top 5 Books: Foundation, Count of Monte Cristo, Sherlock Holmes, World War Z, Lorax
Top 5 Movies: Hot Fuzz, Brick, Strangers on a Train, Goodfellas, Magnificant Seven
Top 5 Albums: Bob Dylan highway 61 revisited, beatles - rubber soul, pink floyd - wish you were here, miles davis - kind of lbue, holst - planets
Life Experience: dude wat

>Country:
United Kingdom
>Nationality:
Danish
>Sex:
Male
>Education:
Degree in economics

>Top 5 Books:
Martin A. Hansen - Løgneren
Herman Bang - Ved Vejen (or Stuk, can't decide)
Arthur Conan Doyle - Sherlock Holmes (all of them)
Steven Eriksson - The Malazan Book of the Fallen
George R R Martin - A Song of Ice and Fire

>Top 5 Movies:
Repo Man
Anything with Kevin Spacey
Mad Max 1
Juno
There will be blood

>Top 5 Albums:
Datarock - Datarock
David Bowie - Hunky Dory
Justice - Cross
Daft Punk - Discovery
Venetian Snares - Rossz Csillag Alatt Született

Probably not the most sophisticated list, but then again, to quote Klaus Nomi: "I AM A SIMPLE MAAAAAAAAN"

>Life Experience:
no drug addictions or anything special like that, just regular humdrum life and love of a young man.

>>1570133
Nice film choices there, anon
>Yashagaike
Do want

>>1570086
>>1570086
>Brownbear
>Scottish
oh u silly anon.

>>1570069
>>1570069
Tofu we have very similar music tastes, though i preferred 'supreme clientele' by GFK over fishscale haters gonna hate

mine:
Country: England
Nationality: English
Sex: Male
Education: Currently in University

Top 5 Books:
>Evelyn Waugh - A Handful of dust
>The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
>My Uncle Oswald - Rhoald Dhal
>William Burroughs - Naked Lunch
>Dan Brown - Digital Fortress
>Franz Kafka - The Trial
(yeah it's 6 i know)

Top 5 Movies:
>Man Bite Dog
>Pi
>Back to the Future
>Paris Texis
>Ferris Bueller's Day Off

Top 5 Albums:
>Astronautalis - Pomegranate
>De La Soul - 3 Feet High and Rising
>Mos Def - Black on Both Sides
>Dr Dre - The Chronic (2001 almost beats it)
>Jay-Z - The Blurprint

the music was hard to choose.

>>1570020
that guys opinion in hip hop is horrible. Just look at the fucking mu-essentials guide

http://mu-essentials.blogspot.com/2010/04/essential-hip-hop.html

Fuck.

>>1570229
too much backpacker, almost nothing from the south. spot on for /mu/

>>1570226
I listened to Fishscale first, and it was the first rap album (other that Straight Outta Compton) that I really loved. Supreme Clientele is excellent, Ironman is excellent, everything else I feel like I have make some excuses for like I'm a battered girlfriend or something (he was going through a rough time, he means well, etc.)

I prefer 2001, though. The first time I heard it, I thought it was a greatest hit CD.

I should have put the first Biggie Smalls album in there, too.

>>1570241
Honestly wasn't impressed by Fishscale, probably just because it's a Wu album though and it has to be compared to like Supreme Clientele and OB4CL and Liquid Swords and shit.

Have you listened to any of Ice Cube's solo shit? Amerikkka's Most Wanted is pretty good. Also, if you aren't into it check out some southern rap. Like, Geto Boys, UGK, that shit is awesome.

>>1570234
That's about it. If people want to get into hip hop, I tell them these:

Wu's 36 chambers
NWA Straight Outta Compton
Jay-Z's the Blueprint
Biggie Smalls' Ready to DIe
Tupac's Me Against The World

That's enough to get you started

And maybe that first Kanye album, depending on my mood.

>>1570252
I would add Illmatic to that list. but yeah pretty much.

>>1570248
I dunno, I think that Fishscale is the best thing out of Wu since that era. I haven't bothered with Cuban Linx 2 or Wu Massacre, so I can't say I'm totally on top of it, but that's my opinion. I like the song the Champ.

I remember liking Amerikkka's Most Wanted, and I remember pronouncing it Ameri-kah-kah-kah's most Wanted. I haven't heard of any of that other shit you were talking about, but I liked the Bun-B verse off the remix to Paper Planes by MIA and getting one of his albums, don't remember being crazy about it. Oh, and Chamillionaire is cute.

>>1570264
Cuban Links 2 was pretty good. I should really give Fishscale another listen, though.

I really recommend checking out Geto Boys, they're seriously up there on the highest level. Really great stuff.

>>1570226

Nice movie selection. Pi was fucking awesome! Good to see someone who liked it too :)

>>1570260
I was gonna say that, but I forgot. If I put Kayne in there, I have to put Nas in.

give me a song to look up on youtube and i'll go from there

Country: Scotland
Nationality: Scottish/Eastern European
Sex: Male
Education: Applying to University

Top 5 Books:
>1984 - Orwell
>The Road - McCarthy
>Amerika - Kafka
>A Clockwork Orange - Burgess
>Moby Dick - Melville

Top 5 Movies:
>Moon
>Pulp Fiction
>The Shining
>Trainspotting
>Fight Club

Top 5 Albums:
>Elbow - Seldom Seen Kid
>Wild Beasts - Two Dancers
>Neutral Milk Hotel - In The Aeroplane Over The Sea
>Captain Beefheart & His Magic Band - Trout Mask Replica
>Radiohead - OK Computer

>>1570277
G-Code and Mind Playing Tricks on Me

Also, they had Still and Damn It Feels Good To Be A Gangsta on the office space soundtrack which are both pretty okay tracks that you might know

Country: USA
Nationality: White? Irish heritage (third generation)
Sex: M
Education: Some college (poli-sci student)
Top 5 Books: Brideshead Revisited, Man Who Was Thursday, LotR, GR, Little Big
Top 5 Movies: Repo Man, Chinatown, They Live, Casablanca,
Top 5 Albums: Let It Be (Replacements). Double Nickels On The Dime, Queen Is Dead, Ready To Die, Running Jumping Standing Still (1969 folk-rock masterpiece from Willie Murphy and Spider John Koerner)

Country: UK
Nationality: American
Sex: Male
Education: Studying for MA in Literature
Top 5 Books: Ada Or Ardor, Cat's Cradle, Miracle of the Rose, The Savage Detectives, Age of Iron
Top 5 Movies: Dumb and Dumber, Cool Hand Luke, Apocalypse Now, Beerfest, Anchorman
Top 5 Albums: too many to list
Life Experience: Travelled a lot, worked in restaurants or as a teacher mostly. Now living in England, back in school.

