Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Xmas. Show all posts

Saturday, November 29, 2008

And now for something completely different...


So I'm sitting at the Embles, stealing the internets out of her computers. I'll be going to the protest later, and probably post another rabble-rousing rant afterwards.

But for now, a word or two about Yule, or Xmas, or the Great and Terrible Yearly Tree Sacrifice.

Having recently come to the conclusion that what little money I currently have needs to be used up ASAP on durables (aka flooring and a fridge and a stove) and ever-more expensive food and drink, I'm a bit loathe to indulge in the yearly consumer feeding frenzy of gift buying and receiving. For starters, I just plain don't got no room at my place. So a pile of prezzies presents a problem.

I've also decided that I'm gonna try to give time this year, when possible, as opposed to goods.

So that said, here is the Great and Powerful Wish List '08 Style Yo.

1. DVDs- I want (but do not need) classics this year, namely movies I watch with my pa like "Paint Your Wagon" and "The Quiet Man". "Stardust" would be appreciated as well, as would "Frida" (rawrrrrr), "Accepted", "100 Girls" (not a porno!), and "Pump Up the Volume" (nostalgia much?).

2. Albums- Namely the first Hjalmar album, anything by Eivor, and anything new by Great Big Sea, Flogging Molly, and Against All Authority.

3. Time- by which I mean help with the apartment remodel. It doesn't have to be long, or ever arduous, I just want someone to lend me a hand or two. I'll provide beer.

4. Home brewing equipment- Pretty freaking self explanatory.

5. Whiskey- ditto.

6. Thermal underwear- ditto on the ditto

7. Electric hair trimmer- so I don't have to keep bugging the Embles for haircuts.

8. World Peace/World Wide Anti-Capitalist Uprising

9. Salmaesque punk-rock hotty that falls madly in love with me.

10. None of the above. Except #3. Take care of yourselves. Use your dwindling assets to shore up you and yours against the coming dark. Call me if you need a hand.

Monday, November 12, 2007

'Tis the Season


So ever since my early teens, I've always been a bit conflicted about Christmas.




For one, being an atheist and all, it seemed a serious compromise to celebrate the birth of a man, who for all the wisdom of some of his teachings, I refuse to believe to be the son of god.




Then there's the fact that I'm anti-capitalist, and few things are more capitalist than the consumer frenzy of the holiday season. Also, as I'm usually butt-ass broke, I often feel bad this time of year, due to the fact that people seem to shower my broke ass with presents that I so cannot afford to repay in kind.




But in my heart of hearts, I figure that any celebration that has a core based (no matter how debased we may have let it become) on generosity and goodwill, can't be all that bad.




So here's my Yule/Christmas/Xmas/Nondenominational Holiday/Winter Solstice/Hanuka/Kwanzaa/Diwali/Whatever list for anyone feeling so generous as to want to buy me prezzies.






General:


World Peace


Revolution


A date with Salma Hayak's unmarried clone.


A fully functional and completed apartment.


A plane ticket to Bombay.




Now that that's out of the way...




Books, preferably used:




China Miellville: Perdido Street Station

The Iron Council

The Scar


Emma Goldman: Living My Life


CrimethInc: Days of Love/Nights of War


E.F. Schumacher: Small Is Beautiful


Kirkpatrick Sales: Rebels Against the Future


Peter Kropotkin: Farms, Fields and Factories


Matt Ridley: The Orgins of Virtue


Joan Thirsk: Alternative Agriculture: A History - From the Black Death to the Present Day


Dennis Danvers: The Watch: Being the unauthorized sequel to Peter A. Kropotkin's Memoirs of a Revolutionist


André Snær Magnason: Draumalandið: Sjálfhjáparbók handa hræddri þjóð


Charles De Lint: Someplace To Be Flying


Books on permaculture would be cool too.


CDs (preferably used):


Hjálmar


Old-school Bubbi from back when he was cool.


The Specials


Mica


The Scissor Sisters




Movies (ditto):


28 Weeks Later


Love Actually


The Incredibly True Adventure of Two Girls in Love


Saving Silverman (stupid euro-title "Evil Woman")


A Mighty Wind


Waiting For Guffman

Les Temps de Lup (Time of the Wolf)


Le Pac de Lup (Brotherhood of the wolf, oddly enough completely unrelated to the previous film)


Frida


Paint Your Wagon


The Quiet Man


The Secretary


The complete super-hidden-crouching-monkey extended Lord of the Ring Trilogy


Pretty much any movie set in a post-apocalyptic land...no matter how cheesy



Other Stuff: (ditto the ditto)


Black hoody size L


Plain black leather bracelets/jewelry


Nikki McClure Posters available at Left Bank Books and http://www.nikkimcclure.com/portfolio/


Aspen cologne/aftershave


Fun T-Shirts size L


A cheap ink jet printer


An Internet connection


See, I'm a man of simple wants...


lolz @ me