Top 500 Poems edited by William Harmon (though Robinson Crusoe would make more sense)

Neil Young “Decade”

Bridget Jones Diary

By V-Grrrl on 04.23.07 10:42 pm

Congrats on the Poetry Thursday, saw your cheeky little pic on the site. Looking forward to profound words of wisdom Neilochka.

Book: The Alchemist by Paolo Coelho
Album: The whole of my iPod,how can I choose just one album
Movie: The Wedding Date with Debra Messing. Ultimate chick flick

By rach on 04.24.07 1:37 am

lol, did you pick tootsie because of the comment that you resembled dustin?

pride and prejudice
justin timberland, futuresex/lovesounds
the wrong guy

By better safe than sorry on 04.24.07 2:41 am

Book: Dostoyevsky - The Brothers Karamzov

Album: Marillion - Marbles

Movie: Ridley Scott’s Blade Runner

By Jazz on 04.24.07 4:25 am

tootsie?

i love you more now.

By Sizzle on 04.24.07 5:27 am

Book: As I Lay Dying by Faulkner

Album: Sting’s “Dream of the Blue Turtle”

Movie: Rebecca

By Dagny on 04.24.07 5:30 am

Book: A poetry anthology of some sort. More nuance there.

Album: I can’t just bring my iPod?

Movie: I love Tootsie too. Or maybe Steel Magnolias… Torch Song Trilogy? Oh hell!

By Finn on 04.24.07 6:08 am

The Stand - by Stephen King
Rubber Soul - The Beatles
The Empire Strikes Back

By paperback writer on 04.24.07 6:33 am

Book: Proust’s In Search of Lost Time, several volumes, lots of good reading.

Album: I’d have to draw lots between Elvis Costello’s Armed Forces, The Clash’s London Calling, or The Talking Heads’ Remain in Light. But, in fact, I would bring my i-Pod.

Film: Again, toss-up between Cédric Klapisch’s Un Air de Famille and Christopher Guest’s Waiting for Guffman (1996 seems to be my year for movies!)

By Elisabeth on 04.24.07 6:37 am

Ulysses (James Joyce), Top of the World Live (the Dixie Chicks), and Say Anything (John Cusack!!)

By Bre on 04.24.07 6:50 am

Book: Housekeeping by Marilynne Robinsin

Album: Garden State Soundtrack

Movie: Fight Club

By Churlita on 04.24.07 7:22 am

Cruel question, Neil. Are you trying to make our brains explode?

Book: “Compact Edition” of the Oxford English Dictionary. I am taking BOTH volumes, not just part of the alphabet.

Album: “Traveller’s Prayer” by John Renbourn

Movie: The Princess Bride

But those are only today’s answers.

By Dana on 04.24.07 7:25 am

The Witching Hour - Anne Rice
Grace - Jeff Buckley
It’s a toss up between Clash of The Titans and Mr. Mom

By whoorl on 04.24.07 7:26 am

Hmmm - do we get sunblock too?

Book: Breath of Magic
Album: All the right reasons; Nickleback
Movie: Practical Magic

(these were tough, I read about a book every day or two, adore movies, and always listen to music… looks more like prison than an island at this point.)

By Kyra on 04.24.07 7:36 am

hmmm. Today it might be:
book: Mists of Avalon Marion Zimmer Bradley
album: Bach Brandenburg Concerti
movie: Cinema Paradisio

By Not Faint Hearted on 04.24.07 7:57 am

Glass Castles; A Memoir by Jeannette Walls

Les Miserables Soundtrack (or if we are bringing iPods, I’m going that route… but I think that’s cheating)

Spaceballs

By Bryna on 04.24.07 8:04 am

In this moment:

Book: Jane Eyre
Music: Axis: Bold As Love, Jimi Hendrix
Film: Annie Hall

By Non-Highlighted Heather on 04.24.07 8:29 am

Or it could be…

Book: David Copperfield
Music: Regatta de Blanc, The Police
Film: An Affair to Remember

By Non-Highlighted Heather on 04.24.07 8:32 am

My post is coming tomorrow.

By kapgar on 04.24.07 8:41 am

Book: Night by Elie Wiesel
Album: Best of Ella Fitzgerald and Louis Armstrong
Film: Room Service (1938; Marx Bros.)

By Pearl on 04.24.07 8:47 am

I find it amusing that I immediately clicked on Bryna’s site. Spaceballs — WTF?!

Whoorl - I will so watch “Clash of the Titans” with you. One of my faves too!

By Neil on 04.24.07 9:29 am

Book: Living Out Loud by Keri Smith
Album: Earth Wind & Fire: Greatest Hits
Movie: Four Weddings and a Funeral

By littlepurplecow on 04.24.07 12:01 pm

Book - Dune (Frank Hebert)or an Omnibus edition of Janet Evanovich’s Stephanie Plum novels
Album - Depeche Mode Singles 85-95, Duran Duran Greatest, or Miles Davis Kind of Blue
Movie - Star Wars or Real Genius

By CiCi on 04.24.07 1:53 pm

Book: Gone With The Wind
CD: XTC Skylarking … no, no. The soundtrack to “Leaving Las Vegas”
Movie: “The Secret” … so I could either get off the island or get Antonio Banderas to show up.

By laurie on 04.24.07 3:52 pm

book:to kill a mockingbird, handmaids tale
cd: born to run…bruce
movie: wings of desire, harold and maude or love actually.

i am a big cheater…sue me!

