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| Desert Island Game
the mission is simple: pick your top 10 films, books and albums you'd take with you to a desert island to keep you (in)sane. with the advent of the ipod and kindle this might seem archaic as a concept but U GET IT. starting with mine: | | 1 |  | Talk Talk
Laughing Stock
Winesburgohio
Books: The Recognitions (Gaddis), Cannery Row (Steinbeck), The Wind-Up Bird Chronicles (Murakami), Asphodel (H.D), In Search of Lost Time (Proust), Chronic City (Lethem), The Pake King (DFW), A Naked Singularity (De Pava), Omensetter's Luck (Gass), The Emigrants (Sebald), 2666 (Bolano)
Films: Ti Xi Qu: West of Tracks, Eternal Sunshine, Seven Samurai, Szerelem [Love], Back to the Future, Twin Peaks: The Return, The 40yo Virgin, Late Spring, 'Til Madness Do Us Part, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl
ALBUMS: - Laughing Stock, Quartet, La Stazione, Spiderland, Medium Rude, American Football, Trout Mask Replica, Endtroducing..., Benji | | 2 |  | Pup
PUP
LandDiving
Books: The Alienist (Caleb Carr), A Place Called Freedom (Ken Follett), The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery), The Wall & The Wing (Laura Ruby), The Order of the Phoenix (Rowling), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson), The Hours (Cunningham), The Winter of Our Discontent (Steinbeck), A Hat Full of Sky (Pratchett), The Crow Road (Iain Banks).
Films: Perks of being a Wallflower, Me and Earl and the Dying Girl, Side Effects, Primal Fear, Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf, Kiss Kiss Bang Bang, Amelie, In Bruges, The Usual Suspects, Nightcrawler
ALBUMS: PUP, Of Life (Bandit), Kid A (Radiohead), We Will Always Be (Windy & Carl), Alopecia (Why?), New Manic Art (Trial Kennedy), All My Demons (AURORA), I'd Rather Be A Bass Player (Gus & Frank), Vespertine (Bjork), It's Frightening (White Rabbits) | | 3 |  | Ludus
Danger Came Smiling
SandwichBubble
Books: N/A
Films: Fantastic Planet, Robot Carnival, The Holy Mountain, Taxi Driver, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Dr. Strangelove
ALBUMS: Danger Came Smiling (Ludus), Exuma, 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts (Half Japanese), Songs From Suicide Bridge (Eric Cabor), Destroy All Monsters's 1974 - 1976 (S/T?), Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis (S/T), The Seal of The Blue Lotus (Robbie Basho), Hex Education Hour (The Fall), Lesson No.1 (Glenn Branca?), Parson Sound (S/T) | | 4 |  | Saor
Aura
Kingdedethefifth
Books: Call of the Wild, Water For Elephants, Thousand Splendid Suns, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Definitive Visual History:War, The Hobbit, White Fang, Persepolis, Crank, Impulse.
Films: Pan's Labryinth, The Blair Witch Project, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Juno, Big Fish, The Founder, The Martian.
ALBUMS: Aura (Saor), Roads to the North (Panopticon), Guardians (Saor), Jane Doe (Converge), Obscura (Gorguts) , The Dark Dark Bright (There Will Be Fireworks) , Close to a World Below (Immolation ), The Mantle (Agalloch), The Land of the Purple Buffalo (*shels), Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Mono). | | 5 |  | Bon Iver
For Emma, Forever Ago
BlushfulHippocrene:
Books: Atonement (McEwan), Jane Eyre (Bronte), Turn Of the Screw (James), Alone (Farmer), Submarine (Dunthorne), Welcome to the NHK (Takimoto), Into the Wild (Krakauer), Look at the Birdie (Vonnegut), and two uncharacteristically poor choices in mine and LandDivings magnus opus' (emphasis on the pus; not on the magnum)
Film: Submarine, Drive, Her, Incendies, Ifigeneia, Once, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Under the Skin, Brick, Lost in Translation.
