Wednesday, 21 April 2010

Miscellaneous lists

Top 5 Cortázar short stories

1. Circe
2. Continuidad de los parques
3. Lejana
4. Casa Tomada
5. Las Puertas del cielo

Top 5 Borges short stories

1. El Aleph
2. La biblioteca de Babel
3. Tlon, Uqbar, Orbis Tertius
4. El milagro secreto
5. Las ruinas circulares

Top 3 Stravinsky periods

1. Russian
2. Neo-Classical
3. Serialist

Top 5 Zappa albums

1. The Grand Wazoo
2. Uncle Meat
3. The Yellow Shark
3. Civilazation Phaze III
5. Burnt Weeny Sandwich

Top 5 Godard films

This list might change when I see Le Mepris, which will be any week now.

1. Alphaville
2. Vivre Sa Vie
3. Week End
4. Breathless
5. Band A Part

Top 5 Universities I want to apply to

1. UCL
2. King's College
3. Manchester
4. Glasgow
5. Leeds

Top 5 Stravinsky pieces

1. The Rite of Spring
2. Symphonies of Wind Instruments
3. Symphony of Psalms
4. Les Noces
5. Pulcinella

Top 5 romantic composers

1. Late Beethoven
2. Hector Berlioz
3. Sergei Rachmaninov
4. Gustav Mahler
5. Frederic Chopin

Top 5 Werner Herzog films

1. Aguirre, The Wrath of God
2. The Enigma of Kaspar Hauser
3. Nosferatu, Phantom Der Nacht
4. Woyzeck
5. Encounters At the End of the World

Top 5 places to have coffee near Dronfield

Not only the taste of the coffee determines this list, but also the ambience of the cafe.

1. Coffee Central in Dronfield
2. Pumpking coffee in Chesterfield station
3. Graves museum cafe
4. Graves Park cafe
5. Costa in Chesterfield

Top 5 short stories by Saimon A. King

1. The Land of Dreams
2. Victoria Red
3. David Crapper and Mary Vagina's Love Affair
4. The Moon of the Mirror
5. Dream Stairs

Top 5 The Fall albums

1. Hex Enduction Hour
2. Perverted by Language
3. Bend Sinister
4. The Wonderful and Frightening World of The Fall
5. The Real New Fall LP

Top 5 beautiful French actresses

This is, of course, when they were younger. Now they're old hags and even (in Bardott's case) fascist.

1. Anna Karina
2. Isabelle Adjani
3. Jeanne Moreau
4. Catherine Deneuve
5. Bridgette Bardot

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