By wendy on 04.24.07 4:02 pm

Book: Gilead, by Marilynne Robinson. Or, the entire Trixie Belden series
Album: Exile in Guyville, Liz Phair
Movie: Manhattan

By molly on 04.24.07 4:07 pm

…or Working Girl. Sigh…

By molly on 04.24.07 4:08 pm

book: how to build a wooden boat by d. mcinthosh

music: sailing by christopher cross

movie: cast away w/ tom hanks

By mckay on 04.24.07 4:28 pm

I don’t have a DVD player!

I haven’t read a book in two years!

Music? What’s that?

I did watch the BRady Bunch movie this weekend!

By Mrs Mogul on 04.24.07 4:36 pm

Wow. Today’s choices are:
Book: Hemingway’s A Moveable Feast
Album: Jacques Brel Is Alive and Well and Living In Paris
Movie: The Women (1939)

By Laurel on 04.24.07 4:42 pm

Book: The Count of Monte Cristo - Dumas
Album - Santana - Supernatural
Movie - The Last of the Mohicans

By Two Roads on 04.24.07 5:27 pm

Ha, McKay.

By Non-Highlighted Heather on 04.24.07 6:51 pm

love your choices!

mine…?
sexton
redding
monroe

yum.

By danielle on 04.24.07 7:29 pm

e.e.cummings - collected poems

Deep Seven - Rapid Serv

Death to Smoochie

By Caron on 04.24.07 8:45 pm

pride and prejudice

grace-jeff buckley

La Belle et la bête - Jean Cocteau

By gorillabuns on 04.24.07 8:49 pm

First of all, shame on you Neil. It is deserted island…not desert island.

Book- Robinson Crusoe by Daniel Defoe
Album- Message in a bottle by The Police
Movie- Castaway

By Lord Chimmy on 04.24.07 8:59 pm

* The Poisonwood Bible - Barbara Kingsolver
* Hard to beat Innervisions
* Albert Brooks’ “Lost in America”

By Marilyn on 04.24.07 9:54 pm

Book: The Invitation
Album: Love - the Beatles
Movie: Two for the Road - Hepburn & Finney

By tamarika on 04.25.07 2:21 am

Mr. Mogul — buy Mrs. Mogul a DVD player!

Tamarika — I’ve seen Two for the Road — they fight for 3/4 of the movie!

Lord Chimmy — Ugh, I changed it. Thank you.

By Neil on 04.25.07 3:21 am

I love Tootsie!

Book: Pride and Prejudice
Item: My toothbrush
Movie: The Best Years of Our Lives (1946)

By teahouseblossom on 04.25.07 3:28 am

Woops. Sorry, it was “album,” not “item.” My bad.

My album would be: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the Ravel Piano concertos.

Sigh. I feel like search a nerd.

By teahouseblossom on 04.25.07 3:33 am

Woops. Sorry, it was “album,” not “item.” My bad.

My album would be: Jean-Yves Thibaudet plays the Ravel Piano concertos.

Sigh. I feel like such a nerd.

By teahouseblossom on 04.25.07 3:34 am

Couldn’t I just have one book STORE, one video STORE and one music STORE instead?

By Malnurtured Snay on 04.25.07 6:36 am

‘Infinite Jest’-David Foster Wallace
‘Kind of Blue’-Miles Davis
‘Ferris Bueller’s Day Off’

Thanks for asking!

By You can call me, 'Sir' on 04.25.07 6:53 am

The Princess Bride — William Goldman
Jacques Brel is Alive and Well and Living in Paris — (oh, but which version?)
Pride and Prejudice — the A&E version

But goodness knows I’d regret this, or any choice I’d be limited to!

By Roberta on 04.25.07 7:10 am

Malnurtured — it’s a deserted island, not the Sherman Oaks Galleria.

By Neil on 04.25.07 7:45 am

Book: “How to signal passing ships”
Album: “Movie Adagios”
Movie: “Castaway”

I may be a cynic here, but the less time I spend on this island, the better… unless my inlaws are in town. The “movie adagios” would be great to listen to while watching the waves, but the book and film would be resource material for getting off the island (so that I could get back to the Sherman Oaks Galleria and get some real books, movies and music).

I’ve totally killed the jist of the question, haven’t I?

By N on 04.25.07 8:43 am

Nice article on the Poetry Thursday site. I don’t think you are alone about commenting on artistic expression mainly because expression is often personal. One way to comments is if what you see, hear, read has a personal meaning for you.

Book: Count of Mounte Cristo or maybe Harry Potter
Music: MP3 Player (if I have a DVD player to see the movie - I can bring my MP3- right?)
Movie: The Thin Man series(anyone of them if I had to choose)

By mmariem3 on 04.25.07 8:45 am

Good Omens - Neil Gaiman
Any Where But Here - The Ataris
My Best Friend is a Vampire - (I do love the 80’s and all the cheese it comes with)

By Jody on 04.25.07 8:53 am

Hey thanks for noticing my sequence was out of order, much better now!

Book: Catcher in the Rye

Music: The Queen is Dead - The Smiths

Movie- Excalibur

By MsMamma on 04.25.07 9:15 am

book: The Frontiersmen
music: The Lamb Lies Down on Braodway
movie: Dire Straits: On the Night

By Blitz Krieg on 04.25.07 9:24 am

I have to catch up on some of these interesting choices!

By Neil on 04.25.07 9:49 am

I have no idea what my three are, but you know what? I LOVE that Stevie Wonder album. I think I’ll go play it right now. Thanks for reminding me of it.

By pam on 04.25.07 3:38 pm

1. Book–Middlemarch–I love it, and it will last until I’m rescued or dead.
2. Album: The trout by Schubert, or something long and noisy by Berlioz;
3. Movie: My Fair Lady.

By miriam on 04.27.07 9:27 am