Unique meme. I forget who I stole it from.

[camwyn]

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does: I'm going to leave 'novelty' CDs where most of the songs are performed by frogs off the list, and instead cite something marginally more normal: Happy Together, a 1993 CD of American and British pop / rock songs performed live in concert in Helsinki by the Leningrad Cowboys and the Alexandrov Red Army Chorus.

If I am proved wrong, then I'm going to have to fall back on the frog CD, and I'd rather not do that.

ETA: kelathefinn has Happy Together. Before I fall back to the frogs, let's try this: Bought the Farm by Captain Tractor. I konw the group was recommended to me by someone on my flist, but I don't know if whoever it was necessarily owns this particular album.

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does: Well, I've got a buttload of books on Canadian history that I’m pretty sure not even my Canadian friends own, but I can't remember all their titles off the top of my head. My Asian Studies shelf may in fact be similarly difficult to compare to anyone else's, if only because I have a minor obsession with the Ainu of Japan. Let's go with Man and Mystery in Asia by Ferdinand Ossendowski and Lewis Stanton Palen, but if that turns up on someone else's shelf, an autographed copy of If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell should do.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/whatever that no-one else on your friends list does: Hmm. I've got the Hong Kong release of Pom Poko from Studio Ghibli, but other folks on my list might well have that. I'd say Last Eunuch in China starring Lam Ching Ying, but I haven't watched that yet and don't really plan to, and somehow I don't think I should count it. Although I eventually had to order it from Malaysia, Magic Cop, also starring Mr. Lam, might well be in someone's collection, too, knowing my friends. Perhaps Joint Security Area? Although I've got some Korean friends, so they might own a copy themselves. . . I bought Without A Clue on video in May, but there's probably at least a few people here who own it.

Well, I don't think most of my friends are hardcore enough fans of Chow Yun Fat's to own a copy of The Witch From Nepal, but I haven't watched that yet either. Still, I intend to, so let's go with that. I'll go over my shelf of DVDs when I get home if I turn out to be wrong.

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:

A spot some miles south of the Arctic Circle alongside the Dalton Highway in Alaska, near the landmark known as Finger Rock. There's rock outcroppings and tundra and not much else, but if you wait for the right moment and your companions are quiet, you can stand in that place and hear the silence that existed before Homo sapiens crossed the land bridge.

I know I've got several people who've been to Alaska (and at least one Alaska resident) on my friends list, but I'm pretty sure none of them have been to that spot.

Comments

[mayatawi.livejournal.com]

an autographed copy of If Chins Could Kill: Confessions of a B-Movie Actor by Bruce Campbell should do.

Damn you! :D I have that, but not autographed. Mmmmbruce.

[camwyn]

It was the last copy in the store, too. I went to a small bookstore in northern NJ when I heard Bruce was going to be there; I wanted to get something autographed, but couldn't find the damn book. Everyone else had bought their copies... and then the woman in front of me in line said that she had food poisoning and had to get out of the store right now. Since she couldn't get the book autographed she wanted to exchange it for something else and run. In the instant she got her second receipt back I picked the Bruce book up, bought it myself, and got on line for the autograph.

I also got Bruce to sign my receipt. This was sent to a friend who is a Bruce Campbell fan. The autograph on that reads, "Ha ha, she has the book and you don't, love Bruce Campbell."

He's a really nice guy in person. It's cool.

Bruce Campbell

[ebony14.livejournal.com]

He is, but in convention-mode, he's hard to get. When he came to Project A-kon (a media convention here in Dallas that focuses on anime mostly), he was very funny, but offended some people with his commentary about fans, B-movies, and the general convention scene. I don't think they quite got that he was mocking himself as much as he was mocking anything. Except for the really stupid questions, those got openly mocked.

[kelathefinn.livejournal.com]

I've got the Leningrad Cowboys CD. I used to have a video of the performance (it was shown on tv here) but it got lost in one of my moves. You forgot I live in Finland. Great meme!

[camwyn]

*thumps head with heel of hand* You're right, I should've realised... well, then, I shall have to see if I"ve got any other 'legitimate' CD's, since there seems to be something almost cheating about the use of novelty recordings. Hmm.

[silly-dan.livejournal.com]

Bought the Farm by Captain Tractor.

I actually have all their CDs (except the extra CDs from the Hoserista box set). Though I've got nothing by frogs or Finns, so you win there.