The Old "You're Stranded on a Desert Island Thread"

[Jason Carota]

Originally Posted by barrysloate

Jason- Mingus Ah Um is a terrific album. Trivia question: the song Goodbye Pork Pie Hat is a tribute to what musician?

Lester Young.

Mingus is one of my top 5 favorite bassists (I play, as well.) I highly recommend his biography, "Charles Mingus: Myself When I Am Real."

[barrysloate]

That would be correct.

The only bio of Mingus I read was Beneath the Underdog, which I know is grossly inaccurate (although entertaining). My wife and I own a home in eastern Long Island, and our neighbor a few doors down is Sue Graham Mingus. But we never saw her, she is kind of reclusive. Now we rent the house so we are hardly ever there.

[pgellis]

CDs:

Mark Knopfler: Shangri-La
David Gray: White Ladder
Pink Floyd: Echoes, Best of Pink Floyd
Traveling Wilburys: Volume 1
Fleetwood Mac: Rumours

Movies:

Jaws (probably not best movie for an island)
Caddy Shack
Goodfellas
Private Parts
Big

[carrigansghost]

CD's

Jim Carroll-Catholic Boy
Guns and Roses-Appetite For Destruction
Johnny Cash-Essential Cash
AC/DC-Back in Black
Jethro Tull-Original Masters

Movies

Animal House
Caddy Shack
Rocky Horror Picture Show
Field of Dreams
Baseball-Ken Burns

[Griffins]

CD's
Stills Young Band- Long May You Run
Neil Young- Harvest
Bob Marley & The Wailers- Rastaman Vibration
Dick Dale's Greatest Hits
The Smiths- Louder than Bombs

I'd try and trade the 5 dvds for 5 more cd's - you can play music over and over much easier than watch the same movie. I'd take:
The Beach Boys - Holland
Dave Brubeck- Take Five
Dire Straights - On Every Street
REM- Out of time
Led Zepplin- Physical Graffiti

But if not-
Gandhi
Baraka
The Natural
Nate and Hayes
The African Queen