ALBUMS: For Emma, Forever Ago; Sprained Ankle, The Milk-Eyed Mender, Complete (The Smiths), Put Your Back N 2 It, AF2, On Time Spent Waiting, I Hope I Don't Come Across Intense, Stop Torturing Me, CLPPNG, Turn Out the Lights (Julien Baker???) | | 6 |  | Mount Eerie
Live In Copenhagen
Astral Abortis
Books: Richard Adams - Watership Down, Stephen King - The Shining, John le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy, John Darnielle - Wolf In White Van, Gene Wolf - The Book of the New Sun, Charles Bukowski - Ham On Rye, Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy, Frank Herbert - Dune, Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter, Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Films: The Blues Brothers, Alien, Aliens, The Grand Budapest Hotel, Moonrise Kingdom, Suspiria, The Toxic Avenger, Monsters Inc., The Shining, Django Unchained
ALBUMS: Mount Eerie - Live In Copenhagen, Mount Eerie - No Flashlight, The Microphones - Mount Eerie, Pestilence - Consuming Impulse, Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum, Hopesfall - Magnetic North, The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely, maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map, Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward, Bad Religion - No Control | | 7 |  | Spiritualized
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating in Space
zakalwe
Books: Lord of the Flies, Use of Weapons, Catch 22, The Sense of an Ending, Crow, A Confederacy of Dunces, Dune, Flowers for Algernon, No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs, Excession
Films: Pulp Fiction, Shawshank Redemption, Blade runner, The Shining, Terminator 2, Life of Brian, Goodfellas, Lord of the Rings, Aliens, Goonies
ALBUMS: Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space, Ziggy Stardust, Automatic for the People, Nevermind, Fuzzy, Blonde on Blonde, Leftism, Sticky Fingers, The Clash S/T, In a Silent Way | | 8 |  | Regina Spektor
Soviet Kitsch
sinternet
Books: Norwegian Wood, The Bell Jar, Stevie Smith Collected Poems, Children of Hurin (Tolkien), Piercing (Ryu Murakami), The Outsider, Never Let Me Go, The Castle, Persepolis, To Kill A Mockingbird
Films: Princess Mononoke, Persepolis, Mary & Max, Scott Pilgrim vs The World, American Beauty, Werckmeister Harmonies, What We Do In The Shadows, The Empire Strikes Back, Whisper Of The Heart
Mean Girls
ALBUMS: Soviet Kitsch, The Lonesome Crowded West, Catch For Us The Foxes, The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me, Music Has The Right To Children, Tarot Sport, Waited Up Til It Was Light
Romance Is Boring, Illinois, ...Is A Real Boy + Was A Real Boy | | 9 |  | Ween
The Mollusk
cryptofasci - sorry, cryptozoologist!
Films: The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie, The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water, Synecdoche: New York, The Emperor's New Groove, The Room, No Country For Old Men, Samurai Cop, Fateful Findings, Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind, Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Books: some shit about holy texts that doesn't include the Upanishads smgh
ALBUMS: The Mollusk, Legend, Colored Sand. Majora's Mask OST, Shogun, Pale Communion, Pandora's Pinata, Planetary Duality, Recess, Untitled Unmastered | |
Winesburgohio
08.28.17 | submit yours and i'll update!!! super interested to see any overlap, could even compile them into a "sputnik chooses preferred film/books/music" list later on! the possibilities are endless | SandwichBubble
08.28.17 | I so badly want to do joke answers, but you sound so excited. I'll do a real one
I need to read more books apparently | Winesburgohio
08.28.17 | i'm very excited and this is serious bijiness | bgillesp
08.28.17 | Might do this tomorrow, too late to do it tonight | GhostOfSarcasticBtrd
08.28.17 | "I need to read more books apparently"
Nigga you've rated 15,000+ albums... what you need is to sleep. | verdant
08.28.17 | Films: Perks!!! Me and Earl!!! Side Effects!!! Primal Fear!!! Who's Afraid of Virginia Woolf!!! Kiss Kiss Bang Bang!!!! Amelie!!! In Bruges!!!! The Usual Suspects!! Nightcrawler!!
Books: The Alienist (Caleb Carr), A Place Called Freedom (Ken Follett), The Little Prince (Antoine De Saint-Exupery), The Wall & The Wing (Laura Ruby), The Order of the Phoenix (Rowling), The Girl With the Dragon Tattoo (Larsson), The Hours (Cunningham), The Winter of Our Discontent (Steinbeck), A Hat Full of Sky (Pratchett), The Crow Road (Iain Banks). I REALLY STRUGGLED WITH THIS. DAMN MY LAZY ASS FOR NOT READING MORE.
