Dear {Reader},
Due to your encyclopedic knowledge of {subject area}, you’ve been selected to go on a lengthy away mission to {redacted.} Enclosed, you’ll find a small, entertainment flash drive. You may upload the following to your drive:
[icon_list] [icon_list_item type=”check”] Five complete albums. [/icon_list_item] [icon_list_item type=”check”] Five individual songs. [/icon_list_item] [icon_list_item type=”check”] Two books. [/icon_list_item] [icon_list_item type=”check”] One movie. [/icon_list_item] [icon_list_item type=”check”] Three episodes of television. [/icon_list_item] [icon_list_item type=”check”] One video game. [/icon_list_item] [/icon_list]
What do you choose? Leave your choices in the comments.
11 replies on “Wednesday Fun: Your Digital Desert Island”
Ooooh!
Five complete albums:
1) Lost Songs – David Gray
2) Graceland – Paul Simon
3) Recovering the Satellites – Counting Crows
4) This Desert Life – Counting Crows
5) Asleep in the Back – Elbow
Five individual songs:
1) Fitzcarraldo – The Frames
2) Samson – Regina Spektor
3) Mausam – Nitin Sawhney
4) Motorcycle Emptiness – Manic Street Preachers
5) A Mistake – Fiona Apple
Two books:
1) Wolf Hall – Hilary Mantel
2) Cloud Atlas – David Mitchell
One movie:
Burnt By The Sun
Three episodes of television:
1) 30 Rock – “Reaganing”
2) Spiral, Season 3, episode 3
3) Jeeves and Wooster – any, really.
One video game:
Sonic the hedgehog (last played when I was 12).
Cloud Atlas very nearly made my book list.
And now I’m sad I don’t have any Frames songs on my playlist.
I meant to put mine in the post, but ran out of time while being indecisive.
Albums:
Sign O’ the Times – His Royal Purpleness.
Rumors – Fleetwood Mac
Music for the Masses – Depeche Mode
One of Henry Rollins’ spoken word albums, b/c rawr
Tori Amos – Little Earthquakes
Songs
“Tusk” – Fleetwood Mac
“Istanbul (not Constantinople)” – They Might Be Giants
“I Think I’m Paranoid” – Garbage
“Where is My Mind?” – The Pixies
“Chorus” – Erasure
Books
A guide to what’s not poison on {redacted.}
Welcome to the Monkey House – K. Vonnegut
Movie
Drop Dead Gorgeous
TV Episodes
Pilot – Pushing Daisies
Pilot (mini-series) – Battlestar Galactica (2004)
Pilot – Deep Space Nine
Video Game
Any of the Civilizations
It is because of the cruelty in [Redacted] that my list does not have Tori Amos, nor “Tusk.”
I was thinking I hope we’re assigned close together, so we can swap drives.
You can keep Oasis, though. ; )
OH If we’ve got time on our hands, I CAN DO MY BEST TO CONVERT YOU.
/rocknroll evangelist ;)
Two books? TWO BOOKS? Can’t I drop everything else and make it like ..fifteen books?
{Redacted} is a cruel place.
So very, very cruel. Also, yes, I guess a Poison Guide would be handy in this situation, but apparently I’d rather read about murderin’.
OOOH OOH I LOVE THESE KIND OF GAMES. *rubs hands together*
Okay!
Five complete albums.
*Definitely Maybe – Oasis
*Noel Gallagher’s High Flying Birds
*Razorblade Suitcase – Bush
* Euphoric Heartbreak – Glasvegas
*Stories From The City, Stories From The Sea – PJ Harvey
*Cold Roses – Ryan Adams and The Cardinals
Five individual songs.
* “That’s Entertainment” – The Jam
* “She is Love” – Oasis
*”Songbird” – Fleetwood Mac
*”Cum on Feel the Noize” – Either Quiet Riot or Oasis
*”Handle With Care” – Jenny Lewis with Conor Oberst
Two books.
* The volume that has the first three Ripley Books — The Talented Mr. Ripley, Ripley Under Ground, and Ripley’s Game — by Patricia Highsmith (It’s come out as one book! It counts!)
* The Mysteries of Pittsburgh by Michael Chabon
One movie.
*Empire Records
Three episodes of television.
* Whatever Peter Capaldi’s first episode of Doctor Who will be called.
* The finale from the third series of Sherlock (I can’t remember its title, but there’s so much going on there acting/writing-wise that it will give me a lot to think about).
* “The Stolen Planet” — Doctor Who
One video game.
*Mario All-Stars for the SuperNintendo
Waitwaaaaaaait: NO! I want the Mark Gatiss-written episode with Peter Capaldi. The Robin Hood-themed one.