All I Want for Christmas...
(Or any other time of year)

Updated for May 2003

As always, gifts are not required. This is only if you feel like it. And no one should feel obligated just because they received a present.

Our first filming project is just starting. We're in the writing stage, but hopefully we'll be filming in July/August, so people are welcome to chip in their time and creative energy on the project. We're psyched!

Anything that looks like this has already been received and will be removed from the list shortly. A big hug and "thankyou" to the people who made Christmas so fun (and take up so little space)!

DVDs Books CDs Clothes Household Items Anime/Japanese

DVD

My childhood. I have my childhood back. ::beams:: All my favorite stories....

Most links are to DVD Planet (ships only to your house for first purchase), but you can also get deals from Anime Castle (anime only), Express.com, Anime Nation (anime only), and DVD Empire. Try to order from somewhere that has the item in stock- otherwise, you may be waiting for a while.

• The Master Blackmailer


• Immortal Beloved


• Elizabeth


• Midnight in the Garden of Good and Evil


• O Brother, Where Art Thou?


• The Hound of the Baskervilles (Granada version)


• The Sign of Four (Granada version)


• The Last Vampyre


• The Eligible Bachelor


• Sherlock Hound (any of volumes 3-6)


• Fruits Basket (volume 2)


• Fruits Basket (volume 3)


• His and Her Circumstances (volume 3)


• Revolutionary Girl Utena (volume 3)


• Revolutionary Girl Utena (volume 4)


• Revolutionary Girl Utena (volume 5)


• Secret of N.I.M.H.


• Steel Magnolias


• Neverending Story (now Bina can sing along whenever she wants....)


• Shadowlands

Please Do Not Buy Me:

• Anything on video tape (switching over...)
  
• Dragonball
  
• Pokemon
  
• Digimon
  
• Ranma
  
• Tenchi
  
• Flint
  
• Monster Rancher
  
• Votoms
  
• Digi Charat
  
• Haunted Junction
  
• "Hentai" or "adult" anime of any sort
  
  

Books

Hardcover and paperback are both fine.

• Murasaki Shikibu's Tale of Genji in translation


• Any of Kipling's early, non-Jungle Book short stories (not his fairy stories, either), or The Light That Failed or Kim (favorite short stories: "With the Main Guard", "The Brushwood Boy", "Without Benefit of Clergy", and "Baa, Baa, Black Sheep")


• Isak Dinesen's Seven Gothic Tales or Out of Africa (sometimes filed under 'Karen Blixen')


• Herman Melville's Typee or Moby Dick


• or pick your favorite 1800-1930 author and get me hooked ^_^. (Yes, Dad, I already have lots of Joseph Conrad) (If you want to know if I have something, call the house and talk to Sarah or Bina)


• Collected speeches and letters of Martin Luther King, Jr.


• The Neil Gaiman graphic novel The Dream Hunters


• Neil Gaiman's American Gods novel

CDs

Moody Blues, any CD with "Once Upon a Time" on it

Tracy Chapman's "Telling Stories"

Tori Amos's "From the Choirgirl Hotel", "Little Earthquakes", "Under the Pink", or "Scarlet's Walk"

Seal's "Seal [1994]" (important to have the date - this album includes "Don't Cry" and "Prayer for the Dying")

Any CD of Felix Mendelsohn's work, especially his more obscure stuff (that is, his lieder).

Queensryche's "Empire", "Greatest Hits", or "Live Evolution" (but not all 3!)

Savatage's "Magellan's Wake"

Pat Benatar's "All Fired Up: The Very Best of Pat Benatar" 2-disc set (w00t! "Don't Walk Away"! ::squeal::)

Clothes

• Silver clip-on earrings are always a good bet- the more intricate, the better, but not too huge.
  
  

Household Items

We're out of candle space, too! Sorry! (Darn houses fill up faster than you'd think...)

• Small ceramic teapot, holding 4-6 cups, with a handle that moves side to side to allow easier opening of the top. Not stove-safe.
  
  
• Rice cooker (preferably with different settings)
  
  

Anime/Japanese

3,000 yen is about $25, depending on exchange rates.

• L'arc-en-Ciel's True
  
• X Japan's Ballad Collection
  
• Cocco's Sunglows (her last album - she retired! how dare she!)
  
• Chara's Junior Sweet
  
• Janne D'Arc's D.N.A.
  
• The Boom's Shima Uta or Shima Uta - Grandes Exitos
  
• Any Utena CD
  
  
• A really good English to Japanese dictionary (with kanji and furigana) (kodansha is usually a good company)
  

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