Albums: S/T (PUP), Of Life (Bandit), Kid A (Radiohead), We Will Always Be (Windy & Carl), Alopecia (Why?), New Manic Art (Trial Kennedy), All My Demons (AURORA), I'd Rather Be A Bass Player (Gus & Frank), Vespertine (Bjork), It's Frightening (White Rabbits) | SandwichBubble
08.28.17 | Books: The Catcher in the Rye (Salinger), The Iliad (Homer), All I read is medical documents and patient reports so
Films: Fantastic Planet, Robot Carnival, The Holy Mountain, Taxi Driver, Everything You Always Wanted to Know About Sex, Dr. Strangelove, I don't watch movies either christ
Albums: Danger Came Smiling, Exuma, 1/2 Gentlemen/Not Beasts, Songs From Suicide Bridge, Destroy All Monsters's 1974 - 1976, Catherine Ribeiro + 2 Bis, The Seal of The Blue Lotus, Hex Enduction Hour, Lesson No.1, Parson Sound
@GhostOfSarcasticBtrd that too | Dedes
08.28.17 | Films: Pan's Labryinth, The Blair Witch Project, Spirited Away, Howl's Moving Castle, My Neighbor Totoro, Juno, Big Fish, Saving Private Ryan (yes a very generic choice leave me be), The Founder, The Martian.
Books: Call of the Wild, Water For Elephants, Thousand Splendid Suns, The Curious Incident of the Dog in the Night-Time, The Definitive Visual History:War, The Hobbit, White Fang, Persepolis, Crank, Impulse.
Albums- Aura (Saor), Roads to the North (Panopticon), Guardians (Saor), Jane Doe (Converge), Obscura (Gorguts) , The Dark Dark Bright (There Will Be Fireworks) , Close to a World Below (Immolation ), The Mantle (Agalloch), The Land of the Purple Buffalo (*shels), Hymn to the Immortal Wind (Mono). | EphemeralEternity
08.28.17 | films: cbf
books: don't read
Music: too difficult i'd end up procrastinating and taking none | Drifter
08.28.17 | I dont really watch many movies or read books | Dedes
08.28.17 | I'd read more if I wasn't the pickiest motherfucker on the planet with books. | BlushfulHippocrene
08.28.17 | This is such an interesting list! And it looks like I managed to get even more Literature recs from you. (:
Books: Atonement (McEwan), Jane Eyre (Bronte), Turn Of the Screw (James), Alone (Farmer), Submarine (Dunthorne), Welcome to the NHK (Takimoto), Into the Wild (Krakauer), Look at the Birdie (Vonnegut), Your Novel (Winesburgohio), Jack's Novel (LandDiving(?)).
Films: Submarine, Drive, Her, Incendies, Ifigeneia, Once, Fantastic Mr. Fox, Under the Skin, Brick, Lost in Translation.
Albums: For Emma, Forever Ago; Sprained Ankle, The Milk-Eyed Mender, Complete (The Smiths), Put Your Back N 2 It, AF2, On Time Spent Waiting, I Hope I Don't Come Across Intense, Stop Torturing Me, CLPPNG, Turn Out the Lights (please). | Dedes
08.28.17 | Once again, Land Diving is not a real user. | verdant
08.28.17 | blush continues to make the case for best human alive huh | Drifter
08.28.17 | There's a serious lack of There Will Be Blood in yours guys' film lists | verdant
08.28.17 | because daniel day lewis stole my milkshake | Dedes
08.28.17 | Ok fine you can be a person fuck.
Dude this list is so cool tho. | neekafat
08.28.17 | Impressed by your movies Blush haha | Drifter
08.28.17 | "because daniel day lewis stole my milkshake"
LMFAO | Astral Abortis
08.28.17 | Books:
Richard Adams - Watership Down
Stephen King - The Shining
John le Carre - Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
John Darnielle - Wolf In White Van
Gene Wolf - The Book of the New Sun
Charles Bukowski - Ham On Rye
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Frank Herbert - Dune
Carson McCullers - The Heart Is a Lonely Hunter
Cormac McCarthy - Blood Meridian
Films:
The Blues Brothers
Alien
Aliens
The Grand Budapest Hotel
Moonrise Kingdom
Suspiria
The Toxic Avenger
Monsters Inc.