Country: United States of America
Nationality: American / This means anything and everything
Sex: Plenty
Education: High School, current part-time student at a Community College

Top 5 books:
There are so fucking many, but if I had to pick:
Les Miserables
The Brothers Karamazov
Cloud Atlas
Crime and Punishment
For Whom the Bell Tolls

Top 5 movies:
Again, there are so fucking many, but having to choose:

Amores Perros
The Departed
City of God
The Social Network
The Secret in Their Eyes

Top 5 albums:
Don't listen to enough music to cite five albums. Sorry.

Life Experience: Nonya beezwax.

Country: Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Sex: Male
Education: Dropped out of high school, currently doing nothing.

Top 5 Books:
No Longer Human
The Dice Man
Rashōmon and Seventeen Other Stories
Franz Kafka's The Complete Short Stories
The Divine Comedy

Top 5 Movies:
A Beautiful Mind
The Royal Tenenbaums
Ghost in the Shell
K-PAX
Monty Python's Life of Brian

Top 5 Albums:
Black Sabbath - Seventh Star
Deep Purple - Fireball
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music I
Kojima Mayumi - a musical biography 2001-2007
OGRE YOU ASSHOLE - Ogre You Asshole

Life Experience: I could write a rather long book which none of you would likely ever read, because nobody wants to sit and read about a guy complaining how shit his life was for a few hundred pages.

>scots are fucking junkie wasters eating up Britains money. Welfare monkeys.
>disproportionate number of scots on literature board
i see it.

MURRIKA
EUROPEAN AMERICAN BEST AMERICAN
MALE
COLLEGE DEGREE
TOP 5 BOOKS:
Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire
Joseph Heller's Catch 22
War and Peace
Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series
Michael Chabon's Yiddish Policemen's Union
MOVIES
BIG LEBOWSKI
FULL METAL JACKET
STAR TREK WRATH OF KHAN
CANT THINK OF ANY MORE CRAP

Country: México
Nationality: Mexican
Sex: Male
Education: Studying literature
Top 5 Books: As I Lay Dying, The Death of Artemio Cruz, Imperium, On the Road, Anna Karenina
Top 5 Movies: Stalker, Zerkalo, Woman in the Dunes, Pierrot le Fou, Winter Light
Top 5 Albums: Rain Dogs, Swordfishtrombones, The Black Rider, Songs of Leonard Cohen, Pink Moon
Life Experience: growing up as a boring middle class alienated individual in a growingly industrialised irrelevant city

>Country:
England
>Nationality:
English/Dutch
>Sex:
Male
>Education:
2nd year of A Levels
>Top 5 Books: (This was hard. I will probably disagree with myself by tomorrow morning.)
A Scanner Darkly - Philip K Dick
Collected Poems - W.B. Yeats
Down and Out in Paris and London - George Orwell
Dirk Gently's Holistic Detective Agency - Douglas Adams
The Secret Agent - Joseph Conrad
>Top 5 Movies: (I need to branch out from the Coens)
Fargo
Miller's Crossing
Sunset Boulevard
No Country for Old Men
Alien
>Top 5 Albums:
Huge Chrome Cylinder Box Unfolding - Venetian Snares
Vauxhall and I - Morrissey
Oversteps - Autechre
OK Computer - Radiohead
The Suburbs - Arcade Fire
>Life Experience:
Not very much really. Just turned 18, grew up in a family of Moonies . . . the usual.

Country: England, United Kingdom
Nationality: British
Sex: Male
Education: A-levels (full A2)-Music, Literature and Histroy-A Grade. Politics-A* Grade. Currently studying PPE at Oxford
Top 5 Books: Hamlet, The Picture of Dorian Gray, The Prince, King James Bible
Top 5 Movies: Star Wars: Episode 6, Dodgeball, The Godfather I, Pokemon: the first movie (haters gonna hate: watched that shit when I was young and I still watch it for nostalgia)
Top 5 Albums: Don't really care for music, and I don't buy albums, but my top 5 musicians would have to be: Ludovico Einaudi, Chopin, Daft Punk and Madonna (again, haters gonna hate)
Life Experience: Oh, boy. I went to a comprehensive school in a pretty rough neighborhood which I attribute to why Oxford took me, I can ski, play the piano and clarinet, strike up a conversation with anyone, have no emotional or mental fears or worries, and I can cook.

Country: Finland
Nationality: ...
Sex: M
Education: High school (going into university soon, majoring in psychology.)
Top 5 Books:
1. Slaughterhouse 5
2. Complete Short Stories of Kafka
3. Catch 22
4. The Stranger
5. Life of Pi (not an actual fave, I'm just feeling it right now)

Top 5 Movies:
1. Pulp Fiction
2. The Usual Suspects
3. Forrest Gump for shizzle
4. True Norwegian Black Metal, yeah the document.
5. One Flew Over the Cuckoo's Nest

Top 5 Albums:
1. 36 Chambers, Enter the Wu-tang - Wu-Tang Clan
2. Moment of Truth - Gang Starr
3. Illmatic - NaS
4. Go - Dexter Gordon
5. Any Sinatra

Life Experience:
Good so much. Exchange year right now and it's going great.

>>1570477

>Education: A-levels (full A2)-Music, Literature and Histroy-A Grade. Politics-A* Grade. Currently studying PPE at Oxford

>Currently studying PPE at Oxford

Bullshit. I remember you in a thread about universities a few months back, saying you wanted to do PPE at Oxford but you weren't sure if you'd fare well with the A-Levels you were taking (those exact A-levels). It hasn't reached September yet so you haven't got your A-Level results and you're definitely not at Oxford.

Don't deny it, weasel boy.

>>1570478
>True Norwegian Black Metal
Oh no, not that one! I thought the filmmakers were more interested in filming themselves. "Blah blah blah, we had to walk for such a long time, I was only wearing this" and so on. And then it said NME described Gaahl as the most evil man in the world - it said he was the most evil man in metal... slight difference. Terrible doc in my opinion, but each to their own. I respect your views.

>>1570488
What? I believe you've mistaken me for someone else.

>>1570497

Nope. I've got the right guy.

>>1570502
Your trolling is a little strong.

