For the attention of parents and relatives: this is my most-wanted list.
To my student buddies: I am obviously overjoyed if you get me something off this list, but am equally happy with something second hand or cheap and cheerful.
FILMS:
Querelle (Fassbinder)
Victim (60s, Dirk Bogarde)
The Proposition (Guy Pierce)
"Great films", particularly westerns, noir, crime, cult classics, sci fi - oh y'know, everything and anything you think I'll enjoy.
Stuff by:
David Lynch (but not Mullholland Drive)
Rainer Warner Fassbinder (not Fear Eats the Soul)
Powell and Pressburger (not I Know Where I'm Going, not Matter of Life and Death, not the Red Shoes and not Peeping Tom. Unless you find a nice boxed set)
Telly:
Twin Peaks
Neverwhere
DOCTOR WHO:
Delta and the Bannermen (on DVD)
I really, really need more Seventh Doctor but I have everything which is out on DVD. Seventh Doctor videos (especially Dragonfire) make me happy.
Big Finish audio plays:
Spare Parts
The Gathering
Excelis Dawns
BOOKS:
Dorian Gray first edition (anime version, braille, e.t.c. - check my DG blog to see what I don't have)
Amanda Palmer songbook
Sheet music, any sheet music.
Origami instructions, but really tricky ones :)
Random books on London - particularly unusual sightseeing, creepy history, cool buildings, London: A Biography or similar.
Censorship + classification
Film, particularly film violence/reactions
Oscar Wilde (PLEASE no "wit and wisdoms" though)
MUSIC
Doctor Who Season 3 soundtrack
This Strange Engine (Marillion)
Space Metal (Star One)
Peter Gabriel III
Patrick Wolf (any of them)
Moths ate my Doctor Who Scarf
Brick soundtrack
The Tears (only one album so you can't get it wrong)
Al Stewart!
I have: Orange, Past Present and Future, Modern Times, Year of the Cat and Piece of Yesterday.
I want: anything else! Though preferly not live albums.
Other stuff:
The Blue Man Group concert DVD for the concert we actually saw. I'm not sure if it's available or not.
Religious propaganda, ludicrously racist/sexist memorabilia, hideously inaccurate science et al.
This would make me pretty darn happy:
http://www.chick.com/catalog/assortments/0915.asp
Antiquey stuff - old packaging, Victoriana, taxidermy e.t.c.
A cravat
Hats! Exciting hats!
The Seventh Doctor umbrella
The 70s toy Liberator which Corgi made
A poncho - big, warm and fuzzy. Preferably in a fun colour.
To my student buddies: I am obviously overjoyed if you get me something off this list, but am equally happy with something second hand or cheap and cheerful.
FILMS:
The Proposition (Guy Pierce)
"Great films", particularly westerns, noir, crime, cult classics, sci fi - oh y'know, everything and anything you think I'll enjoy.
Stuff by:
David Lynch (but not Mullholland Drive)
Rainer Warner Fassbinder (not Fear Eats the Soul)
Powell and Pressburger (not I Know Where I'm Going, not Matter of Life and Death, not the Red Shoes and not Peeping Tom. Unless you find a nice boxed set)
Telly:
Neverwhere
DOCTOR WHO:
Delta and the Bannermen (on DVD)
I really, really need more Seventh Doctor but I have everything which is out on DVD. Seventh Doctor videos (especially Dragonfire) make me happy.
Big Finish audio plays:
Spare Parts
The Gathering
Excelis Dawns
BOOKS:
Dorian Gray first edition (anime version, braille, e.t.c. - check my DG blog to see what I don't have)
Amanda Palmer songbook
Sheet music, any sheet music.
Origami instructions, but really tricky ones :)
Random books on London - particularly unusual sightseeing, creepy history, cool buildings, London: A Biography or similar.
Six Characters in Search of an Author - but NOT the original script. The revamped one, with Rupert Gould.
Books on:Censorship + classification
Film, particularly film violence/reactions
Oscar Wilde (PLEASE no "wit and wisdoms" though)
MUSIC
Doctor Who Season 3 soundtrack
This Strange Engine (Marillion)
Space Metal (Star One)
Peter Gabriel III
Patrick Wolf (any of them)
Moths ate my Doctor Who Scarf
Brick soundtrack
The Tears (only one album so you can't get it wrong)
Al Stewart!
I have: Orange, Past Present and Future, Modern Times, Year of the Cat and Piece of Yesterday.
I want: anything else! Though preferly not live albums.
Other stuff:
The Blue Man Group concert DVD for the concert we actually saw. I'm not sure if it's available or not.
Religious propaganda, ludicrously racist/sexist memorabilia, hideously inaccurate science et al.
This would make me pretty darn happy:
http://www.chick.com/catalog/assortments/0915.asp
Antiquey stuff - old packaging, Victoriana, taxidermy e.t.c.
A cravat
Hats! Exciting hats!
The Seventh Doctor umbrella
The 70s toy Liberator which Corgi made
A poncho - big, warm and fuzzy. Preferably in a fun colour.
Comments (4)
taxidermy?? doesn't that sit a bit oddly with veganism?? o_0
If you want taxidermay, you can get stuffed (sorry, predictable joke....)
Mum
Very oddly indeed, I confess. What can I say? It's cruel and horrific, but I still rather like it...particularly in an antique context, when the animal was killed in a less enlightened age. I'd be less impressed if you went out and kidnapped a fox specifically.
did you ever get the liberator?