Choose carefully
In this interesting article on copyright, Cory Doctorow writes:
If I sent you to a desert island and told you to choose between your records and your friends, you'd be a sociopath if you chose the music.
Well? What'll it be?
What kind of friend would I be if I wished my friends would also be stranded on a desert island? I choose music. Besides, the island's resources won't support more than one person, so I'd have to kill them anyway. Lord of the flies.
Can I take my music and a DJ? :cool:
I'd take a friend. That way I could make a raft out of him.
You can't eat records, can you?
I choose friends so I can eat them when I run out of food.
If I chose my friends they'd all be pissed that I chose them and wouldn't be friends anymore.
Friends. They taste better.
If I bring friends then we can make instruments and sing in harmony, too.
I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things.
I choose my friends -- that is friends, plural -- because eventually they would help me figure out how the hell to get off the island!
Music, every time [/sociopath].
Let me amend my previous answer.
There are days when I would WISH to be stranded on an island with nothing but music.
Those are the days when the people in my life are driving me NUTS.
In other words, 364 out of the year.
I'd choose my friends, the good ones who'd make excellent breeding stock and we'd forge our own civilization and all live happily ever after.
The rest of you can go sit in a sound booth for all we care.
I have to agree with the above there. You are rotten if you ask your friends to stay stranded with you on an island. Of course I am a sociopath so I think "differently" about these things.
If it was a tropical island, with food and water, I'd forgive you for stranding me there. But only if you had some good music.... (records? wtf are you gonna play them on?)
I've got these coconut shells we can clap together? Besides we could dress your husband up in a grass skirt when we get bored.
We could make instruments out of palm trees. For reeelz. :)
Body boarding on weaved leaves anyone?
Getting stranded on an island sounds too fun about now.
Tom Hanks Impression: Wilson!!! Wilson!!!
I'd choose my friends 'cause:
[SIZE="1"]"I got words in my head so I sing them
[COLOR="white"]........[/COLOR]I don't let life get me down
Can't hold onto my blues so I play them[/SIZE]
[COLOR="white"]......[/COLOR]I got the music in me
[COLOR="white"]......[/COLOR]I got the music in me
[COLOR="white"]...[/COLOR]I got the music in me, yea
[COLOR="white"]......[/COLOR]I got the music in me
[COLOR="white"]......[/COLOR]I got the music in me
[COLOR="white"]......[/COLOR]I got the music in me"
I've got these coconut shells we can clap together? Besides we could dress your husband up in a grass skirt when we get bored.
We could make instruments out of palm trees. For reeelz. :)
Body boarding on weaved leaves anyone?
Getting stranded on an island sounds too fun about now.
Tom Hanks Impression: Wilson!!! Wilson!!!
Bwahhaaa...Homeless Guy and I were at a restaurant along the river, well actually in the bar downstairs...he glanced out the window and for some reason there was a soccer ball floating down the river. Without missing a beat he cries "Willllsonnnnnnnnn!"
Friends...with whom I'd make music...
lolz!!
That was my favorite part of the movie. The unlikely frienship that sprang up...
Sometimes I say Wilson! in inapropriate moments, and no one gets it but me...heh.
That's like sometimes out of nowhere I'll yell "SCIENCE" and watch the stares.
We SO have to get together sometime and see how much we can intimidate with our combined weirdness. :lol:
No replies? "she blinded me with science".......?
Oh yea, if it's weird you are looking for, I've got some. ;)
sometimes out of nowhere I'll yell "ACTING!"
I must be a sociopath too. My first thought was "Of course friends. Like you're really gonna fuck one of your records?"
Well, you didn't say the island was actually deserted, or if there was electricity. What good would it do to take music with you if there is no way to play it? Besides, if you have friends with you, you can make your own music. that's always more fun. :D
religious stories, pink unicorns, friends = fairy tales.
music is a must
Any amount of music you brought (assuming there's a way to play it on an island with no other people) will get repetitive after enough time.
I'd bring my friends, and we'd have a crazy rube goldberg house going in no time. Plus, about half of my friends are fellow circus performers so we'd never get bored.
And if I could get all those friends to stick a deck of cards in their pockets, I'd really be set.
sometimes out of nowhere I'll yell "ACTING!"
Master Thespian! :p
Can we pick our islands? i'm thinking this little place off dubai...
Friends. I'll teach 'em to sing if I have to.
Ooh ooh...pick me! I can't sing well but I can usually find the notes!
Ooh ooh...pick me! I can't sing well but I can usually find the notes!
Shawnee...check.
Fortunately, most of my really good friends are musicians, so I'd keep my friends, and we'd jam a lot.
My friends are all pretty much musicians or musically inclined... so to have them... is to have music.
Me too. I'll just crack coconuts and fashion clothing from twigs and leaves...and enjoy the music! [COLOR="White"]and the sex.[/COLOR]
The hell you will, you're staying naked like me. :blush:
Friends...with whom I'd make music...
My friends are all pretty much musicians or musically inclined... so to have them... is to have music.
Best of both worlds. My friends are also my fave musicians.
You can't eat records, can you?
No but ya cant eat friends either...
I picked friends...