The Shining
Django Unchained
Albums:
Mount Eerie - Live In Copenhagen
Mount Eerie - No Flashlight
The Microphones - Mount Eerie
Pestilence - Consuming Impulse
Pestilence - Malleus Maleficarum
Hopesfall - Magnetic North
The Mountain Goats - Get Lonely
maudlin of the Well - Bath/Leaving Your Body Map
Kayo Dot - Blue Lambency Downward
Bad Religion - No Control | Winesburgohio
08.28.17 | a lot of insanely good shit here lads
should probably make the formatting consistent huh | verdant
08.28.17 | "and two uncharacteristically poor choices..." pssshhhhhhhhhhhh | zakalwe
08.28.17 | Books
Lord of the Flies
Use of Weapons
Catch 22
The Sense of an Ending
Crow - Ted Hughes
A Confederacy of Dunces
Dune
Flowers for Algernon
No Irish, No Blacks, No Dogs
Excession
Films
Pulp Fiction
Shawshank Redemption
Blade runner
The Shining
Terminator 2
Life of Brian
Goodfellas
Lord of the Rings
Aliens
Goonies
Albums
Ladies and Gentlemen We Are Floating In Space
Ziggy Stardust
Automatic for the People
Nevermind
Fuzzy
blonde on blonde
Leftism
Sticky Fingers
The Clash debut
In a Silent Way
| zakalwe
08.28.17 | I'd trade in the films for a console and Dark Souls. | Sinternet
08.28.17 | Books:
Norwegian Wood (Haruki Murakami)
The Bell Jar (Sylvia plath)
Stevie Smith Collected Poems
Children of Hurin (Tolkien)
Piercing (Ryu Murakami)
The Outsider (Albert Camus)
Never Let Me Go (Kazuo Ishiguro)
The Castle (Franz Kafka)
Persepolis (Marjane Satrapi)
To Kill A Mockingbird (Harper Lee) | Sinternet
08.28.17 | Films:
Princess Mononoke
Persepolis
Mary & Max
Scott Pilgrim vs The World
American Beauty
Werckmeister Harmonies
What We Do In The Shadows
The Empire Strikes Back
Whisper Of The Heart
Mean Girls | ramon.
08.28.17 | whoah
Films:
The SpongeBob SquarePants Movie
The Spongebob Movie: Sponge Out of Water
Synecdoche: New York
The Emperor's New Groove
The Room
No Country For Old Men
Samurai Cop
Fateful Findings
Eternal Sunshine of the Spotless Mind
Poultrygeist: Night of the Chicken Dead
Books:
Genesis
Luke
Acts
Romans
Revelation
Ecclesiastes
Exodus
The Book of Judith
Song of Songs
The Quran
Albums:
Ween - The Mollusk
Bob Marley and the Wailers - Legend
Gorguts - Colored Sand
Majora's Mask - OST
Trivium - Shogun
Opeth - Pale Communion
Diablo Swing Orchesta - Pandora's Pinata
The Faceless - Planetary Duality
Skrillex - Recess
Kendrick Lamar - Untitled Unmastered | Papa Universe
08.28.17 | Books:
How to Survive on a Deserted Island (Jim Pipe)
How to Survive on a Deserted Island (Tim O'Shei)
How to Build a Wooden Boat (David C. McIntosh, Samuel F. Manning)
The Making of Tools (Alexander G. Weygers)
Making Hand Tools (Harry Bryan)
Paper copy of WikiHow's "How to Live on a Deserted Island: 14 Steps (with Pictures)"
Fatu-Hive: Back to Nature (Thor Heyerdahl)
A dictionary of the language of the nearest nation
Dan Simmons' Hyperion full collection edition
A box set of Victor Gollancz Ltd.'s SF Masterworks series
Films (assuming there's a way of watching them):
A Golden Deluxe Edition Collection of Film-Instructions on How to Survive on a Deserted Island
A Collection of Bear Grylls' and Les Stroud's "Deserted Island" episodes.
