Okay, you are alone on a desert island...
Choose 8 pieces of music, one book (excluding the Bible or another religious book of your choice, and the works of Shakespeare, which will already be there.) And one luxury item, which must be inanimate and of no practical use.
Can't make my choice now because I'm off to bed in about 5 minutes.
Desert Island revisited
Desert Island revisited
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers...Rainer Maria Rilke
Desert Island revisited
theia;772402 wrote: Okay, you are alone on a desert island...
Choose 8 pieces of music, one book (excluding the Bible or another religious book of your choice, and the works of Shakespeare, which will already be there.) And one luxury item, which must be inanimate and of no practical use.
Can't make my choice now because I'm off to bed in about 5 minutes.
Define pieces...song, album, concerto etc.
The bible will be there or just Shakespeare ? This seems unclear.
If the bible is there which version ?
Is the Koran there ?
Is everything in English ?
Why is the Bible and Shakespeare there but not Tolstoy or Michener ?
What do the two of them have in common ?
Is it some kind of cult island ?
How did we end up on this island and where is it ?
Latitude and longitude ?
Are there ship or boat remnants ?
What is the nearest speaking language ?
Is there any hope of rescue ?
What types of wildlife inhabiting this island should be considered ?
Types of vegetation ?
Choose 8 pieces of music, one book (excluding the Bible or another religious book of your choice, and the works of Shakespeare, which will already be there.) And one luxury item, which must be inanimate and of no practical use.
Can't make my choice now because I'm off to bed in about 5 minutes.
Define pieces...song, album, concerto etc.
The bible will be there or just Shakespeare ? This seems unclear.
If the bible is there which version ?
Is the Koran there ?
Is everything in English ?
Why is the Bible and Shakespeare there but not Tolstoy or Michener ?
What do the two of them have in common ?
Is it some kind of cult island ?
How did we end up on this island and where is it ?
Latitude and longitude ?
Are there ship or boat remnants ?
What is the nearest speaking language ?
Is there any hope of rescue ?
What types of wildlife inhabiting this island should be considered ?
Types of vegetation ?
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Nomad;772405 wrote: Define pieces...song, album, concerto etc.
The bible will be there or just Shakespeare ? This seems unclear.
If the bible is there which version ?
Is the Koran there ?
Is everything in English ?
Why is the Bible and Shakespeare there but not Tolstoy or Michener ?
What do the two of them have in common ?
Is it some kind of cult island ?
How did we end up on this island and where is it ?
Latitude and longitude ?
Are there ship or boat remnants ?
What is the nearest speaking language ?
Is there any hope of rescue ?
What types of wildlife inhabiting this island should be considered ?
Types of vegetation ?
Just read my sig, Nomad
The bible will be there or just Shakespeare ? This seems unclear.
If the bible is there which version ?
Is the Koran there ?
Is everything in English ?
Why is the Bible and Shakespeare there but not Tolstoy or Michener ?
What do the two of them have in common ?
Is it some kind of cult island ?
How did we end up on this island and where is it ?
Latitude and longitude ?
Are there ship or boat remnants ?
What is the nearest speaking language ?
Is there any hope of rescue ?
What types of wildlife inhabiting this island should be considered ?
Types of vegetation ?
Just read my sig, Nomad
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers...Rainer Maria Rilke
Desert Island revisited
Okay music wise
Chopin's preludes
Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Any of Bach, any
Abbey Road by the Beatles
Kind of Blue Miles Davis
Planxty's After the Break Album
The book I would take would probably be the Rodger Penrose one called "The Road to Reality" simply because its an up to date summation of physics, logic, and mathematics that is so over my head, and is packed with so many things that someone on a desert Island could spend their time working out, I would probably actually start understanding it after a couple of years, and then I feel a lot cleverer than I do right now. So once I was rescued I would have learned something with my time.
The one luxury item, its an inanimate object? Hmmmn, probably a telescope to look at the stars, as that would keep me occupied sometimes, and the stars would be nice on a desert island.
Chopin's preludes
Rhapsody in Blue by Gershwin
Eine Kleine Nachtmusic
Beethoven's 9th Symphony
Any of Bach, any
Abbey Road by the Beatles
Kind of Blue Miles Davis
Planxty's After the Break Album
The book I would take would probably be the Rodger Penrose one called "The Road to Reality" simply because its an up to date summation of physics, logic, and mathematics that is so over my head, and is packed with so many things that someone on a desert Island could spend their time working out, I would probably actually start understanding it after a couple of years, and then I feel a lot cleverer than I do right now. So once I was rescued I would have learned something with my time.
The one luxury item, its an inanimate object? Hmmmn, probably a telescope to look at the stars, as that would keep me occupied sometimes, and the stars would be nice on a desert island.
"We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we imagine"
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
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Take me Home
Take the Long Way Home
Come Sail Away
Home
Don’t Rock the Boat
The Sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald
Alone Again Naturally
All By Myself
Book: 100 easy steps on how to build your own boat.
Luxury item: MP3 Player and lots of batteries
Take the Long Way Home
Come Sail Away
Home
Don’t Rock the Boat
The Sinking of the Edmond Fitzgerald
Alone Again Naturally
All By Myself
Book: 100 easy steps on how to build your own boat.
Luxury item: MP3 Player and lots of batteries
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Galbally took Chopin's Preludes, I will take his Etudes and Nocturnes. 
Vivialdi Four Seasons
Concertos for violin
Mozart-Sonatas
Rachmaninoff Concertos
Bach Two and Three Part Inventions
Fugues too with their extra goodies
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words
You said pieces of music, so the instruments have to go along with them, a nice baby grand piano and violin, a concetina or accordian, a recorder, and whatever else is handy.
