{"id":17693,"date":"2013-02-27T06:39:12","date_gmt":"2013-02-27T11:39:12","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17693"},"modified":"2013-02-22T08:59:56","modified_gmt":"2013-02-22T13:59:56","slug":"suggest-some-stuff-that-isnt-books","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/?p=17693","title":{"rendered":"Suggest Some…Stuff That Isn’t Books"},"content":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I asked this site’s readers to suggest books<\/a> that they thought other readers might enjoy. Intrepid commenter Cookie came up with several, then asked:<\/p>\n

***Can we do movies and music too sometime? Please?!!?****<\/p><\/blockquote>\n

A capital idea.<\/p>\n

Feel free to suggest either or both. Here are a few from me:<\/p>\n

For movies, assuming that you’ve already seen the obvious ones like Poltergeist<\/a> (still my single favorite horror movie) and The Exorcist<\/a> (one of the few perks of living in the DC area is being close to the Exorcist steps<\/a>), let me recommend The Uninvited<\/a>–the 1944 version, not any of the remakes or similarly-titled dreck–a wonderfully atmospheric ghost story, Constantine<\/a> (yeah, Keanu Reeves, but also Tilda Swinton), and Alien<\/a>, still the classic SF\/horror hybrid. Oh, and also Blade Runner<\/a>, just because.<\/p>\n

For music, I have no this-song-will-change-your-life recommendations, so I just hit Shuffle on my iPod and listed the first ten songs that came up (feel free to do the same):<\/p>\n

Birdhouse in Your Soul<\/a> (They Might Be Giants)
\nLondon Calling<\/a> (The Clash)
\nRobots<\/a> (Flight of the Conchords)
\nI’m Afraid of Americans<\/a> (David Bowie)
\nStrangelove<\/a> (Depeche Mode)
\nCode Monkey<\/a> (Jonathan Coulton)
\nThe Ghosts That Haunt Me<\/a> (Crash Test Dummies)
\nMowgli’s Road<\/a> (Marina and the Diamonds) (Don’t judge)
\nThe Dead Heart<\/a> (Midnight Oil)
\nMr. Spock<\/a> (Nerf Herder)<\/p>\n

(Bonus link: The next song that came up, Sisters of Mercy’s This Corrosion<\/a>, has an unintentionally hilarious music video.)<\/p>\n

Your turn–leave your recommendations in the comments!<\/p>\n

p.s. – If your comment includes a lot of links, it may be automatically flagged as spam. If that happens, just drop me a line<\/a> and I’ll fish it out of the spam folder.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

A couple of weeks ago I asked this site’s readers to suggest books that they thought other readers might enjoy. Intrepid commenter Cookie came up with several, then asked: ***Can we do movies and music too sometime? Please?!!?**** A capital idea. Feel free to suggest either or both. Here are a few from me: For […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[7],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-17693","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-resources"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/users\/1"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcomments&post=17693"}],"version-history":[{"count":15,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":17721,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=\/wp\/v2\/posts\/17693\/revisions\/17721"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fmedia&parent=17693"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Fcategories&post=17693"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"http:\/\/www.shadowmanor.com\/blog\/index.php?rest_route=%2Fwp%2Fv2%2Ftags&post=17693"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}