Desert Island List

[Nomad]

Einstein said that any given person stranded on an island somewhere would long for their 10 favorite books. reading that made me want those 10 books, from everyone! so.............

imagine that you're stuck on a desert island. you find a mailing box washed up on shore (ala Castaway) and inside of it is an iPad. (sadly, no internet) downloaded to the device, however, are your three favorite movies - or books - or CDs - or games.

so spill. pick a category (movies, books, CDs, games) or add one of your own. post the best of your best, as many as you like, as often as you like. let's see what we can inspire one another to watch - read - listen to - or play!


3 desert island books: The Freeway (by Dori DeCamillis), The House of Mirth (by Edith Wharton) and Lilith's Brood (by Octavia Butler)

next!

[Martina]

Country of the Pointed Firs and Other Stories -- Sarah Orne Jewett
Joy in the Morning -- P.G. Wodehouse
The Best of Wodehouse -- P.G. Wodehouse
Mansfield Park -- Jane Austen
The Complete Poetry and Selected Prose of John Donne
Masnavi -- Rumi
Lord of the Rings -- Tolkien
Western Wind: An Introduction to Poetry -- editor Frederick Nims
(I taught this book many times and came to love the poems Nims selected.)
The Complete Sherlock Holmes -- Conan Doyle
A Guide to the Bodhisattva Way of Life -- Santideva (Maybe I would become enlightened on a desert island -- no distractions. It's possible. Might as well try.)

More poetry than I would have thought. And no Faulkner. Well, I need to be comforted and entertained on a desert island.

Not counting these among my ten because, although I would want them with me, I probably would not read them for pleasure:

The Boy Scout Manual
A Guide to Edible Plants

[cinnamongrrl]

ooohhhhh FUN! Making me meander through my mind :)

Ok...books...I would SO want to cheat and just bring a kindle...but if I have to play nice.... books would be:

1. Little Women...its my go to feel good book....I have to always have a copy ...not like Catcher in the Rye sort of need but...anyhow...

2. I like to have a book of poems by both Robert Frost and Emily Dickinson... I'm very devoted to my New England roots :)

3. I suppose practically I would like to have a book on surviving in the wild....if that's cheating too much then my Backpacker magazine.....


Movies:

1. Last of the Mohicans

2. Fried Green Tomatoes

3. Dirty Dancing

CDs

1. Red Hot Chili Pepper's Blood Sugar Sex Magick

2. anything by Lady Antebellum

3. Led Zeppelin's complete collection

I will probably feel the need to add to this as I think of more :)

[Venus007]

Books for me. . .
"The Lord of the Rings" Tolkien (Yes they do make it in 1 big book)
"Jitterbug Perfume" Tom Robbins
"Jane Eyre" Charlotte Bronte

[Martina]

I misread the OP. thought we were doing ten. Sorry.

[always2late]

Geez...only three??? It's so hard to narrow it down!

1) Bag of Bones - Stephen King
2) Colony - Anne Rivers Siddons
3) The Complete Works of Rumi

Of course...I am now looking at the list and changing my mind. Just three books is a tough choice for me. :)

[TimilDeeps]

Wondering how long the battery is going to last in that iPad . . .

I'd have James Taylor, Staind, and one CD of kick ass gospel.

Movies i'd have Everything is Illuminated, Fargo, and Despicable Me

only need 1 game BF3

[CharmingButch25]

My movies are well kind of girly ones lol dont judge

Fried green tomatoes
Gone with the wind
The best little whore house in texas

[Sachita]

If only given three total I am afraid I would select music that has sound tones like Tibetan Chakra Meditations and other meditative music. Maybe a nice jazz sound track. At least by stimulating my mind I can activate my imagination and heal.

[Nomad]

I misread the OP. thought we were doing ten. Sorry.

eh. who cares? it's YOUR island baby! (complete with electricity, coffee and toilet paper of course!) Gilligan got coconut cream pie fer pete sake! you can have 10 anythings!

[Nomad]

Wondering how long the battery is going to last in that iPad . . .

