Desert Island List

[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, haunting, and sometimes oddly calming music
Tchaikovsky - for an emotive, decadent Russian Romantic with wide range
Simon and Garfunkel - musical valium

Movies:
Equilibrium - for this scene and this scene (<--- spoilers - if you haven't seen it yet, do!). Think 1984 meets The Matrix.
The Hours - 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 - 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

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. :-)