Movies/Music recommendations for INFPs

FleetFox · 06-21-2009, 02:13 PM

good performance here by the Fleet Foxes. Love at 2:49 when Robin looks up, feels like you finally escape the woods or something, and the two girls right after that are hilarious (I don't know what they are doing but they're cute and goofy)

YouTube - Fleet Foxes - Your Protector

I also recently found out the lead singer, Robin Pecknold, also has social anxiety. That's got to be tough touring and what not with social anxiety. I read an interview where he said he only really hangs out with his band and his family and that he doesn't like going out. Kind of how I feel most times.

FleetFox · 07-06-2009, 03:29 PM

Fleet Foxes with an amazing performance of Blue Ridge Mountains on Letterman. Seems that Letterman also really enjoyed it.

YouTube - Fleet Foxes @ Letterman (HQ)

dragoon84 · 07-06-2009, 07:53 PM

Movies for INFPs:

The Name of the Rose. My favorite Sean Connery movie, its a murder mystery that takes place in a monastery during the time of the plagues, the anti-popes of Avignon, and the Inquisition. The main character is played by Christian Slater, in his first film role. Slater's character is definitely an NF, and could be seen as a story of how an NF tries to fit in a world. It is a creepy, disturbing movie with a great ending that will lift your spirits and then crush them again with the mystery that is life. Definitely not a movie you want to watch if you're a devout Catholic, it does not paint the Church in any kind of good light.

The Haunting (1950's version). Its the story of an NF who gets thrust into a house that is alive with spirits and the damned. Its one of the few suspense movies that still leaves me without breath, scared, after watching it so many times. If you like being scared by movies, and who doesn't, this one will scare you, or at least make you very anxious. Don't bother with the newer version with Liam Neeson, its not even the same story or in the same league as the older version.

Heaven Help Us. Is a story about a young man sent to a Catholic boarding school after the deaths of his parents. It is a story about coming to grips with new rules and a new life, and standing up to those who would tear you down. It has one of my favorite scenes of all time, that lifts my mood no matter what else is happening around me, a moment where anyone who has been bullied will want to put their hands up in the air and cheer.

Music for INFPs:

Joy Division/New Order: Joy Division is one of the darkest bands in history, its great music for depressed people, the singer/lyricist of JD, Ian Curtis, was most certainly an NF, and not a healthy one either, he committed suicide before their second album, Closer, came out. New Order was formed after Curtis's death, and focuses more on a techno sound, a club dancing sound. They're great as well, but very different compared to New Order. Listen to JD first, and then try New Order.

Radiohead: I don't really need to say that much about Radiohead, right?

Velvet Underground: A great overlooked band of the 60's, INFPs will definitely relate to the songs, and the singer.

Kyuss: Stoner metal, heavy bass, heavy beats. If you like Queens of the Stone Age, you will like this.

The Pixies: Nothing soft about these guys, they were alternative music before anyone ever heard of Nirvana. Nirvana actually took a lot of their techniques and became popular. The Pixies are the real deal.

**thehigher** · 07-06-2009, 08:25 PM

A Day To Remember. Almost every NF I know loves them, Including a few STs.

principii · 07-12-2009, 08:38 PM

I wanted to extend a thank you to everybody for this thread. I've Limewired a lot of new (awesome!) music and am really reveling in it all. :)

Just tonight I heard Def Leppard's "Love Bites, Love Bleeds" which really resonated with me for some reason, with the mood I've been in lately. :)

I also like The Steve Miller Band, some of ELO's lesser known stuff (especially the Showdown)... I LOVE Loreena McKennitt, Blackmore's Night, Anne Murray, Nickelback (VERY much, when I'm in darker moods), world music (ie, Pandora, Eydie Gorme, Mirelle Mathieu, Celine Dion's French songs)...

:) But my tastes change - so long as they have depth and fit my mood, I'll like anything. Including Eminem.

Eva · 07-13-2009, 12:36 PM

You Tube

one of my favorite bands

i couldn't embed it but their song Hoppipolla is totally an INFP song i think lol

Buffichar · 07-17-2009, 07:01 AM

Stardust
I Am Robot
17 Again/ Big
The Never ending Story
Speed
Die Hard
Hitch
Transformers
The little Mermaid

Gem- It's Amazing, It's just a ride
Kaci and Jo jo- All my life
Mutemath- Spotlight
Muse- Supermassive Black Hole
Justin Timberlake (yes i admit it) Lovestoned
Beyonce- Smash Into you

I picked the ones that make me smile and usually pull me out of the over-sensitive stupor.

FleetFox · 07-17-2009, 04:43 PM

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Originally Posted by Eva

YouTube - Sigur Ros - Njosnavelin (acoustic live in Paris)

one of my favorite bands

i couldn't embed it but their song Hoppipolla is totally an INFP song i think lol

Ahh yes, Sigur Ros. And this song...

just great. Which brings me to another point, this song was used in the movie Vanilla Sky. A very surreal yet beautiful film starring Tom Cruise and Penelope Cruz. I'm not sure if you have seen it, but it actually reminded me the fact that Vanilla Sky is a great INFP movie. It's about a wealthy man who gets in a car crash that basically changes his life. And afterwards he can't help but try to get back together with a woman he knew for only one night, a night when true loved seem possible to him. I don't want to say much more because in doing so it would give a lot away to the ending. But theres a great scene at the end/climax with this song playing. And any people who have seen it, they might not know that it is actually a remake of a Spanish film, Abre Los Ojos (Open Your Eyes), which came out only a few years earlier. Generally Vanilla Sky is not as well received critically, but I think it is severely underrated having seen both. This film pulled me in years ago when I first saw it which led me to watch the original. But it still captivates my mind and emotions.

Check it out INFPs.

FleetFox · 07-17-2009, 04:58 PM

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Originally Posted by Buffichar

Stardust
I Am Robot
17 Again/ Big
The Never ending Story
Speed
Die Hard
Hitch
Transformers
The little Mermaid

Gem- It's Amazing, It's just a ride
Kaci and Jo jo- All my life
Mutemath- Spotlight
Muse- Supermassive Black Hole
Justin Timberlake (yes i admit it) Lovestoned
Beyonce- Smash Into you

I picked the ones that make me smile and usually pull me out of the over-sensitive stupor.

Everyone has their own tastes so I could never argue with yours. Die Hard is a great action film. One of the best true "action" films I would say. But most action films are all about the "quan" and no qual - you know big budgets, big explosions, and oh yes, terrible acting and plot. And probably filled with cliche storytelling. But hey, some people like it so I can't say it's wrong. There is no wrong piece of art, film, music. But it does satisfy me to know that at the start of every new year I won't have to hear about such films again come oscar season - then come the qual.

The only film that I cannot restrain myself from saying something bad about is Speed. Even an action junky would have to admit its shortcomings. Especially when the whole aspect of a film like that, action driven (instead of character, or story driven), doesn't even get its effects right. The scene I am referring to is the bus "jump scene". You know the one where the bus spontaneously gets air and ramps off of a flat surface across a 30 ft. gap? For those of you who haven't seen it or noticed it when you first saw it, take a look. Still cracks me up.

YouTube - Speed- Bus Jump (The Gap)

**PeacePassion** · 07-17-2009, 11:57 PM