Displacement: Unique things meme

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Originally via lisekit but with a fairly wide area of infection. I like the concept, though I suspect I'm going to do very badly.

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does.
Hm. I have a whole bunch of random bargain-bin classical compilations, but they're only unusual combinations of obvious things. Let's try Wake up by The Boo Radleys (album; there's probably a fair chance that British, chart-aware people my age have the single).

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does.
I'm going to go for GB Edwards: The Book of Ebenezer Le Page, if only because I'm very much hoping to be proved wrong here.

Name a movie you own that no-one else on your friends list does.
I definitely fail on this one, since I own precisely zero movies. And I surely can't be the only person of my LJ circle in this position. I've seen a film that I reckon nobody else has, though: Tilsammans ('Together'). Any takers?

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has.
This is the one where everybody seems to trip up. My first guess would be random tiny little villages in the depths of Pembrokeshire, but I discovered lethargic_man has actually been to most of them, which quite likely means papersky has also. So let's try Queenscliff, Australia; there's only one Aussie on my flist (I think) and Queenscliff is not exactly a major city.

I bet I'm going to lose on every single one of those. It's probably just a question of how quickly I get the counterexemplary comments.

Comments

You so lose on Queenscliff!

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Sneaky, but I spent a year in Melbourne!

Re: You so lose on Queenscliff!

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Oh well, there's a nice symmetry since I trumped one of your obscure places. There are actually a few people around who have spent time in Australia, but I was assuming that not everyone who lives in Melbourne visits Queenscliff.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

I didn't know you'd been to Australia. When was that?

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I didn't know you'd been to Australia. When was that?
Christmas holidays at the end of 1987 and then again at the end of 1992. You know my mother has a brother and a sister out there, right? I think you met my uncle D when you came to us for seder one year. But anyway, yeah, we've been out twice to visit them.

[hatam-soferet.livejournal.com]

Oh right, your uncle D. I remember :)

[mummimamma.livejournal.com]

I must admit that I've seen Tilsammans. Twice I think, at the cinema with the "commune" I used to live in, and on tv a couple of months ago. In Norway everything from Sweden is cool :)
But I own one more film (http://www.imdb.com/title/tt0156794/) than you!

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I must admit that I've seen Tilsammans.
Foiled! I thought that was really obscure. Isn't it a sweet film, though?

In Norway everything from Sweden is cool :)
Ah. I hadn't realized that; I thought a Swedish art film would still be obscure in Norway. Just goes to show.

[greengolux.livejournal.com]

Yeah, I've also seen Tilsammans. And Fucking Amal and Lilja-4Ever, both by the same director, Lukas Moodyson. Neither are are as sweet as Tilsammans (the latter film is positively harrowing) but they show the same kind of acute social observation and excellent performances, especially from the young actors he works with.

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I wouldn't have gone for Fucking Åmål since it was on general release here (as Show me love) so it seemed reasonable that a few people would have seen it. I thought it had a lot going for it as a film, but it's actually not the reason why I saw Tilsammans; what happened was that my boss, who is half-Swedish, dragged most of the lab along to the local arts cinema to see it when they were doing one of their seasons of 'films from countries with no film industry' or whatever.

acute social observation and excellent performances
Yes, that definitely sums up what I like about Moodyson. I didn't know he'd made another film; I shall look out for Lilja-4Ever now!

[draconid.livejournal.com]

I've probably been to a fair few of the tiny little villages too. ;)

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OK, in that case it's even more of a good thing that I didn't try anywhere in Wales.