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Thu, Nov 23, 2006

Christmas List

Posted at 5:58 am MST to Miscellaneous

I know I'm terrible to buy for: I own literally thousands of books and hundreds of DVDs (and buy more constantly) and my tastes are geeky and strange. And I'm always buying craft stuff that I never have time to do anything with.

I have all but one or two of the 630-odd DVDs cataloged in ReaderWare, but the approximately 1300 books that are cataloged so far are only a small fraction of the total. I thought I had scanned all the music CDs, but I can tell I'm missing at least one rack of them from the Readerware list. (This is annoying. I need to fix that when I get home.)

I honestly don't know what I need for the kitchen or the house (except to get rid of the mice): I haven't been there enough for too long. And I don't really want clothes until my weight is back under better control.

Things I've considered getting but haven't gotten around to:

Books:

• P.G Wodehouse (I've read some from libraries, but don't think I own any)
• Lymond series by Dorothy Dunnett (mine are a disintegrating small paperback edition)
• Niccolo series by Dorothy Dunnett (I haven't finished this series, might own the first volume, though I think I read a library copy)
• Dorothy Sayers (another set of disintegrating favorites)
• a book on horses, etc. with lots of technical details about harnesses and saddles and how they were used, not just pretty pictures of horse breeds or other miscellaneous equines

Objets d'art:

• a coffee-table grade kaleidoscope (with colored crystals) or teleidoscope (where you see the world broken up and reflected) or one of each
• a nice Japanese fan with a display stand

Music:

• folk music from Europe (other than British and Celtic, which I have a fair amount of)
• or the Middle East or Asia (other than Japanese, which I have a fair amount)
• or Africa, or
• medieval or Renaissance music
• I only have "Passage in Time" by Dead Can Dance
• I only have "Book of Secrets" by Loreena McKinnit

Note:I can't remember if I own Kitaro's Silk Road album. I already have a lot of Krishna Das, and Supreme Collection vol 1 by Nusrat Fatah Ali Khan (which is similar in style despite the religious difference. I prefer Krishna Das). I would love some more Hardanger fiddle music -- that's what was used for the Riders of Rohan theme in Lord of the Rings. I have a CD of reconstructed Ancient Egyptian music, and one of Javanese Court Gamelan, and one of "Edda: Medieval Myths from Iceland". I have a couple of operas by Purcell, and the Chant CD that everyone has, but most of my classical CDs are for later periods.

Other:

• The Goddess Dancing Belly Dancing DVD. (Reference material, and I need something more active than yoga and less boring than walking the treadmill to try occasionally.)
• A good book on folk dances or the history of dance would fill a reference gap, too. I have books on music, books and printing, and the theater but I don't have a good reference on dance

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