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Meme: Unique Things
Meme grabbed from nicodemusrat. As I mentioned on his entry, it’s tricky to do this with a friends list full of fannish/slannish types! I *could* cheat, since I have a ton of totally obscure stuff that no one else would be interested in, but I’ll try to skirt the line (and do stuff that others may –possibly- own).


Name a CD you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
I collect musicals and lately have collected musicals in other languages. I’m doubting that many of you have the Argentinian version of “Hair” or the Italian cast of “My Fair Lady” (absolutely beautiful) or Les Mis in fifteen languages. How about the Soviet Chorus singing the “Volga Boatman”?

So I’ll list ten and I’ll consider you a win if you own even any one of them!

Douglas Quin: “Oropendola—music by and from birds”
“HOWL: the Grunts and Growls of all Toho Monsters”
Jerry Douglas: “Slide Rule”
Any “Didjetellus” CD (there are at least 8—a terrific Didjeridu musician!)
Iris DeMent: “Infamous Angel”
The Flash Girls: “The Return of Pansy Smith and Violet Jones” (Fishbliss is disqualified from this and the next entry!)
Cats Laughing: “Another Way to Travel”
Jerry Lewis: The Collectors Series!
Royal Crown Revue: “Kings of Gangster Bop”


Name a book you own that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
Same thing as above: if you have even one, you are a weiner! And I’ve taken most of the completely out-of-print books off…like the Navaho Dictionary and an 18th Century book about the wars of the French Revolution. Also left off: my ethnic stuff about JA’s.

S.R. Crockett: “The Black Douglas” (werewolves!)

“The Yanagita Kukio Guide to the Japanese Folk Tale”

Saxon, Dreyer & Tallant: “Gumbo Ya-Ya”

Shinta Cho: “The Gas We Pass” (oddly, the one most likely to be owned by one of my friends…)

Harrison & Bates: “Mammals of Arabia”

Yoshitoshi’s “Thirty-Six Ghosts”

Elizabeth M. Ricker : "Seppala, Alaskan Dog Driver”

“Keane” (2 vol. Set) Tomorrow’s Masters

“Dawn of Art: the Chauvet Cave”

Clifford D. Simak: “Cemetary World”


Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/etc. that you think no-one else on your friends list does.
This one is tough not to cheat on…I have a bunch of obscure Japanese sentai/Tokusatsu Hero/anime that a lot of people probably have –no- interest in.

“Scared Stiff” (Lewis&Martin)
“City of Lost Children” or “Delicatessen” (likely someone has this on tape)
“The Runestone” (I helped make sheet music bleed!)
“Conquest” (Lucio Fulci! Werewolves!)
“Murder, Inc.” (where Joe Pesci got his trademark character from—Peter Falk)
“You Never Can Tell” (cute, and where my namesake is from)
“The Night of the Hunter” (L*O*V*E/H*A*T*E)
“The Lady in White”
“Kwaidan”
“Ikiru”

Name a place that you have visited that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
I’m nearly stumped on this one. I toss out what I can:

Davy Byrne’s in Dublin: Immortalized by James Joyce and “Ulysses”. I’m pretty sure that there aren’t too many JJ fanatics here (I did it for a friend who was a JJ fan).

Beppu, Kyushu, Japan: “The Blood Hells” thermal springs:
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Toho Studios in Japan: I am an otaku. Saw rotting suits and a ton of props from Toho movies.

“Titan II missile site 571-9” (among others): A friend with a passion for cold war sites dragged me to the Titan Missile Museum outside of Tucson, AZ. We discretely photographed the map showing the locations of all the missile silos in the area and drove out to find as many as we could. This one, like most of them, had been filled in with cement, but the quarry dug out most of the entrance domes and a few tunnels. I could also list the Nike Missile base at Oat Mountain in the San Fernando Valley…

Lightning Ridge, Australia (also Coober Pedy): looking for opals in Australia! Opal mines were neat (as was watching the pilot clear the “runway” of big, red kangaroos), but also somewhat depressing with the local Aboriginal population in terrible condition.


Name a piece of technology or any sort of tool you own that you think no-one else on your friends list has.
This is even tougher than the places one. I have friends whose hobbies overlap mine, with all the same tools. I have some materials that are unique, but that’s not the question. I’ll put these up with little hope of uniqueness:

Ultrasonic cleaner
Hydrogen-oxygen wielding setup.
Jewelry waxer
Otoscope!
Horse shaver
Loc-Line set