The first five are from Shannon, the latest addition to my blogroll (If I could reach the stars).
1) if you were going to be stranded on an island what three cds would you want with you?
Only three? Yikes.
Well, actually, I’d probably burn three CDs with compilations of my favourite music. One would be orchestral and chamber music, one would be international pop/rock (by the broadest definition, so I could include things like the Chieftains), and one would be music from Aotearoa. But it would take forever to decide and list all the tracks, so I’ll pretend I can’t do that and choose three ready made CDs. You probably won’t be familiar with any of them!
Hinemoana Baker Haere atu raa, or her new album if it’s out by the time I get stranded, because her music is stunningly beautiful, and because it would remind me of all my friends back in Aotearoa.
Faure Requiem and Palleas et Melisande, because it’s incredibly inspiring and uplifting.
Marina Lima cos she’s a cute Brazilian lesbian rock chick who I could jump up and down to if I was angry/frustrated and if I got bored I could teach myself Portuguese from the lyrics.
2) have you read the harry potter books?
Only the first one. Good, but not that good. And I’ve only seen one of the movies. Hermione was cute (and I’m young enough I’m allowed to say that, so there) (ok maybe not really) (but someone sent me this pic of her – well Emma Watson – the other day, and she looked all growed up…) I will read the other books, when I’ve finished my course and I have more time for reading – at the moment I have to read a wide range, so I’m trying not to read more than one or two by each author.
3) if you could only watch one movie for the rest of your life, what movie would you choose?
Are we talking forced to see it on repeat play for the rest of my life? Because if we are I’d choose anything with a really complicated classical music score for the soundtrack, and then I could close my eyes and I wouldn’t go insane.
But if we’re talking a movie that I could watch whenever I felt like it… um… either Dead Poet’s Society, Love and other Catastrophes, or Pride and Prejudice. I've watched them all a gazillion times and I still like them, so I don’t see why they couldn’t last a few more years…
4) would you rather live without tv or without music?
Definitely without TV. We don’t have one in the flat anyway – I just go round to a friend’s house to watch Buffy occasionally, but I could survive without that. Music, on the other hand, I think it keeps me sane.
5) what is your bigggest fear?
Nuclear war.
And losing friends because of how messed up I am.