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Intergalacti...	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 11:28 AM Movie-8Mile awesome film and I saw that just before chrsitmas last year and thought fuck it I'm actyually gonna do it this year, I'm gonna give it the best shot i can. Song-Movin' On by Good Charlotte, at the end of their album its a real motivation song and it really gets you goin before gigs etc.
Intergalacti...	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 11:29 AM Sorry and Books-Are YOU Dave Gorman? Its a really silly book and I bet your thinking how is that inspiring? Just the fact that Dave Gorman goes all around the world to find people with his name. If people can do that and achieve their goal no matter how stupid then why can't I achieve mine?
DigWeed	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 2:36 PM I am not sure if anyone heard of this kind of music, but Sufi music is what inspired me. Maybe due to the fact that I am originaly Egyptian I had the chance to know that kind of music. Sufisim is a way of life, that hardly depends on the actualy body and its main focus on the soul. You can imagine the music. Let me know if you would like to hear any of that type of music.
Hatsy	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 7:34 PM Books - 'The Curious Incident Of the Dog in the Nighttime' - damn I forgot the authors name. 'The Kid' by Kevin Lewis 'Remember Me' by Trezza Azzopardi - One of the best books I've ever read. Also by the same author 'The Hiding Place' 'Once In a House on Fire' - Andrea Ashworth - this book changed the way I look at the world. 'Blackbird' by Jennifer Lauck - another piece of life so beautifully captured, a true story & couldn't put it down. 'The Tigers Child' by Torey Hayden & mostly everything she's ever written. All Nicci French Books (they are actually a married couple writing team & this is their psuedonym) 'The Bonesetters Daughter' by Amy Tan, this was a monster of a book. All Martina Cole books for a gripping fiction too close to life. 'Crow Lake' by Mary Lawson, the most beautiful tale in the world. 'A Gathering Light' Forgotten the author again, helluva book. Somebody Connelly or Connolly I think! 'If Nobody Speaks of Remarkable Things' - Jon McGregor 'Lost In Music' Giles Smith (think it's Smith, I love reading, it helps restore my failing memory ) 'Something Might Happen' Julie Myerson, awesome language writer. Films 'The Monsters Ball' This affected me on many levels. 'The Piano' A beautifully filmed piece & tragic. 'As Good As It Gets' - all time fave with Jack Nicholson 'One Flew Over The Cuckoo's Nest' - a classic that upset me a lot Again Jack Nicholson. 'Terms of Endearment' - the best film I've ever seen, the acting from the whole cast Again Jack Nicholson, I'd watch him mowing the lawn. 'The Railway Children' not the remake, got to be the original & I cry buckets every time. Songs 'Looking For the Heart Of Saturday Night' Tom Waits, first song I ever heard of his & I got writing & didn't stop for 18 months, I owe him a lot, broke a kind of silence in me. 'Little Girl Blue' - Janis Joplin, not a well known track of hers but the most poignant song in my memory. 'Golden Earrings' & 'Little Things' - Willie Nelson, both historical for me, parts of my life were changing when I heard these songs & it helped me through. 'Amused To Death' Roger Waters & 'The Final Cut' Pink Floyd, both albums made me see writing in a diffent way, kind of a release, you can make anything work if you want to. 'Simple Twist Of Fate' - Bob Dylan - I play this when I need a prop, it supports me every time. 'The Kick Inside' - Kate Bush, probably the most important album of my early years, from this inspiration came a whole new view. Sky Blue & Black - Jackson Browne, I'd never lose touch with this song, it says everything to me about love & how to nurture & treasure it. I love this forum, can you tell? !!!
leplume	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 8:03 PM Book - To Kill A Mockingbird Music - where to begin...Bowie (Ziggy Stardust), anything by Annie Lennox, Tom Waits (Hollywood and Vine was the first thing I heard of his...) Movies - Silence of the Lambs, all Hitchcock films, Dead Ringers, all David Lynch film...my taste in films run a little to the dark side I guess.
onewhodreams	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 10:18 PM The Lord Of The Rings inspired me to write one of my songs (We Go On), but I'd have to say that mostly it's people who inspire me the most when I write, good and bad
onewhodreams	Date: April 19, 2005 @ 10:38 PM Oh and Treegirl, I absolutely love Kate Bush! Have everything she ever recorded and a few videos too
redrasta	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 1:45 AM Hmm....I tell everyone I meet to read 'Illusions - adventures of a reluctant messiah" by Richard Bach Something in the damn book just makes me think ....a lot...about everything.Without me feeling like I hafta be some kinda brainiac. Musically,I get inspired by everything from old Jamaicans singing ska to Pink Floyd. Films....well, The Colour Purple; Star Wars (All of em so far); Schindlers List ( just wow); Signs (made me cry) and films like Contact....inspires me to look beyond the mundane.