I'd have James Taylor, Staind, and one CD of kick ass gospel.

Movies i'd have Everything is Illuminated, Fargo, and Despicable Me

only need 1 game BF3


two words. currant bush

:cracked:

[Nomad]

My movies are well kind of girly ones lol dont judge

Fried green tomatoes
Gone with the wind
The best little whore house in texas

i'm gonna challenge you on the use of this word my friend.

i'm tres girly and i hate all 3 of these movies so let's not define them using that word, ok? my idea of exceptional girl movies is a trifecta of Memento followed by The Prestige and all tied up with a bow by American History X. three exceptionally "girly" movies because they were brilliant and i'm a self identified girl and i LOVED THEM.

so now i'm gonna exert my secret OP rules and make you choose 3 more! :devil:

[CharmingButch25]

Your right my apologies I should not have used that word
three more lets see

The lucky one
Children of men
A pocketful of miracles
Ohhh one more
Hello Dolly

[Nomad]

Your right my apologies I should not have used that word
three more lets see

The lucky one
Children of men
A pocketful of miracles
Ohhh one more
Hello Dolly

oooooooh! Children of Men! good one!

[always2late]

Movies (again having a tough time limiting it to just 3, but here goes):

1) Amelie
2) Fargo
3) Young Frankenstein

[Martina]

eh. who cares? it's YOUR island baby! (complete with electricity, coffee and toilet paper of course!) Gilligan got coconut cream pie fer pete sake! you can have 10 anythings!

ANYthings??? That's better than I do NOT on a desert island. ;)

[Nomad]

ANYthings??? That's better than I do NOT on a desert island. ;)

yep. "anythings" at all

Nomad (who is standing by her propensity for made up wordities because she is the super hero of vocabularyishness.)

:supermanbooth:

[Kätzchen]

Music: Stevie Ray Vaughan & Double Trouble

Book: The Canterbury Tales (Geoffrey Chaucer)

Movie: Sleepless in Seattle (Tom Hanks, Meg Ryan)

[Nomad]

Dead Can Dance - Spiritchaser
Moby - Play
Ozomatli - Live at the Fillmore

[Teddybear]

If I was stranded I would want the following:

The Bible
The Shack
The Bachuman books( I think I misspelled it. Stephen Kings books he wrote under another name)

[Luv]

Book's :

1. The Bible
2. Barbara Johnson Collection
3. My best Life Now- Joel Osteen

Movies:

1. Pearl Harbor
2. Swiss Family Robinson
3.Windtalkers

CD's:

1. The Judds-The Collection
2. Il Volo
3. Homecoming CD's,any of them

[Martina]

I'm gonna go with my ten. I got permission, and I'm gonna do it.

Music

Trace -- Son Volt
Sojourner -- Magnolia Electric Co
Nobody's Darlings -- Lucero
Catalog Box Set -- Bob Dylan
Ghosts of the Great Highway -- Sun Kil Moon
Boxer -- The National
Car Wheels on a Gravel Road -- Lucinda Williams
Devotion and Doubt -- Richard Buckner
A Man Under the Influence -- Alejandro Escovedo
Rumor and Sigh -- Richard Thompson


Fuck ten. I will stick some CD's down my bra. Or perhaps between my belly folds. Both.


Buddy and Julie Miller -- Buddy and Julie Miller
The Shepherd's Dog -- Iron & Wine
Old Five and Dimers Like Me -- Billy Joe Shaver
Dublin Blues -- Guy Clark
Live in Aught Three -- James McMurtry
Z -- My Morning Jacket
A Bigger Piece of Sky -- Robert Earl Keen Jr.
The Houston Kid -- Rodney Crowell
Live from Austin, TX -- Steve Earle
Revival -- Gillian Welch


Alright, I suppose they are falling out of my panties.

[Martina]

Movies

I can't stick by this list. A first draft, it would be.


