AKA's Holiday Wishlist
12/7/00
Our friend Marcella
put her Xmas list online this year, and it inspired us to do the
same. Since even close family members can sometimes be stumped
when it comes to gift-shopping, here are a few notes on what the
three of us have been yearning for lately. But please don't feel
compelled to follow these instructions, or even to give us any
gift at all (beyond your best wishes); we ourselves will be gifting
rather light this year, since cash flow is tight. Consider this
simply a letter from us telling you about things we've been into
lately, and about stuff we'll probably buy for ourselves someday,
when we have disposable income again.
Music on CD
- Kristin:
- The Beatles: One
- Pink Floyd: The Wall
- Andy:
- Jon and Vangelis: The Friends of Mr. Cairo
- Beach Boys: Smile
- Bare Naked Ladies: Maroon
- The Chemical Brothers: Surrender
- Phil Spector's Wrecking Crew: anything
- From the Earth to the Moon movie soundtrack
- Hudsucker Proxy movie soundtrack
- Dazed and Confused movie soundtrack
- Tomita: Pictures at an Exhibition
- Alison:
- 80's compilations
- Boston
- Chicago's greatest hits
- Chicago's greatest hits 82-89
- Eric Clapton Unplugged
- Crash Test Dummies -- The Ghosts That Haunt Me
- Depeche Mode -- Catching Up With Depeche Mode
- Depeche Mode -- Some Great Reward
- Dr. Hook and the Medicine Show
- Duran Duran -- Rio
- Genesis
- Grateful Dead -- American Beauty
- Grateful Dead -- Workingman's Dead
- Guns'n'Roses -- Appetite For Destruction
- Indigo Girls -- Indigo Girls (first album)
- K.C. and the Sunshine Band greatest hits
- The Kinks -- ...are Well Respected Men
- R.E.M
- John Cale
- David Bowie
- That Philip Glass album where he collaborates with a bunch
of other artists
Card/Board Games
- Lost Cities (Andy)
- Hasbro's new Lord of the Rings board game (Andy)
- Hasbro's new version of Cosmic Encounter (Kristin)
- Time Pirates (Andy)
- Jenga: Truth or Dare (Kristin)
Video Games
- Tomb Raider Chronicles [for the Playstation] (Andy)
- Spiderman [for the Playstation] ((Kristin)
- Gex 3 [for the Playstation] (Kristin)
- StarCraft 64 [for the Nintendo 64] (Andy)
Video Tapes
- Toy Story 2 (Andy)
- Fantasia 2000 (Andy)
- Tampopo (Alison)
Books
Clothing & Accessories
- Wool socks, hiking type [size 9 women's shoes, 7 men's] (Alison)
- White tube socks (Andy)
- Black jeans (or better still, purple) [size 33 x 31] (Andy)
- Jeans, any color I like* [men's size 32 x 30] (Alison)
- Flannel shirts, in colors I like* (Alison)
- * Earth tones, jewel tones, green, blue, purple, black, grey,
NOT pastels, NOT DayGlo or brights
- Interesting clothes (Kristin, Alison)
- Interesting earrings (Alison)
- Dashiki (Alison)
- Fingerless gloves (Alison)
Big Ticket Items
- iBook memory (Kristin)
- iBook carrying case (Kristin)
- Single-unit portable CD boombox (CD must have repeat button)
(Kristin)
- A mac-compatible laser printer/photocopier (the household)
- A mac-compatible CD burner (the household)
- New cordless drill (Andy aka Drill Guy)
- A Nikon N90 camera (Andy)
- A TIVO unit (Andy & Kristin)
- An ionizer (the household)
- A Juiceman II vegetable juicer (Alison)
- A Humidifier (Alison)
Other Stuff
- World Peace (Kristin)
- Multi-option environmental noise generator (must have the
sound of crickets) (Andy)
- Graph paper (Alison)
- A new 11"x14" sketchbook and a pink pearl eraser
(Andy)
- Gift Certificates for Behnke's (Alison)
- Timer plug (the fishels)
- Emery boards and/or a nice nail file (Green Bean)
