The Desert Island Project is now complete.  The Ladytrap administrator is now in the Caribbean, researching potential islands on which to test out all this music.  I have actually sought out a good deal of this music to bring with me.  See all the results below...

Stranded on a Desert Island?

One sunny Saturday in the park with a friend (I think it was the fourth of July) the conversation turned, as it often does, to music and film.  The critical question was:

If you were banished to a desert island for the rest of your life and could take only five records and five movies with you, which would they be?

My first thought was to include among them wilderness survival videos, guides to edible wild foods, etc., but for the sake of the question we'll assume that all your survival needs are taken care of and these are for pure pleasure and whatever other benefits you currently derive from music and film.

Careful consideration was given to the fact that many records lose their charm after repeated listening so it was risky to choose anything new and untested by time.

These were the results.  As the webmaster I exclusively reserve the right to be indecisive until a further decision is made!

ISOLATIONIST: MELISSA
ALBUM_A: THRILLER - MICHAEL JACKSON
ALBUM_B: DANGEROUS - MICHAEL JACKSON
ALBUM_C: BAD - MICHAEL JACKSON
ALBUM_D: OFF THE WALL- MICHAEL JACKSON
ALBUM_E: PRINCE'S GREATEST HITS
FILM_A: FORREST GUMP
FILM_B: E.T.
FILM_C: BIG
FILM_D: YOU'VE GOT MAIL
FILM_E: KEEPING THE FAITH
 

ISOLATIONIST: Ros
ALBUM_A: Slim Shady LP
ALBUM_B: Marshall Mathers LP
ALBUM_C: Eminem Show
ALBUM_D: Now 57
ALBUM_E: Get rich or die tryin'
FILM_A: Titanic
FILM_B: Jaws
FILM_C: 8 Mile
FILM_D: Pirates of the caribbean
FILM_E: The Exorcist
 

ISOLATIONIST: Ros
ALBUM_A: Slim Shady LP
ALBUM_B: Marshall Mathers LP
ALBUM_C: Eminem Show
ALBUM_D: Now 57
ALBUM_E: Get rich or die tryin'
FILM_A: Titanic
FILM_B: Jaws
FILM_C: 8 Mile
FILM_D: Pirates of the caribbean
FILM_E: Jackass the movie
 

ISOLATIONIST: LISA
ALBUM_A: Moby - Play
ALBUM_B: Jars of Clay #1
ALBUM_C: WOW '97
ALBUM_D: Rachmaninoff (any)
ALBUM_E: Mae Moore - Bohemia
FILM_A: Conan the Barbarian
FILM_B: Ben Hur
FILM_C: Amelie
FILM_D: A Knight's Tale
FILM_E: Meet the Parents
 

ISOLATIONIST: Amber
ALBUM_A: Beautiful Collision (Bic Runga)
ALBUM_B: Travelling without moving (Jamiroquai)
ALBUM_C: Some 80's best of hits
ALBUM_D: Rush of Blood to the Head (ColdPlay)
ALBUM_E: Split Ends
FILM_A: Ladyhawk
FILM_B: Whalerider
FILM_C: Scarfies
FILM_D: Life is Beautiful
FILM_E: INdiana Jones (Raiders of the Lost Ark)
 

ISOLATIONIST: Emily
ALBUM_A: Fallen (evanessence)
ALBUM_B: Stripped (Christina Aguleria)
ALBUM_C: Life for rent (dido)
ALBUM_D: Avril Lavigne
ALBUM_E: Much Dance 2004
FILM_A: A Walk to Rememeber
FILM_B: Finding Nemo
FILM_C: Titanic
FILM_D: Sweet Home Alabama
FILM_E: Ever After
 

ISOLATIONIST: Jen
ALBUM_A: Symphony of Psalms (Stravinsky)
ALBUM_B: Beethoven's 9th Symphony
ALBUM_C: Prince: the Hits I
ALBUM_D: The complete songs of Francis Poulenc
ALBUM_E: Sarah Vaughan's Greatest Hits (put out on Verve)
FILM_A: I wouldn't need
FILM_B: movies...
FILM_C: Just music & nature
FILM_D: would keep my
FILM_E: soul satisfied
 

ISOLATIONIST: Billy
ALBUM_A: memories from Greece
ALBUM_B: Brazilian Luna Bella
ALBUM_C: Suspicious minds Elvis Presley
ALBUM_D: Los Fabulosos Cadilacs
ALBUM_E: Nights in White Satin
FILM_A: Breathless
FILM_B: EndlessLove
FILM_C: Beyond dreams Robbin Williams
FILM_D: Buenos Aires
FILM_E: Casa Blanca
 