Giant
The Birdcage
Charlie Wilson's War
Alias -- tv -- all seasons
The Wire -- tv -- all seasons
On the Town
Charade
Six Weeks Notice
Terminator 2 -- for Vasquez
My Man Godfrey

[Daktari]

Desert Island books


The NA Basic text
AA Big Book
New Living translation study bible
Tales of the City series, Armistead Maupin
Roald Dahl collection
Le Morte d'Arthur,Sir Thomas Malory
Brave New World, Aldous Huxley
Oranges are not the only fruit, Jeanette Winterson

Possibly throw in a couple of Patrick Gale's and the Oscar Wilde prose.

I could fashion a library from flotsam and jetsam. :winky:

[Kelt]

Assuming electricity, given movie and music options;

I would bring my Kindle loaded with it's max of 900 or so books.

:cheesy:

Not sure what I'd do the second month.

:thinking:

[always2late]

Hey no fair! If Kelt can bring a Kindle, I wanna bring mine too! ;)

[Kelt]

Uh oh, just re-read the OP. Okay, one more time following the guide:

Books;
Complete works of Walt Whitman
Tao De Ching
Field guide for desert islands

Movies:
North by Northwest
BBC series - Life (the Attenborough version)
The Last Emperor

Music:
Dave Brubeck - Jazz Impressions of New York
General meditative;
Japanese flutes
Celtic guitar

I'm thinking the "Sounds of Ocean Waves" will be pretty much handled.

:theisland:

I guess we only get one, (I never read instructions well), make it the books. :)

[Nomad]

ok ok let's make it easy. choose 3 of everything - books, music, film or games.

also, an new development happens on your island. you're getting company! but you have to choose ONE PERSON from among the characters on Gilligan's Island. who will it be:

1st Mate Willy Gilligan
Skipper Jonas Grumby
Thurston Howell III
Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell
Professor Roy Hinkley
Ginger Grant
Mary Anne Summers

choose your fate!

[Martina]

Lovey. I think she's kinky.

[G Snap!]

Nomad said:
pick a category (movies, books, CDs, games) or add one of your own.

So here is my category - personal care product.
Lip balm, lip balm, lip balm, sunscreen, lip balm, lip balm, moisturizer, lip balm, a bar of soap, and a pack of wet ones or baby wipes.

Or not an attempt to derail.

I like the Lord of the Ring trilogy, the North and South trilogy, and all of Stephen King's Dark Tower series. (I gotta get Wind through the keyhole.)
Ok, that's more than 10. Ditch the north & south.
I could go without music as long as I had someone to talk to.
And I don't watch much tv, so I would rather have more books. So I add Harry Potter and Clive Barker's books of blood. Also my Cemetery Dance halloween short story book, as it's getting near that time...

[Gráinne]

Music CD's:

Marvin Gaye-Sexual Healing
Led Zepplin-Physical Graffiti
Pink Floyd-most anything, but especially Wish You Were Here

Books:

Complete Works of Langston Hughes
Ditto-e.e.cummings
Dostoyevsky-Crime and Punishment

Movies:

Vertigo
The Crying Game
Close Encounters of the 3rd Kind

And Ginger ;)

[Kelt]

Well, my first reaction would be to pick Ginger.. 'natch. ;)

However, I would probably have a lot of fun and invent useful things hanging out with the professor.

:theisland:

[lusciouskiwi]

Not sure about who I would pick from Gilligan's Island - have to go and revisit that. But books:

Brewer's Phase and Fable
Another Mother Tongue, Judy Grahn
An Angel at my table - complete autobiography, Janet Frame

will come back with movie and music choices :D

[Jesse]

1. Kindle with solar charger, complete with loads of survivor information including books, articles on edible plants, building emergency and long standing shelters, desalination... which would all be important in an island situation. Not to mention all of the other books that I have loaded on there.

2. Either the Professor for his inventive abilities, or Gilligan for his integrity and entertainment value. (As for choosing between Ginger and Mary Anne, my choice would be Maryann. Ginger was much too shallow acting for my tastes.) Come to think of it, I would likely choose Mary Anne over all of the others, I would not want to face the possibility of spending the rest of my days without female companionship.

