'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...

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