Country:
The Netherlands
Nationality:
Dutch
Sex:
Male
>Education:
Currently majoring Business
>Top 5 Books:
The Trial by Franz Kafka
The Moon is a Harsh Mistress by Robert A. Heinlein
Have Spacesuit--Will Travel by Robert A. Heinlein
The Forever War by Joe Haldeman
Life, The Universe and Everything by Douglas Adams
>Top 5 Movies:
The Lion King
Back to the Future
Starship Troopers
The Departed
Ferris Bueller's Day Off
>Top 5 Albums:
My Beautiful Dark and Twisted Fantasy by Kanye West
MMHMM by Relient K
Aim and Ignite by fun.
Pet Sounds by The Beach Boys
The Marshall Mathers LP by Eminem
>Life Experience:
Have had a million different jobs. Good at sports, have a girlfriend. Used to be pretty hiki and dropped out of college, now got my life back on track. Some daddy issues.

>>1570504

Hush, slimy lying weasel child. I've caught you out and you know it.

>>1570490
I agree, the other filmer or w/e was really fucking annoying, but I still found the document interesting. I've never been a real fan of black metal or metal and I had lots of prejudices against metalheads. The document gave me a new viewing point to that lifestyle and I actually sort of identify to some of the dudes. Oh well, the entertainment factor also probably added to my admiring of the doc.

>Country:
Scotland

>Nationality:
English

>Sex:
Male

>Education:n/a

>Top 5 books:
Paradise Lost - Milton
Lolita - Nabokov
Les Chants de Maldoror - Lautréamont
Alice in Wonderland - Carroll
Justine - Sade

>Top 5 movies:
Ordet - Carl Th. Dreyer
The Mirror - Andrei Tarkovsky
Marketa Lazarová - Frantisek Vlácil
Werckmeister Harmonies - Béla Tarr
Funeral Parade of Roses - Toshio Matsumoto
>Top 5 Albums:
Swans are Dead - Swans
Meaningless Leaning Mess - Bone Awl
Senzuri Power Up - The Gerogerigegege
Ballade cuntre lo Anemi francor - Peste Noire
Sleep has his House - Current 93

>Life Experience: Dropped out of school at 14, no friends, nowhere to go.

>>1570150
>heard that Brothers is somewhat religious

Almost all of Dostoevsky's stuff is. It's probably heavier in TBK than C&P but if you were able to handle it in the latter then I encourage you to try the former.

Country: USA
Nationality: Hybrid child of immigrant and Apple Pie American
Sex: Male
Education: Several years of college

>Top 5 Books: (in no particular order)

Crime and Punishment - Dostoevsky
Moscow to the End of the Line - Erofeev
The Death of Ivan Ilyich - Tolstoy
The Stranger - Camus
Diary of a Madman - Gogol

>Top 5 Movies:

Taxi Driver
Jacob's Ladder
Stalingrad
Dumb and Dumber
The Thing

>Top 5 Albums:

Aggressor - And One
Sgt. Pepper's - The Beatles
The Wall - Pink Floyd
The Downward Spiral - NIN
For the Millions - Leningrad

Life Experience: Pretty sheltered suburban childhood as a kid, then a multitude of factors altered my life and caused me to move to a new location almost once a year. Left me pretty depressed for a while. Currently trying to enjoy life for what it is but can be difficult at times.

Country: England
Nationality: English
Sex: Male
Education: A Level, now doing Foundation Degree in Music
Top 5 Books:
Harry Potter (J. K. Rowling)
Musicophilia (Oliver Sacks)
With The Old Breed (E. B. Sledge)
1984 (Orwell)
V For Vendetta (graphic novel, Alan Moore, David Lloyd)

Top 5 Movies:
V For Vendetta
John Rabe
The Pianist
Bean: The Movie
GoldenEye

Top 5 Albums:
Machine Head - The Blackening
Pearl Jam - Ten
Arch Enemy - Doomsday Machine
Eluveitie - Slania
Trivium - Ascendancy

Life Experience: I've never broken a bone.

>>1570488
>>1570502
>>1570510
are you really that retarded lol

THIS THREAD = PROOF THAT EVERYONE HERE READS THE SAME SHIT.

>>1572240
uh maybe that's why we all post here?? so we can talk about things we've read??? retard???

Country: Wales

Nationality: British

Sex: Male

Education: GCSE's
English Lit = A
English Lan = B
The rest C's And i am currently doing A levels In English Lit Media and Film studies.

Top 5 books=
The Catcher in the Rhy
The cement garden
To Kill a mockin bird
1984
The Great Ghatsby.

Top 5 movies=
The Godfather Trillogy (Kinda counts as 1 film)
Hallowenn (John Carpenters not Rob Zombies)
Raging Bull
Apocolypse now
Night of the living dead 1960

Top 5 albums=
Nevermind -- Nirvana
Mothership -- Led zepplin
Death Magnetic -- Metalica
Toxicity -- System of a down
Contra -- Vampire weekend
(I know i have a very varied music taste)
Take into considaration im 17!!!

>>1572256
you . whoah. come back in a year when you're 18, kid. maybe you'll have developed a better taste in literature and music by then. and you'll also be able to post here without breaking the RULES

Country: Scotland
Nationality: Scottish
Sex: Male
Education: Uni studying journalism
Top 5 Books:
>The Stranger
>Neuromancer
>The Sun Also Rises
>Crime and Punishment
>The Possibility of an Island
Top 5 Movies:
>Anything disney, i dont watch em anymore
Top 5 Albums:
>Whyblissdestroy - Sucioperro
>The Vertigo of Bliss - Biffy Clyro
>The Faded Reveries - Foundation Hope
>Deathconsciousness - Have A Nice Life
>Le Pré Où Je Suis Mort - Le Pré Où Je Suis Mort
Life Experience: Who cares about that

>>1572255
THERE IS A LOT MORE LITERATURE THAN DOSTOEVSKY, 1984, LOLITA, AND THE HANDFUL OF THE OTHER SAME BULLSHIT POSTED EVERY DAY.

>>1572266
IT'S THE SAME SHIT EVERYONE ELSE HERE TALKS ABOUT. LEAVE HIM ALONE FAGGOT.

Country: Russia
Nationality: russian
Sex: Male
Education: University - Economics
Top 5 Books:
>The Gift - V. Nabokov
>War and Peace - L. Tolstoy
>We - E.Zamyatin
>Scanner Darkly - P.Dick
>and all that shit about Fire and Ice by G.Martin
Top 5 Movies:
>Waking Life
>Jarhead
>bunch of old soviet movies you probably never heard of.
Top 5 Albums:
>Library tapes - Summer Beneath The Trees
>Tom Waits - Rain Dogs
>Swod - Gehen
>classic
Life Experience: just a regular russian guy (well-read maybe) freezing my ass off in a small town near moscow.

