So, what did Santa bring you ....

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:47 am

I got the Beatles Anthology DVDs and the new Bob Spitz book, plus some ITUNES cards, Mavericks tickets and other odds and sods. You?

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 10:05 am

My favorite present, for my office, was a framed print of me and my kids that my wife took at Storm King Art Center this summer.

Got some very nice cookware from my dad, including an electric griddle I can use for weekend breakfasts. The complete Elvis Presley 1950s Masters box set from my brother and the Complete Blue Note Bud Powell recordings from my uncle. Also several gift certificates that I'll probably be tempted to use in the next few weeks.

Great holiday, but I don't want to look at another ham for weeks, maybe months.

migdd · Post by **migdd** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:24 pm

WSS, ditto on the Ham!!! Once a year is enough for me.

My favorite gifts were world peace, the turquoise pajamas and the motorcycle hat. Next year I shall ask for an end to global warming, peace and restitution in Sudan and lower fuel prices. On the other hand, our children really enjoyed their portable DVD players, Gamecube games, the Conair hair highlighter and Ultimate Lightsabres, amongst other Western treasures.

LittleFoole · Post by **LittleFoole** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:27 pm

Not a whole lot, the most notable being a 1 litre double walled stainless steel French coffee press (for camping and home use as well

) Having broken several glass ones over the years, and having been without one for 3 years or so, this was a welcome gift. Supposedly will work great for my yerba mate as well as regular ol' coffee

mood swung · Post by **mood swung** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 1:45 pm

well, actually I got it for my husband, but I'm figuring I can make myself a copy. I know El Vez is just SICK with envy.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:25 pm

Actually Mood, this clears up why I spent all of yesterday layed up with a nasty headache and a violently queasy stomach!

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 2:33 pm

I got a Sirius radio, which was unexpected, but very nice. It was good to be able to drive about yesterday and listen to the all-Springsteen station. There's an all-Elvis station, too...but it's the wrong Elvis. 185 stations. No commercials.

I also got some Johnny Cash stuff, Frank Black's latest record, and Futurama vol. 3.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:18 pm

I got...NOTHING. (stifled sob)

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:21 pm

Youve been a bad girl then?

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:24 pm

Apparently, Mr. Boom. Apparently.

alexv · Post by **alexv** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 4:28 pm

I got a saw (non-electric) and tube socks. Feel better, Miss BA?

johnfoyle · Post by **johnfoyle** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 6:58 pm

I got the new Ray Charles box set and the annotated Sherlock Holmes short stories. I've just spent the last four hours listening to six of the Charles discs on random play in a multidisc player ( the closest I'll get to an iPod...for now) , being bowled over yet again by Ray. Whether it was a long , groovy jazz workout with Milt Jackson or a band recording in Miami radio studio , the soulfullness just reaches out and grabs you. I hadn't realised how scattered the actual releases of these 1950's Atlantic recordings had been ; hearing them session by session has made me hear the songs in a completely new way.

I hadn't read Conan Doyle in years but these ' Holmes editions have been getting great reviews and certainly deserve them. Every teeny , tiny detail is explored and beautifully presented in bound volumes in a box. I had actually asked for Santa for the more recent edition of the novels but he got confused and these turned up. Perfect for dipping into .

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 12-9483637

Pure Genius [the Complete Atlantic Recordings 1952-1960/+DVD] [Box set]
Ray Charles (Artist)

http://www.amazon.co.uk/exec/obidos/ASI ... 12-9483637

The New Annotated Sherlock Holmes - Vols. 1 & 2 The Short Stories
Sir Arthur Conan Doyle, Leslie S. Klinger (Editor)
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They certainly show up what I was reading this evening. After hearing so many divergent opinions I decided to make up my own mind about Dan Brown's The Da Vinci Code . Considering that I got through about 300 pages in one sitting it is certainly a page-turner . However what was making me get through it was my wondering how the book has become so popular. The wooden characterisation is complimented by some of the worst dialogue I've seen this side of Jack Higgins'. The woeful , cliched storyline is as predictable as day follows night. I will finish it , if only to feel entitled to respond to the comments of the many who have read it. Maybe it could be argued that the religious content makes it interesting and , if that interests you , fair enough. It's a subject that can be engrossing when written about by , say , Evelyn Waugh. However , in this case , the form entirely swamps the content. What screenwiter Akiva Goldsman will make of it in the forthcoming movie version should be interesting.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 8:36 pm

Yeah, the Da Vinci Code is crap. I can't imagine what all the fuss is about.

