We're all familiar with BBC Radio 4's Desert Island Disc programme and how bloody good it is. Well I'm adding books, movies and video games to the mix. All hail my originality! Don't trouble your mind about the literal likelihood of having a TV or electricity on a desert island (there's always one, isn't there! ). It's a hypothetical question.
You might think it's just a simple process of choosing your three favourites from each media form, but bear in mind this is the only media you'll have. Your favourite album right now might be something brilliant but equally depressing - something like Radiohead's OK Computer, but would you really want to hear it over and over for the rest of your life? Maybe you would. I dunno. Or maybe you'd want something a little more uplifting. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is one of my favourite movies of all time but I imagine watching it over and over again would prove quite detrimental to one's perspective and peace of mind. It's too dark a movie. But you get the idea.
My three albums:
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Goat Head Soup by The Rolling Stones
Islands by Ludovico Einaudi
My three books:
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Dhammapada by The Buddha
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
My three movies:
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring directed by Kim Ki-duk
House of Flying Daggers directed by Zhang Yimou
Samsara directed by Pan Nalin
My three video games:
Bayonetta
Tetris
Red Dead Redemption 2 (I struggled choosing this)
Incase it isn't entirely obvious (which it bloody is!) I'm interested in what you lot would choose. So come on.
You might think it's just a simple process of choosing your three favourites from each media form, but bear in mind this is the only media you'll have. Your favourite album right now might be something brilliant but equally depressing - something like Radiohead's OK Computer, but would you really want to hear it over and over for the rest of your life? Maybe you would. I dunno. Or maybe you'd want something a little more uplifting. Martin Scorsese's Taxi Driver is one of my favourite movies of all time but I imagine watching it over and over again would prove quite detrimental to one's perspective and peace of mind. It's too dark a movie. But you get the idea.
My three albums:
Astral Weeks by Van Morrison
Goat Head Soup by The Rolling Stones
Islands by Ludovico Einaudi
My three books:
Tao Te Ching by Lao Tzu
The Dhammapada by The Buddha
Meditations by Marcus Aurelius
My three movies:
Spring, Summer, Autumn, Winter... and Spring directed by Kim Ki-duk
House of Flying Daggers directed by Zhang Yimou
Samsara directed by Pan Nalin
My three video games:
Bayonetta
Tetris
Red Dead Redemption 2 (I struggled choosing this)
Incase it isn't entirely obvious (which it bloody is!) I'm interested in what you lot would choose. So come on.
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