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Phew! Good questions. You really got me thinking
Originally Posted by rapunzel47
Here are a few for you. I didn't get in here right off the mark, so there'll be some overlap with questions you've already had, but I think I'll leave the set as is and let you do with it what you will. The theme is (mostly) desert island, i.e. suppose you were stranded on one... and don't worry about the technology to support your choices, that will be taken care of...
1. What would be your five Desert Island CDs? They don't need to come from your own collection. Why would you choose these particular ones?OK, artist followed by album title:
1. Radiohead - The Bends
2. Shakira - Fijacion Oral vol. 1
3. The Cranberries- Everybody Else Is Doing It, So Why Can't We?
4. Depeche Mode- The Best of Depeche mode vol.1
5. Radiohead - OK Computer
I think this is a good variety of sounds. I like the combination of music and voices. The Radiohead and Shakira albums I mentioned have such varied instrumentation that I can focus on different sounds or combinations of sounds in each of the songs, hear them several times, and not get bored. It's like a landscape of sound - a soundscape.
2. You might also want some reading material. What would be your five Desert Island books? Why?
1. Alice's Adventures in Wonderland (Lewis Carroll)
2. Through the Looking Glass (Lewis Carroll)
3. Labyrinths (Jorge Luis Borges)
4. Robot Visions (Isaac Asimov)
5. The Bible (I could maybe keep track of who begat who)
I think these are all books I can read over and over again and get something new from them each time. The stories are interesting and thought-provoking.
3. What else would you like to have with you to occupy your time and your mind? Maybe a computer - I'd finally learn how to program.A journal, puzzles of some sort (my favorites are jigsaw and sudoku), pretty much anything that would help me learn. There are lots of things I dont know how to do- knit or crochet, sew, build things with tools, tie knots, fish, garden... dance
4. You'll also need food. If you could have only two or three foods and nothing else, what would you choose? Why?
1. Pizza! I love pizza!
2. Watermelon! It's my favorite fruit, and I'd need to eat fruits.
3. Salmon! It's good in so many ways- smoked, baked, raw, fried, grilled. Yum
5. If you could have one human companion, who would that be? Why?
My SO, Michael. He's so funny and smart, we wouldn't ever be bored.
This one is not part of the theme:
6. If you came into a large sum of money -- an unexpected inheritance, a winning, whatever, but "set-you-up-for-life" big -- what would be the first four things you would do?
1. Buy a house. Not anything luxurious, just something practical.
2. Go on that European tour I've dreamed of going on
3. Use the rest to help animals either by donating it, or starting my own shelter/sanctuary. I guess if I bought a large property I could have my house and shelter in the same place.
4. Maybe, I'd go back to school to become a vet, but it would take so long and I've been in school so long already... so maybe that large sum of money would be enough to hire a couple of vets?