>Country:
UK

>Nationality:
English

>Sex:
Male

>Education:
Currently doing A Level's

>5 books:
Catcher In The Rye
Three Musketeers
A Clockwork Orange
Fear & Loathing In Las Vegas
On The Road

>5 Movies:
Back To The Future
Taxi Driver
Fight Club
Princess Mononoke
Trainspotting

>5 Albums:
Nevermind - Nirvana
What Will We Be - Devendra Banhart
Vision Creation Newsun - Boredoms
Loveless - My Bloody Valentine
Welcome To SKy Valley - Kyuss

>Life Experience:
I'm yet to have one worth mentioning

Country: England
Nationality:English
Sex:Male
Education: A levels, debating university
Top 5 Books: On the road, potrait of the artist, blood meridian, American gods, the wasp factory
Top 5 Movies: The big lebowski, fight club, A scanner darkly, snatch, Dogma
Top 5 Albums: Death is silent - Kno of cunninlynguists, Seven's travels - Atmosphere, I'm new here - Gil scott Heron, Treats - Sleigh bells, the '59 sound - Gaslight anthem
Life Experience: typical white middle class upbringing shaded with sporadic violence and general fuckedupness, now planning on roughing it for a few years to cut my teeth.

Oh we're doing this survey then?

Country:US/China
Nationality:Osage Injun/ Mick
Sex:Bro
Education:BA-political science
Top 5 Books: Orlando, Hard Boiled Wonderland, This Side of Paradise, All the Pretty Horses, A Hero of Our Time
Top 5 Movies: The Royal Tenenbaums, There Will Be Blood, 2046, A Tale of Two Sisters, Lost in Translation
Top 5 Albums: Streethawk: A Seduction (Destroyer), On the Ground (Peasant), Kairos (White Hinterland), The Monitor (Titus Andronicus), Turn It Up Faggot (Deerhunter)
Life Experience: This one time I got dumped and it was sad.

Country: Sweden
Nationality: Swedish
Sex: Female
Education: Bachelor's degree in computer linguistics
Top 5 Books: "The Kindly Ones" by Littell, "The Grapes of Wrath" by Steinbeck, "War and Peace" by Tolstoy, "Remembrance of Things Past" by Proust and "One Hundred Years of Solitude" by Márquez.
Top 5 Movies: "Midnight Cowboy", "2011: A Space Odyssey", "Apocalypse Now", "Deer Hunter" and "Spirited Away".
Top 5 Albums: Albums are hard. But some top artists are Bob Dylan, Nick Cave, Leonard Cohen and Björk.
Life Experience: ...

>>1572557
I also do like less pretentious stuff, but the classics are classics for a reason

>>1572553
how often does it rain in china?

>>1572568
it doesn't rain in china, all of the water would fall off into space

>>1572571
without rain they cant wash the dirt from their skin. that's why we call them coloured people

>>1572568
What kind of question is that? It's a big country with a huge variety of climate regions.

The weather where I live is about like where you live, I imagine. Gray and shitty and damp with occasional rain. It's balls hot in the summer though.

Country: Netherlands
Nationality: British
Sex: Male
Education: BA (hons) English Lit
Top 5 Books: Novels: The New York Trilogy, The Sun Also Rises, Wise Blood, The Road, Gargantua and Pantagruel
Top 5 Movies: 2001 A Space Odyssey, Casino, The Maltese Falcon, Dogma, Fargo
Top 5 Albums: Velocifero - Ladytron, Surfer Rosa - The Pixies, Dig, Lazarus, Dig - Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds, Ole - John Coltrane, Suites for Cello - Bach
Life Experience: I speak 4 languages (nearly 5), and I've lived in 8 countries since I left home, I can play piano, cook, and I had three fights as a professional boxer. I can scuba dive, and I've been attacked by a zebra.

>>1570264
>>1570264

definately one of the best, GFK really did a lot better than Raekwon :/ Cuban Linx 2 was alright, but not a scratch on the first.

GZA- Liquid Swords is pretty boss.
i've never heard any Amerikkka's most wanted must give em a listen.

>>1572596
lol @ you responding to this 2 days after the initial discussion

liquid swords IS pretty boss. it was the first rap album that i ever listened to, it got me into rap. a lot of the production is just ridiculous. the problem is that now i can't help feeling that it's a little bit dorky, you know? like, it's trying to be conscious or shit like that.

and it's hard for ANY album to be as good as OB4CL because that's one of the best albums ever

>>1572582
tell us about the zebra

>>1572596
Hay BB I see you like astronautalis. I don't really know his stuff but a good friend of mine is doing a show with him soon and this is the only time I've ever heard of him aside from said friend mentioning said show so I felt like telling you about it.

/lit/'s taste in music is almost as shit as /mu/. Film is decent, but only when shit that's obvious.

>>1572612
actually i have the best music taste hth

>>1572606

It bit me on the neck - I was looking at this dead zebra (you don't see many dead animals without another animal eating on it), and I'd got out of the LandCruiser for a better look, when one of his mates came hooning over and bit me in the neck. It hurt like a motherfucker since you ask, and I high-tailed it back to the cruiser. In truth, I was glad it was only another zebra - a corpse that big in the serengeti is bound to attract lions. It was a pretty stupid thing to do.

>>1572616

a fox once bit my ear. it's actually true.

Country: Canada
Nationality: Swiss & Irish
Sex: Male
Education: In College (1st Year)
Top 5 Books: 1984, The Princess of Brundi, On The Road, Junky, Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas
Top 5 Movies: True Grit w/John Wayne, Grindhouse, Equilibrium, V for Vendetta, Memento
Top 5 Albums: Revolutionary Vol 2 (Immortal Technique), War Is The Answer (Five Finger Death Punch), Mutants (J. Dahlback), Doe or Die (AZ)

>>1572622

As well as being bit by a zebra, I once got threatened by squirrels - I was walking home from this casino I worked at and it was about 5am, and dark. I heard this rustling from a bin, and then about 15 squirrels all jumped out of the bin, meat still stuck between their teeth, and they fucking surrounded me, that was pretty scary, till they fucked off.

Oh, and I also saw a fox with a McDonald's bag, walking around with it in her teeth, and whenver she found anything tasty, she'd put it in the bag, presumably to take back to the cubs. One of the cutest and most awesome things I ever saw. I don't know if she was saving the toys from the happy meals, but I like to think that in their den, the cubs had a full set of power rangers or something.

