New take on the old "What would you take with you to a deserted island" question

[Godhumor]

You've just agreed to join a competitive reality show where the object is too stay in as ecluded area (house, island, whatever) the longest, and the only way to leave is to volutairily quit. The space is completely empty. Before you go on the show you have to select a few items that will allow you to keep yourself entertained for as long as possible (Notice the advertiser tie-ins).

Those items are:

A Kindle with the complete works of one author (Books only)
An MP3 player with the complete library of any one band/musical artist
A portable DVD player with the complete run of any one TV series
A recreationcal game (Board games, Yahtzee, etc.) that you get to play up 1 hour a day with other contestants via a dedicated webcam. Note: it has to be a named game, so Uno is OK but a deck of cards is not.

So, in essence, you're not just picking your favorite things--you have to choose for both enjoyment and breadth to keep from getting bored. So what would you bring?

For me:

Author: Terry Pratchett
Band: Bad Religion (Though I would strongly consider The Beatles for just sheer volume reasons)
Show: The Simpsons
Game: Balderdash


You?

[Iggo]

1. Easy.

Author: George R.R. Martin (I just started a series of his and I ain't stopping for HBO or nobody.)
Band: Judas Priest (Coulda went a number of different ways, but I love singing Priest songs and I'm not the best singer. Game strategy, know'm say'n?)
TV Show: Buffy The Vampire Slayer (Many seasons, and if I get to the end Ican start over no problem.)
Game: Yahtzee (For the dice.)

[MilesColtrane]

2. I'd go for a combination of sheer volume and variety.

Author: Isaac Asimov (515 books covering the genres of science fiction, mysteries, limericks, humor, scientific texts, history, biblical commentary, plus many short stories, essays, etc.)
Band: Miles Davis (107 studio, live albums, and soundtracks ranging from 1945-1991...stylistically running from bebop, hardbop, postbop/avant garde, fusion, instrumental pop/funk)
Show: Masterpiece Theater (37 seasons: see below for some of the selections)
Game: Chess (I'd have time to get really good.)








Season 35: 2005 - 2006
Sherlock Holmes and the Case of the Silk Stocking
Kidnapped
The Virgin Queen
Pollyanna (R)
The Lost Prince (R)
Henry VIII (R)
Bleak House
He Knew He Was Right (R)
My Family and Other Animals
Carrie's War
Under the Greenwood Tree

Season 34: 2004 - 2005
The Lost Prince
Talking Heads: The Hand of God
Henry VIII
Pollyanna
Doctor Zhivago (R)
Othello (R)
He Knew He Was Right
Island at War
Goodbye, Mr. Chips (R)
Bertie & Elizabeth (R)

Season 33: 2003 - 2004
Our Town
Warrior Queen
Goodbye, Mr. Chips
The Hound of the Baskervilles (R)
Doctor Zhivago
The Road from Coorain (R)
The Forsyte Saga, Series I (R)
The Forsyte Saga, Series II
Me & Mrs. Jones (R)
My Uncle Silas II (R)
Daniel Deronda (R)
Prime Suspect 6
Prime Suspect 1 (R)
Prime Suspect 2 (R)

Season 32: 2002 - 2003
Almost a Woman
The Forsyte Saga
Wives and Daughters (R)
My Uncle Silas II
The Hound of the Baskervilles
Me & Mrs. Jones
Foyle's War
The Ponder Heart (R)
Daniel Deronda
The Jury
White Teeth
Lucky Jim (R)
The Way We Live Now (R)

Season 31: 2001 - 2002
The Merchant of Venice
The Ponder Heart
The Cazalets
My Uncle Silas
David Copperfield (R)
The Song of the Lark (R)
The Murder of Stephen Lawrence
Othello
Bertie & Elizabeth
Love in a Cold Climate
Lucky Jim
All the King's Men (R)
A Death in the Family
The Way We Live Now
Innocents
The Road from Coorain
Anna Karenina (R)
Oliver Twist (R)

