Meme time!

[sabotabby]

From jamie_miller:

Every now and then the police arrest somebody suspected of some terrible, violent crime, and as a piece of public relations they'll announce all of the horrible books, movies and/or CDs they found in the suspect's house, as if to prove that the suspect is obviously guilty and horrible and monstrous.

So here is my challenge to you. You can either do this from memory or take a moment to look through your book and music collections, and then answer this question:

Name ten books, CDs and/or movies that you own that the police would cite as evidence against you at their press conference.



The Qu'ran
The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
Access All Areas
Problems and Prospects of Revolution in Nepal
Some Important Documents of Communist Party of Nepal (Maoist)
The Question of Palestine
The Blast
On Violence


I don't really have many CDs that would arouse interest, but I don't need to: I have the Kominas magnificent debut, Wild Nights in Guantanamo Bay. Though I can't imagine that the Wolfe Tones' Let the People Sing looks great for me either.

DVDs, well. Most of mine are documentaries made by people I know. What would really get me in trouble is that I own a copy of Battlefield Earth. (Long story. It was actually a present from the same friend who gave me Protocols.)

Comments

[bcholmes.livejournal.com]

I own a copy of Battlefield Earth.

I wish you had told me this before because I was actually beginning to like you. But I can't be friends with someone who owns Battlefield Earth. I just... I can't!

:)

[sabotabby]

It's not mine. I'm holding it for a friend.

[eumelia.livejournal.com]

I too have Wild Night in Guantanamo Bay. And other things that will make me look bad in the press if I'm ever arrested.

Hmmm, this is a good Meme - will have to ponder upon it.

[sabotabby]

I imagine they wouldn't bother to listen to it—they'd see the cover and that would be it. Still, it would get the Kominas some more notoriety.

[mcpreacher.livejournal.com]

yiddish policemen's union, god delusion, and memoir from antproof case would prove uselful i suppose were i to murder a jewish coffee tycoon

[sabotabby]

were i to murder a jewish coffee tycoon

I could loan you my copy of Together We Win: The Fight to Organize Starbucks, too.

[apperception.livejournal.com]

I don't have that many seditious things, unless you count the artifacts of my liberal arts education. There are the copious volumes of writings of Karl Marx, Lenin, and Rosa Luxembourg. Some Black Panther shit. Progressive rock, which constitutes more a crime against taste than the state.

[sabotabby]

They would look at your date of birth, look at your music collection, and immediately find you guilty of something.

[dagibbs.livejournal.com]

Hm... I have a number of BDSM/Kink books, both how-tos and erotica. Also Lolita. I don't know if they still cite RPGs, but I've got a whole bunch of AD&D and other gaming books. My music collection is pretty mainstream, but I also have a bunch of wargames that they might cite.

[sabotabby]

Hmm, gaming was not included, but it seems applicable. Not to me, but in general. People still freak out over D&D.

[chickenfeet2003.livejournal.com]

Books: Marx, Lenin, Stalin, Mao, Gramsci, Luxemburg, Cohn-Bendit, Gallagher, Miliband etc etc.

Music: Not so much. Some Billy Bragg, Dick Gaughan etc.

DVDs: Can not think of anything really sinister unless you count the Wagner.

[courtly.livejournal.com]

My list is empty.

I only buy things that pop culture tells me to buy.

[lienne.livejournal.com]

I don't really own that many suspicious books/movies/whatever. It's when they get their hands on the things I write that the trouble will start.

[corwin77.livejournal.com]

I don't have many specifics...I'm gonna include video games and comics since there is a few in there that make me look...insane.
CDs:
I own several soundtracks with Manson
I also have a couple of mixed CDs with Eminem, Manson, and others.
Also Ani DIFranco...she's all rebellious and shit.

Books:
RP books.
Lots of hooror

Movies:
Again lots of horror.

Games:
Resident Evil 2-4
Mercenaries 1&2
Grand Theft Auto 3-San Andreas (Which I believe is #6)

Comics:
Lenore
Johnny the Homicidal Maniac

[frelling-tralk.livejournal.com]

Some of the porn I have on my PC would make me look like a real creeper :/

Off topic

[fengi.livejournal.com]

I'd like your reaction to this post about a possible step forward in terms of backlash journalism.

[homewardangel.livejournal.com]

love! theft!

[pope-guilty.livejournal.com]

I'm gonna have to destory my Tch'Kung! CDs at some point...

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

I'm denarrativizing my Crash Worship wax cylinders even as we speak!

But no, ¡Tchkung! is more contraband because their CDs came with multi-language instructions on making Molotovs.

[shelestel.livejournal.com]

Most people suspected of crimes are not intellectuals with developed hermeneutic capabilities. While the humongous fear of the intelligentsia of being stripped of any cognitive dignity and mercilessly reduced to gross literalism is more than understandable, one also seems to me to need to acknowledge the fact that many many people do take their texts very literally, and that proposing a correlation between thought and deed is hence not entirely nonsensical if one operates on the socium-wide level, like do the police.

[culpster.livejournal.com]

Body Count!

[esizzle.livejournal.com]

The Protocols of the Elders of Zion
hahahaa!! man if i can get u this in arabic text for your next birthday day, i will!! u can keep it next to the quraan so the police for sure won't miss it.

[sabotabby]

<3 <3 <3

[snarkitysnarks.livejournal.com]

At first I was like "oh, I don't have anything."

But then I looked at my bookshelf and I seem to have Nietzsche, Sarte, Malcolm X, The Villain's Guide to Better Living, and The Truth About ESP. (uhh...that last one I was supposed to paint over for an extra credit school project back in high school, but I never ended up doing it).