ISOLATIONIST: Katie
ALBUM_A: Dare To Be Stupid (Weird Al Yankovic)
ALBUM_B: Still Cruisin' (The Beach Boys)
ALBUM_C: Millennium (Backstreet Boys)
ALBUM_D: Pure 60's (various artists)
ALBUM_E: The ABBA Generation (A-Teens)
FILM_A: The African Queen
FILM_B: Finding Nemo
FILM_C: Pearl Harbor
FILM_D: The Music Man
FILM_E: The Road To El Dorado
 

ISOLATIONIST: Dr. Jimbo, MD
ALBUM_A: Electric Ladyland
ALBUM_B: Live/Dead
ALBUM_C: Mingus...Ah, um
ALBUM_D: Wilco...Being There
ALBUM_E: The Best of Eddie Harris
FILM_A: A Clockwork Orange
FILM_B: Apocalyse Now
FILM_C: Who's Afraid of Virgina Wolf?
FILM_D: Barry Lyndon
FILM_E: Van Wilder
 

ISOLATIONIST: Natalie Schrik
ALBUM_A: Love Songs and Negotiations (Paul Simon)
ALBUM_B: In The Jungle (James Brown)
ALBUM_C: Siamese Dream (Smashing Pumpkins)
ALBUM_D: MTV Unplugged (Arrested Development)
ALBUM_E: Any good sound effects album
FILM_A: Say Anything/Better Off Dead (John Cousak tie)
FILM_B: Sense and Sensibility
FILM_C: Terminator 2
FILM_D: Novacaine
FILM_E: Willy Wonka and the Chocolate Factory (mm, all that chocolate..)
 

ISOLATIONIST: Greg
ALBUM_A: 3030 - Deltron
ALBUM_B: Liquid Skin - Gomez
ALBUM_C: Let Me Come Over - Buffalo Tom
ALBUM_D: Music for the Morning After - Pete Yorn
ALBUM_E: Worker's Palytime - Billy Bragg
FILM_A: Spinal Tap
FILM_B: The Big Lebowski
FILM_C: Lord of the Rings
FILM_D: Amelie
FILM_E: Life is Beautiful
 

ISOLATIONIST: J. Gramps Kneecramps
ALBUM_A: Nick Drake: Nine Leaves Left
ALBUM_B: Talking Heads: More Songs About Buildings and Food
ALBUM_C: J.S. Bach: Passacaglia and Thema Fugatum in C Minor, BWV 582
ALBUM_D: Bob Dylan: Blood On The Tracks
ALBUM_E: Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
FILM_A: 2001: A Space Odyssey
FILM_B: Mulholland Drive
FILM_C: Le Fabuleux Destin d'Amelie Poulain
FILM_D: La Vita e Bella
FILM_E: Fast Times at Ridgemont High
 

ISOLATIONIST: Tim
ALBUM_A: Live in Cook County Jail (B.B. King)
ALBUM_B: Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
ALBUM_C: Axis: Bold As Love (The Jimi Hendrix Experience)
ALBUM_D: 13 Other Dimensions (The Giraffes)
ALBUM_E: II (The Presidents of the United States of America)
FILM_A: The Wizard of Oz
FILM_B: One Flew Over the Cuckoos Nest
FILM_C: Fantasia
FILM_D: Monty Python's Life of Brian
FILM_E: Mystery Science Theater 3000- The Movie
 

ISOLATIONIST: stan
ALBUM_A: AEnima (Tool)
ALBUM_B: Meddle (Pink Floyd)
ALBUM_C: Appetite for Destruction (Guns n Roses)
ALBUM_D: Houses of the Holy (Led Zeppelin)
ALBUM_E: In Sides (orbital)
FILM_A: Fight Club
FILM_B: Godfather Part II
FILM_C: The Matrix
FILM_D: Braveheart
FILM_E: Zoolander
 

ISOLATIONIST: Erica (and Josh's) Mom
ALBUM_A: Could I bring Books
ALBUM_B: on Tape Instead??????
ALBUM_C: ???
ALBUM_D: ????
ALBUM_E: ????
FILM_A: The Seventh Seal
FILM_B: Raising Arizona
FILM_C: The Wonder Boys
FILM_D: To Kill a Mockingbird
FILM_E: Airplane
 

ISOLATIONIST: Kamau
ALBUM_A: The Best of Taj Mahal
ALBUM_B: Patato - The Legend of Cuban Percussion
ALBUM_C: OK Computer (Radiohead)
ALBUM_D: Exile on Main Street (Rolling Stones)
ALBUM_E: Wahdon (Faruz)
FILM_A: The People vs Larry Flint
FILM_B: Return of the Jedi
FILM_C: La Femme Nikita
FILM_D: The Godfather III
FILM_E: The Holy Grail (Monty Python)
 