>>1572616
>>1572622
>>1572627
I was bitten by a bear and that bear was subsequently struck by lightning and that is, in fact, a true story.
>>1572612
critique my music tastes.

Country: USA
Nationality: Korean American
Sex: Male
Education: 4yr degree in Poli Sci.
Top 5 Books: Don Quixote, Hunger, The Silent Cry, Les Miserables, The Brothers Karamazov (Maybe Siddhartha should be in this list.)
Top 5 Movies: Brazil, Spirited Away, Apocalypse Now, Vertigo, the Trial
Top 5 Albums: Maisky's performance of Bach's cello suites. Rubsam's performances of Bach organ works. Pinnock's performances of Bach's concertos (and harpsichord material). Tomaso Albinoni's complete concertos. Dnd lastly the Floyd's Dark Side Over the Moon.
Life Experience:
29 years.

>>1572633

My father-in-law was struck by lightning playing golf in florida - he said it was really weird, and he could smell tomatoes for about a week afterwards.

I don't believe you though, Mr. W00F, I think you're fibbing. I really was bitten by a zebra and threatened by squirrels though.

I also got bitten by a horse at a zoo in England, but that was my own fault for sticking my fingers throuhg the bars. And I got terrified by a giant tortoise when I was a kid, because I thought it was just a big rock and when it started to move, I flipped my teeny tiny shit.

I've never been very lucky with animals - a sheep once scared me so badly that I weed on myself (admittedly, I was having a piss in a field at the time, but that's another story)

>>1570176
thanks! karagarga has a copy of yashagaike if you're interested

>>1572652
I stepped on a lizard once

>>1572689

Eww, did it squish?

>>1572691
No, I was barefoot and walking slowly so it was fine.

>>1572557
>>Sex: Female
no girls on the internet
also, tolstoy kicks dostoyevsky's ass

United States of America

American

Male

Some College (3 Years of Engineering, likely going to Philosophy/Poli Sci)

The Virtue of Selfishness, Mind Hacks, How to Stay Alive in the Woods, The Stand, A Case of Need.

The Godfather, Moon, The Usual Suspects, Instinct, Jaws

LSD Roma (Nino Rota), Requiem For a Dream Soundtrack (Clint Mansell), The Fat of the Land (Prodigy), Double Bubble (Stereo MC's), Shipwrecked Soundtrack (Patrick Doyle)

Woot!

>>1572697
It didn't even bite me or anything, it just skittered away

>>1572581
do you live near Chengdu

Country: USA
Nationality: American
Sex: Female
Education: I'm in my third year of college
Top 5 Books: On the Road, At Swim Two Boys, Catcher in the Rye, The Road, Dracula
Top 5 Movies: Tommy, The Big Lebowski, Donnie Darko, Maria Full of Grace, Velvet Goldmine
Top 5 Albums: Quadrophinia, Physical Graffiti, Revoler, The Wall, Highway 61
Life Experience: The only really interesting thing that has happened to me is that I was run over by a car when I was 16

>>1572709

Restaurant worker (Read: Delivery Driver/Barback), middling entrepreneur and aspiring aviator/radio personality/United States Marine. I aim to become something of a Jack of All Trades when all is said and done.

>>1572723
hey, me too! except i was 14. this is actually true.

Country: UK (England)
Nationality: English/ Irish
Sex: Male
Education: 4 A Levels in Finance, Economics, Business and English Language, never went to University.
Top 5 Books: LOTR, Brave New World, A Clockwork Orange, Catch-22, HP Lovecraft's Short Stories (not really a book though)
Top 5 Movies: Akira, American Beauty, District 9, Aliens, A Clockwork Orange
Top 5 Albums: Crack The Skye (Mastodon), 2112 (Rush), Dark Side of the Moon (Pink Floyd), From Mars to Sirius (Gojira), S&M (Metallica)
Life Experience: (Relatively) wealthy upbringing, did well at school and college, but still underachieved, vowed to be a better person after my mum died, but still lurk 4chan.

>>1572266
/lit/ isn't an 18+ board, but chances are high that this guy goes on other boards that are 18+

>>1572754
this sounds really interesting. how were you a bad person, what are you doing to become a better one and how are you doing?

>>1572786
I've always coasted through life, committed a dozen or so petty crimes during my teenage years and spent about three years after college doing nothing because I didn't need a job to get money, when my mum died, we fell into a fair bit of debt and I realised that I needed to start supporting the family financially (I'm the oldest child, I have some responsibility) and I started going out and looking for work, I'm working with a finance advisory firm at the moment as an intern, pay's poor, but I'm going to get a proper job there once this guy retires at the end of April.

>>1572764
>/lit/ isn't an 18+ board
lol

Global Rules - 2
If you are under the age of 18, or it is illegal for you to view the materials contained on this website, discontinue browsing immediately.

>>1572803
Really? In which case, the front page is misleading, but I retract my previous comment nonetheless.

>>1570450

I'm guessing you're pretty oldfag, dutchboy...

USA
Caucasian
Female
Finishing BFA degree in the summer
Books:
1. IT
2. Neuromancer
3. Harriet The Spy
4. The Watsons go to Birmingham
5. Nightmares and Dreamscapes

Movies:
1. The Thing
2. The Ebola Syndrome
3. Sky High
4. Velvet Goldmine
5. Thirteen

Albums:
1. Orgy-Candyass
2. Orgy- Vapor Transmission
3. Dead Inside the Chrysalis- Fallout Freaks
4. Alkaline Trio- From Here to Infirmary
5. Senses Fail- Still Searching

>>1572825
Oh and life experience: Recovering sex addict battling suicidal thoughts and probably never going to be in a relationship again for the rest of my life.

>>1572825

Wow. You have awful taste. You better be hot, or there's little hope for you.

>>1572836
Totally, because listing my 5 faves enables you instantly to know my worth as a person. Jackass.

>>1572828
Keep your chin up--You can get what you want out of life if you work hard enough on it.

>>1572844
you have a point but you do however also have horrible taste

>>1572836
>

>>1572825
age?

reposting:
do girls, on average, have worse /lit/ than boys? and why?

>>1572844

Pretty much - people aren't as complicated as they like to think they are, and when someone lists 5 things they like, they're not actually telling you five things they like, they're putting their personality in the window - saying "look at me, this is who I am" - that's why people always say they're reading The Brothers Karamazov at the moment, they're either fucking slow readers, or they're telling us something about themselves that they think is cool. Your shop-window is like a butchers with no airco, it's just offputting and unpleasant.

