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[robertsona]

i don't really post on this website that much anymore so this might be fruitless but this looks sort of fun. shoot

[moches]

What other forums do you spend the most time on?

Do you remember me?

Favorite album(s) from this year?

[robertsona]

Originally Posted by moches

What other forums do you spend the most time on?

Forum-wise, I bide most of my time on Sputnikmusic.com and an offshoot of that website formed by members who got tired of the lazy moderation there, the link for which I don't think I can post.

Originally Posted by moches

Do you remember me?

Yeah, I do!

Originally Posted by moches

Favorite album(s) from this year?

I've been awful at keeping up with music this year, but if you asked me right now, probably Swing Lo Magellan by Dirty Projectors. I totally wouldn't expect that to be my #1 album come the end of the year, but I've been listening to it nonstop lately.

[robertsona]

Originally Posted by MrPopadopalis25

Favorite authors and styles of writing?

Hmm. Here are some. "THE BIG FOUR":
Marcel Proust
Virginia Woolf
William Shakespeare
Anton Chekhov

I like writing that first and foremost can be described as "evocative," or maybe uncanny. Wherein the characters and the descriptions are a thing, but they are almost suggestive of something else entirely in this really special mysterious way (Proust and Chekhov both do this very well). I also like writing that uses stream-of-consciousness narrative to deliver this sort of literary gut punch--Woolf does this very well, Joyce too but to a lesser extent.

I guess there's always this sort of ineffability to these four authors's writing that I love a lot, wherein you can sort of get a sense of where they're going and how they get there, but the way it makes you feel and why it does that remains a complete mystery. I could read Mrs. Dalloway or The Seagull or Hamlet or Swann's Way over and over again and never stop finding things to love. I also like that a lot of these books seem sort of cinematic--I can imagine them as really good movies, and often do while I'm reading them.