Our favorite stuff

Colleges & Universities A-Z University of Chicago ✅
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<p>OK, all the applicants had to write a "few paragraphs" on favorite books, movies, newspapers, etc. What are you guys' "favorite stuff" (doesn't matter if you're an applicant, put it on your app, or not)? Mine were:</p>

<p>Newspaper - El Mercurio (Santiago, Chile)
Book - The Road to Serfdom (F. A. Hayek - former UChicago prof, natch)
(the rest weren't on the app)
Movie - La Haine
Magazine - The Economist
Play - Glen Garry Glen Ross
Musician - MC Solaar, MF Doom
Performer - Vincent Cassel
Author - Frederick Forsyth</p>

<p>Don't have a favorite poem, piece of music, painting, or artist.</p>

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<p>Newspaper - The Huntsville Times is the only one I read
Book - To Kill a Mockingbird (on app)
Movie - Good Will Hunting
Magazine - The National Review
Play - West Side Story
Musician - Mozart (on app)
Performer - don't have one
Author - Robert A. Heinlein
Favorite poem-psalm of David ("The Lord is my Shephard...), don't know if it counts as a poem
Piece of music-Strawberry Wine, Deanna Carter
Painting-Starry, Starry Night-Vincent Vangough (argh...how do you spell his name?
Artist-none</p>

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<p>Books: The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, The Great Crash 1929, Nature via Nurture
Author: P.G. Wodehouse
Magazines: Fortune, Wired, the Economist
Musc: Schubert's Fantasie in F Minor, John Cage's 4'33"
Art: Oath of the Horatii, The Death of Socrates by Jacque-Louis David</p>

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<p>for my app, I used </p>

<p>books: Foucault's Pendulum, Catch-22, and referenced the Da Vinci Code (though its not really among my favorites, it fit well)
plays: Rosencrantz & Guildenstern Are Dead
movies: Monty Python, of course</p>

<p>In general (in addition to the above)</p>

<p>books: Hitchhiker's Guide, Count of Monte Cristo (unabridged, much longer, but better), The Name of the Rose, 1984, Ender's Game, Crime and Punishment (McDuff's translation, there's another popular translation that seemed awkward to me) .... who knows how many I can't remember off the top of my head.</p>

<p>plays: The Phantom of the Opera (or would this be a musical or an opera) - Andrew Lloyd Webber's rendition</p>

<p>Movies: most Mel Brooks films, the original Batman, The Thomas Crown Affair, the first Matrix, Shawshank Redemption, etc.</p>

<p>Music: 60s to early 80s rock in general, "progressive" rock (Pink Floyd, Jethro Tull, Trans-Siberian Orchestra, etc), rock operas, modern renditions of classical music (Savatage/Trans-Siberian Orchestra has some good ones)</p>

<p>Art: not particularly into it much but M.C. Escher is cool, Jacque-Louis David is awe inspiring, I mean repainting The Coronation of Napoleon from memory, and if you ever get the chance to go to the Louvre, you should go (and devote at least a day - some of the stuff they have is amazing)</p>

<p><em>note</em></p>

<p>I tend to like black comedy more than anything and that's what I focused on in my app, for those interested. I am under the impression that it is not so much how renowned your favorites are, but why they are your favorites.</p>

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<p>haha, how did you guys fit all of these works into "one or two paragraphs" of writing?</p>

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<p>For the app: Wikipedia</p>

<p>Book: Hard to say, Godel Escher Bach, The Stranger, Some Kafka
Paper: I live both in San Francisco and the hills (west marin) in the north. I like the Pt. Reyes Light, the tiny and alternately gutsy and rediculous regional paper.
Magazines: Make (trying to smite my engineerishness for Chicago, but it is not dominant), The New Yorker
Music: Brian Eno's 4 Ambient records, Marquee Moon by Television, Older Leonard Cohen, Chopin's Nocturnes...
Movies: Down by Law, Fight Club, Audition (though I still haven't seen the end), Primer...
Art: Anything <a href="http://flickr.com/photos/fubuki/"&gt;Fubuki (UoC college alum, but hated it)</a>, John Guttman, Dave...</p>

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<p>kodoma- what did you write about wikipedia?
I love the wikipedia- even if encourages my poor habits (as in procrastination)</p>

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<p>I write bits in it and mention that- but I mainly wrote about it (actual accuracy - see britanica study) is one of the few things left that give me hope about humanity. And I described it.</p>

<p>In! Woot. (EA)</p>