My uniqueness, defined

[andrewducker]

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Andrew Lloyd Weber - Variations.  It's a collection of variations on Paganini's A Minor Caprice written by Andrew for his cellist brother.  One of them was used for the South Bank Show music, another for The Book Tower (a show about books starring Tom Baker).  I must dig it out and have a listen, see how it sounds.

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
Damn my eclectic friends list!  I'l give Science and Sanity by Korzybski as the least likely one I can thik of.  Not that I've actually got around to reading it.

Ooh, and Accelerando, by Charles Stross.  Which hasn't been printed yet, and is on my PDA.  But I'm not sure if it counts as a book _yet_.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does:
Jan Svankmajer's Alice - Alice in Wonderland recreated using wierd stop-motion.  Very worth watching, if you like the idea of a stuffed White Rabbit carrying needle and thread so he can re-stuff himself periodically.

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
99% of my holidays have involved either my brothers (both on my friends list) or green_amber.  Which leaves only a short welsh trip with the geography department, to Llanberis.  And if any of you have been there too, you have my deepest sympathy.

Comments

[green-amber.livejournal.com]

Nope yu beat me on Llanberis! curses!

[pisica.livejournal.com]

Somewhere, I have a tape of the original version of Song & Dance - and the dance part is the variations of which you speak....

Ah! But it's not a CD! Curses!

[odheirre.livejournal.com]

My mom was a big semantics fan, and I inherited her "selections from Science and Sanity" book.

I think Gardner paraphrased it best: "Korzybski was had good and original ideas. However, the good stuff wasn't original, and the original stuff wasn't good."

[andrewducker]

I got all my GS third-hand via RAWilson...

[intelligentrix.livejournal.com]

I don't own a copy of it, but I have *seen* Jan Svankmayer's "Alice"... which is a useful thing to have done if you want to understand some of Angela Carter's short fiction.

[davidcook.livejournal.com]

Well, kriste drove rwrylsin and I through Llanberis last year on our holiday over here. Not sure it counts as a visit, though ...

Re: Science and Sanity

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

I have Science and Sanity. I like getting the source documents and E-prime is cool. It makes "The Structure of Scientific Revolutions" look like an easy read though.

re: your icon

[wolfieboy.livejournal.com]

That's both a nifty user name and a very good/attractive picture icon.

[tamaranth.livejournal.com]

you're wrong about Variations. Though it doesn't play very well, being a CD rip from a tape ...

[bohemiancoast.livejournal.com]

Sorry, have totally been to Llanberis.

To be more precise, have been here. We were taken there as an idea of a nice day out by my inlaws, and all I can say is that it was vastly better than the Rhyl Sea Life Centre. Jonathan certainly liked going for a ride on a train hauled by Thomas the Tank Engine or some near equivalent. And I have a soft spot for archaic forms of travel designed for tourists too, to be honest.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

It's not "Variations on a theme by Pagannini for Rock Group and Cello" by any chance is it?

My tape died & I've been intermittently looking for a copy for years!

[andrewducker]

It is indeed. Not actually sure where it is, but I'll dig it out and copy it for you if you like.

So long as you don't tell the BPI.

Or you can buy it at Amazon.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

Or you can buy it at Amazon.

I can? I just get "no matches" when I look for it. But a copy would be great. I'll just go try amazon again though.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

Doh! I hadn't seen your link! Trying to catch up on a week away and skimming too fast. I'd been using the rock group bit which it doesn't list.

[andrewducker]

Search for "Webber Variations" and the album I have is item number one.

[original-aj.livejournal.com]

Found it, thanks. It's on my wishlist ready for Xmas - but I'd like a copy in the meantime if you find it. MP3s would be fine if you've got them to hand.

I think I'll do the meme but I'll have go for LPs since I have most of my music on that format...