Desert Island whatnots
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Well obviously I have books to mark, work to do etc etc but so do you....
Whilst having a well-earned break you could perhaps think about the last bit of Desert Island Discs where Sue or Kirsty etc ask which one record you would have, which book (apparently apart from the complete works of Shakepeare and the Bible), and which luxury item.
Nothing that has to be powered by electricity of any form please.
And your bike just got lost at sea...... :twisted:
Mine (today) are:
Disc: Cake - I will survive http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=10C68Gzd5GM
Book: PG Wodehouse - Jeeves omnibus
Luxury item - my pillow
Whilst having a well-earned break you could perhaps think about the last bit of Desert Island Discs where Sue or Kirsty etc ask which one record you would have, which book (apparently apart from the complete works of Shakepeare and the Bible), and which luxury item.
Nothing that has to be powered by electricity of any form please.
And your bike just got lost at sea...... :twisted:
Mine (today) are:
Disc: Cake - I will survive http://uk.youtube.com/watch?v=10C68Gzd5GM
Book: PG Wodehouse - Jeeves omnibus
Luxury item - my pillow
Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome
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Disc: X-Ray Spex - Warrior in Woolworths
Book: Roddy Doyle - Barrytown Trilogy
Luxury item - Someone else's bike!!0 -
Disc??....what's that? It's all MP3 these days: Just some playlist of stuff I won't get bored of. I don't know if thats cheating but really I don't really know any CD's, all my music is MP3.
Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Luxury Item: my sleeping bag......well I don't want to be cold at night."If we all had hardtails we'd all go down the hill, just slower"
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2tired2ride wrote:Disc??....what's that? It's all MP3 these days: Just some playlist of stuff I won't get bored of. I don't know if thats cheating but really I don't really know any CD's, all my music is MP3.
Book: The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time
Luxury Item: my sleeping bag......well I don't want to be cold at night.
Hmm yes - one song only I'm afraid - them's the rules!
Fact is you'll get sick in no time of just one song, but that's Desert Island life - my pillow will doubtless get soggy too!Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome0 -
Well RV given that I am not taking my bedroom with me, It might just get rained on
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Tricky, tricky, tricky...
Song: a toss up between Radiohead's Where I End And You Begin and Rob Dougan's Furious Angels instrumental. I think the latter gets the nod.
Book: This Thing of Darkness by Harry Thompson (assuming I couldn't have the Aubrey/Maturin complete set)
Luxury item: a White Egyptian cotton sheet.0 -
Song - given that repeated plays of one song you'll soon get sick of it, I'd go for Chesney Hawkes - the one and only - just for the irony. If it had to be a song I really liked I'd go for Roxy Music Avalon so I could chill out on the beach
Book - Easy. Robert Tressell - The Ragged Trousered Philanthropists. A great great book and v long
Luxury item (other than Roman Abramovich's yacht) a magnifying glass (handy to start fires and read that book when the light starts to fade
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It's just one song and not a whole album?
OK... Dave Matthews Band, 'Stay wasting time'. *hides from biondino*
Book: That's the really tricky one... it'd have to be one which was really well-written, but without a massive twist in the plot that wouldn't withstand regular re-reading. One that would provoke thought to minimise the boredom.
Hmmmmm.
Something dense, that would require time. Tell you what, I'd take Joyce's Ulysses. If I ever had time/patience to finish that book it would be on a desert island. Don't rescue me yet - I'm only halfway. Come back in a week.
And the luxury item? A really massive hammock.0 -
Disc....Probably the full length version of Papa was a rolling stone by the temptations it lasts for ages, so i think playing that over and over would be great [Could listen to the bassline all day anyway]
Book: Aldous Huxleys brave new world, just finished it thought it was pretty good.
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Disc - Anarchy in the UK by the Sex Pistols. I can remember where I was the first time I heard it like it was yesterday (it wasn't )
Book - Jonathan Strange and Mr. Norrell by Susanna Clarke and Portia Rosenberg.
Luxury item - family photo album (aww :oops: )0 -
Track: probably an eddie izzard spoken word bit, i can just listen to that over and over again
book: the complete guide to core stability might as well get better core strength whilst on my dessert island...
luxury: well i'd really like a trials bike so i can at least come back with some mad-skillz, but that's been ruled out. So i guess a merino romper-suit with re-inforced heels, knees and elbows. (in fact why hasn't anyone made one of these yet?) probably in white (the tartiness and indecency when wet wouldn't matter and it'd keep me cooler in the island sun)0 -
Track: probably an eddie izzard spoken word bit, i can just listen to that over and over again
book: the complete guide to core stability might as well get better core strength whilst on my dessert island...
luxury: well i'd really like a trials bike so i can at least come back with some mad-skillz, but that's been ruled out. So i guess a merino romper-suit with re-inforced heels, knees and elbows. (in fact why hasn't anyone made one of these yet?) probably in white (the tartiness and indecency when wet wouldn't matter and it'd keep me cooler in the island sun) and the obligatory roll of duct tape!0 -
Disc- Otis Redding, dock of the bay
Book- Godfather trilogy
Luxury item- Porno mag
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Disc - Miles Davis - So What (or in fact anyhting from Kind of Blue, but So What makes the hairs stand up on the back of my neck every time I hear it)
Book - Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath (just to remind myself that a desrt island may still better than the daily grind of just trying to survive)
Luxury Item - Guitar (I might actually get to learn how to play it, at least there'd be nobody else to complain about the noise anyway)pain is temporary, the glory of beating your mates to the top of the hill lasts forever.....................
