(One of these days I’ll have to tell you about my novel. It’s serious, mostly…but I have a character called “Cotton Jenny.” She grew up in a house on a hill by a worn-down weathered old mill…and sometimes it seems her life is like a paperback novel, the kind the drugstores sell…)
I’ve never seen GL in concert, but I did get to see JB at Penn State. I almost saw SN at the New York State Fair once, but she got sick and cancelled.
Well, the thought of listening to one CD from beginning to end bores me so the thought of listening to three CDs over and over again makes me want to explode my eardrums.
I would select whichever CDs I can find that are the shiniest for use as signalling mirrors and the CD player which has the best chance of being turned into a satellite phone with the judicious use of palm fronds and octopus ink.
I would have to take at least one that I had never heard before, maybe Miles Davis’s Sketches of Spain but there is so much I would hate to end up stranded on an island without ever hearing. As far as albums I’ve already heard are concerned, Mardi Gras Mambo by Cubanismo is incredible, I just got it Friday night and haven’t gotten tired of listening to it yet.
If I am ever on a boat that sinks near a deserted island, and I am among the group of survivors who makes it to the island, I hope you will be there too.
Hey its pretty good! Very good in fact. Am I the only one who believes as such?
And supposing I had brought it along, and played it really loudly supposing your island was floating a few feet from mine and you were loudly blasted w/ the sounds of “Daydream Believer”- would you fire monkey asses and bull testicles at me? (I’m kind of hoping you’ll say yes.)
[li]Jazz Sebastien Bach - the Swingle Singers (since the limit is 3 CDs, I thought I’d combine Bach with jazz.)[/li] Ravel: The Complete Piano Music, played by Robert Casadesus (2 CDs).
I would bring 3 blank CDs and a laptop computer (with the internet, of course) so that I can download stuff from Napster! Yeah, yeah I know that this would be cheating. But you did say that this was a rhetorical …um, er… hypothetical question, didn’t you?
Hokay,
[ul][li]Bizet, L’Arlesienne Suites 1 & 2; Carmen Suites 1 & 2, Dutoit, Orchestre symphonie de Montreal.[/li][li]Miles Davis, Kind of Blue.[/li][li]Cream, The Very Best of Cream.[/li][/ul]
As far as albums I’ve already heard are concerned, Mardi Gras Mambo by Cubanismo is incredible, I just got it Friday night and haven’t gotten tired of listening to it yet.