Season 30: 2000-2001
Oliver Twist
Cora Unashamed
Her Majesty Mrs. Brown
The Railway Children
Stiff Upper Lips
All the King's Men (R)
Lost for Words (R)
A Rather English Marriage (R)
The American
Bramwell, Series VI
Anna Karenina
King Lear (R)
Wives and Daughters
The Song of the Lark
Take a Girl Like You
Aristocrats
Talking Heads 2: Miss Fozzard Finds Her Feet
Cora Unashamed (R)
The American (R)
Her Majesty Mrs. Brown (R)
The Railway Children (R)

Season 29: 1999-2000
A Rather English Marriage
Aristocrats
Lost for Words
Shooting the Past
Cider with Rosie (R)
Great Expectations (R)
The Mill on the Floss (R)
Bramwell, Series V
Madame Bovary
All the King's Men
The Turn of the Screw
Rebecca (R)
David Copperfield
Seeing Red
Monsignor Renard
The Prince of Hearts (R)
Our Mutual Friend (R)
Painted Lady (R)
A Respectable Trade (R)

Season 28: 1998-1999
King Lear
Wuthering Heights
A Respectable Trade
The Unknown Soldier
The Prince of Hearts
Breaking the Code (R)
Bramwell, Series III (R)
Signs and Wonders (R)
Our Mutual Friend
Bramwell, Series IV
Cider with Rosie
Reckless (R)
Reckless: The Sequel
Frenchman's Creek
Great Expectations
Moll Flanders
Much Ado About Nothing
Goodnight Mr. Tom

Season 27: 1997-1998
The Mill on the Floss
The Tenant of Wildfell Hall
The Moonstone
Bramwell, Series III
Rhodes
Reckless
The Wingless Bird
The Woman in White
Painted Lady
Far from the Madding Crowd
Interview Day (R)
Peacock Spring (R)
Nostromo (R)
The Choir (R)
A Royal Scandal (R)
Rebecca (R)

Season 26: 1996-1997
Moll Flanders
Broken Glass
Bramwell, Series II
Nostromo
A Royal Scandal
Breaking the Code
Prime Suspect: Errors of Judgement
Persuasion
Rebecca

Season 25: 1995-1996
The Buccaneers
The Great Kandinsky
Prime Suspect: The Lost Child
The Choir
The Politician's Wife
The Final Cut
Prime Suspect: Inner Circles
Heavy Weather
The Peacock Spring
Bramwell, Series I
Prime Suspect: Scent of Darkness
Signs and Wonders
Interview Day

Season 24: 1994-1995
The Blue Boy
The Rector's Wife
Dandelion Dead
Doctor Finlay, II
Jeeves & Wooster, IV
The Cinder Path
Martin Chuzzlewit
Hard Times
Sharpe, II

Season 23: 1993-1994
Selected Exits
Jeeves & Wooster, III
Where Angels Fear to Tread
Sharpe
To Play the King
Body & Soul
Middlemarch
A Foreign Field
The Best Intentions

Season 22: 1992-1993
A Question of Attribution
The Best of Friends
Memento Mori
Two Monologues:
In My Defense/A Chip in the Sugar
The Secret Agent
Jeeves & Wooster, II
The Countess Alice
Impromptu
The Blackheath Poisonings
Hedda Gabler
The Black Velvet Gown
Calling the Shots
Dr. Finlay, I

Season 21: 1991-1992
A Murder of Quality
Sleepers
She's Been Away
Parnell and the Englishwoman
Titmuss Regained
Adam Bede
A Doll's House
Clarissa
Henry V
A Perfect Hero
Portrait of a Marriage

Season 20: 1990-1991
The Heat of the Day
The Ginger Tree
Jeeves & Wooster, I
Scoop
A Room of One's Own
20th Anniversary Favorites:
Upstairs, Downstairs
The Flame Trees of Thika
On Approval
I, Claudius
All For Love: A Dedicated Man
Elizabeth R
The Jewel in the Crown
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Backstage at Masterpiece Theatre
House of Cards
The Shiralee
Summer's Lease

Season 19: 1989-1990
And a Nightingale Sang
Precious Bane
Glory Enough for All
A Tale of Two Cities
The Yellow Wallpaper
After the War
The Real Charlotte
The Dressmaker
Traffik
Piece of Cake