3. My knife

No movies or games for me, but my dog has to be there.

Yup, I broke the rules, which is probably why I was sent to the island in the first place. :theisland:

[Nomad]

1. Kindle with solar charger, complete with loads of survivor information including books, articles on edible plants, building emergency and long standing shelters, desalination... which would all be important in an island situation. Not to mention all of the other books that I have loaded on there.

2. Either the Professor for his inventive abilities, or Gilligan for his integrity and entertainment value. (As for choosing between Ginger and Mary Anne, my choice would be Maryann. Ginger was much too shallow acting for my tastes.) Come to think of it, I would likely choose Mary Anne over all of the others, I would not want to face the possibility of spending the rest of my days without female companionship.

3. My knife

No movies or games for me, but my dog has to be there.

Yup, I broke the rules, which is probably why I was sent to the island in the first place. :theisland:


that's right Number 6!

[Luv]

oh heck if I got to choose people to keep me company id pick the Beverly Hillbillies cause Uncle Jedd knows how to hunt and Grannie can cook,,Ellie May is eye candy and Jethro is just silly

[Nomad]

oh heck if I got to choose people to keep me company id pick the Beverly Hillbillies cause Uncle Jedd knows how to hunt and Grannie can cook,,Ellie May is eye candy and Jethro is just silly

see, now i want to bring the people from Mission Impossible!

[Sweet Bliss]

ok ok let's make it easy. choose 3 of everything - books, music, film or games.

also, an new development happens on your island. you're getting company! but you have to choose ONE PERSON from among the characters on Gilligan's Island. who will it be:

1st Mate Willy Gilligan
Skipper Jonas Grumby
Thurston Howell III
Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell
Professor Roy Hinkley
Ginger Grant
Mary Anne Summers

choose your fate!

Mary Anne

Presence Process /Artist's Way/Life is a verb

Bach/Gipsy Kings/ PemaChodrun

African Queen / Big Sleep / Off the Map

[Orema]

Music: Somethin' Else (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Somethin'_Else_(Cannonball_Adderley_album))
Book: James Baldwin: Collected Essays

Movie: Daughters of the Dust (http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Daughters_of_the_Dust)

[Femmadian]

Hmmmm, interesting to think about and I loved reading everyone else's answers!

If we're going for desert island-specific choices and not favourites, then:


General Music (who buys actual CDs anymore?):
Dead Can Dance - for beautiful (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=sJqUbb-WuPQ), haunting (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=xpMNXEY_tio), and sometimes oddly calming (http://youtu.be/x5twt5oCUTM?t=43s) music
Tchaikovsky - for an emotive (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=-TuHjEaTYCQ), decadent (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Kr9Nj7GKUZc) Russian (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GS_gumNLHhM) Romantic (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Gjkd5CzKlEc) with wide (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=FrEnoYKlBx4) range (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=5poSw7tFLB4)
Simon and Garfunkel - musical (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ul2hSba5pOs) valium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=HMDjIbfKcXE) :)

Movies:
Equilibrium (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=NhOnNLiUZb4) - for this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=Ey0yBDckI5o) scene and this (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lmG57WlIpEc) scene (<--- spoilers - if you haven't seen it yet, do!). Think 1984 meets The Matrix.
The Hours (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KPJwNOX4tZQ) - for the literary aspect and also it feels very much like a "woman's story" (in all the best ways). I love how delicately and kindly it treats its characters. Plus, that soundtrack is beautiful.
Away We Go (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=rzulBmbI0Z4) - for a fun, fairly light pick-me-up


Books:
Wittgenstein's Mistress - David Markson
The God of Small Things - Arundhati Roy
plus...
The Book of Longing - Leonard Cohen
OR
Blood, Marriage, Wine, and Glitter - S. Bear Bergman
OR
The Grapes of Wrath - John Steinbeck
- can't decide between the last three :deepthoughts:

Character:
I've never actually seen Gilligan's Island, so... hmmm, based on the character descriptions via Wikipedia, I'm going to go with The Professor. He has a background in botany and was a science teacher, so he'd be a useful companion (plus, I could scratch off a botany/survivalist book from my list). I bet he's also a really interesting 2-am conversationalist. :-)

[VintageFemme]

ok ok let's make it easy. choose 3 of everything - books, music, film or games.

also, an new development happens on your island. you're getting company! but you have to choose ONE PERSON from among the characters on Gilligan's Island. who will it be:

1st Mate Willy Gilligan
Skipper Jonas Grumby
Thurston Howell III
Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell
Professor Roy Hinkley
Ginger Grant
Mary Anne Summers

choose your fate!

Music: Van Morrison, Sarah McLachlan, David Gray

Books: The Prophet, The Alchemist, ee cummings Complete Poems

Film: Bridget Jones's Diary, Harold & Maude, Into The Wild

Gilligan!

[mythy]

Music
the Kick Inside Kate Bush
Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield

Films The Green Mile
Notting Hill
Midnight Express
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Books
Watchers Dean Koontz
The Dresden Files Jim Butcher
The Dark Tower Books Stephen King...

[mythy]

[QUOTE=mythy;934145]Music
the Kick Inside Kate Bush
Rickie Lee Jones Rickie Lee Jones
Tubular Bells Mike Oldfield

Films The Green Mile
Notting Hill
Midnight Express
Lord of the Rings Trilogy

Books
Watchers Dean Koontz
The Dresden Files Jim Butcher
The Dark Tower Books Stephen King...

Bloody hate Gilligans Island

[homoe]

Eunice "Lovey" Wentworth Howell without a doubt! She was always so prim and proper and where she got that stellar wardrobe I'll never know

Book: The Help
Movie : Good Will Hunting
Music: Stevie Nicks

[Katniss]

Books;

The Complete Collection of Calvin and Hobbes by Bill Watterson (the comic, not the philosophers)

The Norton Anthology of Literature by Women.

A big blank book with high quality paper and some colored pencils.

Movies;

The Mission

The Shawshank Redemption

How to Train Your Dragon.

Music;

The Mission soundtrack

Opera Babes

George Winston 'Winter into Spring"

As far as a guest from the list provided....how big is this island? If I can have at least one volcano between me and them for "distance as needed" then I pick Thurston. I figure I'm smart enough to eventually get us rescued and he's rich enough to show some serious monetary appreciation afterwards.

Katniss~~

[deathbypoem]

Im going to be a complete rebel and have lots of things!

Books, music and 3 random items.


Books- "My book", "The Book of Awesome", "A girl and her Pig"

Music- Snow Patrol, Bon Iver and Echosmith

3 Random Items- Journal, pen, endless paper

[Kätzchen]

Music: Leonard Cohen, Stevie Ray Vaughan & Aretha Franklin.

Books: Various literature compositions authored by Chezlaw Milosz, and a large print edition of The King James bible (for counter-study purposes), and vintage comic books (Archie, Wonder Woman, and Batman).

Other items of interest: coconut oil, rope, ping pong paddles, a net, a big tarpaulin so I can either sway on a bed or make an impromptu trampoline. Pillows and quilt, too. Oh, and a couple pairs of shades (classic Ray Ban's or Vaurnet's) and a pair of very old, but useful, binoculars.

[Orema]

Music
– Something Else by Cannonball Adderley
– Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
– Live at the Apollo by James Brown

Movies
– Les Misérables 1995 version with Jean Paul Belmondo
– Rear Window by Alfred Hitchcock
– Daughters of the Dust by Julie Dash

Books
– James Baldwin Collected Essays edited by Toni Morrison
– The River Where Blood Is Born by Sandra Jackson Opoku
– Things Fall Apart by Chiua Achebe

[kittygrrl]

Movies-Twilight-Sense & Sensibility-Harry Potter

Music
The Four Seasons (by Vivaldi)
Cosi Fan Tutte Opera (by Wolgang A Mozart)
The Ring Opera (by Wagner)

