Auros ([info]auros) wrote,
@ 2004-10-14 19:48:00
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We are ALL individuals!
I'm not!

Gacked from [info]plymouth.

A book you own that (you expect) no one on your friends list does:
For fiction, I don't know that anybody else would have The Thirteen Clocks or Three Men In a Boat. I'm sure many of you would like them, but the former is hard to come by, and the latter is not well-known in the US. For non-fiction, how about Gary Tomlinson's Music in Renaissance Magic? (I have a number of even more obscure musicology books, from my course on the semiotics of music.)

ETA: Looks like only the non-fiction holds up. I guess I could pick out some more obscure bit of fiction, but most of that is just random sf/f. Or maybe one of my "coffee-table" style books -- Graeme Base's The Discovery of Dragons (a gift from [info]larksdream many years ago) or From Myst to Riven.

A CD you own that (you expect) no one on your friends list does:
I could probably name any of the acapella CDs I have -- say, the Johns Hopkins Octopodes' Stacked Like Pez -- but that'd be too easy. How about I go with Alphaville's Afternoons In Utopia? A lot of people have their first album, Forever Young, and don't even know that there are several more (the one I cited, plus The Breathtaking Blue, Prostitute, and Salvation). (Also, I doubt anybody else on my f-list -- aside from my dad, who has access to my mom's copy -- has Heggie's Dead Man Walking or Messaien's Saint François. Though it's possible [info]phreddiva might prove me wrong.)

ETA: OK, fine, so [info]haikujaguar had Afternoons. But I have the Alphaville albums that were never released in the US!

A DVD/VHS tape you own that (you expect) no one on your friends list does:
The Dangermouse collection, Rustler's Rhapsody, the Three/Four Musketeers (with Richard Chamberlain, et al), I CLAVDIVS, the Akira Kurosawa limited edition box set... I have fairly eclectic tastes.

A place you've been that (you expect) no one on your friends list has been:
Hmmm. I can't cite Ceduna, because a whole bunch of the eclipse-chasers are on my f-list. But none of them went to the Barossa Valley or Kangaroo Island, so far as I know. Alternately, I could try Runaway Bay, Jamaica, where my family went on vacation when I was very young. Or Seal Harbor, ME.

ETA: It looks like Barossa may hold up, but not Kangaroo Island. But nobody's said they've been to Runaway Bay or Seal Harbor... Oh, and I could've also added Big Cranberry Island, ME, which is a an island that's maybe a mile in diameter, off the coast of Mount Desert Island, where Seal Harbor is located. And Mt Desert is itself less than twenty miles in diameter. *g*



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[info]jencallisto
2004-10-14 11:37 pm UTC (link)
huh. i think i own a copy of The White Deer but not The Thirteen Clocks. and i've been meaning to pick up a copy of Three Men in a Boat ever since reading To Say Nothing of the Dog by Connie Willis, but i haven't yet, so.

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[info]sunah
2004-10-14 11:37 pm UTC (link)
I have The Thirteen Clocks. I went to Kangaroo Island.

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[info]auros
2004-10-15 09:37 am UTC (link)
But not Barossa?

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[info]phreddiva
2004-10-15 12:26 am UTC (link)
Nope, you're right... don't have deadman walking!

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[info]vvvexation
2004-10-15 01:03 am UTC (link)
I used to have The Thirteen Clocks, though I preferred The Wonderful O.

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[info]jilflirt
2004-10-15 04:01 am UTC (link)
I not only have The Thirteen Clocks, I make everyone I date read it.

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[info]angerona
2004-10-15 04:17 am UTC (link)
I used to have Three Men in a Boat (if you mean the one by Jerome K. Jerome). In fact, I may still have it, but it'd be at my parents house, although I haven't seen it in years, and it's not in the original language -- but I loved it and I've been meaning to actually get an English copy finally.

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[info]melebeth
2004-10-15 06:53 am UTC (link)
Geez. Of course people on your friends list have Three Men in a Boat. You have no faith. Love that book.

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[info]haikujaguar
2004-10-15 07:49 am UTC (link)
I have Afternoons in Utopia in the car. :)

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[info]auros
2004-10-15 09:40 am UTC (link)
Do you have Breathtaking Blue or Prostitute? Neither has ever been published in the US, so far as I know. Salvation did come out in the US, a year and a half after it was out in Europe; I'm kinda irked about that, because they added a track on the US release that's not on the import, which I'd already bought. :-P

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[info]haikujaguar
2004-10-15 01:38 pm UTC (link)
I have Breathtaking Blue (bought that when it was released in... what, the 90s? I got it from a local record store). But I haven't heard of Prostitute. Salvation I have on my wish list. :)

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[info]auros
2004-10-15 03:51 pm UTC (link)
I think Blue was originally released in '89, and Prostitute was '94. Salvation was first released in '98. It's kind of annoying that Prostitute has never come out in the US -- it actually pairs well with Salvation. Both thematically and musically, there's a sort of Hegelian dialectic thing between the two, exploring the pessimistic and optimistic sides of ideas that were present all the way back on Forever Young. (Heck, it's obvious from the titles.)

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[info]stakebait
2004-10-15 07:56 am UTC (link)
I've been looking for Three Men in a Boat ever since I read Connie Willis' To Say Nothing of the Dog, but I haven't found it yet.

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[info]querida_bonbon
2004-10-25 09:22 pm UTC (link)
My mom gave me her copy of Three Men in a Boat after I lent her TSNotD :P

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[info]jrtom
2004-10-15 08:43 am UTC (link)
Yeah, I have Three Men in a Boat, and amusingly enough I even read it before I read To Say Nothing of the Dog. (Still more amusingly--at least to me--the reason I read Three Men in a Boat in the first place is a direct result of its mention in Robert Heinlein's Have Space Suit, Will Travel.)

No Thirteen Clocks, though.

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[info]chaosdancer
2004-10-15 09:25 am UTC (link)
Years ago I saw the film of Three Men in a Boat with Tim Curry and Michael Palin - loved it, but can't remember much about it! I should read the book.

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[info]auros
2004-10-15 09:36 am UTC (link)
Oh, wow. I didn't even know about that... Unfortunately, I can't seem to find it at amazon.{com,ca,co.uk}. The UK site has the 1956 version, but not the Palin/Curry '75 version. :-(

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[info]chaosdancer
2004-10-15 09:45 am UTC (link)
Maybe put the word out on some mailing lists? Someone might have a copy.

I know how that can be - I've been looking for the Phil Ochs documentary for a long time. It shows up occasionally on e-bay but the price always escalates past what I can afford.

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[info]auros
2004-10-15 11:22 am UTC (link)
The one I've wanted for ages is the The Lady's Not For Burning.

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[info]the_real_diana
2004-10-15 11:32 pm UTC (link)
I have I Claudius- I would have the Dangermouse if I had a DVD player that would play other regions' DVDs. I should have gotten a player that would do that *sigh*.

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[info]auros
2004-10-16 02:25 pm UTC (link)
The Dangermouse stuff I have is actually on VHS, not DVD...

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[info]dushai
2004-10-15 11:40 pm UTC (link)
When I was 8 years old, I was a Dangermouse junkie. I taped them off the TV on our brand-spankin'-new video cassette recorder thingie. For reasons unbeknownst to me, those tapes moved to California with me, and I still have them. You can count that or not, as you wish.

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[info]coraline
2004-10-16 08:25 pm UTC (link)
i've got "13 clocks" and "discovery of dragons" and i've been to big cranberry island (my family goes camping on mt desert island every summer ;)

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