Uniqueness, meniqueness...

[vilakins]

OK, I'll play! Knowing you lot's eclectic taste, I'll do three of each as some others have done. If you have something I have, tell me and I'll try again.

Books you own that no one on your friends list owns:

'Farmer Giles of Ham' by J R R Tolkien (Those who have 'Smith of Wootton Major' will probably shoot this down)
'Ripping Yarns' by Michael Palin and Terry Jones
'The Cartoon History of the Universe' by Larry Gonick
'Tristram Shandy' by Laurence Sterne
'Rommel' by Ward Rutherford
'The Dog It Was That Died' by Alan Coren
'Passionella and other stories' by Jules Feiffer

CDs you own that no one on your friends list owns:

'Lush Mechanique' - Jamie Sieber
'My Yiddish Swing' - the Jews Brothers Band
'The Cosmopolitan' - Marlene Dietrich

DVDs / VHS tapes you own that no one on your friends list owns:

I, Claudius
Edge of Darkness (BBC series)
The Brave Little Toaster
Koyaanisqatsi
October Skies
The General (Buster Keaton)
Savage Honeymoon

Places you've been that no one on your friends list has been to:

Sicily
Bletchley Park (WW2 cryptology geekness)
Scapa Flow (the Orkney Islands)
Spetse (Greek island)
Through the Panama Canal
Sveti Stefan, Serbia

Comments

[selenak.livejournal.com]

I so have I, Claudius on DVD. And I've been to Sicily.*g*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I have the books too; they're among my favourites. And I loved Sicily, I'd like to go back one day.

[selenak.livejournal.com]

Vivat Robert Graves, I say. But... do you have the audio version read by Derek Jacobi as well? *g*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No, you've got me there! I must look for that; it would be wonderful.

[kalypso-v.livejournal.com]

I've got Farmer Giles of Ham. I feel as if I've got Ripping Yarns, but I think that was my ex-flatmate's.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I'll scratch it just in case.

[steverogerson.livejournal.com]

I remember years ago buying Ripping Yarns as a Christmas present for somebody - does that count?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Nope, you have to own it.

[redstarrobot.livejournal.com]

I have the Cartoon History of the Universe!

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Cool! I've got a couple more of his too. [fossicks about to find another interesting example of her weird taste...]

[altariel.livejournal.com]

We have Edge of Darkness.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yay for Joe Don Baker! [goes to peruse collection again]

[altariel.livejournal.com]

He is *fabulous*!

[pinkdormouse.livejournal.com]

Wasn't I the one that advised you to go to Bletchley Park? I was sure you knew that I'd been, anyway.

Gina

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

No, it wasn't you, as Greg and I have wanted to go there for years. However I'm not surprised you've been there. We have a lot in common, with planes, tanks and geeky tech. :-D

[hafren.livejournal.com]

Got Tristram Shandy - couldn't live without it. And been to Scapa...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Aaaaugh! I knew this would be hard...

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

Ah, so you're the other owner of TS :D

[altariel.livejournal.com]

I think someone on my friends list has Koyaanisqatsi...

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I think it has to be someone on mine. Not doing very well here, am I? Mind you, I played fair and didn't cite any NZ stuff.

[altariel.livejournal.com]

That's a very impressive list of places that you've been to.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I did a lot of travelling, mostly in Europe. Just thought--I haven't even mentioned SE Asia, perhaps because it was only two months, whereas I lived in Israel and Europe for four years in all. Then there's holidays in local places like Fiji and Australia but my Australian friends would have those covered.

There's so much I haven't seen. I hope I get the chance to travel like that again.

[kerravonsen]

I had no qalms in not playing fair, as my friendslist is so international it was probably the only way I was going to get something unique. Though I did play fair by giving a mixture...

[astrogirl2.livejournal.com]

I've got it, although it's not a commercial copy; it's one a friend copied for me. Does that count?

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

Yep!

[kerravonsen]

I have the soundtrack, but that probably doesn't count, especially as I haven't even seen the original.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

We have the soundtrack as well as the film. I like it the best of the three.

[spacefall.livejournal.com]

You like Tristram Shandy? Hurrah! *clutches a copy*

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

It's wonderful! [pats own copy, sitting on desk beside me because had to get it out after thinking of it, and starts to read random pages for pleasure...]

[reapermum.livejournal.com]

We have the Brave Little Toaster and all the stuff Tolkien published in his lifetime.

[vilakins.livejournal.com]

I love 'Brave Little Toaster'. I've never been one of nature's consumers myself; I never see the point of replacing anything that works (all right, except for PCs). When I get a new kitchen, it will be cupboards only.

Farmer Giles got shot down a while ago. I hadn't realised Tolkien wrote so much though--someone had 'Letters from Father Christmas' which I'd never heard of.