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top 10....

HA!

You thought this would be some mindless diversion 10 ten list didn't you?

Wrong. Get to work.


List, in no particular order what you think are the greatest/most interesting/influential cultural creations in the last 100 or so years...

these are mine.


Knock yourself out.


10. Hotel California. The Eagles.

9. Stairway To Heaven. Led Zepplin.

8. God Bless the Child. Billy Holliday.

7. Dust My Broom. Robert Johnson.

6. Old Man and The Sea. E. Hemmingway.

5. Fear and Loathing in Las Vegas. Dr. HS Thompson.

4. Catcher In the Rye. JD Salinger.

3. Casablanca. Curtis.

2. LOTR. JRR Tolkien.

1. Cosmos. Dr. C. Sagan.



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To busy to do a full ten, just surprised that "Hotel California" comes above "Citizen Kane".

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Oh, throw "Star Trek" on my list as well.

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In no particular order:

Nosferatu
Mien Kampf
Raging Bull
the :-)
Citzen Kane
peer to peer
Snow White and the Seven Dwarfs
the contraceptive pill
The Beatles
100 Years Of Solitude

alomst in the last 100 years:
The Communist Manifesto
the Sufferagette Movement

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Umm, so here is my list thus far:

Citizen Kane
Pinocchio
Star Trek
"Rapper's Delight" by the Sugerhill Gang
Catcher in the Rye
Micky Mouse
Super Mario Brothers
Elvis Presley


And that's all that pop into my head ATM

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the cult of the dying giraffe
jesus's legacy
mein kampf
ayn rands stuff
does war count? i think it does, so all the wars.
coca cola

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Punk Rock music

Rock n roll

LSD

Precooked frozen Mexican food

toilet paper

Birth control

Remote control

deoderant

Raves

chicken

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Picasso - Cubism, the blue period, etc.

Einstein - Special and General Relativity.

Vietnam represents a cultural facelift for america's youth and adults.

Photography. Cinema.

Nuclear/hydrogen Bomb.

Post-Modernism in general, ie: feminism, fascism, deconstruction, marxism, existentialism, etc. People thought in a very cyclic manner for all of human history. Now, in the 20th and 21st centuries it is easier to be open to new ideas, concepts, and ideologies. Essentially, the idea that epistemolgical spirituality was not the be all end all of our souls. Also, I know that you can argue this dilineation having been started in the 1800's, however, it did not take international centerstage until after WWI.

Jazz.

Just a few for the list.

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Ummm, some of these are getting a bit off topic.

I mean, sure it is arguable that the hydrogen bomb and "all the wars" and birth control are cultural creations, but I don't think that's what he meant.

Perhaps "works of art and popular culture" would have been a better way to put it.

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what chips said.


Oh my head.




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These probably arent in much of an order, but I reckon the internet is #1 on this list.
The internet
Rock n Roll
Mp3s
Salvador Dahli
Stone Roses
Computer Games
Television
Radio
The Electric Guitar
Drugs

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This is getting out of hand.

(I still think that Hotel California trumps World War I anyway, especially when you consider the re-union tour.)

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Paint Chips you bastard!

Whom should say that a nuke is not a piece of art? Strangely conical warmly humming smooth of exterior gracefull in flight. A delicate ballet, it wafts into the ether only to return in an orange arc decending. It's white light bathing a city in its clensing glow creating a glowing pool of glass which quicky cools into an utter calm as grey snowflakes of nuclear fallout gently decend coating the earth silently like a new winter snow with survivors snugly nestled into their shelters ready for a long peacefull hibernation.

The bomb is your friend. How else could you weed all the gardens in New York City in two seconds. In about 12 billion years it will make a killer roller blade hockey rink.

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Paint Chips you bastard!

Whom should say that a nuke is not a piece of art? Strangely conical warmly humming smooth of exterior gracefull in flight. A delicate ballet, it wafts into the ether only to return in an orange arc decending. It's white light bathing a city in its clensing glow creating a glowing pool of glass which quicky cools into an utter calm as grey snowflakes of nuclear fallout gently decend coating the earth silently like a new winter snow with survivors snugly nestled into their shelters ready for a long peacefull hibernation.

The bomb is your friend. How else could you weed all the gardens in New York City in two seconds. In about 12 billion years it will make a killer roller blade hockey rink.

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quote:

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Originally posted by Dog Breath:
Paint Chips you bastard!

Whom should say that a nuke is not a piece of art? Strangely conical warmly humming smooth of exterior gracefull in flight. A delicate ballet, it wafts into the ether only to return in an orange arc decending. It's white light bathing a city in its clensing glow creating a glowing pool of glass which quicky cools into an utter calm as grey snowflakes of nuclear fallout gently decend coating the earth silently like a new winter snow with survivors snugly nestled into their shelters ready for a long peacefull hibernation.

The bomb is your friend. How else could you weed all the gardens in New York City in two seconds. In about 12 billion years it will make a killer roller blade hockey rink.

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hm..i'll just go with most influential literature, pop icons, etc. no pills, computers or bombs here. no real favorites.

- On The Road, Jack Kerouac
- The Lone Ranger
- Pac Man
- that robert frost poem about two paths and a forest of some sort. (i've blocked it out of my memory)
- The Wizard of Oz
- Tex Avery
- Las Vegas
- Louis Armstrong
- Star Trek
- Sgt Pepper's Lonely Hearts Club Band.

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Me.

Is there really any need to list more?

I didn't think so.

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Only the last 100 yrs or so, huh? ok...
In no particular order:

IBeFree
Personal Computers
Star Trek (Voyager I like best)
The Internet www.asylumwhores.com
Pink Floyd's 'Dark Side of The Moon'
The Home Cappacino Machine
Santana
Stephen King's work
ADSL
C.S. Lewis

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Mark Twain

I cannot believe none of you heathens mentioned him.
I am VERY dissappointed in you all.

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I mean, you're old and all... but,

Twain was born in 1835 and died in 1910. He didn't write anything during the twentieth century that changed culture very much.

Read for yourself old man .

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Mark Twain

I cannot believe none of you heathens mentioned him.
I am VERY dissappointed in you all.

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quote:

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I mean, you're old and all... but,

Twain was born in 1835 and died in 1910. He didn't write anything during the twentieth century that changed culture very much.

Read for yourself old man .

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I stand corrected

*administers wonders hourly thorazine*

Now take a rest and allow some of the happy thoughts to take over.

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