Fiction that changed your life.

[BurtReynolds]

Any art form.

What are they? Why? For better or worse?

[BurtReynolds]

How to cope in a bizarre world of insane people.


Hard to articulate why but... This one gnaws at me.

[BurtReynolds]

Hard to argue that movies like The Dark Crystal and Secret of NIMH hasn't had a significant impact on my life.

[lennytheweedwhacker]

Catch-22

[Malloy]

likely none. some art has cemented my sensibilities.

"in the heart of the heart of the country"; Being There; most things barry hannah wrote; all of elaine may's movies; harry mathews fiction; lots of elliot gould 70s movies; samuel fuller; beckett novels and short stories; minutemen; randy newman; jeff wall's photography; scott walker; david berman; sifl & olly; jim jarmusch.

david milch more than anything

[Malloy]

definitely Network

[Ms Harmless]

'Where The Wild Things Are' by Maurice Sendak

[Ms Harmless]

'The Accidental' by Ali Smith

[Ms Harmless]

'The Táin' (translated by Thomas Kinsella)

Irish mythology is not *quite* equal to fiction in my view but it counts here

[BurtReynolds]

An obvious one, though it's not often thought of as fiction, which does it a disservice I think:

[BurtReynolds]

I don't know if a movie has ever rewired my brain, at least in a way that I'm conscious of. Maybe just reinforced or crystallized things.

I'll have to think about it.

[Mickey]

likely none. some art has cemented my sensibilities.

"in the heart of the heart of the country"; Being There; most things barry hannah wrote; all of elaine may's movies; harry mathews fiction; lots of elliot gould 70s movies; samuel fuller; beckett novels and short stories; minutemen; randy newman; jeff wall's photography; scott walker; david berman; sifl & olly; jim jarmusch.

david milch more than anything

"And I am in retirement from love."

[epilogue]

Wow, there are so many. It's hard to know where to begin.

[Mickey]

Off the top of my head:

The Savage Detectives especially, but all Bolaño, Frank Stanford, The Great Beauty and The Young Pope, the official bootleg of the 2003 Tokyo show, W.G. Sebald, John Taggart, Loveless, GY!BE, Alice Notley, Fredric Jameson (criticism is art!), Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

[dad]

Off the top of my head:

The Savage Detectives especially, but all Bolaño, Frank Stanford, The Great Beauty and The Young Pope, the official bootleg of the 2003 Tokyo show, W.G. Sebald, John Taggart, Loveless, GY!BE, Alice Notley, Fredric Jameson (criticism is art!), Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

i have questions about the bolded.

[Simple Torture]

Off the top of my head:

The Savage Detectives especially, but all Bolaño, Frank Stanford, The Great Beauty and The Young Pope, the official bootleg of the 2003 Tokyo show, W.G. Sebald, John Taggart, Loveless, GY!BE, Alice Notley, Fredric Jameson (criticism is art!), Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

i have questions about the bolded.

Me too, my copy went missing circa 2004...got something to confess, Michael?

[Mickey]

Off the top of my head:

The Savage Detectives especially, but all Bolaño, Frank Stanford, The Great Beauty and The Young Pope, the official bootleg of the 2003 Tokyo show, W.G. Sebald, John Taggart, Loveless, GY!BE, Alice Notley, Fredric Jameson (criticism is art!), Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

i have questions about the bolded.

Was lightly into Pearl Jam based on radio tracks and bought it on a whim. Haven't listened to the band in years and find their post Riot Act stuff laughably bad but it pretty undeniably had a big effect on me.

[dad]

Off the top of my head:

The Savage Detectives especially, but all Bolaño, Frank Stanford, The Great Beauty and The Young Pope, the official bootleg of the 2003 Tokyo show, W.G. Sebald, John Taggart, Loveless, GY!BE, Alice Notley, Fredric Jameson (criticism is art!), Dragging a Dead Deer Up a Hill

i have questions about the bolded.

Was lightly into Pearl Jam based on radio tracks and bought it on a whim. Haven't listened to the band in years and find their post Riot Act stuff laughably bad but it pretty undeniably had a big effect on me.

the Japanese crowds were respectful concert goers.

[Mickey]

When Ed Vedder said "war kide kuditai arigato," 14 year old me felt that.

[dad]

When Ed Vedder said "war kide kuditai arigato," 14 year old me felt that.

hai.