Book-the Iliad.
One luxury item: If you won't give me the instruments, give me one for a luxury item. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity of life. But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.
Vivialdi Four Seasons
Concertos for violin
Mozart-Sonatas
Rachmaninoff Concertos
Bach Two and Three Part Inventions
Fugues too with their extra goodies
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words
You said pieces of music, so the instruments have to go along with them, a nice baby grand piano and violin, a concetina or accordian, a recorder, and whatever else is handy.
Book-the Iliad.
One luxury item: If you won't give me the instruments, give me one for a luxury item. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity of life. But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.
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I was thinking of this one sleepless night!
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie
Rule the World - Take That
Barbers Adagio
Higland Cathedral played by the massed bands at the Edinburgh Tattoo
Into the West by Annie Lennox
Already There by Lonestar
Yellow by Coldplay
For a book I'd like the complete works of Tolkein and for a luxury my quilt and pillows.
Life on Mars - David Bowie
Under Pressure - Queen and David Bowie
Rule the World - Take That
Barbers Adagio
Higland Cathedral played by the massed bands at the Edinburgh Tattoo
Into the West by Annie Lennox
Already There by Lonestar
Yellow by Coldplay
For a book I'd like the complete works of Tolkein and for a luxury my quilt and pillows.
Originally Posted by spot
She is one fit bitch innit, that Immy
Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time
She is one fit bitch innit, that Immy
Don't worry; it only seems kinky the first time
Desert Island revisited
chonsigirl;772443 wrote: Galbally took Chopin's Preludes, I will take his Etudes and Nocturnes.
Vivialdi Four Seasons
Concertos for violin
Mozart-Sonatas
Rachmaninoff Concertos
Bach Two and Three Part Inventions
Fugues too with their extra goodies
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words
You said pieces of music, so the instruments have to go along with them, a nice baby grand piano and violin, a concetina or accordian, a recorder, and whatever else is handy.
Book-the Iliad.
One luxury item: If you won't give me the instruments, give me one for a luxury item. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity of life. But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.
Oh bugger, can I stay on the desert Island with CG, we can share the music and she can teach me to play the piano properly?? Oh go on, please!
Vivialdi Four Seasons
Concertos for violin
Mozart-Sonatas
Rachmaninoff Concertos
Bach Two and Three Part Inventions
Fugues too with their extra goodies
Mendelssohn Songs Without Words
You said pieces of music, so the instruments have to go along with them, a nice baby grand piano and violin, a concetina or accordian, a recorder, and whatever else is handy.
Book-the Iliad.
One luxury item: If you won't give me the instruments, give me one for a luxury item. Music is not a luxury, it is a necessity of life. But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.
Oh bugger, can I stay on the desert Island with CG, we can share the music and she can teach me to play the piano properly?? Oh go on, please!
"We are never so happy, never so unhappy, as we imagine"
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Le Rochefoucauld.
"A smack in the face settles all arguments, then you can move on kid."
My dad 1986.
Desert Island revisited
chonsigirl;772443 wrote: But for luxury, I'll take my kitty along for company.
Supplemental rations aren't allowed! So that's technically an excluded item.
I think it should be a FG desert island so we can all hear each other's music and play with chonsi's cat.
Demitri Shostakovich, Babi Yar
Gustav Mahler, Kindertotenlieder
Anton Webern, Quartet opus 22
Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht
David Fanshawe, African Sanctus
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Licht
Alban Berg, Wozzeck
and I've another Stockhausen that I've played quite a lot since I was at school, with Microphonie I on one side and Microphonie II on the other, and I'd not like to be without it so that has to come as well.
I'd better have The Golden Bough as a practical guide to my behaviour, and a permanently-in-tune violin with unbreakable strings and a bow that won't wear out for a luxury.
Supplemental rations aren't allowed! So that's technically an excluded item.
I think it should be a FG desert island so we can all hear each other's music and play with chonsi's cat.
Demitri Shostakovich, Babi Yar
Gustav Mahler, Kindertotenlieder
Anton Webern, Quartet opus 22
Arnold Schoenberg, Verklärte Nacht
David Fanshawe, African Sanctus
Karlheinz Stockhausen, Licht
Alban Berg, Wozzeck
and I've another Stockhausen that I've played quite a lot since I was at school, with Microphonie I on one side and Microphonie II on the other, and I'd not like to be without it so that has to come as well.
I'd better have The Golden Bough as a practical guide to my behaviour, and a permanently-in-tune violin with unbreakable strings and a bow that won't wear out for a luxury.
Nullius in verba ... ☎||||||||||| ... To Fate I sue, of other means bereft, the only refuge for the wretched left. ... Hold no regard for unsupported opinion.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
When flower power came along I stood for Human Rights, marched around for peace and freedom, had some nooky every night - we took it serious. [Fred Wedlock, "The Folker"]
Who has a spare two minutes to play in this month's FG Trivia game! ... My other OS is Slackware.
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for music, I'll just go with all Elvis including his gospel music. I would never tire of his voice! :-4
only one book??!!
I'll pick the dictionary then. 
and I have to have my tub of vaseline!
only one book??!!
I'll pick the dictionary then. and I have to have my tub of vaseline!
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Been thinking about this at work and I still can't make up my mind on the music or the book...
but, like Immy, I would take my pillow and duvet (it's a set, so counts as one item) for my luxury.
but, like Immy, I would take my pillow and duvet (it's a set, so counts as one item) for my luxury.
Live the questions now. Perhaps you will then gradually, without noticing it, live along some distant day into the answers...Rainer Maria Rilke