Welcome to my Favorites page!

This page is organized in table(s), offering some reading, watching, listening and playing suggestions.


Listening

Ultramarine - United Kingdoms is electronic music on medieval artificial acoustics. Superb stuff, briefly commented on 080400.

Bullet proof music (links not checked since 1998):

Dire Straits, Pink Floyd, Red House Painters, Crash Test Dummies, U2, Smashing Pumpkins,

Beck, Bjork, Ultramarine, Pet Shop Boys, Massive Attack, dEUS, Ministry, Suede, Sonic Youth,

The Sundays, Bruce Springsteen, Queen, REM, Elastica, Laurie Anderson, 10000 Maniacs, Young Gods,

Radio Head, Belly, Primal Scream, Lou Reed, Garbage, George Michael

 

More references (not updated since 1998):

Morphine, cure for pain; Morphine, good; The Cardigans, first band on the moon; Baby bird, the happiest man alive;

Massive Attack, no protection; Manic Street Preachers, generation terrorists; Jane's Addiction, nothing's shocking;

Einsturzende Neubauten, Faustmusik; Morrissey, southpaw grammar; Suede, dog man star; Spiritualized, lazer guided melodies;

In the nursery, anatomy of a poet; Colectânea, Jazz for joy - a Verve Christmas album; Bjork, Telegram; Mão Morta, revisitada;

Kalifornia, ost (original sound track) do filme; Mike & the Mechanics, word of mouth; The Divine Comedy, a casanova companion 2.

Sakamoto - Heartbeat. Another great production from the japanese, known for its strong formal knowledge of music. Referred on 160400.

Reading

Principles of Biochemestry - heavy academic book on Biochemestry. Not just for bio persons: chapters have introductions readable by most persons, and this material will even interest students for matters of Artificial Life.

Computer Arts - from the industrial, popular press of Future Publishing, comes an interesting magazine, on computer creative stuff. The cover will always write "tutorials on product xpto", but you shouldn't expect complete step-by-step guides. Still, one of the best magazines you can buy.

My Favorite Books (links not checked since 1998):

The Hobbit, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

The Lord of the Rings, John Ronald Reuel Tolkien

Money, Martin Amis

The Damnation Game, Clive Barker

The Growing Pains of Adrian Mole, Sue Townsend

The Silver Locusts, Ray Bradbury

Unmissable magazines (not updated since 1998):

Crash, The Edge, ÁUDIO, PC Format,

PC Gamer, SFX, Byte, Science & Vie,

Wired, The World & I, Ler

Diplomacia - Henry Kissinger consegue escrever mais de 1000 páginas, sobre a história das diplomacias ocidentais. O mais curioso é que até se lê bem :)

ÁUDIO - a única publicação portuguesa na EISA (European Sound & Imaging Association). Escrita em português europeu, com opiniões muito isentas.

Watching

Human Traffic - irregular movie on british weekends :)

The DVD edition as sound out-of-sync problems, but still is quite a ride!

The Greatest Movies (not updated since 1998):

Blade Runner, Ridley Scott

Terminator 2, James Cameron

Aliens, James Cameron

The Piano, Jane Campion

Carlito's Way, Brian de Palma

Nightbreed, Clive Barker

Shortcuts, Robert Altman

The Thing, John Carpenter

 

The best TV series, ever (not updated since 1998):

Hill Street Blues

The Simpsons

The X-Files

The Secret Diary of Adrian Mole

Space 1999

High Incident

Buffy, the Vampire Slayer

Big Daddy / Um pai à maneira - uma comédia irresistível, absolutamente hilariante, mas que cai bastante nos minutes finais. 90 minutos, que deveriam ter sido 70.

Playing

Rally Championship - rally games don't get much better than this one.

This game is referred several times, on 2000's updates.

Ethernal videogames (links not checked since 1998):

Knight Lore / Spectrum; Alien 8 / Spectrum; Underwurlde / Spectrum; Sabre Wulf / Spectrum; Match Day / Spectrum;

The Great Escape / Spectrum; Start Quake / Spectrum; Elecciones Generales / Spectrum; Commando / Spectrum; Dune 2 / Westwood Studios - PC;

Doom / ID Software - PC; F1 GP2 / Microprose - PC; Quake / ID Software - PC; Command and Conquer / Westwood Studios - PC; Red Alert / Westwood Studios - PC;

Magic Carpet / Electronic Arts - PC; Diablo/ Blizzard - PC; Descent / Interplay - PC; Civilization 2 / Microprose - PC

 

More... (not updated since 1998):

GP Legends; Need for Speed; Thief; Half Life; Rail Road Tycoon 2.

Theme Park World - Strategy like you never seen before. This is fun! This is positive software!

This game is referred several times, on 2000's updates.