So, are you hot or not?

>>1572859
23.

I don't know any other girls who read daily like I do....or any guys who do the same, for that matter. Haven't been on /lit/ much because I'm not huge on discussing canonical literature, so I can't tell if there's any disparity between the sexes here.

>>1572862
I really don't care if it's unpleasant to you, sonny. I based the list off things I enjoy immensely, not things that would impress others. And you will never know what I look like, because you're rude.

Country: UK

Nationality: English

Sex: Femanon

Education: Undergrad Cambridge.

Top 5 Books:
Jude the Obscure
The Faerie Queen
Far from the Madding Crowd
Game of Thrones
Frankenstein

Top 5 Movies:
Shallow Grave
The Wicker Man
The Black Cauldron
Withnail & I
Juno

Top 5 Albums:
Graceland- Paul Simon
Aeroplane over the Sea- Neutral Milk Hotel (suck it)
Peaceful, the World Lays Me Down- Noah and the Whale
Vampire Weekend- Vampire Weekend
Soviet Kitsch- Regina Spektor

Life Experience:
Nothing. I'm a baby. You probably just looked at my lists as went 'meh. average'. I was a nerdy girl with ridiculous reading speed at school and now I'm a poor nerdy girl with bags under my eyes at university.

>>1572876

Of course I'm rude - but you secretly love it.

>Dead Inside the Chrysalis- Fallout Freaks

I don't even know what that means, but it sounds horrible,

>>1572633

Cookie cutter indie kid (samefag as before)

>>1572909
critique mine. don't use the term 'hipster'.

>>1572888
>Graceland- Paul Simon

I am prepared to have sex with you. I can drive to Cambridge in about 2 hours.

What say you.

>>1572903
You're not getting away with anything, but seem to think you are. Odd.
DITC was an australian band, fronted by the illustrious Manek Deboto and his lobster-cock Caruso, who can communicate with his Pet Alien Hand.

>>1572915
>I am prepared to have sex with you.
that's not a compliment to someone you filthy neckbeard slimy pig

>>1572917
I was aiming for a complisult.

>>1572912

Reasonable diversity, nothing particularly distinctive. Nothing to spark my enthusiasm but it seems like you're interested enough to listen to different genres but at the same time not invested enough to really dig deep for any of it.

>>1572919

I'm mildly disturbed but you did serve to remind me I'm on 4chan. So thanks for that.

>>1572925

But you like Graceland. I LOVE Graceland. Surely that means we were meant to be together?

Come on. It all makes sense.

Don't look at me like I'm the crazy one.

Guys, back me up on this.

Guys...guys....hello? Is this thing on?

>>1572916

>You're not getting away with anything

Don't know what that means, but I think I'm falling in love with you now. I suspect that the rest of what you said was trolling, although I'm prepared to accept that they may be Ausfags.

So, you fancy getting together? We can spend the evening talking about how we both like Neuromancer, but how everything you like sucks, and then you can tell me how amazing I am, and how awesome everything I like is, and how you were wrong about everything.

>Country
Peru
>Nationality
Peruvian
>Sex
Male
>Education
Currently Law major.
>Books
01. The Aleph / Jorge Luis Borges
02. Never Let Me Go / Kazuo Ishiguro
03. Three Men in a Boat / Jerome K. Jerome
04. V. / Thomas Pynchon
05. The Sun Also Rises / Ernest Hemingway
>Movies
01. Yojimbo
02. The White Ribbon
03. The Spirit of the Beehive
04. Escape from New York
05. I Walked with a Zombie
>Albums
01. the Avalanches - Since I Left You
02. Mission of Burma - Vs.
03. the Cure - Disintegration
04. David Bowie - Low
05. Portishead - Dummy
>Life Experience
Rich spoiled brat reporting. Worked a number of part-time jobs. Represented country in World Debate Championship in South Korea. Was a rave kid and druggie roughly three years ago at this time. Currently I study and work part-time at a quasi-erotic bookstore that sells comics on the side.

I wonder if there are other Peruvians here. Most likely not.

>>1572951
>the Avalanches - Since I Left You

I am prepared to have sex with you. I can fly to Peru in about 17 hours.

What say you?

>Country: USA
>Nationality: American
>Sex: male
>Education: finished BS, studied computer science and biology, a little grad but quit after a year&half
>Top 5 Books:
The Brothers Karamazov
The Master and Margarita
The Heart is a Lonely Hunter
A Confession and Other Religious Writings (Tolstoy)
Probably some computer science books -- Cormen's Algorithms and Knuth.
>Top 5 Movies: This ones hard because I like a lot of movies, but here goes
Amelie
Let the Right One In
Badlands
Casablanca
Anything by Wes Anderson
Top 5 Albums: This one's hard too
Bob Dylan
The Wrens
The Unicorns
Spoon
Wolf Parade
John Holt
And at the moment: Beach Fossils, Twin Sister, Soft Powers, a some other stuff
Life Experience: I've moved around a lot. I grew up in Hawaii, uni in Chicago, and now I'm living in Los Angeles county. But I've yet to get a girlfriend, obviously because I lurk 4chan obviously.

>>1572958

I say bring it on. Since I Left You is my favorite album ever ever.

Did you post your info anywhere in this thread?

>>1572971
No, I didn't but you're right in that it's one of the best albums ever.

So many other musicians in the same genre try to get that layered, soundscape type feeling to their music and the only ones who genuinely manage to carry me away to a different place are the Avalanches, Junior Boys and Burial.

I was just kidding since I'm too busy to fly to Peru, but one day I will come and I will have sex with you sir, for you are a Great Man with capital letters.

>>1572967
>Badlands

DAT CARL ORRF SAMPLED SOUNDTRACK OMG AND DAT CINEMATOGRAPHY.

I am also prepared to have sex with you.

>>1572979

Oh good sir I am aware that you were kidding. But Burial's Untrue is an amazing album as well. I'll have to check out these Junior Boys you speak of. Thank you for the capital compliments.

>>1572967
you read godel escher bach?

>>1572987
Begin with Last Exit and proceed from there, although I think it's their best one. I'm sure you'll absolutely love it since you like Untrue and Since You Left Me.

http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=8PhSpJppLu4

For a taster.

>>1572971

That's excellent. I almost never see the Avalanches get any love. Definitely in the top five of all fucking time.

>>1572989
I started reading it, but I never finished it. Not that it was boring, just a hard read. I will tackle it some day, though.