The Godfather trilogy reedited into one film
Children of Men
Tinker Tailor Soldier Spy
Mood Indigo (just because I want to make myself finish that film)
Benedek Fliegauf's Milky Way (same reason as Mood Indigo)
Empire of the Sun
Stalker (1979)
2001: A Space Odyssey
Albums (guess there ain't no clever way of turning this into a boat-building joke, so I'll just be honest):
St. Vincent - Actor
Red Lorry Yellow Lorry - Talk About the Weather
Avantasia - The Metal Opera (Parts I and II) (cause why the fuck not)
Protomartyr - Relatives in Descent (I hope I get stranded after its release)
Get Well Soon - The Scarlet Beast O' Seven Heads
The Afghan Whigs - Black Love
Behemoth - The Satanist
Space Art - s/t
Christopher Young - Priest OST
Max Richter - Memoryhouse | Sinternet
08.28.17 | Albums:
Soviet Kitsch (Regina Spektor)
The Lonesome Crowded West (Modest Mouse)
Catch For Us The Foxes (mewithoutYou)
The Devil And God Are Raging Inside Of Me (Brand New)
Music Has The Right To Children (Boards Of Canada)
Tarot Sport (Fuck Buttons
Waited Up Til It Was Light (Johnny Foreigner)
Romance Is Boring (Los Campesinos!)
Illinois (Sufjan Stevens)
...Is A Real Boy + Was A Real Boy (Say Anything) | guitarded_chuck
08.28.17 | Books:
Seneca - Letters from a Stoic
Albert Camus - The Stranger
Alan Watts - The Way of Zen
Bardo Thodol (Tibetan Book of the Dead)
JJR Tolkien - LOTR
Anthony Burgess - A Clockwork Orange
Fyodor Dostoyevsky - Crime and Punishment
Leo Tolstoy - War and Peace
Yuval Noah Harari - Sapiens
Douglas Adams - The Hitchhiker's Guide to the Galaxy
Movies:
Stanley Kubrick - 2001: A Space Odyssey, Full Metal Jacket, A Clockwork Orange, Barry Lyndon, Dr. Strangelove
Steven Spielberg - Schindler's List
Francis Ford Coppola - The Godfather
Christopher Nolan - The Dark Knight
Sergio Leon - The Good The Bad The Ugly
Guy Ritchie - Snatch
Albums:
Pink Floyd - Meddle, DSOTM, Animals
GY!BE - F#A# Infinity
Black Sabbath - Master of Reality
Modest Mouse - Long Drive
Slint - Spiderland
Weezer - Blue
Joy Division - Unknown Pleasures
Kendrick Lamar - Section.80 | bgillesp
08.28.17 | Books:
Bible
The Education of Little Tree
Siddhartha
Bartimaeus: The Amulet of Samarkand
Swiss Family Robinson
The Hobbit
Invisible Man
Huckleberry Finn
To Kill a Mockingbird
Harry Potter and the Sorcerer's Stone
Movies:
Castaway
The Grand Budapest Hotel
A Life Aquatic
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Contact
Sharknado
Star Wars Episode IV
Anchorman
Hercules
A Bug's Life
Donnie Darko
Albums:
Devin Townsend Project- Deconstruction
Devin Townsend- Ocean Machine: Biomech
Marillion- Misplaced Childhood
KoRn- S/T
Typhoon (USA-OR)- White Lighter
Bjork- Debut
Megadeth- Rust in Peace
John Coltrane- A Love Supreme
Periphery- Juggernaut
Fleetwood Mac- Rumours | Chortles
08.28.17 | Books:
Ellison - invisible man
Hesse - siddhartha
Krakauer - into the wild
Dumas - the count of monte cristo
Benoiff - city of thieves
Christie - and then there were none
Rowling - prisoner of azkaban
Bradbury- fahrenheit 451
Azerrad - our band could be your life
Pilkney - captain underpants
Films:
Annie Hall
Grand Budapest Hotel
Trainspotting
Monsters Inc
City of god
Hannah and her sisters
A girl walks home alone at night
The lobster
American beauty
Amadeus
Albums:
Women - public strain
Voices from the lake - voices from the lake
Unwound - leaves turn inside you
Andy Stott- we stay together
Elliott Smith- Roman candle
Slint - spiderland
Fugazi - in on the kill taker
Dj koze- amygdala
Talk talk- spirit of eden
Dj tennis - dj-kicks | Minushuman24
08.29.17 | Books:
Battle Royale
Fahrenheit 451
The Bell Jar
catch 22
Alice in wonderland
Hatchet
Alone against tomorrow
Physics book
Great Gatsby
Black Blook of Myths
Films:
Spirited Away
The Thing
Scott Pilgrim
Oldboy
Whiplash
Nightmare before christmas
Django Unchained
Girl who leapt through time
