Too obvious....4 clones of Putin.

My inventory:

4 FOR MUSIC:
-"Eugene Onegin" by Pytor Tchaikovsky
-"Carmen" by Georges Bizet
-"The Marriage of Figaro" by Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
-"Madama Butterfly" by Giacomo Puccini

4 FOR BOOKS:
-Complete Works of William Shakespeare, Barnes and Noble edition
-Paradise Lost, by John Milton
-Five Novels of Charles Dickens, Barnes and Noble edition (included: Oliver Twist, A Christmas Carol, David Copperfield, A Tale of Two Cities, and Great Expectations)
-The Complete Sherlock Holmes, Barnes and Noble edition

4 FOR EATING:

I don't eat. Ever. ;)

4 FOR DRINKING:
-Dr. Pepper
-Coke
-Earl Grey Tea
-Oolong Green Tea

4 GAMES TO WATCH/LISTEN TO:
-1999 Game 5 NLCS (My Mets beat the Braves in 14 innings on "The Grand Single")
-Game 6 1986 WS (Mets win 6-5 in 11 innings, Buckner's Boot, and Vin Scully calls the game)
-1998 NFC Wildcard (49ers over Packers on "The Catch II," ah, what a day...)
-2010 WC First Round (USA over Algeria in the last seconds...to think I hated soccer before that game; still won't watch it regularly, but I'll watch the next WC!) :)

And...that's all I can think of right now.

Oh, I thought we had to chose 1 thing that we got four of...

OK, gotta say -- "Paradise Lost"? I was an English major at William and Mary, so I fully get what it is, but lord I would never want to take that with me ... no way

And yes you can, abgemacht.

If I somehow had a TV with me...

4 FOR FILMS:
-1996 Hamlet with Kenneth Branagh, Sir Derek Jacobi, and Kate Winslet
-Star Trek II: The Wrath of Khan
-Amadeus
-The Dark Knight

4 FOR TV:
-Star Trek TOS "The City on the Edge of Forever"
-Star Trek TNG "All Good Things..." (Since "The Best of Both Worlds" is a 2-parter)
-House, Season 3 "Son of Coma Guy" (Oh my...watch it...)
-Jeremy Brett's Sherlock Holmes Series, "The Sign of Four" (Haven't seen Brett's version, but I'm sure it's great like the rest of his Holmes work, and here's the chance to watch it! :D Plus, at feature-length, more Holmes for my pick)

Oh, I LOVE Paradise Lost! :D

After Hamlet and maybe Macbeth, it's the single work of literature I reference the most in my writing (Shakespeare, Nietzsche, and Milton are my Dynamic Trio of Making Allusions in my English classes...and in life, really...Homer's the #4, but nowhere near as close as those three.)

But yeah, I'd love to have it--great poetry, and beyond that, it'd make me feel like Satan, cast out on that Island...and as Satan is AWESOME in that work (seriously, that may be the one time I'd root for HIM over any kind of God, he seems far more interesting and even more caring than God in the work; he actually cares when his men are beaten back in the War on Heaven, when God learns there's a possiblity Man might fall, he's jsut "Oh well...shit happens, I guess.")

Music:
"Didgeridoo" - Aphex Twin
"In Search of Sunrise 2" - DJ Tiesto
"Telephone" -Lady Gaga (Expect that? haha)
"Complete works of Bach" - Nice FLAC I have ^_^

Books:
El Comedio
Dragonlance Series (I would need the escapism)
Complete Works of William Shakespeare (Wife's copy for the intoxicating smell)
Raptor Red (Extreme Nostalgia for me)

Food:
Pizza
Salad
Banana
Pumpernickel

Drinks:
Dr. Pepper
Virgils Root Beer
Oolong Tea
Pero

@Krellin Is that to eat or drink? Because the Music/Book would bore the shit out of me haha

4 companions...

Ohhh, you like the penis?

@Sanjo:

Well, that's an interesting variety...