Books-The Hobbit-The Scarlet Letter-Guide to Sustenance Living in a Desert Environment (w/field guide and maps)

[gotoseagrl]

Books: Jane Eyre, Villette, The Book of Virtues, L.M. Montgomery Short Stories

Music: Tori Amos, Radiohead, Over the Rhine, FKA Twigs, Billie Holiday, Michael Hoppe, Chopin

Films: Titanic, Secretary, Punch-drunk Love, It Happened One Night, Ghost & Mrs. Muir, Something, Anything

[afemmenatalie]

My Desert Island list is as follows:

My Kindle with an unlimited supply of power to read the hundreds of books
waiting for me to enjoy, as well as to listen to my music and talk radio.

My Bose earplugs.

An umbrella to shade me from the sun's rays, and keep me dry during
downpours.

My camera which uses the same unlimited power supply.

Water to drink, laundry soap and body soap.

Unlimited supply of notebooks, pens.

An Epipen.

A knife, toothbrush, toothpaste. My secret pouch...don't ask.

[Orema]

Books:
– Kindred, Octavia Butler
– How Proust Can Change Your Life, Alain De Botton
– Selected Poems of Nikki Giovanni

Music:
– My Favorite Things, Joey Alexander
– Love Supreme, John Coltrane
– Live at the Apollo, James Brown

Movies:
– The Killer of Sheep
– Daughters of the Dust
– Crooklyn

It was a toss up between Bach's Concerto for Two Violins (Perleman and Stern) or the Apollo by James Brown. JB won this morning.

[Kätzchen]

I used to think that if I were stranded, and was in need of a desert island collection, that all my other ideas seemed to not be quite all there. So, I'm going to try again, do something a little different -- because just when I think I know something about me, then I realise I've changed.

Books :: I don't know that I'd want books to read, since by memory I have lots of good stuff to rehearse by heart. So this time, instead of books, I'm going to make sure I have some craft supplies on hand, like: knitting needles and skeins of yarn, crochet hooks too. Color crayons and a huge box of coloring pens and paper and glue and scissors, and lots of pencils and pens.

Music :: I think having a guitar and a flute and back up guitar strings, will satisfy my need for music. Plus, if I find drift wood or save back all the busted coconut shells, I can make wind chimes.


I don't usually watch TV or movies, per se, but I do enjoy things like that. So, I'm going to say that having a copy of the documentary about Sugarman, would be nice to watch. I'd also like all the seasons of Downton Abbey. Too, I'd like to have all the seasons of Seinfeld, and maybe slip in a movie or two by Bob Hope and Bing Crosby. Maybe even a few b-rated flicks just to have some sort of balance.

[kittygrrl]

I would want a-
complete Astrological Guide to (the stars)
Book-Guide to Island Survival
Tolkien-The Trilogy

[Glenn]

Scatter, Adapt, And Remember. How Humans Will Survive Mass Extinction."
"Seeing The Sky- Explorations In Astronomy"
"United States Marines Survival Field Guide Manual"
"Holy Bible"
"Man's Eternal Quest"
"The Divine Romance"
"Autobiography Of A Yogi"
" Medical Dictionary Of Diseases-Causes And Cures"
"The Medicinal Properties Of Plants"

[Chad]

I would bring my lady, fishing gear, camping gear, our favorite books, and music.

:theisland: :sailing: :fishing:

[Jesse]

Books:
Field Guide to Medicinal Plants and Herbs
Field Guide to Edible Wild Plants
Secrets of Native American Herbal Remedies

Instead of movies or music:

Once we have immediate needs sorted out, a flute can be made from bamboo for our musical needs. We will be much too busy surviving day to day to miss watching movies. Instead, I would prefer to have at least one of my knives, and an ax, hatchet, or at least a saw if you're gonna dump me out on a deserted island. (which I could probably get into, by the way.) A few zip ties, paracord to use for making snare traps and binding limbs together for the hut, and a ferrocerium rod if at all possible.