ISOLATIONIST: Mina
ALBUM_A: HAIR soundtrack (just something I grew up with)
ALBUM_B: Miles Davis: Bitches Brew (in the hopes that if I listened to it enough, I'd finally get it)
ALBUM_C: Itzhak Perlman: In the Fiddler's House (klezmer music)
ALBUM_D: Squarepusher: Music is Rotted One Note
ALBUM_E: Afro-Cuban All Stars: A Toda Cuba le Gusta
FILM_A: Croupier
FILM_B: Oscar and Lucinda
FILM_C: Spirited Away
FILM_D: The Wrong Trousers
FILM_E: A Clockwork Orange
 

ISOLATIONIST: margit
ALBUM_A: Manu Chao - Clandestino
ALBUM_B: SEEED- New Dubby Conquerors
ALBUM_C: Ben Harper-Welcome to the cruel world
ALBUM_D: Guem-Le serpent o. Fanfare ciocarlia - Iag Bari
ALBUM_E: Beethoven- Mondschein Sonate
FILM_A: Die fabelhafte Welt der Amelie
FILM_B: Some like it hot
FILM_C: Lola rennt (run Lola run )
FILM_D: Sonnenallee o. Monsoon Wedding
FILM_E: Schwarze Katze weißer Kater (black cat -white cat) o. Down by law
 

ISOLATIONIST: Sam
ALBUM_A: The Purple Onion (Les Claypool and the Frog Brigade)
ALBUM_B: Thelonious Monk (Complete Riverside Recordings)
ALBUM_C: Theivery Coroporation (any)
ALBUM_D: Black Eyed Peas (any)
ALBUM_E: Oysterhead
FILM_A: Barton Fink
FILM_B: Lord of the Rings
FILM_C: Chuck and Buck
FILM_D: Baraca
FILM_E: The Big Lebowski
 

ISOLATIONIST: Sam
ALBUM_A: The Purple Onion (Les Claypool and the Frog Brigade)
ALBUM_B: Thelonious Monk (Complete Riverside Recordings)
ALBUM_C: Theivery Coroporation (any)
ALBUM_D: Black Eyed Peas (any)
ALBUM_E: Oysterhead
FILM_A: Barton Fink
FILM_B: Lord of the Rings
FILM_C: Chuck and Buck
FILM_D: Baraca
FILM_E: The Big Lebowski
 

ISOLATIONIST: Jared Milazzo (Pizza)
ALBUM_A: Rush - Signals
ALBUM_B: Bad Brains - Rock For Light
ALBUM_C: The Faction - Dark Room
ALBUM_D: The Smiths - The Queen Is Dead
ALBUM_E: Black Sabbath - Master Of Reality
FILM_A: Fast Times At Ridgemont High
FILM_B: Good Fellas
FILM_C: Star Wars A New Hope
FILM_D: Spider-Man
FILM_E: Night Of The Living Dead
 

ISOLATIONIST: Bethany
ALBUM_A: Post- Bjork
ALBUM_B: Beatles - dont know which 1
ALBUM_C: Jiva Mukti
ALBUM_D: Bob Marley Jammin
ALBUM_E: some Classical Music
FILM_A: The Princess Bride!
FILM_B: Kama Sutra- a lovers tale
FILM_C: Young Frankenstein
FILM_D: Amelie
FILM_E: The Breakfast Club
 

ISOLATIONIST: Josh
ALBUM_A: Led Zeppelin - Physical Graffiti
ALBUM_B: Metallica - And Justice For All
ALBUM_C: John Coltrane - Blue Train (Since you guys both already have Kind of Blue)
ALBUM_D: Rolling Stones - Exile on Main Street
ALBUM_E: U2 - The Joshua Tree
FILM_A: The Empire Strikes Back
FILM_B: High Fidelity (for the desert island lists)
FILM_C: Breaking Away
FILM_D: Apocalypse Now
FILM_E: Casablanca
 

ISOLATIONIST: Kelsey
ALBUM_A: Scoundrel Days - A-ha
ALBUM_B: Best of the Smiths - The Smiths
ALBUM_C: Requim - Wolfgang Amadeus Mozart
ALBUM_D: Original Broadway Cast of Evita
ALBUM_E: Comfort Eagle - Cake
FILM_A: Donnie Darko
FILM_B: Fight Club
FILM_C: Knight's Tale
FILM_D: The Goodbye Girl
FILM_E: Jaws
 

ISOLATIONIST: Tang
ALBUM_A: Little Girl Blue, Nina Simone
ALBUM_B: Maria Callas arias
ALBUM_C: Ellington's song "fleurette africaine"
ALBUM_D: A Jobim album
ALBUM_E: Bach cello concertos, Rostropovich
FILM_A: Strictly Ballroom
FILM_B: Black Orpheus (1957)
FILM_C: Underground Orchestra
FILM_D: Pirates of Penzance
FILM_E: Y Tu Mama Tambien
 

