Thought this might be a fun thread, and maybe even useful to.
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Books:
Magic for Beginners by Kelly Link
Christie Malry's Own Double Entry by BS Johnson
House of Leaves by Mark Z Danielewski
Jaws by Peter Benchley
Cobralingus by Jeff Noon
The Dead Father’s Club by Matt Haig
The Helmet of Horror by Victor Pelevin
The End of My Y by Scarlett Thomas
Under The Skin by Michel Faber
The New York Trilogy by Paul Auster
Fight Club by Chuck Palahniuk
Double or Nothing by Raymond Federman
If On A Winter’s Night A Traveller by Italo Calvino
Hotel World by Ali Smith
253 by Geoff Ryman
Mobius Dick by Andrew Crumley
Alice's Adventures in Wonderland by Lewis Carroll
Automated Alice by Jeff Noon


Films:
Casablanca
Vanilla Sky (and Open Your Eyes)
The Fountain
Crank
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
The Lost Highway
Jaws (and Jaws 2 maybe)
Invasion of the Body Snatchers
Run Lola Run
They Live
Primer
Donnie Darko
Bubba Ho Tep



Games:
Perplex City

You know, we don't get Saturday Night Live in the UK. They've never shown it here for some reason.

We do get Friends :(


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That's a shame.

Look here for some answers on the mysterious and deadly predator. Maybe youtube has some videos?

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Book: The Solitaire Mystery by Joestein Gaarder.

I thought the english translation of Sophie's World made the story appear quite slack (i.e. it wasn't explained very well), but the theory behind it is wonderful.

Film: Waking Life.

Brilliant. The film was shot with the actors, as per usual, but then the director asked animators to draw/outline/colour over the top of every scene. It ends up as this film that doesn't look real, but is just too close to real to be animaton. Richard Linklater directed it. He also did A Scanner Darkly (based on a Philip K Dick novel), which came out not too long ago, and that is filmed in the same style.

Waking Life is magic. ^_^ A Scanner Darkly has a more political agenda, but it's just as mind-bending.

I've just finished reading If on a Winter's Night a Traveller - most disconcerting yet lyrical yet un-put-downable book ever!

Overall, I think that the careful explanation and summary of each philosopher's thoughts and theories is exceptional. The writing is concise, lucid and useful. As the Sunday Times said, Gaarder manages 'to simplify some extremely complicated arguments without trivialising them'. I think Gaarder follows the philosophers through the ages very well.

HOWEVER (and this isn't a bad 'however', just a big one ^_^) I thoroughly encourage you to read, at a steady pace, and over and over again over the years, the original texts. Actually reading David Hume's 'A treatise on Human Nature' or Nietzsche's 'Human, all too Human' or Sartre's 'Nausea', really takes you to the heart of these philosophers.

Sorry it took so long to reply - I had misplaced my copy when rearranging!

There are so many good films out there that push the boundaries of what motion picture can be. Like A Scanner Darkly. Like Waking Life. Like Eternal Sunshine.

I saw The Prestige recently, and even though I love Hugh Jackman, I didn't like the film. But I can recognise that it is a great film - one to add to that list of must-see-films-and-must-read-books ^_^ The same cannot be said however, for Of Mice and Men... *grumbles: in my humble opinion, truly one of the most uninspiring, uninsightful and uninteresting books ever written*

Also, watch the movie Memento, and even read the short story by Jonathan Nolan. They too deal with memory loss, and have a real twisted layout. The movie is rrreeeallly great! Highly recommended.

I love Murakami's work, especially The Wind-up Bird. I'm drawn to the surreality of it all.

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"In his dream, which he later forgot, he found himself alone in a room, firing a pistol into a bare white wall."