Wish List: I Am A Material Girl

It has always been my plan to eventually dispense with all my meaningless material possessions and devote myself to a life of austerity and meditation — after all, this earthly plane is merely transitory, while the truths of the spirit are eternal.

Updated March 16, 2009
I buy from:
· Amazon
· Barnes & Noble
· Busted Tees
· Glarkware
· ThinkGeek

Girl carrying hatboxes But, since part of the plan involves getting rid of all my stuff, it would be nice to have some stuff to get rid of; otherwise, it wouldn't be a true sacrifice, right? Thus, each object I (or my family and friends) choose to purchase from this list adds meaning to my ultimate sacrifice, and thereby brings me one step closer to spiritual perfection. Such is the Way… of the online shopaholic.

Items in bold are particularly desired.

Books

12 categories

Science Fiction & Fantasy

Classics

Science

Morbidity

Ships & Aircraft

Exploration

Parapsychology & The Occult

Tudor History & Fiction

Sherlock Holmes

Poetry

  • complete poems of W. H. Auden
  • complete poems of John Crowe Ransom
  • complete poems of Pablo Neruda (in Spanish and English)

Children’s Books

Movies

4 categories

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The Staples

Really Good Flicks

Guilty Pleasures

Television Series & Miniseries

Music

2 categories

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Albums

  • Ad Nauseam by The Tiger Lillies
  • Bad Blood + Blasphemy by The Tiger Lillies
  • Children of Dune (Original Television Soundtrack) by Brian Tyler
  • Death and the Bible by The Tiger Lillies
  • Death Defying Acts (Original Motion Picture Score) by Cezary Skubiszewiski
  • Diabolical Streak by Jill Tracy
  • Freakshow by The Tiger Lillies
  • The Gorey End by The Tiger Lillies and the Kronos Quartet
  • Love & War by The Tiger Lillies
  • The Quiet American (Original Motion Picture Soundtrack) by Craig Armstrong
  • Road to Perdition (Music from the Motion Picture) by Thomas Newman
  • The Show to End All Shows by Circus Contraption
  • Songs of the Civil War by various artists
  • There is a Ship by Three Pints Gone

Songs

  • Broken by Lifehouse
  • I Don’t Like Mondays by Boomtown Rats
  • Mind Heist by Zack Hemsey
  • Summoning of the Music by Dead Can Dance

Art & Posters

3 categories

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Movie Posters

Clothing & Accessories

1 category

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T-Shirts

Jewelry

If Only…

1 category
These will never happen — but hey, I can dream, right?

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  • the ability to spit with deadly accuracy (like I could as a kid, before I got my front teeth fixed)
  • to be standing nearby, dressed as a Christmas tree, when a drunken Keifer Sutherland gets the urge to tackle something
  • to be namechecked in a “Weird Al” Yankovic song