Friday Five 1 If You Could Only Choose 1 Cd To Ever Listen To Agai

Friday Five:

1. If you could only choose 1 cd to ever listen to again, what would it be?

The Deutsche Grammophon CD of Von Karajan conducting the Berlin Philharmonic for Beethoven's Symphonie No. 9.

2. If you could only choose 2 movies to watch ever again, what would they be?

Seas of Life and Casablanca

3. If you could only choose 3 books to read ever again, what would they be?

Patrick O'Brian's Aubrey-Maturin series (21 novels), Joseph Campbell's The Masks of God (4 volumes), and William Goldman's The Princess Bride.

4. If you could only choose 4 things to eat or drink ever again, what would they be?

A pizza from this place in Boston that went out of business a decade ago, king mackerel steamed in banana leaves with a fresh-squeezed lime juice from this place in Sarong, Irian Jaya, and a 25-year-old Macallan single malt. (This isn't at a single meal, right?)

5. If you could only choose 5 people to ever be/talk/associate/whatever with ever again, who would they be?
Just between Tina and my immediate family I'm over the limit.