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S'all good mate, music is of the love. *saves to memories* Thanks very much! :D

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Not all of these may be within the last two or so years, but I like them.

Sorry if you've already seen them too.

Sin City
both Kill Bills
Thank You for Smoking
Fight Club
American Beauty (Which I suspect you've seen because OMG Spacey)
anything by Quentin Tarantino
Donnie Darko
Finding Neverland (I thought it was kinda meh, but cute. My ex liked it though)
V for Vendetta
Trainspotting
(I saw an Inconvenient Truth recently as well. If it's over there, I'd recommend it on principal, not because it's OMGamazing or anything.)
Chicago
(Apparently I have not been overly impressed with a lot of the new stuff
I know I've seen some stuff recently that I like, but cannot recall what it is... so I will browse more recent movies and figure it out. Sadly most of my favourites are even older.

As for new music, I'm not much help. At all. Especially since I don't know what you like.

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Movies:

Road to Perdition - I know I have already reced, but, SO DAMN GOOD.
Buffalo Soldiers - Joaquin Phoenix, being a corrupt soldier with a Mercedes Benz in the German black-market around the fall of the Berlin Wall. If nothing else, you need to watch it for the scene of the drugged-out soldiers running amock in a tank. And, shock of all horrors, the love interest is actually as crazy as the main character. One of the best movies ever.
Bandits - Likewise one of the best movies ever, despite not being that well known. Bruce Willis and Billy Bob Thorton as bank-robbers, Cate Blanchett as a really, really eccentric house-wife who tags along as their 'hostage' just because she's bored, and their get-away-driver cracks me up.
Elizabeth - despite not being, strictly speaking, historical accurate...I still think this beats that dreadful mini-series hands down as a portral of Elizabeth I. It's dark and gritty and I adore.
Kingdom of Heaven - Ridley Scott, Crusades, Orlando Bloom actually ACTING for once...
Hope and Glory - WWII and the London Blitz through the eyes of a young boy. Despite that premise, it's really quite funny.
Picnic at Hanging Rock - set about 1900, three Australian boarding school girls go missing at a picnic at Hanging Rock, and the fall-out. It's never solved, and is actually fairly creepy although it says NOTHING about what happened to them.

Music:

Dead Can Dance. And anything by Lisa Gerrard. Seriously. She helped do the music for Gladiator and Whale-rider, and it's just beautiful alternate stuff. Dark and old and her voice is gorgeous.
Killing Heidi, Rogue Traders, the Veroncias. Midnight Oil are very, very good, too. Well, they were. I don't think they are around anymore and anyway the lead singer sold his soul and went to Labour, but still very good.

And I can't think of anything else at the moment. I will as soon as I get into the car, watch me.

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I have to second the "Dead Can Dance" reccomendation, I love their music - such a different sound. "Sanvean" and "Host of Seraphim" are my favorites by them. And I have The West Wing, of all things, to thank for getting me into them!

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....And that's recommendation. Yeah.

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I stumbled onto Blue October pretty much at random; had to wiki them just now to find out anything for you. Turns out they're a band out of Houston, been around for a couple years and just now getting a little more play. I'll try and dig up some more music/movie rec's for you later.

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ashen_key

Told you I would forget!

For a recent movie: Goodnight, and Good Luck. Very, very good. Didn't feel like a movie at all.

And then...The Mummy for just plain fun, and Gross Pointe Blank because, dude. Assassin going to his high-school's ten year reunion. *grins*

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ashen_key

'Cantara' is my favourite, and...another track which I can't remember the name off *facepalm* It's in the trailor for Elizabeth, and is now my dark coronation/court music.

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I've seen a few of them (and OMG American Beauty is my favourite film ever) but I'll stick the other things on my 'must see' list! Especially V for Vendetta, I've heard a heap of great things about that. Thanks mate.

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I've seen, like, half of Buffalo Soldiers on a plane once, and loved it. Been meaning to watch the whole thing ever since, but haven't got round to it. I've also owned Elizabeth for about eight years now and never watched it. I suck.

*saves all the recs* Much appreciated mate, thanks!

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They had tunes on TWW? Later seasons, or earlier ones?

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Rarr! You kick ass, thanks mate. I'm gonna check itunes later to see if their stuff is on there, I really like it. Especially 'Hate Me' that's awesome.

BTW, hope you didn't get fired today. Or maybe I hope you did, as it sounds like the job totally sucks. :D?

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ashen_key

YOU NEED TO SEE ALL! Seriously. The ending? The. Best. Thing. EVER.

And ooh, you should. It's a good movie. Not historically accurate like I said, but it's cool. Geoffrey Rush as Waslingham is just creepy and he has the coolest lines. I adore, like I said.

My pleasure!

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I remember the episode and I knew the song because it was noted in the TWoP recap. It was the one during the Zoe kidnapping arc of s4. People are laying flowers outside the White House and the song is played then.

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Ah, rock! I have S4, I'll go check it out. Thanks!

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Geoffrey Rush rocks absolutely everything. I've never seen him give a bad performance, ever.

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You're welcome! The song is called "Sanvean" and if you like it, I can upload it and my other favorite for you.

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XD I didn't get fired and I didn't quit. I was expecting a ginormous group bitch-out from the boss, but he didn't mention it at all. He's a spaz--plus I think he realized that there wasn't really anything he could do about it. Am still looking actively for anohter job, though. *grin*

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Ha! Well, hopefully he'll stop being a complete tool now, right? He probably figured that everyone would quit en masse or something.

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I think he may have been afraid of the mass walk out, yeah. That or he's just bipolar.

As for him no longer being a tool? I swear it's in his DNA.

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*bouncebounce* If you wouldn't mind and it wouldn't be too much trouble? That would kick ass. :D!

*is listening and digging it*

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*snicker* Maybe he's both! Is he at least hot, so he's nice to look at while being a dick?

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ashen_key

He's such a BASTARD as Walsingham. It's brilliant.

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OH OW MY BRAIN

er, that'd be a 'no' on the attractive front. The words 'deranged muppet' come to mind.

HAHA DICK

We found a letter from two years ago on one of the old office computers that he wrote to his ensurance company: challenging their denial of his claim...

while he was being treated for erectile dysfunction.

It brightened our whole day.

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ashen_key

Deranged muppet...

*giggles helplessly*

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*DIES*

HA! Sounds like it couldn't happen to a nicer dude. *snickers*

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Oh, could you rock any more? Seriously. *hugs*

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I second Eternal Sunshine and also suggest Everything Is Illuminated (based on a book by Jonathan Foer) -- it's profound in a quiet way. Big Fish is genuinely moving and Pirates of the Caribbean is funny... As for animation, Spirited Away is tops.

I'll upload some more music on Sunday (Weekly Self-Imposed Muzak Share Day!) and try to find some more "popular" stuff for you, okay? :D

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