Bach I like...Gaga I...well, we know how I feel about HER...and the others I've never even heard of.

"El Comedio" You mean The Divine Comedy?
Don't know that series...
GREAT CHOICE! :p
And...nope, don't know that one either...

how exactly do you get "penis" out of that?
4 people to keep me company... and they would definitely include females.

It was a tease Dexter and referring to Krellin wanting 4 Putin. Makes me shudder haha

obiwanobiwan Yes I mean the Divine Comedy. It's Sayjo, I'm not a television :P

ah - I see.

4 pieces of technology:
Microwave
Computer
Internet Modem
Power Source


and thats all I need :p

4 Women:
Scarlett Johansen
Jessica Alba
Rachel McAdams
Rachel Starr

Don't think I'd need anything else because I'd die of exhaustion long before hunger or anything else took effect.

And really, would we expect Durden to take another approach? XD

Nice...

You're just mad you didn't think of it first. ;)

Shit to read:

Outlines of Pyrrhonism - Sextus Empiricus
Slaughterhouse-Five
Lord of the Flies, obviously
The Bible KJV

4 drinks:

-Vanilla Lattes
-Skim milk
-Lone Star Beer and
-Apple juice

4 foods
-French bread
-Strawberries
-Bacon Cheeseburgers
-Yogurt

Music
-Mahler 6th
-Mozart Clarinet Concerto
-Vivaldi the Four Seasons
and A Tribe Called Quest the Low End Theory

Films
-Dead Poets' Society
-Blood Diamond
-Coming to America
-Master and Commander

And I fucking die without knowing the news so if I could get NPR that'd be fucking lovely.

yeah and okay 4 woman gotta put in my 2 cents

jennifer garner
emma watson... my age is always nice
katy perry
and keeley hazell... honestly.. so hot

lol something tells me this was not the spirit of this thread though

I'd feel compelled to give my choice for 4 women...

Except, well, I generally don't care all that much about famous women, no matter how technically hot they are--*I'M* never going to be commander of the fleet, so why gaze at the ships whistfully?

(And I gotta ask, thucy--most of those choices were cool, but...why bring the Bible? I mean, if you're stranded on an island, I'd think god either A. knows where you are and wants you to stay there for some reason or B. doesn't really care, so why bring his bestseller, eitehr he's a jerk or he wants you to WORK, not read darnit!) :p

nothing to do with god lol. i like a lot of its books and would want to read them. notice kjv was my choice - no other would do.

the poetry in it is unparalled in my opinion. in fact if i could only take one of its books i would do with ecclesiastes

or isaiah maybe "for all flesh is as grass"

yeah nothing to do with religious purposes

might also trade out lord of flies for a history book - maybe columbia's history of the world

WOW.

That is quite honestly the first time I've ever heard someone want to read a Bible just becasue they think it's good literature--and good poetry at that--and not for any religious reasons.

I disagree with you--there's a couple of good uses of langauge, I'll grant you, but the plot holes really just ruin it for me, Genesis alone has so many problems, hence my liking "Paradise Lost" so much, Jesus in there actually SAYS "Uh, Dad? You think maybe you should STOP this total and obvious threat to all of Creation pre-emptively?" but I digress--but an interesting choice nonetheless. :)

The bible is fascinating, but I don't know if I'd call it good literature. And I'm an avowed atheist.

Anyway, Music
Elephant, by the White Stripes
Avenue Q soundtrack, to remind me that being stuck on a desert island with a bunch of crap is only for now.
Set Yourself On Fire by Stars, which is kind of a Montreal thing, no one outside montreal really knows them, which is a shame.
And uhhh...hmmm, It'd have to be a Beethoven I'd go with his 6th, though I'd lament horribly leaving behind The Firebird Suite by Stravinsky.