Season 18: 1988-1989
A Perfect Spy
Heaven on Earth
A Wreath of Roses
A Very British Coup
All Passion Spent
Talking Heads: Bed Among the Lentils
Christabel
The Charmer
The Bretts, II

Season 17: 1987-1988
The Bretts, I
Northanger Abbey
Sorrell & Son
Fortunes of War
Day After the Fair
David Copperfield
By the Sword Divided, II

Season 16: 1986-1987
Paradise Postponed
Goodbye Mr. Chips
Lost Empires
Silas Marner
Star Quality: Noel Coward Stories
The Death of the Heart
Love Song

Season 15: 1985-1986
The Last Place on Earth
Bleak House
Lord Mountbatten: The Last Viceroy
By the Sword Divided, I
The Irish RM, II

Season 14: 1984-1985
The Barchester Chronicles
The Jewel in the Crown
All for Love
Strangers and Brothers

Season 13: 1983-1984
Pictures
The Citadel
The Irish RM, I
The Tale of Beatrix Potter
Nancy Astor

Season 12: 1982-1983
To Serve Them All My Days
The Good Soldier
Winston Churchill: The Wilderness Years
On Approval
Drake's Venture
Private Schulz
Sons and Lovers

Season 11: 1981-1982
A Town Like Alice
Edward and Mrs. Simpson
The Flame Trees of Thika
I Remember Nelson
Love in a Cold Climate
Flickers

Season 10: 1980-1981
Crime and Punishment
Pride and Prejudice
Testament of Youth
Danger UXB
Therese Raquin
10th Anniversary Favorites:
The Golden Bowl
Cousin Bette
Upstairs, Downstairs
Sunset Song

Season 9: 1979-1980
Kean
Love for Lydia
The Duchess of Duke Street, II
My Son, My Son
Disraeli

Season 8: 1978-1979
The Mayor of Casterbridge
The Duchess of Duke Street, I
Country Matters, II
Lillie

Season 7: 1977-1978
Dickens of London
I, Claudius
Anna Karenina
Our Mutual Friend
Poldark, II

Season 6: 1976-1977
Madame Bovary
How Green Was My Valley
Five Red Herrings
Upstairs, Downstairs, IV
Poldark, I

Season 5: 1975-1976
Shoulder to Shoulder
Notorious Woman
Upstairs, Downstairs, III
Cakes and Ale
Sunset Song

Season 4: 1974-1975
Murder Must Advertise
Upstairs, Downstairs, II
Country Matters, I
Vienna 1900
The Nine Tailors

Season 3: 1973-1974
Clouds of Witness
The Man Who Was Hunting Himself
The Unpleasantness at the Bellona Club
The Little Farm
Upstairs, Downstairs, I
The Edwardians

Season 2: 1972-1973
Vanity Fair
Cousin Bette
The Moonstone
Tom Brown's School Days
Point Counter Point
The Golden Bowl

Season 1: 1971-1972
The First Churchills
The Spoils of Poynton
The Possessed
Pere Goriot
Jude the Obscure
The Gambler
Resurrection
Cold Comfort Farm
The Six Wives of Henry VIII
Elizabeth R
The Last of the Mohicans

[some guy]

8. You win.

Asimov was my first thought for an author. You reminded me why he was such a good choice. (I'm still on my first cup of coffee.)

Masterpiece theater seems an excellent choice as well. I certainly wouldn't have thought of that.

Chess is my favorite game, so I like that pick as well.

I might quibble with Miles Davis. I have about a dozen or so Miles CDs, but I'm not as big a fan as you probably are.
I'm not sure who I would pick. I have more than 25 days worth of music, according to my iTunes player, and I still want more variety.

[MilesColtrane]

9. Yeah, picking one artist/group is pretty tough.

I also considered Ralph Vaughan Williams, Bartok, Joni Mitchell, and Peter Gabriel.

[Godhumor]

14. Well, I think you'd win on the have enough variety front

I'm all happy that my author has 30 or so books, heh.

See, this is why I'd be terrible at these kind of games.

[hippywife]

17. Oooh!

Masterpiece Theater is an excellent choice. That would definitely give you enough variety to keep you from becoming bored too quickly! Good thinkin'!

