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One Book, One Album, One Movie for that Deserted Island
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Congrats on the Poetry Thursday, saw your cheeky little pic on the site. Looking forward to profound words of wisdom Neilochka.
Book: The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
Album: The whole of my iPod,how can I choose just one album
Movie: The Wedding Date with Debra Messing. Ultimate chick flick
lol, did you pick tootsie because of the comment that you resembled dustin?
pride and prejudice
justin timberland, futuresex/lovesounds
the wrong guy
Book: Dostoyevsky – The Brothers Karamzov
Album: Marillion – Marbles
Movie: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner
tootsie?
i love you more now.
Book: As I Lay Dying by Faulkner
Album: Sting’s “Dream of the Blue Turtle”
Movie: Rebecca
Book: A poetry anthology of some sort. More nuance there.
Album: I can’t just bring my iPod?
Movie: I love Tootsie too. Or maybe Steel Magnolias… Torch Song Trilogy? Oh hell!
The Stand – by Stephen King
Rubber Soul – The Beatles
The Empire Strikes Back
Book: Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, several volumes, lots of good reading.
Album: I’d have to draw lots between Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces, The Clash’s London Calling, or The Talking Heads’ Remain in Light. But, in fact, I would bring my i-Pod.
Film: Again, toss-up between Cédric Klapisch’s Un Air de Famille and Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman (1996 seems to be my year for movies!)
Ulysses (James Joyce), Top of the World Live (the Dixie Chicks), and Say Anything (John Cusack!!)
Book: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinsin
Album: Garden State Soundtrack
Movie: Fight Club
Cruel question, Neil. Are you trying to make our brains explode?
Book: “Compact Edition” of the Oxford English Dictionary. I am taking BOTH volumes, not just part of the alphabet.
Album: “Traveller’s Prayer” by John Renbourn
Movie: The Princess Bride
But those are only today’s answers.
The Witching Hour – Anne Rice
Grace – Jeff Buckley
It’s a toss up between Clash of The Titans and Mr. Mom
Hmmm – do we get sunblock too?
Book: Breath of Magic
Album: All the right reasons; Nickleback
Movie: Practical Magic
(these were tough, I read about a book every day or two, adore movies, and always listen to music… looks more like prison than an island at this point.)
hmmm. Today it might be:
book: Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
album: Bach Brandenburg Concerti
movie: Cinema Paradisio
Glass Castles; A Memoir by Jeannette Walls
Les Miserables Soundtrack (or if we are bringing iPods, I’m going that route… but I think that’s cheating)
Spaceballs
In this moment:
Book: Jane Eyre
Music: Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi Hendrix
Film: Annie Hall
Or it could be…
Book: David Copperfield
Music: Regatta de Blanc, The Police
Film: An Affair to Remember
My post is coming tomorrow.
Book: Night by Elie Wiesel
Album: Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Film: Room Service (1938; Marx Bros.)
I find it amusing that I immediately clicked on Bryna’s site. Spaceballs — WTF?!
Whoorl – I will so watch “Clash of the Titans” with you. One of my faves too!
Book: Living Out Loud by Keri Smith
Album: Earth Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits
Movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral
Book – Dune (Frank Hebert)or an Omnibus edition of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels
Album – Depeche Mode Singles 85-95, Duran Duran Greatest, or Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Movie – Star Wars or Real Genius
Book: Gone With The Wind
CD: XTC Skylarking … no, no. The soundtrack to “Leaving Las Vegas”
Movie: “The Secret” … so I could either get off the island or get Antonio Banderas to show up.
book:to kill a mockingbird, handmaids tale
cd: born to run…bruce
movie: wings of desire, harold and maude or love actually.
i am a big cheater…sue me!
Book: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. Or, the entire Trixie Belden series
Album: Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair
Movie: Manhattan
…or Working Girl. Sigh…
book: how to build a wooden boat by d. mcinthosh
music: sailing by christopher cross
movie: cast away w/ tom hanks
I don’t have a DVD player!
I haven’t read a book in two years!
Music? What’s that?
I did watch the BRady Bunch movie this weekend!
Wow. Today’s choices are:
Book: Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
Album: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris
Movie: The Women (1939)
Book: The Count of Monte Cristo – Dumas
Album – Santana – Supernatural
Movie – The Last of the Mohicans
Ha, McKay.
love your choices!
mine…?
sexton
redding
monroe
yum.
e.e.cummings – collected poems
Deep Seven – Rapid Serv
Death to Smoochie
pride and prejudice
grace-jeff buckley
La Belle et la b̻te РJean Cocteau
First of all, shame on you Neil. It is deserted island…not desert island.
Book- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Album- Message in a bottle by The Police
Movie- Castaway
* The Poisonwood Bible – Barbara Kingsolver
* Hard to beat Innervisions
* Albert Brooks’ “Lost in America”
Book: The Invitation
Album: Love – the Beatles
Movie: Two for the Road – Hepburn & Finney
Mr. Mogul — buy Mrs. Mogul a DVD player!
Tamarika — I’ve seen Two for the Road — they fight for 3/4 of the movie!
Lord Chimmy — Ugh, I changed it. Thank you.
I love Tootsie!
Book: Pride and Prejudice
Item: My toothbrush
Movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)
Woops. Sorry, it was “album,” not “item.” My bad.
My album would be: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the Ravel Piano concertos.
Sigh. I feel like search a nerd.
Woops. Sorry, it was “album,” not “item.” My bad.
My album would be: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the Ravel Piano concertos.
Sigh. I feel like such a nerd.
Couldn’t I just have one book STORE, one video STORE and one music STORE instead?
‘Infinite Jest’-David Foster Wallace
‘Kind of Blue’-Miles Davis
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’
Thanks for asking!
The Princess Bride — William Goldman
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris — (oh, but which version?)
Pride and Prejudice — the A&E version
But goodness knows I’d regret this, or any choice I’d be limited to!
Malnurtured — it’s a deserted island, not the Sherman Oaks Galleria.
Book: “How to signal passing ships”
Album: “Movie Adagios”
Movie: “Castaway”
I may be a cynic here, but the less time I spend on this island, the better… unless my inlaws are in town. The “movie adagios” would be great to listen to while watching the waves, but the book and film would be resource material for getting off the island (so that I could get back to the Sherman Oaks Galleria and get some real books, movies and music).
I’ve totally killed the jist of the question, haven’t I?
Nice article on the Poetry Thursday site. I don’t think you are alone about commenting on artistic expression mainly because expression is often personal. One way to comments is if what you see, hear, read has a personal meaning for you.
Book: Count of Mounte Cristo or maybe Harry Potter
Music: MP3 Player (if I have a DVD player to see the movie – I can bring my MP3- right?)
Movie: The Thin Man series(anyone of them if I had to choose)
Good Omens – Neil Gaiman
Any Where But Here – The Ataris
My Best Friend is a Vampire – (I do love the 80’s and all the cheese it comes with)
Hey thanks for noticing my sequence was out of order, much better now!
Book: Catcher in the Rye
Music: The Queen is Dead – The Smiths
Movie- Excalibur
book: The Frontiersmen
music: The Lamb Lies Down on Braodway
movie: Dire Straits: On the Night
I have to catch up on some of these interesting choices!
I have no idea what my three are, but you know what? I LOVE that Stevie Wonder album. I think I’ll go play it right now. Thanks for reminding me of it.
1. Book–Middlemarch–I love it, and it will last until I’m rescued or dead.
2. Album: The trout by Schubert, or something long and noisy by Berlioz;
3. Movie: My Fair Lady.