Favorite Titles (Yes, just the title)
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Posted on: 2010-08-26 15:11 in Comic and Hero-Villain Culture
Scott Pilgrim's Precious Little Life.
The derogatory precious is so appropriate.
American Gods.
"Just Watch the Fireworks" by Jimmy Eat World.
"Anthems for a Seventeen Year-Old Girl" and "Pitter Patter Goes My Heart" by Broken Social Scene.
"Pictures of Success" by Rilo Kiley.
"Fearful Symmetry," the Kraven the Hunter death story arc from Amazing Spider-Man in the 90's named after the William Blake poem.
Armageddon in Retrospect and Timequake by Kurt Vonnegut, Jr.
"God Woke" by Stan Lee.
Thanks for eight fun years, Paragon.
Personally I've recently become very entertained by hearing clever adult film titles. Some prime examples:
The Hills Have Thighs
Throbbin Hood: Prince of Beaves
- CaptainFoamerang
Silverspar on Kelly Hu: A face that could melt paint off the wall *shivers*
Someone play my AE arc! "The Heart of Statesman" ID: 343405
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I don't know anything about this story, and the title gave me chills.
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Originally Posted by ChrisMoses
"God Woke" by Stan Lee.
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It's a very long poem.
I have it on my thumb drive... one sec... I'll paste...
Disclaimer: I think I just typed all of this while listening to him read it on the "Stan Lee's Mutants, Myths and Monsters" DVD with Kevin Smith. So there could be slight errors and out-of-place or absent punctuation.
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God Woke - Stan Lee God woke He stretched and yawned and looked around Haunted by a thought unfound A vagrant thought that would not die He rose and scanned the endless sky He probed the is, he traced the was He sought the yet to be And then he found the planet Earth, the half remembered planet Earth Steeped in pain and tragedy And all at once he knew He saw the world that he had wrought to suit his master plan And then he saw the changes brought by the heedless hand of man Man, so frail, so small Yet lord of all Striving, thriving Hustling, bustling Sowing, growing, ever going Ever learning, never knowing Less than righteous, less than just And in the end condemned to dust He heard the man-sounds everywhere The shots, the clangs, the roars, the bangs The clatter, clammer, guns and hammer And then he found to his despair The haunting hollow sound of prayer A billion bodies ever bending A billion voices never ending "Give me…", "Get me..." "Grant me…", "Let me…" "Love me", "Free me" "Hear me", "See me" While he pondered, watched and waited Endlessly they supplicated Chanting, ranting Moaning, groaning Sighing, crying Cheating, lying But towards what goal? What grand direction? This pious tide of genuflection To please their lord, to please their god He raised his head and laughed, laughed hard At man, the enigma, calling for aid Ever demanding, ever afraid Man, the enigma, bewailing his fate Yet plagued by inaction till ever too late Paradoxical man, so fearful of death Yet squandering life and lavishing breath Wasting his hours, diluting his days Accomplishing nothing while he prays and he prays Hypocritical man, pompous and preening Mouthing his rote Just from the throat Words without feeling Sound without meaning Such arrogance, such grand conceit To think one's self somehow elite To demand each prayer be heard with care While painfully, vainfully all unaware One's omnipotent, infinite, absolute lord Is bored God frowned How dare they believe that The Way and The Light Can be constantly badgered from morning till night? By what senseless standard? By what senseless rule? Do they treat their creator as if he's their tool While proclaiming his glory, do they think him a fool? Who else but a fool with a cosmos to savour Would be bound just to Earth granting boon, granting favour Who else but a fool with a cosmos unfolding Would linger with man ever praising and scolding Who else but a fool with a cosmos to stray in Would conceive him an ant-hill and like a prisoner stay in Who else but a fool would create mortal men And then be expected to tend them, mend them, Cry for them, die for them over and over and over again God sighed I gave them minds as I recall, it was so long ago I gave them minds that they might use to choose, to think, to know For the hapless weak, must needs be wise, if they would prove their worth And then I gave them paradise, the fertile verdant Earth At first I found the plan was sound and somewhat entertaining But once begun, the deed now done, my interest started waning The seed thus sown The twig now grown I left them there Alone Alone, among the planets and the stars And the endless fathomless all Alone, bathed by light and clothed by dark Midst the vague and the vast and the small Alone Alone as I have ever been, as I shall ever be Why do they not accept it? How else can they be free? Why do they not accept it? Why do they search for me? Why? When their own little lives are so barren and brief When all of their pleasures are tarnished by grief In the space of a heartbeat their present is past They cling to each moment, but no moment can last When the end comes so quickly and they soon are forgot Why do they search for that which is not? Like unto children lost in the night They search for a God to guide them Like unto children huddled in fright They must have their God beside them But what sort of children, from cradle to