The good the bad and the ugly
Guardians of the galaxy
Albums:
Gaslight Anthem - 59 Sound
Frank turner - Love, Ire, and song
David Bowie - Ziggy Stardust
misfits- Static Age
Brand new - Devil and God are raging Inside me
Nujabes - Modal Soul
CCR - Cosmos Factory
Doomtree - S/T
Kashiwa Daisuke - Program Music 1
Bruce Springsteen - Born to Run
| bgillesp
08.30.17 | Hey, chortles and I have two of the same books | Yotimi
08.30.17 | Not a huge reader but for books:
Confederacy of dunces
Catch 22
House of leaves
Goblet of fire
White Noise
Kafka on the shore
Slaughterhouse five
Wayside school is falling down
Enders game
And probably some Farside gallery
Movies:
Monty python and the holy grail
The Holy Mountain
Pulp fiction
Passion of joan of arc
Nostalghia
Magnolia
Grave of the fireflies
Terminator 2
Willy wonka and the chocolate factory
The Room
Albums:
Boards of canada - music has the right
Boards of canada - geogaddi
The Field - from here we go sublime
The Field - yesterday and today
Burial - untrue
Flaming lips - the soft bulletin
Saves the day - stay what you are
Bjork - homogenic
The replacements - let it be
Aphex twin - SAW 85-92 | zakalwe
08.30.17 | If I was stuck on an island with someone who brought along House of Leaves as their 'book choice' I'd bludgeon them to death with it, eat the corpse and use the book to wipe me arse. | ramon.
08.30.17 | You the kinda guy to stop having fun as soon as you detect the slightest chance of someone being even unintentionally pretentious? | MarsKid
08.30.17 | Seeing some great movie selections
And then there's Fateful Findings | Yotimi
08.30.17 | Confederacy of dunces tho | FadedSun
08.31.17 | Only films, books and albums? I can't play games on this island? | ZippaThaRippa
09.03.17 | Idk man you're on a wild island. Seems silly to wile away your time with a book when there is untouched, virgin wilderness to explore. Turn off the TV and connect with nature. You're gonna die horribly anyways, might as well get bit by a poisonous snake and get it over with. | CaimanJesus
09.05.17 | I'm illiterate | DoofusWainwright
09.05.17 | ALBUMS:
- The The, 45rpm (best of)
- Tindersticks, Live at the Bloomsbury Theatre
- The National, Sleep Well Beast (it's probably good)
- Anathema, Hindsight
- The Stranglers, Greatest Hits 1977-1990
- Prefab Sprout, Jordan: The Comeback
- Destroyer, Kaputt
- Lambchop, I Hope You're Sitting Down
- Nirvana, Unplugged in New York
- Microdisney, The Clock Comes Down the Stairs
FILMS:
- LOTR, trilogy (Two Towers if only one allowed)
- The World's End
- Apocalypse Now
- There Will Be Blood
- Mad Max: Fury Road
- Eraserhead
- Spirited Away
- Withnail and I
- The The, Infected (this was a film of all the music videos)
- Talking Heads, Stop Making Sense
BOOKS:
- Houellebecq, The Possibility of an Island
- Atwood, Oryx and Crake
- Welsh, Glue
- Garcia Marquez, One Hundred Years of Solitude
- Vlautin, Lean on Pete
- Bukowski, Post Office
- Kennedy Toole, Confederacy of Dunces
- Banks, The Bridge
- Hamilton, Hangover Square
- Mitchell, Cloud Atlas (variety!) | DoofusWainwright
09.05.17 | ^ my picks are about variety, not just quality.
I know the 'music' films are cheating a bit but it's my list ok | DoofusWainwright
09.05.17 | TV SHOWS:
- Red Dwarf
- Justified
- Game of Thrones
- Ricky Gervais Show
- Peep Show
- Twin Peaks
- Deadwood
- Family Guy
- Lost (you're on a desert island, plus I never finished it)
- Deadliest Warrior (funniest show ever tbh) | Rik VII
09.05.17 | Albums:
Cocteau Twins - Heaven Or Las Vegas
Björk - Vespertine
The Cure - Disintegration
Kamelot - Epica
Kamelot - The Black Halo
X Japan - Art of Life
Depeche Mode - Violator
Tool - Lateralus
Dir En Grey - Arche
Sigur Ros - ( )
Films:
Oldboy (2003)
Sympathy for Lady Vengeance
Dead Ringers
I hope Lord of the Rings counts as one 11 hour film.
