Friday, November 21, 2008

Cory Palmer


This seems like the right day to put up a Cory recommends list, because as I type this I am sitting in the Detroit Metro Airport waiting for him to come pick me up in his big red minivan. Cory was one my seven roomates in what was dubbed the "basshouse" in Michigan, cleverly given it's title because five of the seven people living there were bassists. Deep, I know. I Iook forward to spending the weekend with him drinking some much missed Michigan beers. He also promised me that he wears pajamas now, so there won't be too many awkward Cory-in-his-boxers moments that many of us have grown to love. Anyway, Cory is an extremely talented orchestral bassist currently living in New York attending the Manhatten School of Music and is plugging away on the orchestral audition circuit. He will be a student until he wins an audition, and Manhatten is college number 3. Good luck, guy!

Cory has a real nice, huge (I actually had to edit some of it for size out of consideration for our less focused (sister-in-law) readers) recommend post. And for the record this is the last list I have in the vaults, so for this to continue some friends need to start recommending! Don't be timid. No one is judging your picks, just happily accepting your recommendations. I promise. Email them to hopkinak@gmail.com And without further ado, Cory recommends:

Music:

Bjork--Medulla, Vespertine
Bob Dylan--The Freewheelin' Bob Dylan
Explosions in the Sky--The Earth is Not a Cold Dead Place
The Roots--Things Fall Apart
K-OS--Atlantis
Sage Francis--Personal Journals
Killswitch Engage--Alive or Just Breathing
Krakatoa--Channel Static Blackout
Cleveland Orchestra conducted by George Szell
The Julliard Quartet--Bartok String Quartets
Pablo Casals--Bach Cello Suites
Rostropovich--Shostakovich Cello Concerto

Books:

Vladimir Nabakov--Lolita
Irvine Welsh--Trainspotting
Vonnegut--Slaughterhouse Five
Douglas Hofstadter--Metamagical Themas
Ayn Rand--Atlas Shrugged
Fyodor Dostoevsky--Crime and Punishment

Film:

Amelie
Donnie Darko
Almost Famous
Man On Fire
Equilibrium
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels

Art:

Dali
M.C. Escher

Miscellaneous:

Television:
Arrested Development
Entourage
The Office (British version)
Heroes (1st Season)

1 comment:

Jessica said...

these posts sure are wordy.