Books:
Catch 22 by Joseph Heller - it will always be my favourite.
The Hitchhikers Guide by Douglas Adams - I'd need a laugh
St. Urbain's Horseman by Mordecai Richler - A great book, but it's another Montreal thing.
And The Clean House and Other Plays by Sarah Ruhl

Food.
A Moussaka
Cioppino (which actually comes from San Francisco)
Brie cheese and crackers
Chocolate caramel pecan cheesecake

Drink
Vodka Martini's straight up, with Olives
A very nice Merlot
Home made iced tea
Chocolate milk shakes

Films
The Extended Lord of the Rings Trilogy - I'll be there a while
The Big Lebowski
Wallace and Gromit the Curse of the Were Rabbit
A Fish Called Wanda

Note these are not necessarily my favourites, but they're the ones with the most rewatch/relisten/reconsume value. For instance my favourite movie is Rear Window, but I find a lot of the impact and the suspense is gone once you've seen it a few times.

I don't think I'd have anything else to say on a topic that anyone would care to read.

Though I suppose I'd have to forfeit A Fish Called Wanda in order to bring along a naughty movie to compensate for the fact that I declined to choose any pleasurable company for this extended stay in isolation.

Yeah the "plot holes" don't bother me because i dont/wouldnt read it as a novel.

i would read it book by book in isolation. its the ideas expressed and the timeless humanity of the bible that i like about it. and the kjv language is beautiful i dont care what you think.

top that off with the fact that choice parts actually do have some legit life advice and i'd say its a good one to have. a cultural touchstone at least as much as the complete works of shakespeare. but anyway.

@ Thucy - All good selections. Like me I think you meant to select a nice range. Gotta have variety and I think you did a solid job covering all the bases.

Drink
Aloe vera green tea (Robinson needs you, Nestea)
Kofola (from tank, not bottled)
Banana shake (MILK!!!)
Amundsen vodka (for happy evenings)

Food
Big King XXL (with variable amount of Xs)
Pear (LOLWUT style)
Pork goulash with dumplings (MANY dumplings)
Straciatella yoghurt (or some soup)

Music (this section NEED MOAR PYLONS, eh space)
Rok Psa - Hugo Toxxx (do not try to understand)
The Essential Iron Maiden - Iron Maiden (cheating, suckers)
Vyznanie - Marika Gombitová (cheating a little less)
Symphonie No. 9 - Antonín Dvořák (hope I made you Yankees happy)

Books
Mahabharata (Krishna Dharma translation, plox)
String Theory and M-Theory: A Modern Introduction - Katrin and Melanie Becker and John Schwarz (empty island is a great place for learning awe-inspiring stuff)
Heimwerken. Do it yourself - Thomas Pochert (including how to actually do stuff. I'll make myself some rake so that no gun-totting nut may invade my island)
Magorova summa - Ivan Martin Jirous (might as well take some poetry with me)

Films
Spirited Away (kids will love it)
Knockin' On Heaven's Door (embracing doom will be easier)
Team America: World Police (exploding Michael Moore? Yes, please)
Lovers of the Arctic Circle (I'm out of unfunny comments)


And since I'm a modest guy, I'll settle for only one girl, the best one, my girlfriend! Once I manage to build a working vessel, I'll visit Durden's island, women should have some sort of protector and with him dying of exhaustion... ;)

"yeah and okay 4 woman gotta put in my 2 cents

jennifer garner
emma watson... my age is always nice
katy perry
and keeley hazell... honestly.. so hot

lol something tells me this was not the spirit of this thread though"

lol
Obi did say it was the Island of fours. I think you have this game figured out pretty well, Thucy.

4 Cooking
3 Saucepans
1 Wok

4 Being Creative
2 Pencils
1 Sharpener
1 Tonne of paper

4 the love of god
1 bible
1 koran
1 long night
1 cloudy day

4 fun
3 sugar babes
1 game of twister

4 keeping fit
1 dog
1 football
2 gym memberships which I probably won't use

4 Expanding my mind
1 new dictionary of Akkadian
1 Internet
1 Rough Guide to Fours Island
1 The complete history of China. (From pots to porcerlain)

4 Laughs
1 Bob Monkhouse's joke book
1 Ample supply of Alcohol
1 Good friends

* 2 good friends

With bourbon, martinis, Bloody Marys, and plenty of ice I won't need the other things.