ISOLATIONIST: Mitchell M Harris
ALBUM_A: Funkify Your Life Part 1 (The Meters)
ALBUM_B: Exile on Main St. (Stones)
ALBUM_C: Pink Moon (Nick Drake)
ALBUM_D: The Soft Bulletin (Flamming Lips)
ALBUM_E: Smokey Robinson & The Miracles (The Ultimate Colection)
FILM_A: Chinatown (Polanski)
FILM_B: Bottlerockets (Anderson)
FILM_C: The Exterminating Angel (Bunuel)
FILM_D: Love & Death (W. Allen)
FILM_E: 400 Blows (Truffaut)
 

ISOLATIONIST: jinx
ALBUM_A: electric ladyland-jimi hendrix
ALBUM_B: gratitude—earth wind & fire
ALBUM_C: seasons-antonio vivaldi
ALBUM_D: cuba linda-israel lopez
ALBUM_E: aerial boundaries-michael hedges
FILM_A: close encounters
FILM_B: les miserables
FILM_C: shawshank redemption
FILM_D: the big blue
FILM_E: raising arizona
 

ISOLATIONIST: rikker
ALBUM_A: It Takes a Nation of Millions to Hold Us Back (Public Enemy)
ALBUM_B: The End of Silence (Rollins Band)
ALBUM_C: Appetite For Destruction (Guns and Roses)
ALBUM_D: Rated R (Queens of the Stone Age)
ALBUM_E: Miles, Outkast, Hendrix, Zeppelin I. II, III, and IV, Houses of the Holy... 5 is not enough!
FILM_A: Fight Club
FILM_B: The Professional
FILM_C: Once Upon a Time in the West or The Good the Bad and the Ugly
FILM_D: Being John Malkovich
FILM_E: Amelie
 

ISOLATIONIST: Pete aka Dr. Dub (2nd String cause I'm too tall !)
ALBUM_A: Fela Kuti: Zombie
ALBUM_B: Linton Kwesi Johnson: Independent Intavenshan
ALBUM_C: James Brown: Payback
ALBUM_D: Public Enemy: It takes a nation of millions to hold us back
ALBUM_E: Miles Davis: Kind of Blue
FILM_A: Prisoner of the Mountains (Sergei Bodrov)
FILM_B: Buena Vista Social Club
FILM_C: Johnny Stequino
FILM_D: Dogtown and Z-Boys
FILM_E: Deer Hunter
 

ISOLATIONIST: Pete aka Dr. Dub
ALBUM_A: The Doors: The Doors
ALBUM_B: Charlie Mingus: Blues and Roots
ALBUM_C: Tito Puente: Top Percussion
ALBUM_D: King Tubby: King Dub
ALBUM_E: Thanassis Papakonstantinou: Agrypnia
FILM_A: Apocalypse Now
FILM_B: Time of the Gypsies (by Emir Kusturica)
FILM_C: Underground (by Emir Kusturica)
FILM_D: Big Lewbowski
FILM_E: Ghost Dog
 

ISOLATIONIST: TomK
ALBUM_A: Smiths - Hatful of Hollow
ALBUM_B: Sly & Robbie - A Dub Experience
ALBUM_C: Bad Brains - Rock for Light
ALBUM_D: Wayne Jarret - Chip In
ALBUM_E: Chuck Berry - His Best, Vol. 1, OR Rush - Exit Stage Left
FILM_A: Good Fellas
FILM_B: American Beauty
FILM_C: The Deer Hunter
FILM_D: The Shining
FILM_E: Pulp Fiction OR Akira
 

ISOLATIONIST: friend
ALBUM_A: Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
ALBUM_B: Passion (Peter Gabriel)
ALBUM_C: Revolver (the Beatles)
ALBUM_D: Buena Vista Social Club
ALBUM_E: Kid A (Radiohead)
FILM_A: Raising Arizona
FILM_B: Rushmore
FILM_C: Stealing Beauty
FILM_D: The Princess Bride
FILM_E: The Empire Strikes Back
 

ISOLATIONIST: Simon
ALBUM_A: Chopin piano concertos
ALBUM_B: Abbey Road (the Beatles)
ALBUM_C: Kind of Blue (Miles Davis)
ALBUM_D: some Indian classical music
ALBUM_E: O.K. Computer (Radiohead) or Beginning Stages of (The Polyphonic Spree)
FILM_A: Rushmore
FILM_B: The Princess Bride
FILM_C: Amelie or North by Northwest
FILM_D: The Big Lebowski
FILM_E: 2001 or Last of the Mohicans

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