El Vez · Post by **El Vez** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:11 pm

My peeps were awful, awful good to me this year....

DVDs -
The Richard Pryor Show
Deadwood, Season one (booyah!)
The Americanization of Emily
The Missouri Breaks

Books -
Lyndon Johnson & The American Dream
Fun With Reid Fleming - World's Toughest Milkman

CDs -
Buffy The Vampire Slayer: Once More, With Feeling sdtrk
Billy Joe Shaver - The Real Deal
James McMurtry - Childish Things
Big Sweet Life: The Songs of Jon Dee Graham
Merle Haggard - Presents His 30th Album/A Working Man Can't Get Nowhere Today
Dan Penn - Do Right Man

I also scored a Trader Joe's gift basket, some kickass homemade cookies, a racy yet tasteful pinup calendar (for the new apartment) and a ton of appliances and utensils for said apartment.

RedShoes · Post by **RedShoes** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:15 pm

Blue & I got:

He-Man Season One: Volume One

No Direction Home DVD
Some Chinese Place mats/chopsticks (from China!)
Handheld Mixer (We needed one)
A straightener for my hair
Serving Bowls
A Indoor/Outdoor Weather Thermometer (Woohoo!)
Clothing

Not bad. We also bought two goats through http://www.heifer.org as a family.

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 9:29 pm

Will Blue be able to use the hair straightner for his award winning hair?

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Tue Dec 27, 2005 11:39 pm

I got the a new DVD/CD player (the old one doesn't play a lot of burned DVD/cds) though I'm still contemplating returning it and getting one of those all-regions babies.

Also got the boxed set of all three extended versions of the Lord of the Rings flicks, the "Born To Run" boxed set, Randy Newman's "Good Ol' Boys" (ashamed to admit that I've never actually owned it), the remastered "London Calling" (at least the third time I've owned that, but this version sure sounds great!), and "American Idiot" and a Sam Goody gift card and malted milk balls (my favorite candy!) from my nephews

noiseradio wrote:I got a Sirius radio, which was unexpected, but very nice. It was good to be able to drive about yesterday and listen to the all-Springsteen station. There's an all-Elvis station, too...but it's the wrong Elvis. 185 stations. No commercials.

Noise -- Be sure to check out "Sirius Disorder" and "Little Steven's Underground Garage" too (I get a small selection of the Sirius channels via satellite dish). More repeated tracks than I'd perhaps like, but still lots of good stuff there. Vin Scelsea's Sunday night show on Disorder is pretty great, if a bit long winded.

noiseradio · Post by **noiseradio** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 12:44 am

Both are already on my presets, along with Band-a-part, which is devoted entirely to French language rock and pop. That made me so happy, I almost cried real tears.

bobster · Post by **bobster** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 1:19 am

Oh, and they even through in a Jean Luc Godard-derived pun. Unfortuantely, since I get mine over a satellite dish, I only get a selection of the stations, so I don't get that one. Quelle domage.

Boy With A Problem · Post by **Boy With A Problem** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 5:11 am

60 gb ipod !! (guess what I've been doing for the last few days?)

The Shield Season 3 dvd

Raging Bull 2 disc dvd

Who Shot Sam? · Post by **Who Shot Sam?** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 10:16 am

Who Shot Sam? wrote:The complete Elvis Presley 1950s Masters box set from my brother

Oh Lord, is this good! Nice packaging too, though I don't know what I'm supposed to do with the sheet of '50s album cover stamps!

Extreme Honey · Post by **Extreme Honey** » Wed Dec 28, 2005 11:28 pm

I got an Ipod video, and 150 bucks worth of pirated DVDs. And Civ. 4. And I am in Punta Del Este, Uruguay. So I guess I won really...

ReadyToHearTheWorst · Post by **ReadyToHearTheWorst** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 6:24 am

With some crimbo dosh, First Born has bougt herself a turntable, now spends her time vinyl mining in the loft, digging out records I didn't realise I ever owned.

It seems that vinyl was a popular present this year among her chums.

miss buenos aires · Post by **miss buenos aires** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 8:51 am

Please, what is "crimbo dosh"?

Mike Boom · Post by **Mike Boom** » Thu Dec 29, 2005 9:27 am

crimbo = christmas
dosh = money