grave Would grant him obiance and yet make him their slave? They have conjured a heaven and there he must stay Ever responsive, be it night, be it day He must love and forgive them and comply when they pray Ever attentive, never to stray And like unto children in their childish zeal They worship their dream thinking fantasy real God pondered He, The Be All, The End All, The Will and The Way The Power, The Glory, The Night and The Day The Word and The Law, The Fount and The Plan Lord God Almighty, was baffled by man He was puzzled by the paradox By the irony there in If only he could show them But where would he begin? How to make them understand, how to make them see How to make them recognize their own insanity They live for gain and they strive in vain To circumvent their death But all the gold and wealth untold Won't buy an extra breath They bestow acclaim and they shower fame On those who rise to power But those who care, who love and share Are forgot within the hour They're prone to fight, to use their might For whatever flag they cherish But those who cry "To arms" don't die Their young are sent to perish Yes, all unsung, they kill their young Who fall and die and then they cry But why? A different house of worship? A different colour skin? A piece of land that's coveted and the drums of war begin Only death can triumph, there's no place left to hide And still the madmen ply their trade claiming God is on their side Of all who live, who crawl and creep Who take and give, who wake and sleep Who run, who stand, who dot the land from shore to shore Man, only man, none but man, wages war Only man, eternally killing Only man, infernally willing To concede himself grace To bury his race Only man, earnestly praying to his god as he's slaying and piously saying As the battles increase He does what he must for his motives are just The mayhem, the carnage, the slaughter won't cease But no need to worry, God's in his corner, he's killing for peace Man His greed, his hate, his crime, his war The Lord, our God, could bear no more He looked his last at man so small So lately risen, so soon to fall He looked his last and had to know Whose fault this anguish, this mortal woe? Had man failed maker? Or maker, man? Who was the planner? And whose the plan? He looked his last then turned aside He knew the answer, that's why God cried |
Thanks for eight fun years, Paragon.
One of the top has to be
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb.
My Deviant Art page link-link
CoH/V Fan Videos
Various sources, regardless of content:
By Demons Be Driven (Pantera song, probably another source too)
Atlas Shrugged
I Have No Mouth and I Must Scream
John Dies at the End
The Armageddon Rag
Girl With the Dragon Tattoo
Borderlands
Cold Ascending (Neurosis song)
Land of the Lost
The Rime of the Ancient Mariner
Ghost of Perdition (Opeth song)
The Obsidian Conspiracy (Nevermore song)
The Termination Proclamation (Nevermore has great song titles)
Sixpence None the Richer (It's their album title too so it counts)
And many many more (not a title, just a promise to post again when I think of more, assuming topic is still going)
Awesome poem. I had no idea Stan Lee could write like that. Thank you for posting it!
Titles are important in any media. People say 'don't judge a book by its cover', but that's pretty much all you have to judge it by without reading the damned thing.
Songs:
Sick Sad Little World by Incubus (great song too)
New Orleans is Sinking by The Tragically Hip
King of Poison by Widemouth Mason
Do the Evolution by Pearl Jam
Books:
Cryptonomicon by Neal Stephenson
Magic Kingdom for Sale: Sold by Terry Brooks
Alas, Babylon by Pat Frank
The Hollow Chocolate Bunnies of the Apocalypse by Robert Rankin
Movies:
Brotherhood of the Wolf
Darkman
Once Upon a Time in the West
Lock, Stock, and Two Smoking Barrels
Road to Perdition
They ALL float down here. When you're down here with us, you'll float too!
@Starflier
I like the multi-word anime and manga titles, even if I don't read or watch most of them. anything from
One Shot Bug Killer! (about chibi robots sent to kill bugs)
to
Transformers: Super-God Masterforce
Immortal-Man-In-Darkness, Chinese superhero in the DC universe. Partly because I had IMiD mixed up with Socialist Red Guardsman.
Repo! The Genetic Opera, gothic cyberpunk horror opera movie.
Tales of Judgment. Also here, instead of that other place.
good luck D.B.B.
Here's a more or less arbitary top ten.
- At Swim-Two-Birds
- The Atrocity Exhibition
- A Clockwork Orange
- The Crying of Lot 49
- Invitation to a Beheading
- A Journal of the Plague Year
- Light in August
- Moby-Dick: Or, the Whale
- Neuromancer
- A Universal History of Infamy
Always the first thing that pops into my head when someone asks this.
Queens of the stone age - The fun machine took a sh** and died
COH/CoV - Virtue
8 Ball - Lev 50 Kin/Energy Defender
The Canadian Fist - Lev 50 Ice/EM Blaster
Omega Ghost - Lev 50 Robo/Dark MM
Ghostfall - Lev 50 Arachnos Crab Soldier
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Originally Posted by TrueGentleman
The Crying of Lot 49
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crap that was my pick
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Originally Posted by Dark Ether
One of the top has to be
Dr. Strangelove, or How I Learned to Stop Worrying and Love the Bomb. |
I read a couple of novels by Jack Chalker... Twilight at the Well of Souls and Empire of Flux and Anchor are great titles. I still need brain bleach for those, though.
