<ol>
<li>Paradise Lost - John Milton</li>
<li>Within a Budding Grove - Marcel Proust</li>
<li>Einstein on the Beach - Philip Glass</li>
<li>Isenheim Altarpiece - Matthias Grünewald</li>
<li>Cast no Shadow - Noel Gallagher</li>
</ol>
<p>Hon. mention: The Calling of St. Matthew - Caravaggio
Asphodel, that Greeny Flower - William Carlos Williams
Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich</p>
<p>Marshall Mather’s LP- Eminem
Vol 2… Hard Knock Life - Jay Z
Illmatic - Nas
Eminem Show- Eminem
The Book of Life- Rakim</p>
<p>Howards End</p>
<p>Did they collectively change your life, or change it 5 different times?</p>
<p>Notes from the underground, dostoevsky</p>
<p>great expectations, the confidence man, grapes of wrath</p>
<p>lolololol</p>
<p>If you count porn as a work of art… then it’s hard to choose.</p>
<p>Kidding guys. Sheesh.
</p>
<p>The Rite of Spring - Stravinsky
Symphony 9 - Mahler
Symphony 6 - Mahler
Sonata for Solo Cello - Kodaly
Spiegel im Spiegel - Arvo part</p>
<p>^I’m currently playing Mahler symphony 1</p>
<p>:O</p>
<p>I LOVE MAHLER. Mahler 6 and 9 changed my life…</p>
<p>Illmatic - Nas
Reasonable Doubt - Jay-Z
Food and Liquor - Lupe Fiasco
The Eminem Show - Eminem
The Warm Up -J.Cole</p>
<p>Alfred Hitchcock’s North by Northwest → Not my favourite movie, but it made me realize that old movies could be awesome.</p>
<p>zomg fellow mahler lovers!
We’re playing symphony #9 in orchestra right now. 
:D</p>
<p>Let’s find out who the most sophisticated person on CC is.</p>
<p>Wanderer above the Sea of Fog - Caspar David Friedrich
Symphony #1–Mahler (Playing this soon, I think)
Symphony #5–Shostakovich (SO COOL TO PLAY!)
Lord of the Flies–Golding
Overture to the Hebrides/Fingal’s Cave–Mendelssohn</p>
<p>Some others that I really like that didn’t make this list:</p>
<p>Symphonic Metamorphoses on Themes by Carla Maria von Weber–Hindemith
Pines of Rome–Respighi (playing this right now)
Symphonie Fantastique–Berlioz
Caprice #24–Paganini
Piano Concerto in a minor–Grieg
Cry, the Beloved Country–Alan Paton</p>
<p>Obviously, I’m a musician (violin and piano). As well as a Mahler lover, but I like Shostakovich more. :)</p>
<p>Marche Slave - Pyotr Ilyich Tchaikovsky
Cannon in D Major - Pachelbel
Turkish March - Mozart
Hungarian Dance, No. 5 - Brahms
O Fortuna - Carl Orff</p>
<p>Painting:
La Libert</p>
<p>1) Notes From the Underground
2) Notes From the Underground
3) Notes From the Underground
4) Notes From the Underground
5) Notes From the Underground</p>
<p>I’m such an intellectual.</p>
<p>mai tr00 list with one from each of the fine arts (except dance). </p>
<p>1) The Death of Marat by Jacques-Louis David
2) Etude Op 25 No 11 (Winter Wind) by Chopin
3) The Brothers Karamazov by Dostoevsky (It was the first Russian lit novel I read and I LOVED it. I also actually have NFtU but I abhor it. ABHOR.)
4) Madame Butterfly bu Puccini
5) The Tempest by Shakespeare. (I also like Troilus and Cressida).</p>
<p>^Winter Wind is a b–ch to play.</p>
<p>Seriously.</p>
<p>I can only get up to half of the second page before my hand starts to tire out :c. And when my hand starts to tire out, I make like 19128512985 mistakes.</p>
<p>But I will practice to be able to get through the entire piece, then to play it perfectly because it was the piece that inspired me to go into piano, though I didn’t know the name of the piece at the time :P.</p>
<p>What really got me into composition was Michael Nyman’s Time Lapse. I’ll add to this list as I think of stuff… I could list 39817592835 items if this was just books, but I’ll try to narrow it down :D</p>
<p>1) The Stranger – Albert Camus
2) Beyond Good and Evil – Friedrich Nietzsche (tie)
2) Nausea – Jean-Paul Sartre (tie)
3) The Seducer’s Diary – Soren Kierkegaard
4) The Brothers Karamazov – Fyodor Dostoevsky (tie)
4) Nocturne No. 2 – Frederic Chopin (tie)
5) The Earth is Not a Cold, Dead Place – Explosions in the Sky</p>
<p>
Likewise, haha</p>