And then there are the books that are dangerous to my own health, like Plath, The New Scriabin, and The Fountainhead. That last one is a new acquisition. My sister bought it on recommendation before she knew what it was, found it again recently, and asked me if I still wanted to burn a copy. I WANT TO SOMEHOW MAKE THAT EVENT INTO A PARTY.

I am jealous of your very dangerous sounding books. I think Access All Areas is my favorite suspicious book. By the way, has it come in handy yet?

[sabotabby]

I don't think the Fountainhead is even worth burning. It releases far too much CO2 into the atmosphere. Instead, it should be heartily mocked, preferably with dramatic readings.

I am jealous of your very dangerous sounding books. I think Access All Areas is my favorite suspicious book. By the way, has it come in handy yet?

It impressed a few dates. :) But not handy in the way I would like.

[dglenn.livejournal.com]

Off the top of my head (there are probably more, and 'worse'):

• Grillot de Givry, Witchcraft, Magic, and Alchemy
• Alice Cooper, various LPs, including Welcome to My Nightmare and Zipper Catches Skin, and on CD, The Last Temptation
• Joseph Smith, Jr., The Book of Mormon
• L. Ron Hubbard, Dianetics: The Modern Science of Mental Health
• a whole bunch of old Unix, Linux, and Xenix manuals, which they would probably use to portray me as some sort of uber-cracker, except they'd mislabel the concept "hacker" (and I am a hacker, but dammit, it doesn't mean what LEOs and the press keep using it to mean)
• Robert A. Rinker, Understanding Firearm Ballistics (borrowed)
• Leslie Fish, It's Sister Jenny's Turn To Throw The Bomb (cassette), not to mention various Leslie Fish lyrics in various books of sheet music
• Ron Romanovsky and Paul Phillips, various albums as a duo or solo, mostly on CD
• several issues of Tournaments Illuminated, Acorn, the Pennsic Independent, and the Pennsic Dailie Tidings, to tie me to "that scary group that has its own standing army", and The Teutonic Plague to tie me to a different group of folks with swords
• I think there may be a couple of Gor novels by John Norman around somewhere, but I haven't seen them in a long time
• oh yeah, that reminds me, various books by Anne Rice under her A.N. Roquelaure and Anne Rampling pen names, including (of course) the Sleeping Beauty trilogy and Belinda
• a few back issues of The Sandmutopia Guardian (and maybe an old issue of On Our Backs unless an ex-girlfriend took it with her)
• G. Harry Stine, Handbook of Model Rocketry
• Kate Bornstein, Gender Outlaw
• I think I might have a copy of Drawing Down the Moon, by, uh, Starhawk?, but I'm not sure whether I owned that or borrowed it when I read it (I'm pretty sure the copy of Real Magick by Bonewits that I read was borrowed and returned)
• Advanced Doungeons & Dragons, 1st ed., at least the Players Handbook and the Dungeon Masters Guide (I'm not sure about Deities and Demigods)
• original Dungeons and Dragons and Greyhawk, as really bad photocopies
• in context with everything else I've listed, I don't know whether the copy of the New Testament in two columns with Ancient Greek on one side and Modern Greek on the other would count as reassuring or more mysterious and ominous
• heck, by that point they'd probably find some excuse to find The Yamaha Sound Reinforcment Handbook frightening

OTOH, I also have Abba and Barry Manilow albums and a King James Bible (Masonic edition, a gift from my father), so how dangerous can I be? (I am not ashamed of liking Abba, and only a teensy bit ashamed of liking Barry Manilow. Pbbbt!)

Then again, my house is such a mess, and some of these are in boxes, so they might not even notice more than a couple of the items I've listed.

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

You're like The Old Man of USENET! I want to break in and rifle through those boxes...

[springheel-jack.livejournal.com]

Gets harder now that loompanics is out of business.

[jamie-miller.livejournal.com]

Hear hear.

[corvus.livejournal.com]

I think you're the cop and you're doing some research so you know who to bust.

[purveyorofchaos.livejournal.com]

COP HAT

[caprinus.livejournal.com]

I don't think my list would be significantly different than anyone else's here. And I'm taking no responsibility for my wife's book collection! The only outliers, collection-wide, might be some Polish anarchist magazines, some neofolk music with tenuous ties to White Power movements (but the same could be levelled at Wagner), and guro images in book and album-cover form (Trevor Brown, Merzbow, etc.)

Oh, and Hindu/Jain svastikas.

[streetdreams.livejournal.com]

Unfortunately, my housemates and friends are defendants in an ongoing political felony conspiracy case, and our books really were displayed in a police press conference. It makes this meme somewhat less fun.

They really like Recipes for Disaster a lot.

[sabotabby]

Oh damn. I'm really sorry to hear that.

[troubleinchina.livejournal.com]

I have a lot of books about seperatism movements in Canada at the moment.

But mostly, I think they'd just cite the swords.

[marsianer.livejournal.com]

Darn, I have like 99.9 percent of my stuff in storage, so I can't go and check. I think I have something (in German) called the Hacker Bible, that might qualify. The most suspicious item in my CD collection is probably the one by [i]Die Form[/i].

[marsianer.livejournal.com]

Oh, forgot Third Reich and Roll.

[soberloki.livejournal.com]

Sadly, I am shockingly low on books. Haven't moved my collection over from my old place yet.

I strongly suspect that my DVD collection would only prompt comments on the number of retarded screwball comedies and John Waters movies I have. I'm an 80s girl.

But my mp3 collection... I have the final Jonestown audio, and lots of thrashy noisy music in languages I don't speak, and I also like Philip Glass... I don't know, what WOULD the cops make of that?