The Other List

Through preference and the pressures of finance, I have Rush-that-Speaks' gift-giving policy. I know that many of you who read this journal may also keep this policy. So don't feel obligated to get me anything I'm listing here.
(In fact, please don't feel obligated to get me anything at all. I hate getting insipid gifts because the giver felt like they were forced to give because of artificially created social and commercial pressure, and would much rather be surprised with something I'd wanted for years, forgotten about, and then was presented with "just because it's a Wednesday." I am delighted as much with the delight as the gift, then.)

In fact, these are things that fit into the following categories:

Things I wouldn't mind other people getting for me:
-Things I don't feel justified in getting for myself, but have simply been wanting for a long time.
-Things that I can't or won't ask my parents for as gifts.
- Books from Amazon.com or other places. (I don't buy books from Amazon for myself often because it's too easy. I could very easily go on a book-buying spree and get everything I wanted to read for the last five years when on Amazon, so I find it safer to buy very little from them. At least with the library or the bookstore I have to make the effort to get there and buy the book.)

Things that I wouldn't mind other people getting for me but could just as easily eventually get for myself:
-Things that I will eventually buy for myself in another five years or so unless someone else wants to get around to it first.
-Things I would buy for myself next week if I remember that I wanted them in the first place.

Things that I don't want other people getting for me but will eventually get for myself:
-Things that I will eventually buy for myself in another five years or so because they're expensive and it will take me that long to save up money for them (I don't expect or even want other people to buy these things for me), I just don't want to forget I'm supposed to be saving for them.

It's part wish list, part personal reference list so I can remember this stuff, and remember that I still have to make a parent-safe list.

Stuff I wouldn't mind people getting for me:
-A subscription to Graphic Smash. I love Ursula Vernon's Digger but now it's syndicated.
-The new A Softer World book.
- Transmetropolitan vols. 9 & 10.
- Bookchecks. (These are slips of paper that are a combination book-loaning record and bookmark. Impossible to find online except in a site that's only in German).
- Self-Adhesive Bookplates.
- A knitting lesson.
- A Zebra Girl tshirt with Sandra (Zebra Girl) on it.
- Any Dave Matthews Band CD.
- Movies: anything Miyazaki. Waking Life. Kill Bill, when it comes out on DVD. If Russian Ark comes to the home market, that DVD. Muppet and Muppet-related Movies. More but forgot them.
- A Henna Kit
- Any of Stephen King's Dark Tower series except Volume III and the first volume of the Dark Tower Concordance, both of which I already have.
- Orson Scott Card's Alvin Maker books or his Reader's Digest How to Write Science Fiction and Fantasy (the last in hardcover).
- Creative HMTL design: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/1562057049/qid%3D951694045/103-6961980-5983856
- Vanishing Point: http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0312852134/qid%3D1026359893/sr%3D1-3/ref%3Dsr%5F1%5F3/103-6961980-5983856
- The Thackery T. Lambshead Pocket Guide to Eccentric and Discredited Diseases http://www.booksense.com/people/archive/v/vandermeerjeff.jsp
-Sorcery and Cecelia or The Enchanted Chocolate Pot: Being the Correspondence of Two Young Ladies of Quality Regarding Various Magical Scandals in London and the Country http://www.directtextbook.com/prices/0152046151
-The Neverending Story http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/0525457585/qid=1071435194/sr=2-1/ref=sr_2_1/103-6961980-5983856
-Kotik the White Seal, Rikki Tikki Tavi, and A Cricket in Times Square
-Rupert and the Frog Song VHS tape - non PAL if possible http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/ASIN/6300154238/qid%3D1071435600/sr%3D11-1/ref%3Dsr%5F11%5F1/103-6961980-5983856
-The Velveteen Rabbit http://www.amazon.com/exec/obidos/tg/detail/-/0385077254/qid=1071435669//ref=sr_8_xs_ap_i1_xgl14/103-6961980-5983856?v=glance&s=books&n=507846
-The Sun, the Moon, and the Stars http://www.needcoffee.com/html/lit/wordbombs.html
- Anything on my Wishlist, which I use as a running tally of books I ought to buy but haven't. (I gave away my old copy of Watership Down because it was falling apart and I needed a new one, but I still haven't got one yet. Also A Book Dragon is just amazing).
-Any books by Edward Lear, William Morris (no Kelmscott Press editions, please, unless you've suddenely become Ruler of the World), or Edward Gorey.
- A Hardcover edition of East of the Sun and West of the Moon. My favorite fairy tale. I spent about a decade searching for the edition with the specific illustrations I remembered and finally found it in softcover, but would prefer the hardcover for the way the paper quality brings out the colors of the illustrations. http://dogbert.abebooks.com/servlet/BookDetailsPL?bi=64066418
-Sealing Wax in colors other than Silver and Purple.
-Anything else that screams out, "buy this for Eredien!"
-If someone would find out either of the following two things for me, which I have been unsuccessfully chasing after for at least ten years:
---I remember reading a fantasy story that I think was called "Firefly Tree" and involved someone planting pot in their backyard. I can't find evidence of this story, but it must exist. I remember it in an anthology but I don't think I have the anthology. I need to read it again.
---In my parent's house there hangs an etching done in the late 1800's by a man called George Bohde. I can't find anything substantive out about this man's life or what the value of his works are despite having done some research into it with my mother. Any info would be appreciated - Meridel, thank you!.

Stuff I don't want other people getting for me:
- A dagger. One should pick out one's own weaponry onself.
- A Wacom Tablet.
- Photoshop.
- Rebinding and restoration of antique books.
- Piano restoration.
-A trip to Mongolia.

Now I go take a nap. More later after dinner and concert, on otherkin-related stuff.