>>1572949
It means you think you're charming. I have no idea what you mean by getting together, and shall disregard it along with your hypothetical everything-i-like-sucks conversation.
Oh, and not trolling. The Pet Alien Hand exists. It is the Modem, the Way to conversion.

>>1572923
im still young but i liked your critique thx.

>>1572998
But they only have one good song... "Since i left you i found the world so new"

>>1573031

I think the whole album is good. You need to listen to all of it, though. It's not the kind of album you can really split into individual songs other than Since I Left You, Frontier Psychiatrist and maybe one or two others.

>>1573050
oh wait, that's right Frontier Psychiatrist is pretty good too. But seriously, that's it.

>>1572951

What kind of debate did you do?

inb4 parli or LF

>>1572813
Well, I started browsing 4chan in the summer of 2010. I don't really know at point you become an oldfag. What made me seem oldfag out of interest?

>>1572998
thanks for adding me isabelle.

xX

Country: Britain
Nationality: Much too long of a story
Sex: Male
Education: BSc (Just about scraped a 2:2 with a few well applied blow jobs)
Top 5 Books: Count of Monte Cristo, Kafka on the Shore, Everything by David Gemmell, Everything by Modesitt Jr. (I'm a cheat.)
Top 5 Movies: Le Diner De Cons, Groundhog Day, Annie Hall/Manhattan, Drunken Master 2, Schindler's List
Top 5 Albums: Graceland, Last Exit, Complete Works of Handel, Complete Works of Duke Ellington, Complete Works of William Elliot Whitmore. (I know I'm still cheating.)
Life Experience: Grew up in a tiny countryside village, moved to a huge metropolis at the age of 14 with the naivety and innocence of a much younger boy, spent my teens consuming media, barely finished my degree before doing a series of unrelated jobs, wasted a few years feeling sorry for myself and now I travel around the country as a stand up comedian opening for more experienced stand up comics. Shit is going alright.

>>1573056

It's a combo of British Parliamentary and Australian. Prop introduces, three speakers for each side, Op rebukes, conclusions. Or so I believe. It's been a while.

Why?

>>1573053

I like them all. Listen to Electricity or Summer Crane. If you don't like them we can just agree to disagegskrhgnd.

>>1573067

Ninguna razon en particular.

Nadamas que hay algo de rivalidad entre los debatientes que practican diferentes estilos aqui en EE.UU. I'm a policyfag btw.

Saludos hermano o hermana del continente!

>>1573073

Are you familiar with Herbert's album Scale?

>>1573080
>Ninguna razon en particular.
>Saludos hermano o hermana del continente!

I love how I've never studied your language and I know exactly what these two lines mean.

>>1573083

Yes! I need to listen to it more but it is quite godly.

Electronicfags are druggies that care more about the *sound* and trendiness radiating from music than the composition and creativity.

>>1573107
>care more about the *sound*
Holy *shit* people caring about sound in music

>>1573107

Aren't you the kid who called himself a "teenage Antichrist"?

Okay then.

>>1573107
Oh god, here we go. Please ignore him guys :(

>>1573116
i purposefully put *s there so an idiot like you wouldnt jump on it without understanding. oops. also get back to being the smallest of the big fish in that philo thread dude.

>>1573122
>

>>1573107
>TyBrax
>know shit about music
lol this is a new one

Country: UK
Nationality: Canadian
Sex: Male
Education: Public School
Top 5 Books: 1. Lolita - Vladimir Nabokov
2. Revolutionary Road - Richard Yates
3. Solaris - Stanislaw Lem
4. Gravity's Rainbow - Thomas Pynchon
5. On The Road - Jack Kerouac
Top 5 Movies: 1. Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
2. Lost In Translation
3. Rocky Horror Picture Show
4. Kill Bill Vol. 1/Vol. 2
5. Stand By Me
Top 5 Albums: 1. Merriweather Post Pavilion - Animal Collective
2. X - The XX
3. Person Pitch - Panda Bear
4. Cross - Justice
5. Tarot Sport - Fuck Buttons
Life Experience: Neurosis, neurosis, neurosis.

>>1573138

Something tells me someone is a pathetic hipster, coulod it be your shity selection of music??? perhaps. (except neurosis, who are awesome)

>>1573129
whatever you *say* bro

>>1573146
Just want to but in and say that Panda Bear is in a whole different league than post-indian Animal Collective.

>>1573138
>Education: Public School
>Life Experience: Neurosis, neurosis, neurosis.
Cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock cock.

Boohoo, you have so much money it's depressing.

Country:
>Argentina

Nationality:
>Ukraine

Sex:
>Male

Education:
>Studing Computer Engineering

Top 5 Books:
>Siddharta
>Hopscotch
>complete stories (poe)
>The Gambler
>Don Quixote

Top 5 Movies:
>fight club
>Babe
>a clockwork orange
>mmm... i don't know...

Top 5 Albums:
>Ramones
>Mingus mingus mingus
>Ace spades
>alive (daft punk)
>london calling

Life Experience:
>i was in pripyat

I'm fond of Castiglioni, Aperghis, Radulescu, Minciacchi and Saariaho. Critique me

>>1573158
Maybe I'm missing something, but how does going to a state school make me rich?

>>1573146
You're right, it probably is my music taste.

>>1573172
Oh, then you're just an idiot.

Public schools are places like Eton in the UK. State schools are not public schools by a long shot.

>>1570589
WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAH WOAAAH

Funeral PARADE OF ROSES???
BELA TARRR?????!!

You have TAASTE!!! Fuck all of these other hipster jerks on here that are humping animal collectives leg while sucking off kubrick and tarantino YOU are the real deal. It's pleasantly surprising to see someone who actually isn't a complete shithead with a head for an ass, My hat is off to you SIR!!!

If you are like me and loved every last minute of Satantango please check out Eureka(2000) and Love Exposure(2008) If you haven't already(I'm sure you have, because you seem to have good taste) look up Kitano.

Knowing that someone on /lit/ also has good taste made my day.

>>1573189
Being from Canada we use the term 'public school' to describe state schools.

>>1573202
Learn how to speak the lingo, eh.

Country: Italy
Sex: m
Education: rome's university "la sapienza" - media and communication research
Top 5 Books:
- Dostevsky - Notes from Underground
- Saramago - blindness
- Eco - il nome della rosa
- Kerouac - on the road
- Pirandello - il fu mattia pascal
Top 5 Movies:
- 2001: a space odyssey
- inland empire
- into the wild
- enter the void
- accattone (pier paolo pasolini)
Top 5 Albums:
- black keys - magic potion
- radiohead - kid a
- aphex twin - richard d james
- aphex twin - drukqs
- nobraino - NO USA! NO UK!
Life Experience:

>>1573218
Only if you'll learn to use 'eh' correctly, eh?

