The Wire's Death Row Game

ie.

3 records, 1 book, 3 visitors, 1 movie

and what music played a your funeral

good q sez I:

Sly & the Family Stone, There's a Riot Goin' On; James Brown, Star Time; The Velvet Underground
The Peoples Almanac 2
my mom, my 2 sisters
My Man Godfrey
"At Last I Am Free" (both Chic and Robert Wyatt versions)

3 records: Peter Grudzien's the Unicorn, Having Fun with Elvis on Stage, the Fat Boys' Crushin'

1 book: The Boz by Brian Bosworth (runner-up: The Kid Stays in the Picture by Bob Evans)

3 visitors: Jose Canseco, Ozzie Canseco, Richard Meltzer

1 movie: the R. Kelly porntape

requiem: the Monkee's "Shades of Gray" (runner-up: Telly Savalas' "I Shall Be Released")

Records:
Talking Heads, Remain In Light
Bogdan Razcynski, My Love I Love
Sly & the Family Stone, Anthology

People:
My brother, probably, a woman, and David Byrne

The Jerk
Reqiuem: "OH! You Pretty Things" by David Bowie

oh bother i forgot a book.. um.. like, Siddhartha..or something

records- Pulp, Different Class Tubeway Army, Replicas Divine Comedy, Promenade

book- Celine, Death on the Instalment-Plan

visitors- parents, Jurgen Klinsmann

reqiuem- Diana Ross, Touch me in the morning/Go-kart Mozart, City Synthesis

~records~ sebadoh 'bakesale' boards of canada 'mhtrtc' my bloody valentine 'isn't anything'

~movies~ the tenant (polanski) les quatre cents coups (truffaut)

~books~ cities of the red night (burroughs) ghost world (clowes) the outsiders (hinton)

~visitors~ the girl i barely know but was obsessed with when i was 21 stevie wonder

~last supper~ i would renounce my vegetarianism and order a super donair from the queen donair on 156th st. and stony plain road (edmonton alberta canada). i would also get a large spinach, feta, green olive, pineapple, and tomato pizza (preferably from parkallen pizza on 109st. and 70th ave) and wash it down with a bottle of orangina, a pint of guinness and three canadian benson & hedges gold.

~requiem~ new order 'bizarre love triangle'

records: White Hassle, The Death of Song; T-Model Ford, Bad Man; Morphine, Cure For Pain
book: Kerouac, Big Sur
visitors: yeah, Meltzer would be good; Alan Zweig, some fox (but not all three at once)
movie: A Day At The Races (won't fast foward through Harpo's music this time)
requiem: "Let the Goodtimes Roll" by Tricky Woo just to make the mourners shake they ass

my question for everybody who answered this thread on it's first go-round ... are you completely embarrassed by what you selected, upon reading it about eight months later?

in my case, i am. it startled me but at the same time proved to me that sometimes even when you think you're stagnant you're actually moving forward ... you just have to see it written down before you can believe it.