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[alonewiththemoon]

Name a CD you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
This one probably has many answers, what with all the Arabic music. So I'll turn it into a recommendation--anybody with a passing interest in classical arabic music should own Georges Lammam's Fyom Weleleh & Melodic Musings, available here. Gorgeous violin music.

Name a book you own that no-one else on your friends list does:
A Practical Guide to Goatkeeping, published in the 1940s.

Name a movie you own on DVD/VHS/etc that no-one else on your friends list does:
Hmmm, this one is tougher. Maybe Starstruck, which is also one of my favorite movies ever.

Name a place that you have visited that no-one else on your friends list has:
The caves of Altamira in Spain. I feel a little guilty for having gone in there, though I was invited, but it was amazing.

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[atalanta.livejournal.com]

I was a few miles away from altamira and didn't go there because I was a dumb teenager! argh.
can't you go in anymore?

[alonewiththemoon]

They only let in a small number of people per year, and you have to have an invitation from a qualified person (in our case, a well-known Spanish archaeologist who was one of the co-runners of the field school I was in). I seem to recall at the time it was maybe something like 60 people per year, and that was in the summer of 1989. The paintings are damaged by the moisture people carry in with them and by the outside air, which is why I feel somewhat guilty for having gone in, as I was just an American college student and not a serious researcher or anything. So you might not have been able to get into the actual cave anyway.