Hatsy	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 5:56 AM 'The Lovely Bones' Alice Sebold - I read this book over Xmas after receiving it as a gift, kept me spellbound for days. Onewhodreams, yes I first heard her when I was around 15 or 16 & whilst my friends were into punk at the time I lay in my room listening to songs such as James And The Cold Gun, etc., etc., (some of those slow reveries were pure genius weren't they) and let my angst float away in clouds of poetry....I think I owe her for that, she was like nothing else at the time, new & artistic in a freaky way, well so my peers thought!! Yeah Kate Bush, a beautiful soul, did you know she is extremely reclusive, I think I understand that too.
Hatsy	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 5:58 AM 'The Midnight Express' - it was on recently and the tension created in that film is almost unbearable....
Cryxan	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 6:42 AM here." id="131740">This isn't a movie, song or book, but I'll list it anyway. It's a journal/blog thing one guy did as he went through the days of a Seal PT course in Central Park in NYC. It's a long read but really really worth it. I've gone back to read it a few times now. To say that it's inspiring is a vast understatment. You can find it here.
FraDonaghy	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 1:13 PM Movies - All Star Wars films , Jean De Florette, Amelie, Boys Don't Cry, The Shawshank Redemption. Songs - All Roy Orbison and U2 songs, the majority of stuff on DM, and so many more that I can't really single out undividual ones for mentions. Books - The Da Vinci Code (simplistic, I know - but it did inspire me to go find out more about its themes, and essentially began the liberation of my mind), Wuthering Heights, the collected works of Phillip Larkin, Catcher In The Rye.
onewhodreams	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 2:38 PM "The Lovely Bones" is a great book Did you know Peter Jackson (Director of Lord Of The Rings) is going to be making it into a movie? Ron has always wanted me to do a cover of "Babooshka" from Kate Bush I totally understanding her not wanting to be a performing artist though, with the way she does her concerts I think she has a new album coming out too, it's been something like 10 years since The Red Shoes.
Hatsy	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 5:11 PM Onewhodreams, the Kate info, thanks and YES - Babooshka! GO FOR IT.... 'The Reckoning' by Patricia Tyrrell, an stunning book for the prose within such a weird story. The poem 'Sunflower Sutra' by
Hatsy	Date: April 20, 2005 @ 5:53 PM Whoops.... 'The Sunflower Sutra' by Allen Ginsberg, inspired me to write heaps
Hatsy	Date: April 21, 2005 @ 5:35 PM 'Breakheart Hill' by Thomas H. Cook is a gripper to the end & so well written you just feel awestruck every page.
jordanthegreat	Date: April 21, 2005 @ 7:18 PM well i must oddly agree with the adventures of a relucntant messiah however the one piece of media that has inspired me beyond all: Yngwie J. Malmsteen's video Hot Licks
Hatsy	Date: April 24, 2005 @ 6:27 PM Jackson Browne for his honesty, his goodness and his songwriting skills, every lyric sounds profound and touches the heart. He is also a peacemaker and tries to spread a message of tolerance.
Alecs	Date: July 2, 2005 @ 8:45 PM Satriani's Surfing W/ The Alien album inspired me to learn to shred and rock like he does. So did Vai and Cooley Specific Songs? Probably Liberty by Vai and Starry Night by Satriani. Books...hmm...amazed if I've read any books in months, but The Darwin Awards have inspired me to ask "Why the hell am I (insert retarted action here)" Examples: "Why am I looking in this propane tank with a cigarette lighter?" "Why am I putting my hand in this bag of poisonous tanks?" "Why am I gluing my hand to this rhino's ass?" NOTE: These all actually happened! Movies? Tons of movies, just not any I can think of cuz I've been working all freakin day. Well if you count my Steve Vai and G3 DVD's, then those. The Matrix inspired to realize that one good movie doesn't make up for 2 bad ones. Bwahaha!
TequilaTx68	Date: July 3, 2005 @ 6:38 PM Books: Larry McMurtry - Some Can Whistle Ken Follette - The Pillars Of The Earth Movies/Documentaries: Paradise Lost: The Robin Hood Hills Child Murders Paradise Lost 2: Revelations A Perfect World El Mariachi The Indian Runner Any John Woo/Chow Yun-Fat film Albums; Gram Parsons - GP/Grievous Angel Steve Earle - Guitar Town Lone Justice - Lone Justice Maria McKee - You Gotta Sin To Get Saved Songs: Bob Marley - Redemption Song Edgar Winter - Free Ride Waylon Jennings - Come With Me Neville Brothers - Sons And Daughters Rolling Stones - Gimme Shelter Ben Harper - Ashes Led Zeppelin - Rock And Roll
TequilaTx68	Date: July 3, 2005 @ 6:45 PM Songs (cont.) Ray Charles - Georgia On My Mind/America The Beautiful Lone Justice - You Are The Light Cowboy Junkies - 200 More Miles