4 Companions:
Note: I would actually bring my girlfriend and my three best friends. But I figured that would be lame.
1. Eliezer Yudkowsky
2. Felicia Day
3. Joss Whedon
4. Summer Glau

4 Television shows (Why limit yourself to one episode?)
1. Dollhouse
2. Firefly
3. Battlestar Galatica
4. How I Met Your Mother

4 Songs to listen to:
(This was really hard to make and would probably change upon independent replication.)
1. "Lines Upon Your Face" - Vertical Horizon
2. "Falling From Grace" - The Gentle Waves
3. "Mother of Pearl" - Roxy Music
4. "Casmir Pulaski Day" - Sufjan Stevens

4. Video Games: (Assuming I'd have internet access)
1. Starcraft II
2. Dragon age II
3. Civilization V
4. Counter Strike: Source

4 Video Games: (Assuming I wouldn't have internet access)
1. Civilization V
2. Dragon age II
3. Baldur's Gate II
4. Conquest of the New World

4 Foods:
1. Pizza (Cheese)
2. Fruit Smoothies
3. Protein bars
4.

4 Websites:
1. Facebook
2. WebDiplomacy
3. StumbleUpon (Is that cheating? ☺)
4. Amazon (Do they deliver to my island? Also ☺)
5. If not Amazon, then LessWrong.org

Never gave a fourth food, did I? Hm. How's rice? I love rice.

a catch to bringing people... they wouldn't appreciate it - that is, they would resent you for you picking them to be stranded as well... would that change who you brought? I think it could really backfire having 4 people who are angry at you. I can't say I have a solution, though. I guess I'd like to think that my wife would rather be stranded with me than not-stranded without-me... but that's a tall order for anyone.

four of...myself!

It's a tall order only if you date a wrong girlfriend ;)

Music -
Barber's Adagio for Strings (depressing, but meh)
Final Countdown, Europe (for hilarity)
O Fortuna, Carl Orff
Die Walkure, Wagner

Books -
Brothers Karamazov, Dostoevsky
Nibelunglied
Some giant teach-yourself Old Norse book
Poetic Edda

Foods -
Sarma
Knedle sa sljivama (Plum dumplings)
Fresh peaches
Vietnamese spring rolls

Drinks -
Newcastle
Earl Grey Tea
Coffee from Caffe Ladro (Seattle)
Frog's Leap wine (cab sav)

Film -
Lawrence of Arabia
The Third Man
Spartacus
12 Angry Men

Nice film choices Putin I approve of all

but uh... wont you want something to drink that's not diarrhetic? lol

also to dexter morgan, i have two word:

stockholm syndrome.

also, i'm pretty sure that even if theyre pissed at your at first they're going to be wanting some of that unlimited food you have..

@Maniac, your bringing both a bible and a koran in the name of loving god???

@ Thucy - For Stockholm to set in you actually need to like, threaten and torture people. Also diuretics aren't as bad as people think. There's still more fluid in a diuretic than you lose due to it's diuretic properties.

@fasces - i assume i will have time to figure it out while i'm there

yeah but... the fact that he's not bringing anything that's not alcoholic or caffeinated. i mean i love booze and caffeine but still

also its not about the fluid you lose due to a diuretic (if what you say is actually even true), its about the nutrients that are flushed out prematurely without time to be absorbed.

I believe regular water is abundant too (that's how I understand obi's reply to abge). Otherwise I would have to put it in too :)

"i assume i will have time to figure it out while i'm there"
what if their both wrong?

@fasces - but if they save my brain from seizing up they would have done there job

however you could have chosen two other books that would have done the same thing...