:hi:

[MilesColtrane]

22. It is weighted toward Anglocentric works.

After watching enough episodes I'd either begin to hate the British accent, or start talking to myself that way.

But, it does cover a range of classics that you couldn't get by being limited to one author's printed work.

Besides, Lesley-Anne Down was pretty hot in "Upstairs Downstairs".

[Richardo]

3. ...

Author: Mark Twain
Band: New Pornographers (and all the single acts therein: AC Newman, Neko Case, etc)
Show: Arrested Development
Game: Uno

:D

[MilesColtrane]

10. Twain is a good choice.

I just got volume one of his autobiography for Christmas.

...good stuff.

[hunter]

4. None of those things. I never get bored.

I might endeavor to build a TARDIS out of common household materials and then go exploring all of space and time whenever the producers of the show weren't looking.



Or maybe I'd paint pictures of naked women on the walls.



Who knows? It might be fun.

[MorningGlow]

5. No prob.

Author: Jane Austen
Band: Beatles
Show: Gilmore Girls
Game: backgammon

[Tikki]

6. These here:

Charles Dickens or H. G. Wells
RAMONES
Dr. Who
Barbie Dream Date or the Mystery Date board game.


Tikki

[NV Whino]

7. I could do this

Shakespeare
Beethoven
Xena
Scrabble

[MilesColtrane]

11. Re: Scrabble

With no dictionary, you'd have to trust that the person you're playing is settling any challenges fairly.

You: "woiunxg isn't a word!"

Them: I just looked it up. It means "an oddly shaped, South American mallet". I win.

You: D'oh!

[bif]

12. Mine

Charles Dickens
Bjork (as long as it included her Sugarcubes recordings) otherwise Coltrane
Twilight Zone
The Dictionary Game (I know there's a commercial version, just don't know what it's called.)

[bluedigger]

13. Let's go!

Stephen King
Grateful Dead
Gunsmoke
Risk

[Kat45]

15. Here's mine:

Author: Douglas Adams (They'd keep me laughing for a long time, and I haven't read them all yet.)
Band: That's a tough one because there are so many choices. Maybe Aerosmith. Or AC/DC.
Show: All in the Family (I never get sick of that one.)
Game: Trivial Pursuit. (Keep the mind sharp.)

Laughter is always good, and both the books and TV show would provide plenty of that.

[hippywife]

16. For me:

Author: James Michener
Band/Artist: Joni Mitchell
Show: Absolutely Fabulous or maybe Northern Exposure (I was going to say The West Wing but I want to ditch politics altogether.)
Game: Trivial Pursuit


:hi:

[chollybocker]

18. Fun.

Shakespeare
Bowie
Simpsons
Chess

[madinmaryland]

19. And after two days when everyone gets through their "one thing", they will be bored shitless.

:wtf:

[Duer 157099]

20. OK

Author: Philip K. Dick
Band: The Beatles
TV: Masterpiece Theater
Game: Chess

I'd actually look forward to that time.

[Kaleva]

21. Stealing some ideas from others:

Author:Great Books of the Western World published by Encyclopedia Britannica in a single package of 54 volumes.

Band:Masters of Classical Music (10 hours of music on 10 CD's)

Show: Masterpiece Theater (37 seasons)

Game: Chess

If placed on an island, then a must have book would be The Professor's "How to repair a hole in a boat." That would keep me occupied for years.

[MilesColtrane]

23. Re: The Professor

If I could make a radio out of coconuts, I wouldn't need the MP3s!

[WinkyDink]

25. Not really an "author" !

[WinkyDink]

24. Shakespeare ------Beatles ------Law&Order (Original!) ------Scrabble

[Supply Side Jesus]

26. George R. R. Martin...Mystery Science Theater 3000...Trivial Pursuit...Johnny Cash

MST3K will give you hundreds of hours of entertainment!

[Mojambo]

27. Asimov, The Mountain Goats, The Outer Limits (gets me old and new) and I'd pass on the board game

I rather like the idea of complete solitude. I don't want to interact with other reality show contestants. Reality show contestants are pretty much douche bags.