Whisper of the Heart
Tenshi no Tamago
Love Exposure
Inland Empire
I'm a Cyborg But That's Okay
The Nightmare Before Christmas
Books:
The three books of the Mistborn trilogy by Brandon Sanderson
The collection of Kafka short stories I've got
Maybe the Silmarillion due to the large amount of information
Rumo by Walter Moers
The City of Dreaming Books, also by Walter Moers
Thus Spoke Zarathustra by Friedrich Nietzsche
And probably two other books by Nietzsche, couldn't decide which right now, but I think The Gay Science would be one of them. Maybe Human, All Too Human as the other one. | c03131896
09.06.17 | Depends on what kind of island, but since it's a "desert" island I'm assuming it's warm/tropical, so that rules out a few albums that are definitely more "cold weather" music to my ears. I'm also assuming I can't just make an mp3 mixtape...
Albums:
1. Soundgarden - Badmotorfinger
2. Helmet - Betty
3. Helmet- Meantime
4. Andy Narell - Passage
5. Habib Koite - Ma Ya
6. Bali Music for the Shadow Play
7. Mozart Overtures
8. Fiona Apple - Tidal
9. Meat Puppets - No Joke!
10. Tom Coffeen - Redeemer Machine
Films:
1. Apocalypse Now Redux
2. 2001: A Space Odyssey
3. Primer
4. Schindler's List
5. Captain Phillips
6. Alice in Wonderland (1950s Disney animated version)
7. Waking Life
8. The Exorcist
9. Friday Night Lights
...and, duh:
10. Life of Pi
Books:
1. The Torah, Hebrew/English JPS translation (God)
2. Zen and the Art of Motorcycle Maintenance (Robert Pirsig)
3. Lila: An Inquiry into Morals (Robert Pirsig)
4. Seveneves (Neal Stephenson)
5. Anathem (Neal Stephenson)
6. Diamond Age (Neal Stephenson)
7. Heart of Darkness (Joseph Conrad)
8. Industrial Society and its Future (Ted Kaczynski)
9. The Amish (Donald Kraybill)
10. Some kind of wilderness survival guide... | wham49
09.08.17 | books-Catcher in the Rye, Fear and Loathing in LV, American book of the Dead, Dharma Bums, Feirenhieght 451, Slaughterhouse 5, Cats Cradle, My side of the Mountain, Golf in the Kingdom, To Kill a Mockingbird
movies- The Hustler, DAzed and Confused, JAckie Brown, Empire Strikes BAck, Halloween (78), Step Bro's, Animal House, Annie Hall, Rio Bravo, The MAn WHo SHot Liberty Valence, Shawshank REdemption
albums-Pentagram/ First daze here, Motorhead/Overkill, Grateful Dead/ Live Dead, Grateful Dead/ Workingman's Dead, Yes/ the yes album, Dylan/ hwy 61 revisited, BS/ paranoid, Frank Zappa and the Mothers of Invention/ absolutely free, Radiohead/ in rainbows, BS/ sabotage | BeyondCosby
09.08.17 | Good thread man, I'm gonna have to think about this. | zoso33
09.11.17 | Films: There Will Be Blood, Pulp Fiction, Rushmore, The Life Aquatic, The Man Who Knew Too Much, Mr. Smith Goes To Washington, The Science Of Sleep, Amadeus, Wet Hot American Summer, Inglorious Bastards.
Books: The Man Who Was Thursday, The Plague, The Fall, Time Must Have A Stop, Island, The Brothers Karamazov, Crime and Punishment, The Crying Of Lot 49, Rules Of Attraction, The Critique Of Pure Reason.
Albums: Blur: The Great Escape, Radiohead:Amnesiac, In Rainbows, The Beatles: Revolver, Abbey Road, Magical Mystery Tour, Beach Boys: Pet Sounds, Atlas Sound: Logos, Madvillain: Madvillainy, MBV: Loveless |
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