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Desert island- and then there was one!

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Kenji

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A slight twist to the usual. You can take to your desert island just one book, one film, one album/piece of music, one painting, one poem.

BOOK: House of the Spirits (Allende), pipping Wind in the Willows and The Little Prince.

FILM: Sansho the Bailiff (Mizoguchi)

MUSIC: Art of Amalia (Amalia Rodrigues)

PAINTING: My favourite artists are Vermeer, Hiroshige and Turner, but for one painting only, i'm torn between Girl with a Turban (Vermeer), Las Meninas (Velasquez) and Whistlejacket (Stubbs). Ooh this is a hard one. No, i'll be true to the one i've always loved, the girl with a turban.

POEM: Somewhere i have never travelled (eecummings).


Then, of those 5 from each category, you can keep just one:

Art of Amalia. Cos my #1 love Sansho is always with me anyway, and Amalia's voice caresses like silk, bathes like moonlight and pierces like lightning. And at the moment i really can't get enough of it.
 
Book: Dreams
Film: Hmm...Harry Potter 3
Music: Guns and Roses
Painting: One of a naked man. Well...I need to learn about...the male body form ;) :eek:
Poem: I write my own poems.

I would keep the poems I write myself because I'm going to be all alone on this island, I need to keep my mind ocupied.
 
Book: On the Road by Jack Kerouac - it'll offset being trapped
Film: Shawshank Redemption - uplifting and cathartic
Music: Kind of Blue by Miles Davis
Painting: Maybe a still life by Charles Caryl Coleman
Poem: Maybe Poe's "El Dorado"

If limited to just one, I guess I'd have to go with the book, just to have a book handy all the time.
 
book:any guide to surviving on a tropical island( sorry that's practical)
film:lord of the rings, as technically it is a 12 hour movie
music: dave matthews live at the gorge
painting:danae by klimpt
poem:cremation of sam mcgee by robert service, little taste of home

and i would take dave with me, everywhere i go.
 
I would like to trade my painting option for paints, brushes, and a canvas; my music option for a guitar and harmonica; my book option for paper and pencils.

But for poetry, I think the collected works of WB Yeats would keep me going for a while. If not him, perhaps Whitman's Leaves of Grass.

And for film, my neighbor's home movies of us as kids, zillions of kids playing in the street, going to the beach, playing Monopoly, saying stupid kid stuff, eating hotdogs, wearing godawful clothes with dribbles down the front.
 
Hmmm.

Book: Amy Hempel - Reasons To Live. Narrowly beating Norwegian Wood and Mockingbird.

Film: not much of a film person. Probably The Glenn Miller Story. I like Novella's idea of a home movie though, so maybe the incredibly silly movie my friends and I made of ourselves this Christmas.

Music: Peter Gabriel - PG3 (Melt)

Painting: Not a painting, but a sketch - something from Ralph Steadman's "The Book Of Jones"

Poem: Isaac Watts' "True Greatness"

And for the one out of those I could keep: The music, books etc, I have in my head, so probably the movie of my friends.
 
that album is so awesome. have you heard bitches brew? that's a good one, too. a little more experimental.
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I didn't really care for Miles' experimental/fusion stuff. I've heard Bitches Brew a couple of times, though. For me, it was a toss up between Kind of Blue and Sketches of Spain - but when push comes to shove, you've got to go with the former.
 
This is definitely an interesting twist! For me I'd say:

Book: The Bible

Film: Pirates of the Caribbean (at least, at the moment)

Painting: Anything from Bob Ross (that guy with the 'fro!), Rembrant, or Jose de Leal.

Music: The Phantom of the Opera (ABSOLUTELY MUST have Sarah Brightman as Christine and Michael Crawford as the Phantom!!!!)

Poem: The Raven...(perhaps my username should tell you how much I like this poem!)

And if only one could go with me...it'd be the Bible, for it has poetry, history, theology, and comforting passages that would keep me strong Spiritually, Mentally and Emotionally.
 
Book : Don Quixote (edges On the Road and To Kill a Mockingbird on the sheer
size of the book ~also has quality in abundance)

Film : Before Sunset

Painting : Scream by Edvard Munch (maybe Alex Grey instead if in a
metaphysical mood)

Poem : Lorca - Poeta En Nueva York ~ especially ode to Walt Whitman

#1 Don Quixote - my imagination will never bore me and neither will this book whilst the painting, film and poem will eventually
 
Fun thread!

Book: These is my words. I think it would be nice to be able to read about other pioneers trying to make it in a harsh climate + it's one of my favourites.

Film: LOTR

Music: Peter Gabriel's Us (nice to see a fellow fan, starchild!!)

Painting: Hmm, that's a tough one because I like so many different styles an artist, but I think something by John Bauer maybe to remind me of home.

Poem: Well short poems are easy to memorize so I'd bring more than one of those :). I'd probably bring a longer poem like The Lady of Shalott or Goblin Market.
 
Book: probably a journal/sketch pad or Alice in Wonderland to stir my imagination

Film: Romeo and Juliet (old version)

Music: The Phantom of the Opera just because even though I love rock, I tend to get tired of it after listening for long periods.

Painting: Oh, so many! I do like Vermeer and Rembrandt, though, so probably one of their paintings

Poem: The Lady of Shalott

If I could only take one thing, it could be the book, of course!! :D
 
Book: Shakespeare's complete works. Never been able to totally grasp his stuff, which is why trying to decihper it would keep me amused for a while.

Film: mmm...The Royal Tenenbaums (or could I cheat and save a few to a video iPod?)

Music: all of silverchair's albums. I assume I'll be allowed to crank the tunes as loud as i like? Or maybe The Beautiful Girls for those cruisy desert island nights.

Painting: the Mona Lisa or a Magic Eye to keep me amused

Poem: a limerick of some variety. Laughter is good.

One thing to keep....the paintings are out because they'd watch me at night:( , the limerick would drive me insane, I'd get sick of the music and film, so I guess it's Shakespeare for me!
 
Oooh, love the twist.

Book: Too many books. Too many books. I'd say, if I HAD to pick, it would be The Cask of Amontillado. It's not long, but it is one of my favorites. I could write my own story that continues it.

Film: Underworld Evolution. I loved it. And it would keep me occupied on the dark side of things. ^^

Music: Nightmare Anatomy CD by Aiden. I'd need something to keep me from going insane. Or have I gotten there already?

Painting: How about something from Monet. I like him.

Poem: My own, so that I could add more, take away some, and revise. Also, so I could make more.

Of all these I would go with the poems. I don't think that there would be a TV and DVD on the island, so the movie's out. Painting would make me homesick because there are a couple Monet reprints in our house. No on the book because I would run out of new ideas for little stories continuing it after a week. No on the music, because I would listen to it at all times, and forget to try and keep myself alive.
 
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