As for which character from Gilligan's Island I would want to bring along...while Ginger is the gorgeous movie star she seems shallow, so I would likely choose Mary Ann because I believe she would be much more interesting to talk with, and she seems to be more capable and down to earth. I think she would be more likely to help us thrive in the elements, just going by the roles played on the TV show. Just for kicks I would likely request Gilligan as well, because laughter will be an important asset to thriving while stranded. ;)

P.S. I would also need to smuggle in my dog, Sadie. She can help us find the elusive wild hog that we will roast to celebrate the end of rainy season. I would find it difficult to thrive without her there with me.

[Kätzchen]

Books: Stieg Larson "The Girl ..." series of books. A cache of poetry books. Quite a few books authored by Eric Larsson. My favorite non-fiction books. The Tolkien trilogy books.

Sunglasses, sun-block, blood pressure medication, vitamin C supply, a multi-purpose knife, rope, taurapin, waterproof matches, nail file, nail polish, Turkish towels, and.... a few heavy glass jars (lids to match, too).

I'll skip the music, though.

[Deborah*]

I would want the following movies..

Dangerous Liaisons
A Midsummer Night's Dream
Mr. Destiny

Deborah

[homoe]

BUMP BUMP................

[Kätzchen]

Books: The Help, The Painted House, Big Little Lies, Girl With The Pearl Earring, White Palace, Fried Green Tomatoes at the Whistle Stop Cafe, and Mildred Pierce.

Movies: Jackie Brown, White Palace, The Holiday, and all the episodes of Seinfeld. :jester:

I'd also bring along several survival tools (knife, rope, tarpaulin, glass mason jars to keep water or food contained), binoculars, and several pillows and a blanket, waterproof matches, too.

I think Mr Howell and his wife would be nice to hang out with, too. But the Professor and Gilligan would be welcome too, as well as the rest of the cast (May Ann, Ginger and The Skipper) of Gilligan's Island.

[homoe]

Books: I'd start with Tipping the Velvet, The Paying Guests, All of Grisham's books to date, Getting Back (a wonderful lesbian story by Cindi Rizzo) and look to start a book exchange if other book lovers showed up!

Movies: Tipping the Velvet, World of Henry Orient, Tea with Mussolini, Silver Lining Playbook,The Other Sister, Simply Irresistible, Reaching for the Moon, Philomena, Night Falls On Manhattan, Mirror Has Two Faces, Dan In Real Life, Family Stone, Midnight In Paris, Lake House, Hope Springs, Gloria (Sharon Stone re-make) Crazy Stupid Love, Bound,A League Of Their Own, 84 Charing Cross Road, Fran Liebowitz Public Speaking, Bette Davis The Old Maid, Shadow of A Doubt, Women's World, Black Widow (1954 Van Heflin) East Side, West Side (1949 Barbara Stanwyck) Laura (1944 Gene Tierney) and All that Heaven Allows (1955 Rock Hudson).

I think the only two I might hang out with would be The Skipper & Gillian! I don't think I'd have much in common with those others!

[Martina]

I looked at my old list. If I really had only three, I'd cheat:

Collected PG Wodehouse (Jeeves novels, at least)
Norton Anthology of Poetry
The Riverside Shakespeare

For music, I'd make my own CDs. One R&B, one rock, one country.

Movies, no idea. I'd trade the movies for three more CDs. Same genres.

Rethinking -- box set all seasons Buffy and Angel, all seasons Grey's Anatomy or perhaps Charmed, all of Star Trek

Truly, I have no taste in movies and TV. I just watch to pass the time, and i get bored easily.

[cathexis]

Books- Pikhal, Harrison's Book of Medical Dx, a pharmocopia of synthesis of various chemical substances
Music- A multiple cd set of world music and a djemba, home recorded cd set with Beethoven 's 5th and 9th and Bach's harpsichord concertos, lastly- a complete compendium of the works of Pink Floyd.
Games- Scrabble with dictionary, Parcheesi (weird, I know), a double deck of cards for spades and what-not.