>>1573009

Wow. So it's like the hand of glory in The Invisibles? A metaphysical intersection between realities? Supercool.

I hope the fact that I had to go and eat some food hasn't destroyed our burgeoning romance - I'm beginning to accept that everything you like may not, in fact, suck total balls. Besides, it's the differences between people that are important when you're in love, not the things the same. Tell me more about why you like IT so much? Coulrophobia, or clown love?

I once had a girlfriend who was a clown/children's entertainer, and one time I persuaded her to let me do her in her make-up and outfit.

Let's just say it was a big mistake: when the make-up smears, it's a bit shocking.

Pic related: when I saw this guy all those years later, memories came back to me in a rush of shame. And I got an inappropriately disturbing semi-chub.

>>1573220

Was enter the void any good? I saw "I stand alone" and thought it was amazing.

>>1573198
I missed the guy what mentioned Bela Tarr, thanks for pointing him out. Have yous een anything by Andrzej Zulawski?

>>1573227
Eh doon't knoow what you're talking aboot, eh.

>Saramago - blindness
>mfw no punctuation

Country: New Zealand
Nationality: ^^
Sex: Male
Education: 2011 is the final year of my honours degree.

Top 5 Books:
The Great Gatsby - F. Scott Fitzgerald
Spring Snow - Yukio Mishima
The Sound and the Fury - William Faulkner
Thousand Cranes - Yasunari Kawabata
The Iliad - Homer

Top 5 Movies:
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Old Boy
2001
A Clockwork Orange
5 Centimeters per second

Top 5 Albums:
2001 - Dr. Dre
Songs in the Key of Life - Stevie Wonder
In the Aeroplane over the Sea - Neutral Milk Hotel
Dear Catastrophe Waitress - Belle and Sebastian
Entroducing... - DJ Shadow

Life Experience: Regular 4chan basement dweller. A bit of travel, a few scars and injuries but nothing serious, some drugs but nothing hard (i.e. no PCP or Heroin). Schools been a breeze, met some good and some bad people, and I haven't been through any tragic shit yet (knock on wood). Thankfully life has treated me well so far.

>>1573236

enter the void is great. seul contre tous (I stand alone) is good, but enter the void is much better. You should try.

>>1573245
>mf

>>1573238

Possession and Czamaka(or however you spell it) are both amazing. Possession is one of my top 20 favorite movies of all time.

>country
USA
>sex
Male
>Education
High School (equivalency)
>top 5 books
Naked Lunch
Been Down So Long, It Looks Like Up To Me
Factotum
Catch 22
Breakfast of Champions

>top 5 movies
Touch of Evil
Sword of Doom
Repo Man
Hard Boiled
Shoguns Ninja (the Yagyu Clan Conspiracy)

>Top 5 Albums
Mr. Bungle - Disco Volante
Gorguts - Obscura
Ulver - Kjeldsanger
Coil - Time Machines
Mens Recovery Project - the Golden Age of Naked Hostility

>life experience
Military brat, product of divorce, some interesting travel opportunities but also extremely impoverished adolescence; adult life mostly day to day struggle to get by.

perfect life (e.g. no bad life experience and high education) == boring/predictable top 5 books/movies/albums

>>1573429

That is my favorite painting.

>>1573317
wow your life experience reflects your taste like mad

Country: USA
Nationality: Half black/Half german
Sex: M
Education: IM IN HIGH SCHOOL
Top 5 Books: illiad, of human bondage, THE arabian nights... i dont know, invisible man? thus spoke zarathustra?
Top 5 Movies: PORNOS
Top 5 Albums: 8 BIT and geto boyz
Life Experience: ive been homeless a lot

>>1573198
Sorry I didn't reply earlier I presumed this thread was dead.

Thanks very much for the recommendations, I will definitely be checking them out, they sound very interesting.

Country: U.S.A.
Nationality: American
Sex: F
Education: Bachelor's in Psychology
Top 5 Books: Foucault's Pendulum, The Color Purple, The Road, White Oleander, Nueromancer
Top 5 Movies: Desperado, Donnie Darko, The Brothers Bloom, Cabaret, Rent
Top 5 Albums: Purple Rain, The Miseducation of Lauryn Hill, Born to Sing, Mariah Carey, Whitney
Life Experience: Am biracial, and old enough that it was not very common at the time (at least in the Midwest.) People would always ask what I was, which was wierd, especially when I was a child. Other than that, pretty normal upbringing, no huge successes or traumas.

Homelessness seems to be a trend on /lit/. Stay strong!

>>1570589
faggot

>>1573640
Also concerning Kitano what out of his oeuvre would you recommend I see first?

I've been told before that I should see Dolls but I haven't got around to it yet.

>>1573198
how do people on /lit/ not have good taste? I just watched Boiling Point like a few hours ago, asshole

>>1573198
OMG OMG DO YOU LIKE TERAYAMA SHUJI, HOLY FUCK OH MY GOD

>>1573719
Meh.. see Dolls last.

I would say watch
1. Sonatine
2. Hana-bi
3. Kids Return
4. Kikujiro
5. Boiling Point
6. A Scene at Sea

1 and 2 are essential and need to be seen

3 through 6 are my personal favs, but honestly in my opinion he has never made a bad movie, his worst movie is Brother, Dolls is sort of a one off type of thing and isn't very similar to the rest of his repertoire so I would recommend watching it later.

>>1573729

Umm have you read this thread?? not to imply that every single person here has bad taste, just most of the people who posted in this thread, and I was just blew away by that guy because he mentioned rare-as-fuck shit that I love, sorry you were insulted.

>>1573737

OMG LIIKE YEAH I DO!? HOW DID YOU EVER GUESS? HE'S LIKE IN MY TOP TEN FOR SURE?

>>1573764
yeah whatever.. you should check out yashagaike btw, classic japanese arthouse

>>1573738
Thanks a bunch!

>>1573737
Terayama is absolutely fantastic, he and Matsumoto are probably my two favourite Japanese film makers.

Pity where I live it's really hard to find much from the Japanese new wave, there's still quite a lot I really need to see.

>>1573784
those were both me btw..

you should have a look on ubu.com, lots of great material there

>>1573800
no they weren't but take credit for my kitano recommendations if you want? lol

>>1573784
I get all my movie via Cinemageddon/Karagara
They are teeming with rare stuff, but you have to find someone to give you an invite.