OK, a nice one for you.
A book or other literature, piece of music and work of art you think I absolutely have to experience.
My recommendations for you:
Book: Walden, by H. D. Thoreau.
Music: Steve Reich's Different Trains.
Artwork: Holbein's The Ambassadors. A complex display of cultural and temporal power shockingly subverted with a skull slashed across it.
See you next week.
6 comments:
Book: 'The Brief Wondrous Life of Oscar Wao', by Junot Diaz.
Music: 'You Forgot It In People', by Broken Social Scene.
Artwork: that one with the fruit.
p.s. Know of any jobs going anywhere at all?
http://www.guardian.co.uk/books/2011/jan/07/library-closures-brent-council
Book: Anything by Clarkson.
Music: Anything from Sarah Blasko's first album.
Art: I don't do art.
DVD: Duel.
Actually, scrap that first bit.
Book: The Lost Domain by Alain-Fournier. I'll have to lend you one of my copies. Quite why I have two is, to this day, a mystery, but it's the best book evah~!
If you like choral music, have you heard O Magnum Mysterium by Morten Lauridsen?
In lieu of art and books I'm going to suggest more music- Mojave by Afro Celt Sound System. It isn't challenging but, I think, an utterly joyful bit of music. Best listened to loudly and on something decent.
Thanks people, keep them coming. Ewar: I've read the Alain-Fournier. Very impressive. Blossom: yes, I'm quite a fan of Lauridsen, though O Magnum Mysterium is unfortunately the most adventurous of his pieces, whereas I prefer a little more experimentation in a living composer.
Ah, Afro-Celt: very good live.
Book: The Last Inferno by Charles Dark
Music: The Blue Sands
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