Star Trek novel: How Much for Just the Planet?
Special Topics in Calamity Physics: Marisha Pressl. Impulse buy at a used book store, haven't read it yet.
Alastair Reynolds has a couple of good ones, too: I picked up Revelation Space because it promised a starship named Nostalgia for Infinity.
Also: Go Go Girls of the Apocalypse.
Comrade Smersh, KGB Special Section 8 50 Inv/Fire, Fire/Rad, BS/WP, SD/SS, AR/EM
Other 50s: Plant/Thorn, Bots/Traps, DB/SR, MA/Regen, Rad/Dark - All on Virtue.
-Don't just rebel, build a better world, comrade!
Yea, Dr. Stragelove's alwys a fantastic title.
I've always been a little fond of the full title of The City in the Autumn Stars myself:
The City in the Autumn Stars
Being a continuation of the story of the von Bek family and its association with Lucifer, Prince of Darkness, and the cure for the world's pain.
The second chronicle, in which is recorded the Confession of Manfred von Bek, sometime Cpt. of Cavalry in Washington's Revolutionary Forces; Deputy of the French Commune; also Former Seceratary to the Saxon Embassy at the cort of the Empress Catherine of Russia; said Confession chiefly Relating to Certain Strange Events in the City of Mirenburg during the Winter Months of the Year 1794.
As edited, translated and prepared for the press by Michael Moorcock.
MA Arcs: Yarmouth 1509 and 58812
Cats Drunk on Copper
Which is the title of a Current 93 album. Incidentally it's their only one I neither own nor have listened to that I'm aware of. Partially because it's yet another live album. But the title, I always adored.
"If you're going through hell, keep going."
Winston Churchill
Winston Churchill
One of my recent favorites is:
"Warsaw Or The First Breath You Take After You Give Up" by Them Crooked Vultures.
If you haven't heard of them but like Dave Grohl, check them out!
http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=3PuwBeNbnIg
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Originally Posted by Cantatus
Awesome poem. I had no idea Stan Lee could write like that. Thank you for posting it!
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He lets a lot of that side of his writing show in his Silver Surfer books, if you were so inclined to pick up a Masterworks or something.
Thanks for eight fun years, Paragon.
My favorite song title is from a song I've never listened to. It's "Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song so We Wouldn't Get Sued" by Fall Out Boy.
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Originally Posted by treboreleets
My favorite song title is from a song I've never listened to. It's "Our Lawyer Made Us Change the Name of This Song so We Wouldn't Get Sued" by Fall Out Boy.
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"My Name Is David Ruffin And These Are The Temptations"
Song: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xq1CxY_HaYw
It's ok...I guess. Mostly repeated **** as most of their work.
Book - The General Zapped an Angel
Anime - Darker Than Black and A Certain Scientific Railgun
Film - Sorority Babes in the Slimeball Bowl-O-Rama
Song - Pull Out The Pin
Note: In at least one of these cases, the title is far more awesome than the thing itself 
However, it turned out that Smith was not a time-travelling Terminator
There are some great titles in this thread already. I also love Strangelove and I Have No Mouth But I Must Scream, Harlan Ellison's disturbing story.
I always liked Robert A. Heinlein's book, Stranger in a Strange Land. This was actually the publisher's title, and Heinlein's own title was also pretty good: A Martian Named Smith.
The recent movie: The Men Who Stare At Goats
Another book with a memorable title, based upon real events in Savanah, Georgia: Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil
A couple of songs by Queen: Another One Bites the Dust and Bohemian Rhapsody
LOCAL MAN! The most famous hero of all. There are more newspaper stories about me than anyone else. "Local Man wins Medal of Honor." "Local Man opens Animal Shelter." "Local Man Charged with..." (Um, forget about that one.)
Guide Links: Earth/Rad Guide, Illusion/Rad Guide, Electric Control
"Repent, Harlequin!" Said the Ticktockman- just a great wtf? I've got to see what's going on here title.
�Life's hard. It's even harder when you're stupid.� ― John Wayne
�Just think of how stupid the average person is, and then realize half of them are even stupider!� - George Carlin
Even if the author was unknown to me, here are some books I would have been compelled to read by title alone (and I have read them all, and everyone should):
A Brief History of Time
A Short History of Nearly Everything
Pale Blue Dot
The Math Gene (I admit to bias on this one)
@Quasadu
"We must prepare for DOOM and hope for FREEM." - SirFrederick
As I peruse Scott Pilgrim vs. The World's soundtrack, I knew immediately what one of my favorite tracks would be: It's Getting Boring By The Sea. The name invokes this imagery of spoiled discontentment. It perfectly delivered the feeling of the song and had me jamming to the beat before I even heard the first note.
Which got me thinking... What Titles have ever piqued someone's interest? Regardless of the content, who was starring in it, or any other nonsense.
Some others:
Your turn?