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STEFANOS4784 wrote:Disc- Otis Redding, dock of the bay
Book- Godfather trilogy
Luxury item- Porno mag
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I like your thinking
Disc - Otis Redding, dock of the bay (inspired choice credit quote above)
Book - Porno mag ( you'd get bored of anything else after one read, nothing too freaky)
Luxury - 20 Marlboro Light ( I'm on a desert island, cancers the least of my problem)“New York has the haircuts, London has the trousers, but Belfast has the reason!0 -
Disc...Visions of Joanna ,Bob Dylan
Book...The largest book of 20th Century Poetry available
Luxuary...Drawing and Painting gear......all the way...'til the wheels fall off and burn...0 -
Disc: Foo Fighters - Everlong
Book: How to play the piano
Luxury: A piano
I have no skills as a musician but it would be fun and time consuming to learn to play the piano. Then after a couple of days I could break it up and I would have all sorts of building materials to make a comfy shack plus some fishing line! 8)Short hairy legged roadie FCN 4 or 5 in my baggies.
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Disc - The Ocean Led Zeppelin, no wait, Jeff Buckley, Lilac Wine (hallelujah has been done to death already)
Book - Feersum Endjin by Ian M Banks (is my geek showing?)
Luxury - Why can't I have my bike, and an Alpine Road to ride it on? OK then, how about a crossword anthology and a pencil."Impressive break"
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WheezyMcChubby wrote:STEFANOS4784 wrote:Disc- Otis Redding, dock of the bay
Book- Godfather trilogy
Luxury item- Porno mag
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I like your thinking
Disc - Otis Redding, dock of the bay (inspired choice credit quote above)
Book - Porno mag ( you'd get bored of anything else after one read, nothing too freaky)
Luxury - 20 Marlboro Light ( I'm on a desert island, cancers the least of my problem)
Ah, in that case if i can have my book as the porno mag i'll do that and for luxury item a home brewing kit 8)winter beast: http://i497.photobucket.com/albums/rr34 ... uff016.jpg
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Disc: Handel's Ring Cycle
Book: "How To Operate Your GPS/Satellite Phone"
Luxury item: GPS/Satellite Phone (If I can't have my bike, I'm not staying on the island any longer than I have to, because running and swimming are the only other options. I'm not running nowhere, and there will most likely be a reef nearby to injure yourself on, or loads of sharks around, so swimming is out of the question too. Further reason to leave shaprish, should one be needed after all that, is the lack of food around. The only thing on the menu would probably be sand-covered fish or crab, or coconut milk, with sand in it. Or some sort of gibbon.)FCN 2-4.
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cjcp wrote:Disc: Handel's Ring Cycle
Book: "How To Operate Your GPS/Satellite Phone"
Luxury item: GPS/Satellite Phone (If I can't have my bike, I'm not staying on the island any longer than I have to, because running and swimming are the only other options. I'm not running nowhere, and there will most likely be a reef nearby to injure yourself on, or loads of sharks around, so swimming is out of the question too. Further reason to leave shaprish, should one be needed after all that, is the lack of food around. The only thing on the menu would probably be sand-covered fish or crab, or coconut milk, with sand in it. Or some sort of gibbon.)
Mmm, Gibbon, my favourite.
What will you do once the battery runs out on your GPS/Satellite Phone?"Impressive break"
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Greg66 wrote:cjcp wrote:Luxury item: GPS/Satellite Phone
Bzzzzt!
Read the rules. Nothing that uses electricity.
Wow, CJ, your book choice looks a bit poor all of a sudden...
The phone is plugged into whatever the device is which allows you to listen to the discs.FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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cjcp wrote:
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I knew there was a flaw in the programme .....
Perhaps the disc is the one tune which will be going around in your head as you gradually go mental.
Mine would be Saturday Night by Whigfield in that case - or Barbie Girl by Aqua - not through choice I moght add but because that's exactly the kind of thing that enters my head when I try to clear it of all thoughts....Emerging from under a big black cloud. All help welcome0 -
Greg66 wrote:
That's the one. Can I have my GPS Phone back, plug it in and get the rock off this sandfly infested island that's more isolated that the Isle of Man so I can go ride my bike? FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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I always thought that the idea was that you got a wind up gramophone to listen to your discs on.
It's gonna be rubbish for MP3s"Impressive break"
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cjcp wrote:
You know, you make a valid point there... Unless it's a wind-up gramophone or something, in which case I'm sure there'd be some way to harness the wind-up power... maybe a book on turning a wind-up gramophone into a generator would be more apt.0 -
lost_in_thought wrote:cjcp wrote:
You know, you make a valid point there... Unless it's a wind-up gramophone or something, in which case I'm sure there'd be some way to harness the wind-up power... maybe a book on turning a wind-up gramophone into a generator would be more apt.
The crab from the Carling Black Label advert powered a fridge. Either way, I'm getting off the island. FCN 2-4.
"What happens when the hammer goes down, kids?"
"It stays down, Daddy."
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cjcp wrote:lost_in_thought wrote:cjcp wrote:
You know, you make a valid point there... Unless it's a wind-up gramophone or something, in which case I'm sure there'd be some way to harness the wind-up power... maybe a book on turning a wind-up gramophone into a generator would be more apt.
The crab from the Carling Black Label advert powered a fridge. Either way, I'm getting off the island.
Book: 'Training Island animals to power electrical equipment' by Dr C Blacklabel.
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