"Can't Buy Me Love"

Since a number of family and friends have remarked that I am the hardest person in the world to shop for, I have decided to make it easier on you all this season. You may now avert the crushing shame of failing to give thoughtful presents on socially-designated occasions by reading this page about my preferences, or going to my Amazon.com Wish List:

Music

• Rolling Stones (any and all)
• John Coltrane
• New Indie stuff you think I would like based on my other preferences that would be difficult to get from friends or the internet (feel free to use the All Music Guide)

Utility

• Leatherman Wave

Clothing

• Classy dresses and/or skirts (size 6)
• Funky T-shirts and tops that help me avoid the Schoolteacher stereotype (size small)
• Cute shoes, esp. forties-ish (size 8)

Books

Contrary to popular belief, I have not read everything and there are books I still plan to buy. The criteria are these:

1. They must be of outstanding literary quality if fiction, such that I would be required to make my own notes in the copy and could not simply borrow it from the library (Nobel prize-winners and cult classics are good places to start).
2. Translations should be well-researched and authoritative (W.W. Norton usually has excellent editions).
3. Paperbacks are fine, but trade paper, not mass-market.
4. Non-fiction should be seminal works in a field or contain the very latest information available. Pulitzer-prize winning synthesizers are sometimes good also.

You are safer steering toward the twentieth century, but are welcome to check my database for books I already have.

Of particular interset to me are the following:

• The Complete Works of Aristotle, translated by David Ross, two volume "blue" edition, edited by Jonathan Barnes by Princeton (?) Press
• A complete set of St. John's College Lab Manuals (I lost mine). Call 1-877-SJC-Book
• One Hundred Years of Solitude by Gabriel Garcia Marquez. I have only been able to find the Harper Collins edition, but would love a bilingual or critical edition.
• Pascal's Pensees, in a bilingual edition, or the original french
• Anything by Haruki Murakami
• Scholarly explication of Nabokov's Pale Fire

Film

• Baz Luhrman's Red Curtain Trilogy on DVD